14 December 2025
Phoebe, Ian and Richard go to the ICOS-Ireland Kickoff in Malahide. Richard goes to Our Living Soil at UCD
16 October 2025
Ryan joins the group as a new Research Assistant
30 September 2025
Richard presents the group’s work at the ECOSENSE conference in Freiburg, Germany
01 September 2025
Jason joins the group as a PhD student on SoilSymphony
01 September 2025
Ian joins the group as a PhD student on our new project ‘SoilSymphony’ and Asrit moves from RA to PhD student! Exciting times!
25 June 2025
Richard co-author on Altered seasonal sensitivity of net ecosystem exchange to controls driven by nutrient balances in a semi-arid savanna
16 June 2025
Richard at Rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh
16 June 2025
Phoebe attends the CLEANFOREST training school at BiFOR, Birmingham UK.
10 June 2025
Richard co-author on a comment on terminology about evapotranspiration)
30 May 2025
Nadja is leaving to do a Masters at University of Victoria. We’ll miss you!
25 May 2025
Cherie and Inga are our summer interns this year! Welcome! Cherie, Inga and Ruari will be in the lab as capstone students in the next academic year
02 May 2025
Richard convenes EGU session “Vegetation Functional Responses to Drought and Other Global Change Across Multiple Methods and Scales” at EGU 2025
28 April 2025
New publication! a review on whole system phenology in Functional Ecology
27 March 2025
Richard attends the Majadas del Tietar 2025 workshop in Madrid.
01 March 2025
Phoebe joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome Phoebe!
28 January 2025
Richard in Bayreuth, Germany for the CLEANFOREST Cost Action
6 December 2024
Group Christmas Dinner with the group of Peter Moonlight!
21 September 2024
Nadja, Asrit and Richard attend the National Ploughing Championship
31 August 2024
New paper! Nitrogen availability and summer drought, but not N:P imbalance, drive carbon use efficiency of a Mediterranean tree-grass ecosystem in Global Change Biology!
02 July 2024
Nadja joins the team as RA on the RootCheck project, replacing Emily (who moves to a MRes at Trinity) Welcome Nadja!
28 June 2024
Richard is in Stockholm, presenting past work on canopy nitrogen uptake at IUFRO2024.
17 June 2024
Bonnie, Roisin, and Emett join the lab as student helpers on the RootCheck project. Welcome!
6 June 2024
Richard presents latest research results on root dynamics at International Society of Root Researchers in Leipzig.
20 April 2024
Emily joins the lab as RA on the RootCheck project. Welcome Emily!
8 May 2024
Richard is in Lisbon for the CLEANFOREST Annual Meeting!
27 April 2024
Arthur joins the lab (co-supervised by Jenny McElwain and Will Mattheus), working on a summer project about evolution of litter decomposition. Welcome Arthur!
27 April 2024
The PlantCheck team present their project at the SUGAR symposium at Trinity. Well done!
18 April 2024
Richard presents latest research results on root dynamics at EGU 2024 in Vienna.
15 April 2024
Richard convenes ‘Vegetation and ecosystem responses to global change - function and carbon-water relations’ at EGU 2024 in Vienna.
07 March 2024
Richard is a judge at the TCD Natural Science Postgraduate Symposium
06 March 2024
New Website Online
01 March 2024
Our SFI-National Challenge Fund Project ‘RootCheck’ has begun its Seed Phase Funding.
26 February 2024
Richard is a co-author on a Tansley Review about Functional Traits of Fossil Plants as part of the TERRAFORM Team.
14 December 2024
Asrit and Richard are at the Belfast Winter Fair as part of the RootCheck Project.
06 November 2023
Richard is co-author on a New Methods Paper comparing automatic processing of minirhizotron root imagery
01 November 2023
RODEO - Root Dynamics for Ecosystem Observation Kick Off