| EcoFinders Annual Meeting, Coimbra, Portugal, December 2011 |  |
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| SoilService Workshop, Lund, Sweden, travelling via Copenhagen. |  |
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| Visit to University Lavras, Brazil, October 2011 |  |
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| Beijing, China, Food Security Symposium, Chinese Agricultural University, September 2011 |  |
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| Richard Bardgett was Visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, July to October 2011 |  |
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| 'Functioning of Boreal Forest Ecology' PhD Course, in northern Sweden, organised by the Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden, June 2011. |  |
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| Franciska De Vries and Richard Bardgett attended the 3rd SOILSERVICE project meeting and workshop on Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - Quantification, Valuation, and Implementation Policies, held at Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Giessen, Germany, May 30th to 1st June 2011. |  |
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| Research visit to Zambia with Saskia Vermeylen, Bill Davies, and Ken Wilson as part of NERC ESPA project on bridging knowledge systems for pro-poor management of ecosystem services in Africa, May 2011 |  |
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| Richard Bardgett presented a keynote address on 'Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services' at the Conference of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy, Research Priorities to Sustain Ecosystem Services Budapest, Hungary, 27-30th of April 2011 |
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| Visit to Colorado State University, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, Colorado, April 2011 |  |
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| VITAL Biodiversa project meeting, Institute of Botany, Innsbruck University, March 2011 |  |
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Royal Society Discussion Meeting 'Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Agriculture', Feb 28th/1st March http://royalsociety.org/events/reducing-greenhouse-gas/
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| Kick-off meeting for European project EcoFINDERS (Ecological Function and Biodiversity Indicators in European Soils) (2011-2015), INRA, Dijon, France, February 2011. This European project, coordinated by INRA, gathers together 23 partners from 10 European countries plus China, to harness expertise in ecology, biodiversity, environmental economy, modeling, bioinformatics and database management. http://www.international.inra.fr/partnerships/ecofinders |
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| Project development workshop on "Ecosystem management to alleviate poverty on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau", Xining City, Qinghai, China, October 2010. The workshop was funded by the UK Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA_ programme, supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Department for International Development (DIFD), and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). |  |
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| "Global Change and Alpine Ecosystems", Organised Session at the 95th ESA Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, August 2010 |  |
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| 2nd International GMBA-DIVERSITAS conference "Functional Significance of Mountain Biodiversity" in Chandolin (Valais), Switzerland, 26-30th July 2010 |  |
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| Plant trait training workshop at Colt Park Meadows for EU-BiodivERsA project VITAL, June 2010. |  |
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Start of a national survey of the size and distribution of soil carbon pools in UK grasslands, funded by DEFRA. Three teams began sampling a range of grassland sites under various intensities of management in the north, south-east and south-west of England. Image taken in the Yorkshire Dales, May 2010.
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| Training day for new, five-year DEFRA funded project on soil carbon sequestration in UK grassland, involving teams from Lancaster, Reading and North Wyke, April 2010. |  |
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| NERC funded plant removal-climate warming experiment featured on front cover of Plant Earth, Spring 2010. http://www.nerc.ac.uk/publications/planetearth/2010/spring/ |  |
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| Project meeting for EU-BiodivERsA project on ecosystem service provIsion from coupled plant and microbial functional diversity in managed grasslands (VITAL), Barcelona, February 2010. |  |
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| EU SOILSERVICE annual workshop on urban ecology, Finland, February 2010 |  |
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| Alpine Ecology and Global Change Workshop, Alpine Research Station, University of Innbruck, September 2009 |  |
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| Visit to Niwott Ridge LTER, Colorado, August 2009 |  |
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| Lancaster University Annual Terrestrial Ecology Field Course, Scotland, July 2009. |  |
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| Boreal Forest Ecology Postgraduate Course, Sweden, June 2009. |  |
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| Visit Fernando Maestre and his group at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, April 2009. |
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| Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment Steering Committee, Washington, Feb 2009. |  |
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| VITAL project meeting, Caen, France, February 2009. |
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| Soils Conference, Palmerston North, December 2008 |  |
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| RUBICODE International Workshop, Ecosystem Services and Drivers of Biodiversity Change, Helsingborg, Sweden, 2008 |  |
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| Field visit to Corrlemony, near Inverness, 2008. Visiting potential field sites for studies on browsing effects on soil carbon dynamics. |  |
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| Visit to the Park Grass long-term field experiment, Rothamsted, Feb 2008 |  |
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| Visit to theNetherlands Insititute for Ecology (NIOO), the Netherlands, January 2008 |  |
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| Project Meeting at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, January 2008 |  |
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| ESF Workshop: The Role of Soils in the Terrestrial Carbon Balance, Pont á Mousson, France, November 2007 |  |
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Feb 9 - Mar 12, 2007: "Observing Nature: Performing Ecology", Lancaster Environment Center, Lancaster University. A cross-disciplinary project exploring how photography, video, and interactive installation can create an expanded ecological consciousness. For more information visit: Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
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