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A Capital Venture

The work carried out by SEFARI which relates to natural capital is varied and detailed, and encompasses soil, fresh water and biodiversity, together with the ecosystem services (including cultural services such as recreation, heritage, spiritual, amenity, and health) which they support. The vision for this work, and those carrying it out, is for recognition worldwide as leading authorities in the understanding and management of natural resources, and in the sustainable use of these resources in a manner that is resilient to future pressures.

The Centre for Sustainable Cropping: A long-term platform for research and innovation

You may be wondering what we can do to help? Well, at the Centre for Sustainable Cropping (CSC) near Dundee, we’re aiming to develop a cropping system that can produce high quality food, whilst still maintaining a healthy environment. This means using what we understand about ecology to work with the environment to improve the health and physical structure of the soil, minimise the losses of nutrients and chemicals from cultivated fields, and support a rich variety of farmland wildlife.

Vegetation structure affects the territory size of meadow pipits

Our ongoing project at Glen Finglas has shown how sensitive biodiversity is to changing upland management. To maintain consistency, we have used the same monitoring methods since the beginning of the project. However, one of the benefits of long-term projects is that new technology emerges and can be incorporated to allow more detailed understanding to be developed.

Dr Cathy Hawes

Cathy Hawes

James Hutton Institute

Errol Road

Dundee

Scotland

DD2 5DA

Dr Graham Begg

Graham is key staff member leading Integrated Pest and Disease Management (IPM) research at the James Hutton Institute. For details of ongoing IPM research areas and projects, please visit the IPM@hutton website.

Graham Begg

James Hutton Institute

Errol Road

Dundee

Scotland

DD2 5DA

Professor Nick Sparks

Nick is currently am Head of the Animal & Veterinary Sciences (AVS) Group within SRUC’s Research Division. In that role he is responsible for research activities in genetics, animal welfare, disease systems and avian sciences. There are around 100 staff in AVS, most based in the Roslin Institute Building; our Avian Sciences team is based on the Auchincruive Campus near Ayr.

Nick Sparks

Scotland’s Rural College

Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings

West Mains Road

Edinburgh

EH9 3JG

Dr Henry Creissen

Henry has a background in ecology and evolutionary biology with application to agriculture. He is particularly interested the wide range of approaches that can be employed to protect crops against biotic stresses. His research is currently targeted towards developing Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies in order to reduce reliance on fungicides in arable farming systems. Henry also works with stakeholders to understand the barriers to adoption of best pest management practices and identify solutions to overcome them.

Henry's research interests include:

Henry Creissen

Scotland’s Rural College

Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings

West Mains Road

Edinburgh

EH9 3JG

Gillian Donaldson-Selby

Gillian’s past and current research interests have largely focused on the application of landscape visualization in public participation and environmental problem solving, including landscapes, river rehabilitation, peatlands, natural flood managment (NFM) and onshore / offshore renewables. Some of Gillian's landscape visualizations have been used in urban greening exercises in South Africa, as well as Scottish government sponsored RESAS work packages and Green Health projects in Scotland.

Gillian Donaldson-Selby

The James Hutton Institute
Craigiebuckler
Aberdeen AB15 8QH
Scotland UK

Christine Watson

Christine is Team Leader of Soil Science and Systems at SRUC, and a Professor for Agricultural Systems. Her research focuses on butrient management in agriucultural systems, working in a wide range of farming systems including arable, mixed farming, outdoor pig production and dairy systems, as well as agroforestry. She works at a variety of sclaes, from process based studies of nutrient fluxes associated with root turnover to crop rotation and farm scale nutrient budgets. Christine is particularly interested in applying interdisciplinary approaches to address global problems.

Christine Watson

Crop & Soils Systems

SRUC Aberdeen Campus

Craibstone Estate

Aberdeen

AB21 9YA

Dr Victoria Sandilands

Vicky is a senior research scientist in the Department of Agriculture, Horticulture and Engineering Sciences. Her research interests include:

Effects of housing and management on the behaviour and welfare of poultry.
Humane culling of poultry.
Sleep in poultry.
How to reduce feather pecking in laying hens

Vicky Sandilands

Roslin Institute Building

Easter Bush, Midlothian

EH25 9RG

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