Great work from Sarah, who is so passionate about what she does and whose paper about Montane #woodland restoration has just been published!
Delighted to announce that the winner of The Dr Cyril Hart Memorial Award for 2026 is Sarah Watts et al for the article, “Why the present is not the key to past or future: moving beyond restricted relict habitat conditions to improve outcomes in mountain woodland restoration.” #ConforAwards2026
Not got mush-room, unless you’re a willow! @sarahwatts.bsky.social is unearthing the ectomycorrhizal fungi co-occurring with relict arctic-alpine willows and restoration sites using eDNA
Eldest and youngest experiencing the Elephant Hawk-moths and Poplar Hawk-moths caught in our home-made #garden #moth trap 🤩💡
Very grateful to live super close to the best place in Britain for #mountainflowers, particularly since I’m not able to get out very far due to having a tiny person. Recent finds include Globeflower (Trollius europaeus) & Blue Moor-grass (Sesleria caerulea) which is nationally scarce! #BenLawers
📢We're recruiting for an exciting new mountain woodland #PhD on "Mountain birch genetics & recovery in Scotland"! Full funding is guaranteed for this project involving molecular genomics & high-altitude field experiments at #Corrour & Mar Lodge. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Personal news: I'm rather quiet on here with work updates because I've been very busy over the last two months with a new addition to the family. 🥰 I'll be finishing off my #PhD later in the year before returning back to work in due course, but for the meantime I'm on #maternityleave! 👶
With @forestresearchuk.bsky.social & @stir.ac.uk @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social in collaboration with #Corrour, @n-t-s.bsky.social, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, and UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH).
Congrats to @sarahwatts.bsky.social who won the Dr Cyril Hart Memorial Award from @forestrytrust.bsky.social for her research paper: "Why the present is not the key to past or future: moving beyond restricted relict habitat conditions to improve outcomes in mountain woodland restoration." 🧵 1/3