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Hi the UK rooty community, we have got some serious issues with our minirhizotron system from Vienna Scientific Instruments preventing our PhD student Grace Handy to do her campaign in March. I wonder, if somebody could borrow us one ? until we find a solution 😀 BIFoR

One of the most horrifying graphics ever.

Well done Gianni Micucci! New paper offering prospects for measuring denitrification: a difficult N cycle process to measure!!! Fotis Sgouridis BIFoR Prof. Iseult Lynch 💙 Stefan Krause Towards enhanced sensitivity of the 15N gas flux method for quantifyin... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#EGU24 - Join me and my team for: 2) Tuesday 16 Apr 16:15–18:00 Hall X1.42: Imogen Carter will present our BIFoR work as a poster on root identification by humans vs AI in Hall X1- session BG3.13

Unfortunately I cannot make it to EGU in person this year but the amazing Imogen Carter and Dr. Marie Arnaud... moove to @marnaud.bsky.social will be around to discuss what we have been working on 🌳 #EGU24

Back from field trip teaching in Berlin, it was great fun to explore river flow movement measurement (flow meter, salt dilution, etc), river thermal analysis (below is a thermal image of the effluent outlet), and SUDS used to mitigate urbanization effect. Geography Birmingham College of Life and Environmental Sciences

I had the best time at #npnextgen last week. Thank you so much New Phytologist for putting on such a great conference. I would recommend to any early career researcher so be sure to apply when Uni of Birmingham BIFoR host next year!!

I have had a very enjoyable couple of days at the 2024 BIFoR annual meeting. It was great to hear from representatives across all the BIFoR research areas and even more exciting to come away as one of the winners of the poster competition!! BIFoR #biforcon24

Let’s go IUFRO ! Grace Handy

Back to work after a great week at #IUFRO2024 IUFRO. Completed my first presentation at an international conference and thoroughly enjoyed learning about all aspects of forests from all over the world. Stockholm was also such a beautiful city to explore!

Mature trees offer hope in world of rising emissions Vital new research from the team at BIFoR bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Uni of Birmingham

📢📢full funded (EU-UK) PhD project with me School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin doing cutting edge stuff with automated root measurements to understand ecosystem greenhouse gas fluxes: findaphd.com/phds/project/r… #roots #phdposition #rootecology

As always, I have had a fantastic couple of days at the CENTA conference 2024. It is always great to see my fellow students, learn about everyone’s research and this year it was especially fantastic to win the judges award for best short talk! CENTA

📢 Our publication ‘Variation in forest root image annotation by experts, novices and AI’ is now out in Plant Methods. We quantified variation in the annotation of roots in forest minirhizotron images between human annotators and a CNN 🌳 link.springer.com/article/10.118…

📢New Root paper: Accesible AI model for ecologists fails to catch roots in complex mature forest soil images from minirhizotrons 😭. More collaborative work needed! tiny.cc/0yhozz lead by Grace Handy w Abraham George Smith Daniela Yaffar @nanimuelbert iEES Paris BIFoR

I had the best time presenting at #BES2024 last week. I am so grateful for the opportunity to share my PhD research which lead to insightful conversations and valuable connections 🌳

If you are an early career #plantscientist looking to share your work in a stimulating, supportive and exciting environment, join us Uni of Birmingham for New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 #npnextgen 4–7 August 2025. Applications close on 27 January newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/…

The New Phytologist Next Generation Scientists Symposium will be held @ University of Birmingham (Aug. 4-7, 2025). An excellent opportunity for ECRs to share their research & interact with leading plant scientists. Submit your application by Jan. 27th. newphytologist.org/nextgenevents/…

Just published in New Scientist "Can we rely on forests to soak up the extra CO2 in the atmosphere?" newscientist.com/article/247120… BIFoR College of Life and Environmental Sciences Uni of Birmingham

I had an absolutely amazing week at #EGU25 last week. I gave my first conference presentation abroad, leading to some insightful coversations and brilliant networking opportunities with both existing and new connections. Exploring the beautiful city of Vienna was an added bonus!