Understanding processes determining soil carbon balance under perennial bioenergy crops.
Aug 27, 2010
Oct 31, 2012
The Carbo-BioCrop project moves into full swing with the completion of perhaps the largest pulse-chase experiment ever undertaken to track the path of carbon in the bioenergy crops, Miscanthus and Willow SRC. This experiment was delivered in partnership with the Energy Technologies Institute funded ‘Ecosystem Land Use Modelling’ project (ELUM).Watch, listen and read about Dr Niall McNamara and co-workers, discussing experiments carried out at the Lincolnshire energy crop farm used in Carbo-BioCrop as reported by the BBC. Find the article here.
Feb 9, 2012
A joint meeting of the complementary research between the Carbo-BioCrop consortium and the UKERC Spatial Mapping consortium was held as a user feed-back session. Please find the slides presented at this session available from the download tab.
Feb 9, 2012
Nov 21, 2011
The Biomass and Energy Crops IV was jointly organised by the Crops and Environment Committee of the UK’s Association of Applied Biologists in association with the University of Illinois. The Energy Biosciences Institute (the EBI) gave a tour of the EBI energy farm (320 acres) based at the University of Illinois.
Aug 22, 2011
Aug 22, 2011
Researchers in Carbo-BioCrop are members of consortia modelling biomass yield potential in the UK under scenarios of climate change out to the year 2050.
May 6, 2011
Soil sampling and biochar application is currently underway at the chronosequence sites using a tested and agreed procedure.
May 6, 2011
Dr Rebecca Rowe and Dr Matthew Tallis attended the Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network (ES KTN) workshop on Sustainable soils January 2011, London UK.
Jan 6, 2011
Jan 4, 2011
Nov 17, 2010
Site selection for UK wide measurements of soil carbon changes under bioenergy crops and the effects of biochar addition is being finalised.
Nov 10, 2010
Oct 15, 2010
Professor Gail Taylor and Dr Matthew Tallis presented aspects of their research at the Fifth International Poplar symposium (http://ocs.entecra.it/index.php/IPS/5). The broad subject of the symposium was "Poplar and willows: from research models to multipurpose trees for a bio-based society".
Aug 27, 2010
Professor Gail Taylor and Dr Goetz Richter present their work on constraints for bioenergy supply in the UK landscape.
Aug 26, 2010
This £1.2 million, consortium project is funded as part of the Research Councils UK Energy Programme with accreditation to The Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. The project consortium, co-ordinated by Professor Gail Taylor, University of Southampton was brought together following a week-long NERC sandpit, to identify new and novel research projects in ‘Land Based Renewables’ that could contribute to the UK low carbon economy. The project emerged as an area where critical gaps in our knowledge were present.
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