QUADRAT field trip to the Italian Alps with the second year PhD students. On Monday, we hiked in Val Veny up to the Miage Glacier at the foot of the Mont Blanc.

Drones for land cover and introduction to soil characterisation here in the valleys around Courmayeur- will download later to show environmental mapping with data we are gathering- quadrat next for plant diversity to build up the baseline ⁦QUADRAT⁩ ⁦School of Biological Sciences⁩

Blessed with clear weather ⁦QUADRAT⁩ we visit the top of Italy to see the source of glaciers and consider threats and changes then back to the valley to do some soil pH measurements and further river sediment diversity- excellent knowledge transfer ⁦School of Biological Sciences⁩

⁦QUADRAT⁩ using quadrats in an alpine woodland meadow looking at succession. Then we used all the plant and soil techniques we learned during the week to evaluate the impact of ski developments on ecosystem function ⁦School of Biological Sciences⁩

I'll be talking all about this work, including some exciting new developments tomorrow: 10:30 in room H at #ECCB2024. Come and have a chat if you're interested in hearing more!

A morning in the field teaching soil skills to our students from Nanjing Agricultural University and delighted that they are sharing techniques and discussing soil characteristics- pedology has no boundaries School of Biological Sciences

The university is offering free accommodation to some students heraldscotland.com/news/24527186.…

It’s soil geography time again and the freshly cleaned Bennachie soil is warmly received by the class on a bright October day

Another enthusiastic team enjoying the beauty that is Tiendland- the marvellous buried Podzol looking outstanding in the autumn sunshine ⁦School of Biological Sciences⁩ ⁦QUADRAT⁩

It’s the second day of the ⁦QUADRAT⁩ annual science meeting at Aberdeen and with over 100 student delegates from bio and geo research groups we are sharing our project findings this far ⁦School of Biological Sciences⁩

⁦School of Biological Sciences⁩ let’s never underestimate the value of field-based teaching to complement other techniques! Global Soils and the Environment saw genuine examples of global soils in Aberdeenshire, Moray and Angus and developed confidence in the process

A great opportunity to combine traditional soil science with a bit of applied biotechnology in this EastBio funded studentship findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

It’s a pleasure to welcome representatives from the Xianghu Laboratory to develop further our joint Doctoral Training initiatives ⁦School of Biological Sciences⁩ more exciting projects to be launched in the new year

findaphd.com/phds/project/e… Final opportunity to apply for this innovative PhD School of Biological Sciences

quartiles-dla.ac.uk/home/ I am delighted to report the first cohort of QUARTILES Doctoral Landscape Awards are being advertised and these are on find-a-phd findaphd.com/phds/?Keywords… or on the DLA website: more excellent collaboration between University of Aberdeen and Queen's University Belfast 🎓 School of Biological Sciences

Measuring fluxes of respiration and photosynthesis during the course- Ecosystem Processes- soils and plants: what’s not to love! School of Biological Sciences

It’s been another great QUADRAT Cromarty field trip for Cohort 6- massive thanks to lighthouse colleagues, Cromarty Arts Trust School of Biological Sciences and to all those involved in the training- and ofcourse the participants for making it work so well

A pleasure to welcome Prof K K Rout, Dean of Agriculture at DRIEMS University to School of Biological Sciences to discuss common aspects of curriculum and hear about exciting soil research spanning food security and climate change- great future opportunities

An outstanding feature of our Science Teaching Hub was demonstrated today- 3 different classes making use of the same lab space through innovative technologies and it worked out perfectly. Seems all the students did the correct classes School of Biological Sciences

Forth Valley College in Falkirk has a wonderful new campus and School of Biological Sciences are down here meeting future cohorts of our articulation students- a great talk by John Baird and the students are positive and engaged