Soil Security Team

Congratulations to Richard Bardgett who has been awarded a prestigious €2.5 million @ERC_Research Advanced Grant to explore the diversity, stability and functioning of the soil microbiome! 🍾🥂🎉 #ERCAdG #EUfunded #eDNA #MicrobialEcology @UoM_EES

Today we published results of a FOI request on England’s monitoring of soil, air & water. Soils receive just 0.41% of the total £68m spent on monitoring. Full details here: bit.ly/2U7PsBa #soilhealth #sustainablesoilsnow

Our coordinator prof Chris Collins comments in this piece “To reverse the degradation of our soils and return them to a healthy state nationally we need a long-term commitment to monitoring - both at farm and national level...” see more here; bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Sure I am late posting this Economist article about soil and THOR, but nice work and recognition. I will be using this for a 1st year practical on Soil Science. Soil microbiology – Knowing how plants and microbes work together can boost crop yields economist.com/science-and-te…

Discovering bugs worms and microbes through the microscope with @Soil_Security @science_swindon today @Un

Great team of enthusiastic students & post-docs sharing #science @science_swindon #scicomm @Soil_Security @NERC_NFM @NERCscience @UKRI_News

Soil: it’s much more than mud - our @Soil_Security scientists will be on hand to explain why at @Science_swindon on Fri and Sat. Make a rain storm and see its effects on concrete vs soil and go on a soil safari to see who you can find: scienceswindon.com

Next week our #NFM #soilsecurityprogramme webinar will be on land management & catchment flood risk with our partner Dr Ian Pattison. 17 Feb 12:30 GMT eventbrite.com/e/90150200677 @GoWithTheF1ow @FCRMResearchEA @Soil_Security @FWAGAssoc @agricology @NFUtweets @NERCscience

Our coordinator Prof Chris Collins speaking about #peat on farming today - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Please register for my #NFM webinar on 17th Feb on results on the Soil Compaction from @CompactSoil @Soil_Security project

Positive news for #soil in the new Agriculture Bill. theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/j…

@nolatay @CompactSoil Hi Nicola, it's bes to get in touch with the PI (@GoWithTheF1ow) for this.

@CompactSoil @Soil_Security Has this been published ? If so, please can you supply a link to the paper or report. Thank you.

Here is the project poster that was presented at the @Soil_Security #SSPoutcomes workshop today

Had a great day at the @Soil_Security #SSPoutcomes workshop disseminating our findings with farmers, policy makers and other soil scientists.

Our coordinator Prof Chris Collins sums up the day and the programme. We need to work in partnership with end users and other researchers

SSA SAB member & @UKSustain Food/Farming Policy lead @vickihird wraps up the @Soil_Security #SSPoutcomes event: "Today has been a joy, witnessing the interdisciplinary approach from poetry to a farmer to the detail of research discussed" #WorldSoilDay

Do #Soil researchers need to raise their voice more? @vickihird asks the question. Should soil as an issue be as well known as #ClimateChange?

Next up is @vickihird from Sustain, giving reflection on the day from a policy point of view

And 11 policy and practice documents

31 further grants

The novel nature of this @NERCscience programme has included the training of 37 post-doctoral researchers