Yesterday (despite the miserable weather!) we installed a LICOR evapotranspiration sensor and a new anemometer on our eddy covariance system monitoring a young Sitka spruce stand. The data will allow us to compare the sensors in preparation for future forest research projects. 🌳🧪
➡️💻 Join our upcoming webinar to hear the latest research on drought impacts in UK forestry, including new drought risk indices and decision-support tools designed to help assess tree species suitability under future climates.
🔗 Registration: ow.ly/eYpz50Yv90M
#ForestResearch #Drought #Webinar
This week, we installed sensors at our EXPLORATION experimental site to monitor soil water dynamics across newly planted tree species mixtures. It’s going to be a busy summer! 🧪🌳
Absolutely incredible.
NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.
Watch with sound on.
You won't want to miss this! Keep your calendars free and hopefully see you in Switzerland in October 🌳🍁🌐🧪
Giulio Curioni
Giulio Curioni
Only nine conifer species make up almost all UK commercial forests. Sitka spruce accounts for over half of all timber harvested.
To boost resilience to climate change, Forest Research and partners (Forestry and Land Scotland & Forestry England) planted 17 emerging species over 9 large trial sites.
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Hear about new research on how rising drought risk is reshaping UK forestry and the tools being developed to support climate‑smart woodland creation.
Our EXPLORATION project aims to generate a clearer understanding of how mixed‑species stands in newly established forests respond to drought 🌳
In November, stakeholders helped shape the next phase of this project in a workshop hosted by @drgeorgexenakis.bsky.social 🤝
🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/dfYbx
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Giulio Curioni
Forest Research
🚨Job opportunity🚨
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Forest Research
Yashar Ali 🐘
Tommaso Jucker
Very pleased to be part of this super cool new paper led by William Hagan Brown in @globalchangebio.bsky.social looking at the impact of elevated CO2 on canopy temperatures in an oak woodland at the BIFor-FACE experiment
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Save the date!
48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions
📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland
www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps
#PlantScience
We investigated the impact of high atmospheric CO2, similar to that predicted for 2050, on tree canopy temperature dynamics of mature pedunculate oak using long-term, high-frequency thermal infrared ...
