by Louise Gathercole | May 5, 2025 | Blog
Catherine spent her six month internship working with researchers at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Catherine had the challenge of pulling together data from multiple different places to create a database and a map of the different species of elm and elm cultivars in...
by Louise Gathercole | May 5, 2025 | Blog
Jack spent his six months with the Centre for Forest Protection working with one of our PhD students, Fritha, and social scientists at Forest Research and the University of St Andrews. He was looking at the cultural and social connections between people and tree...
by Louise Gathercole | Apr 29, 2025 | Blog
The successful applicant will play a central role as a forest ecologist in a new two-year CFP project entitled SUPPoRT: SUstainable Plant Provenancing for Resilient Trees. This project aims to improve tree seed collection choices and planting decisions guided by an...
by Louise Gathercole | Mar 12, 2025 | Blog
A Hands-On Learning Experience As part of the Centre for Forest Protection internship, which provides hands-on experience in research, the interns explored the cutting-edge techniques used at Wakehurst to preserve plant species for future generations. They learned...
by Louise Gathercole | Nov 25, 2024 | Blog
My name is Fritha, a PhD student with the Centre for Forest Protection. I’m based at the University of St Andrews and I work with colleagues at Forest Research. Working with me for six months is our research intern Jack. We work on mapping values,...
by Louise Gathercole | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog
The Centre for Forest Protection was well represented at the IUFRO World Congress 2024 in Stockholm at the end of June. The congress was the largest ever with over 4300 delegates and 30 parallel scientific sessions to choose from at times. “Fantastic opportunity to...
