S2N - Soil to Nutrition - Work package 1 (WP1) - Optimising nutrient flows and pools in the soil-plant-biota system
Lead Research Organisation:
Rothamsted Research
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
'Soil health' is an as yet imprecise concept recently taken up by scientists and policy makers. It relates to a range of factors which influence the capacity of soil to support the productivity, efficiency and resilience of a given production system. This work package (WP) will develop the scientific basis for the concept of soil health by describing and modelling the biological, chemical and physical processes in soil and the dynamics between them that act singly or together to promote efficiency of nutrient utilization (ENU) and enhanced crop performance. This will provide fundamental empirical and mathematical evidence to determine the mechanisms which mediate the nutrient and energy (C flow) cascade from complex organic and simple inorganic inputs to plant-available nutrients in soils. The role of rhizosphere microbial community structure and function on nutrient transformations and supply to plant roots is a central theme of this WP, including the potential for self-organisation of soil structure at the aggregate scale that is mediated by root and microbial activity and the interaction with the mineral matrix. The trade-offs between the rate, efficiency and resilience of macro- and micronutrient flows to plants in contrasting arable and managed grassland systems will provide an operating envelope for a given soil and production system subject to external stressors, imposed by climatic variability and management. The cumulative knowledge will inform the development of the next generation of soil models (building on RothC) that link macronutrient (N, P, and C) dynamics to physical properties including water storage and availability using directly-measurable mechanistic parameters. Critically, this WP will deliver a set of sustainability indicators related to enhanced ENU from soil-to-plant that will provide mechanistic scale targets for the field, farm and landscape-scale interventions that are researched in this strategic programme (WP2 I0320 and WP3 I0330).
Planned Impact
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Organisations
- Rothamsted Research (Lead Research Organisation)
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Greenwich University (Collaboration)
- Bayer (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL (Collaboration)
- Max Planck Society (Collaboration)
- LANCASTER UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Sustainable Soils Alliance (Collaboration)
- British Geological Survey (Collaboration)
- Woods Hole Research Center (Collaboration)
- James Hutton Institute (Collaboration)
- Agrii (Collaboration)
- Nestlé (Global) (Collaboration)
- Newcastle University (Collaboration)
- Crop Health and Protection (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH (Collaboration)
- AGRI-FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE (Collaboration)
- John Innes Centre (Collaboration)
- INIA Uruguay (Collaboration)
- Hutchisons Ltd (Collaboration)
- Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (Collaboration)
- UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY (Collaboration)
- Curtis Analytics (Collaboration)
- Dartmouth College (Collaboration)
- IBM (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- The Eden Project (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (Collaboration)
- Aarhus University (Collaboration)
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Collaboration)
- Global Good Fund (Collaboration)
- Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Collaboration)
- Unilever (Collaboration)
- International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) (Collaboration)
- EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Scotland's Rural College (Collaboration)
- Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (Collaboration)
- ETH Zurich (Collaboration)
- National Chung-Hsing University (Collaboration)
- Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) (Collaboration)
- Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Collaboration)
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (Collaboration)
Publications
Fu Q
(2017)
The short-term effects of nitrification inhibitors on the abundance and expression of ammonia and nitrite oxidizers in a long-term field experiment comparing land management
in Biology and Fertility of Soils
Nawara S
(2017)
A comparison of soil tests for available phosphorus in long-term field experiments in Europe
in European Journal of Soil Science
George T
(2017)
Correction to: Organic phosphorus in the terrestrial environment: a perspective on the state of the art and future priorities
in Plant and Soil
Winowiecki LA
(2017)
Landscape-scale assessments of stable carbon isotopes in soil under diverse vegetation classes in East Africa: application of near-infrared spectroscopy.
in Plant and soil
Mathers A
(2017)
Determining the fate of selenium in wheat biofortification: an isotopically labelled field trial study
in Plant and Soil
George T
(2017)
Organic phosphorus in the terrestrial environment: a perspective on the state of the art and future priorities
in Plant and Soil
Wang, P.,
(2017)
The Nexus of Soils, Plants, Animals and Human Health
Quine T
(2017)
Ecosystem service delivery in Karst landscapes: anthropogenic perturbation and recovery
in Acta Geochimica
Cooke A
(2017)
Modelling the impact of targeted anthelmintic treatment of cattle on dung fauna
in Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology
Yu G
(2017)
Mineral Availability as a Key Regulator of Soil Carbon Storage.
in Environmental science & technology
| Title | What happens when you switch farmland from livestock to crops? |
| Description | Film covering soils research for BBSRC Impact Showcase |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | none yet |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSlHiNmn3Ls |
| Description | We developed an innovative systems model of soil, describing soil behaviour as a function of microbial genes within it, interacting closely with organic carbon inputs. This shows a strong relationship between soil organic carbon and pore topology (<40 µm), with reduced carbon input leading to structural degradation (reduced porosity, pore connectivity and permeability). Diffusion of nutrients and oxygen through the soil pore network is decreased by two-thirds in carbon-starved degraded soil compared to grassland soil. We can predict system efficiency (with respect to nutrient and energy use) to directly assess soil quality. Genetic differences between soil microbiomes were driven by land use, pH and nutrient gradients. Metagenomic datasets have been generated for contrasting soil types with a range of agronomic treatments. We identified critical structural parameters relating to pore connectivity (at scales <15 µm) which exert a significant influence upon microbiome behaviour and metabolism in soils. We have confirmed that long-term agricultural management affects stocks of soil carbon and nitrogen - significantly so to at least 40 cm below the surface which has implications for soil fertility and carbon sequestration. We have developed numerical models with 3D root morphology and rhizosphere of each root explicitly resolved to elucidate the role of root architecture and the rhizosphere in acquisition of nutrients and water from soil. Land management, plant genotype as well as fertilization regime are all important factors in shaping the root microbiome. Dwarfing of wheat is linked to the formation of an altered microbiome compared to pre-green revolution cultivars. This implies that wheat dwarfing may have disrupted beneficial plant-microbe interactions. A rhizosphere culture collection from a range of crops, including wheat grown under high and low fertilisation conditions, has been established and continues to be tested for plant growth promoting properties such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and iron solubilisation. Many phosphorus-solubilising bacteria belonged to the Pseudomonas fluorescens group of bacteria, and we showed that isolates performing this function were phylogenetically similar. We also demonstrated that plants select for a higher proportion of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria when under stress. This is exemplified by the presence of a higher proportion of nutrient solubilising bacteria in the rhizosphere under nutrient poor conditions as well as those capable of suppressing plant stress ethylene production when plants are grown in structurally poor soil. We have developed a compost-based screening system for putative plant growth promoting bacteria which could be used to develop microbial inoculants, and this can be used to further the mechanistic understanding of plant microbiome function. To validate soil-related indicators of nutrient status of crops and grassland, which determine food quality, we conducted "geophenomic" screenings to link the plant phenotype (crop or pasture) to soil physical and chemical properties. Recent results indicate that we can predict crop nutrient uptake based on soil spectral (Mid Infra-red) information. We studied the effects of organic fertilizers on crop quality and showed an increased nutritional value of crops grown with organic fertilizers (with BBS/E/C/000I0320). We also developed a soil carbon index and tested its value using the National Soil Inventory data covering about 4000 samples from England and Wales. This index allows the soil organic carbon status of any mineral soil in England or Wales to be assessed objectively, which can be used for soil health management at field level. The index also defines thresholds of soil organic carbon adjusted to the land use and can help to identify degraded soils to target the application of scarce organic amendments. |
| Exploitation Route | Our findings are used by Soil to Nutrition work packages 2 and 3 (BBS/E/C/000I0320 and BBS/E/C/000I0330) to advise companies and practitioners seeking to reduce nitrogen emissions, improve nitrogen use efficiency, target organic carbon management in agricultural soils and contribute to Net Zero. Our extended composite phenotype model of soil was picked up in the World Economic Forum "A 10-year plan to save the world's soil". Farmers, our Science Advisory Group, companies and organisations such as AHDB and DEFRA use our emerging messages about sustainable agriculture systems to produce science-based advice (the Nutrient Management Guide), management guidelines (Environmental Land Management Scheme) and policy (DEFRA's 25-year Environment Plan and the Indicator Framework; the Net Zero plan). Our new soil carbon index can help to monitor soil health country-wide and guide sustainable management of soils (i.e., the Agrii Soil Resilience program). Internationally, Soil to Nutrition related research and dry spectral methods are integrated into new projects on human nutrition (geonutrition) and iSDA is using the new high-resolution Africa soil map for site-specific agronomic advice systems for small scale farmers in the global south. The 3D root model has been used to predict the difference in water uptake of 100 wheat lines by the "Designing Future Wheat" programme (BBS/E/C/000I0280). We did publish several data sets on long term experiments and other studies that can be used by others for meta-analyses, systematic reviews or for testing new hypotheses (and some more are in preparation). |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Chemicals Environment Government Democracy and Justice |
| URL | http://www.discover.ukri.org/bbsrc-impact-showcase-2021/index.html |
| Description | Soil to Nutrition outputs on the requirements for sulphur-containing fertilisers have been used in revisions of the national Nutrient Management Guide and in development of nutrient management decision-support tools in the mobile phone Crap App. Resulting from this are increased crop yields and decreased nutrient losses to the environment. Engagement activities with Bayer, BASF (AgBalance tool) and Syngenta, including those involved in land management, soil health, precision nutrient management and agricultural service suppliers, ensure rapid uptake of science outputs and development for application within the industry. We also worked with SMEs, for example in AgRIA/ERDF and Innovate UK projects with Sustainable Resource Management Solutions Ltd., Economad Solutions, the Eden Project, CIELivestock and Isometrica Ltd. A spin out company - iSDA Africa - has been formed that uses our dry spectral soil and crop analysis techniques and our agronomy expertise. Together with iSDA we contributed to a new 30 m resolution soil and nutrient map for Africa released in 2020. We also helped develop a hand-held infra-red sensor for soil analysis with the company Global Good which is now commercially available from NeoSpectra. Based on the analysis of data from the National Soil Inventory, we developed a soil carbon index which can rate soil organic carbon levels across soil types and climatic zones in England and Wales. We presented this index to a range of stakeholders (e.g., CEH, DEFRA, Strutt and Parker, Sustainable Soils Alliance, Soil to Nutrition Advisory Group) as a possible tool to rate soil health/quality in the new Environmental Land Management programme of DEFRA. As a result, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology studied the relation between the index and yield gaps in arable farming across England and several stakeholders and farming advisors are using the index (e.g., Agrii). A flyer explaining the index has been distributed to stakeholders. Dry spectral methods for the quick and economic analysis of soil and plant samples have been further developed and our spectral laboratory became part of the Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN) initiative of the FAO. The initiative is used to promote better standardization of analytical methods, and our laboratory was adopted as a regional reference laboratory. We are now developing a service capacity for internal and external clients of the laboratory. We engaged widely with the agricultural industry, including Cereals, CropTec, International Fertiliser Society, the OCP group and the CRU Phosphate Conference. Soil to Nutrition impact with consumers and wider society has taken place through many public talks, discussion events and interaction at the New Scientist Live Future of Food and Agriculture on-demand online event, the Oxford Real Farming Conference, Rothamsted's Festival of Ideas, the Rothamsted annual report, and interviews with the BBC and other press (e.g., Farmers Weekly, BBSRC Impact Showcase 2021). Soil to Nutrition and uplift projects (particularly through RCUK Doctoral Training Partnerships, the Teagasc Walsh Fellowship scheme, and co-funded PhD studentships with several universities) have enabled the training of >52 PhD students and postdoctoral scientists in the areas of soil science, nutrient cycling, agronomy, livestock science and agroecosystems systems modelling, thereby contributing to the next generation of practitioners. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Chemicals,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Academic Champion for the Industry Strategy Challenge Fund Transforming Food Production program |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Contribution to Parliamentary Post note |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-0601 |
| Description | Contributions to POSTnote on Restoring Soil Productivity |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Unknown - No Impacts Yet |
| Description | Discussions with NFU (Chief Scietific Advisor Diane Mitchell) and EA (Alan Jones, William Cruickshank) regarding digestate use in soil amendments |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | EU Microbiome support |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | No Impacts Yet |
| URL | https://www.microbiomesupport.eu/ |
| Description | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) parliamentary committee visit to Rothamsted. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Evidence given for the impact and benefit of international development research supported by UK agri-science. APPG on Science & Technology in Agriculture Annual Report 2017/18 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | http://www.appg-agscience.org.uk |
| Description | KTN - microbiome strategic roadmap |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://ktn-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Microbiome_Strategic_Roadmap_FINAL.pdf |
| Description | Lecture to university of Exeter Masters students (Sustainable agriculture) entitled microbial populations in silage production. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Member of the Advisory Board for the Transforming Food Production programme (ISCF) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Design of funding call and the subsequent support for £20M of projects in technology- and data-driven innovation in agriculture |
| Description | National Food Strategy panel visit |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | No Impacts Yet |
| URL | https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/programme-of-engagement/ |
| Description | Parliamentary POST note |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | No Impacts Yet |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-0601 |
| Description | UK plant microbiome initiative |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON - Australian Nuclear Science and Technology organisation |
| Amount | $98,352 (AUD) |
| Funding ID | AS213/SXR/17478 |
| Organisation | Australian Synchrotron |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Australia |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | Agriculture Science Precursors |
| Amount | € 75,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Assessing the effectiveness of affordable soil spectroscopic techniques for microbial diversity and abundance predictions on English wheat farms |
| Amount | £236,226 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10055289 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | BASF |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | BASF |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 10/2022 |
| Description | BASF Studentship |
| Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | BASF |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| Description | Bioinformatics and biological resources fund |
| Amount | £2,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | ERDF - CO2i S5619 Unlocking rapid, inexpensive protein determination in Lemna using FTIR Spectroscopy |
| Amount | £56,745 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Union |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | ERDF Project - Economad Optimising nutrient recovery with Passive solar thermal pumping and pasteurisation |
| Amount | £26,502 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Union |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | ERDF project - Economad/Babwe Barton S5610 |
| Amount | £55,435 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Union |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | ERDF project - Tiwakiki S5619 |
| Amount | £56,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Union |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Exploitation of beneficial root-associated rhizobacteria in grain cereal-based cropping systems (Microbiome) |
| Amount | £661,484 (GBP) |
| Organisation | OCP |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Morocco |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 11/2023 |
| Description | Farming Innovation Pathways |
| Amount | £65,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Fifth Call for Seed-Funding Awards |
| Amount | £18,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Centre for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture, Rothamsted |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Flexible Talent mobility award-Researcher Exchanges with Industry- Silage survey and test a new method of detecting fungal contamination in silage |
| Amount | £7,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Silage Soutions Ltd |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Fourth CSIA Call for Seed funding Awards |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Centre for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture, Rothamsted |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Funding to attend Workshop on Food Security for Vulnerable Populatons: the Fungal threat. |
| Amount | R$ 1,000 (BRL) |
| Organisation | University of Ribeirão Preto |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Brazil |
| Start | 08/2018 |
| End | 09/2018 |
| Description | GCRF (Institute Award) - 'Tools and Resources for African Soils' led by Andy Neal |
| Amount | £221,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | GCRF - Global Challenges Research Fund - Addressing malnutrition with biofortified maize in Zimbabwe |
| Amount | £830,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/T009047/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | GCRF Data and Resources grant |
| Amount | £848,911 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | GCRF Foundation award |
| Amount | £625,800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | GeoNutrition-reducing 'hidden hunger' in Ethiopia and Malawi |
| Amount | £4,400,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | Growing Research Capacity project - Strengthening Capacity in Environmental Physics, Hydrology and Statistics for Conservation Agriculture Research |
| Amount | £5,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| Description | INIA scholarship |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | INIA Uruguay |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Uruguay |
| Start | |
| Description | Innovative Solutions for Decision Agriculture Project |
| Amount | £306,228 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovative Solutions for Decision Agriculture Ltd. |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | New soil and plant diagnostics tools for better fertilizer recommendations |
| Amount | £1,128,623 (GBP) |
| Organisation | OCP |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Morocco |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 10/2023 |
| Description | PhD AgRIA scholarships (x 5) |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Rothamsted Research |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| Description | RRES GNCA Award 2022 |
| Amount | £31,266 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | RRES GNCA Award 2022 - Stephan Haefele/Steve McGrath |
| Amount | £26,694 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | SitS NSF-UKRI: Dynamic coupling of soil structure and gas fluxes measured with distributed sensor systems: implications for carbon modeling |
| Amount | £965,214 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Support AgriTech sandpit and competition |
| Amount | £13,153 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 08/2018 |
| Description | Syngenta & University of Nottingham |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | UK Research and Innovation - IGP Call |
| Amount | £91,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| Description | Vacation Study Award |
| Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Stapledon Memorial Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 08/2019 |
| Title | Computer codes |
| Description | This is a toolkit we have been developing to simulate physical and biochemical processes at soil and other porous materials at microscopic scale. |
| Type Of Material | Model of mechanisms or symptoms - non-mammalian in vivo |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Being applied PhD projects at China Agriculture University and Nottingham University |
| Title | Development of a defined compost system for the study of plant-microbe interactions |
| Description | We have a developed a method to control the chemical, physical and biologcal status for plant growth |
| Type Of Material | Biological samples |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | we can measure the impact fo specific microbes on plant health |
| Title | Development of a global soil spectral calibration library |
| Description | The online library is a major advance in rapid estimations of soil condition and sustainable soil management for improved food security and environmental management. Soil spectroscopy is a fast, cost-effective and environmental-friendly technique that uses the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with soils to estimate soil properties such as the levels of acidity, organic carbon, nitrogen and water retention. These determine the health and usability of these soils. The initial collection for the library contains high-quality soil spectral reflectance and measured data for over 80 000 soil samples. Spectral reflectance measures how much energy (as a percentage) a soil surface reflects at a specific wavelength, which is then used to identify different soil properties. From this, a soil's condition and quality can be analysed. This library will continue to grow as participating countries provide samples for spectral and conventional analysis, meaning countries can use this data to rapidly characterize their soil conditions and help protect them. This centralised and standardised spectral reflectance library will be freely available to laboratories around the world. In addition, the library will soon support a free and easy-to-use soil property estimation service where users can submit their soil spectral data and come out with a suite of estimated soil conditions and properties. |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Help countries understand soil conditions to improve agricultural productivity and reverse land degradation A global soil spectral calibration library to support countries in understanding of soil condition. This is a key factor in improving agricultural productivity and reversing land degradation. |
| URL | http://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1271807/?utm_content=bufferc9892&utm_medium=social&utm_s... |
| Title | Dry spectral analysis laboratory . |
| Description | New dry spectral analysis laboratory set up for diagnostic assessment of soils, plants, fertilizers and manures in association with the African Soil Information Service and ICRAF |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The instrumentation is also bring used for outer purposes as part of students PhD work |
| Title | Metagenomic sequences generated from the Highfield Ley-Arable LTE deposited with European Nucleotide Archive Browser as PRJEB43407 |
| Description | Nine shotgun metagenome datasets generated from grassland, arable and bare fallow soils of the Highfield Ley-Arable experiment, Rothamsted Research in Harpenden. Soil was collected from triplicate plots for each treatment to a depth of 10 cm using a 3-cm diameter corer. The top 2 cm of soil containing root mats and other plant detritus was discarded. Ten cores per plot were pooled and thoroughly mixed while sieving through a 2-mm mesh; samples were then frozen at -80°C. All implements were cleaned with 70% ethanol (vol/vol) between sampling/sieving soil from each plot. Soil community DNA was extracted from a minimum of 2 g soil using the MoBio PowerSoil DNA isolation kit (Mo Bio Laboratories, Inc., Carlsbad, CA) with three replicates for each soil treatment. When necessary, extracts from individual extractions were pooled to provide enough material for sequencing for each replicate. Ten micrograms of high-quality DNA was provided for sequencing for each of the nine plots. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing of DNA was provided by Illumina (Great Abington, UK) using a HiSeq 2000 sequencing platform, generating 150-base, paired-end reads. After filtering to remove substandard sequences, the average metagenome sizes for each soil were 4.96 × 10E8 reads for grassland, 2.86 × 10E8 for arable soil, and 2.88 × 10E8 for bare fallow soil. |
| Type Of Material | Biological samples |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Development of this extensive sequence dataset has supported four publications to date describing the response of soil microbiomes to land management and nutritional inputs. |
| URL | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB43407 |
| Title | Open Soils Data Platform (oSDP) |
| Description | A decision support tool in the form of an intuitive, easy-to-use app for Android smartphones, widely used throughout Africa. The target end-users are farmers, extension workers and NGOs, providing them timely advice regarding soil and crop health. The App will be based on the Fertilizer Optimization Tools developed by OFRA, which help farmers calculate optimal fertiliser mixes to maximise profit and currently available as a series of MS-Excel workbooks. |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None yet as still in progress |
| Title | Plant culture system |
| Description | We have a developed a manipulatable system for plant growth in compost where nutrient levels can be controlled |
| Type Of Material | Biological samples |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We are able to measure the impact of individual nutrients as well as microbes on plant performance |
| Title | Rothamsted soils metagenome repository |
| Description | Approximately 450 soil metagenomes from natural and managed soil systems from around the globe |
| Type Of Material | Cell line |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | To be determined |
| Title | Software in R |
| Description | R-shiny app that implements set typology construction techniques |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This software will be published and is then available for free. |
| Title | Spectral analysis tools |
| Description | We have established spectral tools for analysis at RRes |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is a new service at RRes, offering faster and economic sample analysis for selected characteristics |
| Title | Agricultural intensification reduces selection of putative plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in wheat |
| Description | The complex evolutionary history of wheat has shaped its associated root microbial community. However, consideration of impacts from agricultural intensification have been limited. This study investigated how endogenous (genome polyploidization), and exogenous (introduction of chemical fertilizers) factors have shaped beneficial rhizobacterial selection. Our novel approach combined culture -independent and -dependent methods to analyse rhizobacterial community composition and its associated functions at the root-soil interface from a range of ancestral and modern wheat genotypes, grown with and without the addition of chemical fertilizer. In controlled pot experiments, fertilization and soil compartment (rhizosphere, rhizoplane) were the dominant factors shaping bacterial community composition, while the expansion of the wheat genome from diploid to allopolyploid caused the next greatest variation. Rhizoplane-derived culturable bacterial collections tested for plant growth-promoting (PGP) traits revealed that fertilization reduced the abundance of putative plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in allopolyploid wheats but not in wild wheat progenitors. Taxonomic classification of these isolates showed that these differences were largely driven by reduced selection of beneficial root bacteria representative of the Bacteroidota phylum in allopolyploid wheats. Furthermore, the complexity of supported beneficial bacterial populations in hexaploid wheats was greatly reduced in comparison to diploid wild wheats. We therefore propose that the selection of root-associated bacterial genera with PGP functions may be impaired by crop domestication in a fertilizer-dependent manner, a potentially crucial finding to direct future plant breeding programs to improve crop production systems in a changing environment. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None as yet |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98zz7/agricultural-intensification-reduces-selection-of-put... |
| Title | Effect of pasture composition in cattle grazed systems on soil properties and nutrient cycling: impact on herbage, soil and cattle excreta |
| Description | Full experimental details can be found in McAuliffe et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2020.106978, and Segura et al. (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.117096. The experiment took place on the North Wyke Farm Platform (NWFP), a UK National Capability in SW England. The NWFP is split into a number of self-contained farms ('farmlets') that are managed according to different operation philosophies or practices. The NWFP is highly instrumented and monitored, and core NWFP datasets are open and include in-situ water flow and chemistry taken at 15-minute intervals; 15-minute Met measurements; 15-minute soil moisture measurements; 30-minute GHG emissions; soils, crop and botanical field survey data; livestock and crop performance data; and farm operational activities, and contextual information is also available. See https://nwfp.rothamsted.ac.uk/. At the time of the experiment, there were three farmlets on the NWFP with different pasture management strategies. Permanent pasture (PP), a perennial ryegrass monoculture (HS) which was sown with a high sugar Lolium perenne cv. AberMagic, and a white clover/perennial ryegrass mix (WC) with the same ryegrass variety as the HS pasture. The PP and HS pastures received N fertilizer at a standard rate, but the WC pastures did not due to the inclusion of a legume. Fields within a farmlet are cut for silage and grazed by cattle and sheep, with livestock grazing or consuming silage only from one farmlet. This experiment used a single field from each farmlet, chosen as they represent a trio of fields that typically undergo very similar timings in agricultural management, such as grazing by the same species at the same time, as far as is feasible. Within each field there were three experimental blocks each containing six plots (2.5 x 1.5 m). Each of the six plots within a block were randomised to controls or treatments. Treatments were dung, cattle urine, or synthetic urine. The dung was collected from fields within a farmlet, homogenised using a concrete mixer, and refrigerated in sealed barrels until application on the plots. Cattle urine was collected from cattle within a farmlet over the period of a couple of days, bulked, and frozen until application on the plots. Synthetic urine was included as a treatment to investigate the effect of pasture composition on N2O emissions to be tested without the confounding effects of different urine compositions. Three plots within each block were controls. One control plot in each block received no N fertilizer, while the other two plots in the PP and HS blocks were controls plus N fertilizer to replicate the rest of the field; the WC blocks had three controls with no N fertilizer as this farmlet does not receive N fertilizer. In some cases, only one of the two plus N fertilizer controls were analysed for some of the measurements. This dataset contains data on herbage yield; soil moisture; soil physical properties (bulk density, mean weight density, soil loss through 50 µm sieve); soil chemistry (various measures of carbon and nitrogen content, pH and ergosterol); herbage and manure total carbon and nitrogen; micro- and macronutrient concentrations of herbage, soil, urine and manure; and earthworm counts. Urine and manure are characterised before being applied as treatments, while soil and forage samples were taken at various time points from shortly before the application of treatments through to several months later. In the case of the micro- and macronutrient content of soil as assessed by ICP, baseline samples - taken prior to the implementation of the farmlet treatments - are also included. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | No impacts yet |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98x4z/effect-of-pasture-composition-in-cattle-grazed-system... |
| Title | Elemental concentrations and growth characteristics of wild-type and cultivated varieties of pasture species |
| Description | The objective of the experiment that generated this dataset was to determine how pasture species (grasses, legumes and forbs) differ in their macro- and micronutrients concentrations and growth traits. Cultivated and wild-type varieties of species were grown as it was hypothesised that breeding of cultivated varieties that respond well to inorganic NPK fertilizers may have resulted in plants that have fewer traits that enable them to acquire other macro- and micronutrients from soil. Data includes: • Plant yield • Macro- and micronutrient concentrations (and some potentially toxic elements): Al, As, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, I, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Mi, P, Pb, S, Se, Ti, and Zn. Note that nitrogen was not measured. • Plant traits: leaf mass, root mass, aboveground dry weight, leaf area. • Growing medium total and extractable element concentrations, plus pH and cation exchange capacity. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | No impacts known as yet |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/989q7/elemental-concentrations-and-growth-characteristics-o... |
| Title | Exhaustion Land Experiment soil chemical properties 2012 |
| Description | Soil chemical properties of six plots of the Exhaustion Land Experiment, May 2012. Including soil C, N, pH, extractable cations and total elements. These plots were subsequently used for the datasets describing wheat growth and crop element uptake, and soil moisture and soil P and N dynamics, over the growing seasons 2013 and 2014. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2025 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/rex4/01-SOIL2012 |
| Title | Global Soils metgenomic library |
| Description | collection of over 450 shotgun metagenome data sets collected from various public repositories and generated from pristine and managed soils around the globe. These are being used to assess the diversity of micro-organisms and functions and study the effects of management upon soil communities.Partnerships with Bioplatforms Australia and the African Soils information service is contributing metagenomes from across Australia and sub-Saharan Africa to this database and extending the utility of the resource. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | none yet |
| Title | Integration of imaging technology and process-based models for soil |
| Description | We have built up a database for the 3D images of soil samples taken from different treatments in the long-term experiments including the reversion experiment in Highfield. To analyse these images and link it to soil functions observed at the field, we have developed codes. We intend to make the images and/or codes accessible via e-RA in middle or end of the ISP. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Being applied to PhD projects at China Agricultural University and Nottingham University |
| Title | Micro- and macro-elements in sheep excreta after consumption of feed supplements according to supplement formulation and level |
| Description | In this experiment, sheep were given mineral supplements in their feed containing selenium (Se), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn) and copper (Cu), with four treatments: two forms of the supplement (micronutrients in organic or inorganic compounds in the feed), and two levels of supplement dosing (higher or lower). The mass of excreta (faeces and urine) and the concentration of micro- and macro-nutrients in the excreta were measured over the course of the feeding trial. The trial was conducted over four weeks; the first two weeks were a baseline period and were followed by two weeks of feed that included the supplements. Data presented include: sheep mass and body condition throughout the experiment; the mass of silage and concentrate feed consumed by sheep and its macro- and micro-nutrient contents; the volume of urine and the mass of faeces excreted and their macro- and micro-nutrient contents; and the results of a preliminary trial to assess whether drying of the sheep faeces affects the measurement of macro- and micro-nutrients by ICP analysis. In addition to the micronutrients in the supplements, data are presented for P, S, Fe, Mo, and Cd, plus Al, As, Ca, Co, Cr, K, Mg, Na, Ni, Pb, and Ti in the feed only. Animals were assessed daily for health and well-being, as determined by alertness, feed and water intake. All animal procedures and the care for the animals were carried out under strict regulations described in the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 issued by the Home Office of Her Majesty's Britannic Government under the Project License number P592D2677. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data has been used by others (as of February 2024): 107 total downloads 10 downloads this month |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98883/micro-and-macro-elements-in-sheep-excreta-after-consu... |
| Title | Movement of micro- and macronutrients from sheep excreta to grass and leachate via soil |
| Description | This dataset originates from an experiment designed to determine the fate of micro- and macronutrients from sheep excreta after application to soils seeded with grass. The experiment was conducted as a pot experiment in a controlled environment growing room over a period of approximately 7 weeks. Two soils were used, chosen because they were of the same soil type but with different organic matter contents. Sheep excreta (urine and faeces) originated from a feeding trial where sheep were given feed supplements where micronutrients were in either an organic or inorganic form, and full information on this feeding trial and the characterisation of the excreta are given in a linked dataset (https://doi.org/10.23637/rothamsted.98883). For the organic-supplemented sheep excreta and the inorganic-supplemented sheep excreta separately, excreta were applied to the soil as either urine only, faeces only, or a combination of faeces and urine, plus there was an untreated control. Measurements include leachate volume; grass yield; soil pH from before, during and after the experimental period; and macro- and micro-nutrient concentrations of soil prior to the experiment (total and available concentrations), grass (total concentrations) and leachate (total concentrations) and soil total carbon and nitrogen after the experiment. Grass was cut on 4 occasions and leachate collected 3 times. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | These data have been used by others (as of February 2024): 64 total downloads 8 downloads this month |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98v24/movement-of-micro-and-macronutrients-from-sheep-excre... |
| Title | Open Data on AWS: Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) Soil Chemistry |
| Description | This dataset contains soil infrared spectral data and paired soil property reference measurements for georeferenced soil samples that were collected through the Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) project, which lasted from 2009 through 2018. Georeferenced samples were collected from 19 countries in Sub-Saharan African using a statistically sound sampling scheme, and their soil properties were analyzed using both conventional soil testing methods and spectral methods (infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The two types of data can be paired to form a training dataset for machine learning, such that certain soil properties can be well-predicted through less expensive spectral techniques. |
| URL | https://registry.opendata.aws/afsis/ |
| Title | Open Soils Data Platform |
| Description | Our aim has been to develop an open data platform for soil information, combining metadata from a broad range of sources and creating a searchable catalogue based upon a semantic data framework. This will enable linking of activities and outputs via common themes (within controlled vocabularies and semantic search) and links across constituent databases using mappings over standard web interfaces and through application programme interfaces (APIs) to the underlying data. This architecture will be readily extensible to other information resources and databases via continual development using common semantics standards such as PROV-O and SoilML. To make the Phase I subset of AfSIS's soil infrared spectral data and paired soil property reference measurements available for release on AWS's Registry of Open Data (RODA), QED (1) coordinated with multiple parties to gather and organize the necessary assets, and (2) built computational notebooks demonstrating how the data can be used. To carry out the first initiative, data from ICRAF and TanSIS, and Phase I wet chemistry data from CROPNUTS, have been uploaded using QED's AfSIS DB portal that has been online since 2014. Re-analyzed AfSIS Phase I wet chemistry data from Rothamsted was sent to QED by way of spreadsheets, which QED then wrote programs for to automatically parse and upload to AfSIS DB. The data in AfSIS DB (https://afsisdb.qed.ai/about/) was then post-processed by way of Python, merging field-acquired georeferences with lab-acquired measurements, and ensuring that only georeferenced samples with both wet and dry chemistry analyses were retained in the final dataset. To collect sufficient metadata, QED also corresponded with ICRAF, CROPNUTS, and Rothamsted to gather formal SOPs for all methods used in their analyses, and these SOPs are also presented on the RODA. In a related effort for propagating metadata, QED also created an endpoint on AfSIS DB that dynamically generates linked data describing the models stored within, to experiment with semantic web technology. The second initiative, of building computational tutorials, has been not only suggested by existing efforts in AfSIS and oSDP, but is also part of AWS's data quality standards for acceptance of a public dataset. Our tutorial first provides an exposition of the structure of the data, and then demonstrates how to read the data from the S3 bucket and build a simple machine learning model for spectral inference. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We have implemented a first version of the oSDP metadata integration framework based on CEH's Environmental Observatory Framework. This uses an agreed set of metadata and controlled vocabularies needed for integrating a range of data. These have been taken from the CAB Thesaurus and Global Agricultural Concept Scheme and FAO's AGROVOC systems. Prototype metadata integration for several data collections has been achieved enabling searching of the catalogue for datasets containing related information. Some issues have emerged with access to data from African sources (e.g. OFRA) but discussions are ongoing. Metadata descriptions for the chemical and biological datasets (Objective 3) have been developed. Impact is also derived from the importance of releasing data as an exemplar public dataset on the AWS portal. This puts the data in the hands of a major international community who are able to develop new computational methods to interrogate the data. Practical outcomes at end user level in the agriculture and farming community are not available yet, but the international reach of the AWS portal is a major outcome for the project |
| URL | https://afsisdb.qed.ai/about/ |
| Title | Replication Data for: Comprehensive Nutrient Analysis in Agricultural Organic Amendments Through Non-Destructive Assays Using Machine Learning |
| Description | Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) and Diffuse Reflectance Fourier Transformed Mid-Infrared (DRIFT-MIR) spectroscopy are rapid and cost-effective analytical tools for material characterization. We developed machine learning methods to rapidly quantify the concentrations of macro- and micronutrient elements present in the samples and propose a novel system for the quality assessment of organic amendments. Two types of machine learning methods, forest regression and extreme gradient boosting, were used with data from both pXRF and DRIFT-MIR spectroscopy. Cross-validation trials were run to evaluate generalizability of models produced on each instrument. Both methods demonstrated similar broad capabilities in estimating nutrients using machine learning, with pXRF being suitable for nutrients and contaminants. The results make portable spectrometry in combination with machine learning a scalable solution to provide comprehensive nutrient analysis for organic amendments. (2020-11-12) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Already used for 1 recent papers, now publicly available |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/YTJTZQ |
| Title | Rothamsted long-term liming experiment crop yield 1962-1996 |
| Description | The experiment tests the effects of different amounts of lime (and thus soil pH), P and K on the yields of a sequence of arable crops, on a silty clay loam soil at Rothamsted Experimental Farm, from 1962-1996. Mg, Mn and S were tested on split plots at different times. Target soil pH was 4.5, 5.5, 6.5 and 7.5. There is a parallel experiment at Woburn Experimental Farm. Since 1997 the experiment has been in grass. The dataset contains plot and sub-plot yields for all plots and years, 1962-1996, details of all treatments applied (lime, P, K, Mg, Mn and S), and agronomic details (crop variety, sowing and harvest date, basal fertilizer). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Already used for 3 recent papers, now publicly available |
| URL | http://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/rcs10/01-RLTLYIELDS |
| Title | Rothamsted long-term liming experiment exchangeable cations re-analysed. |
| Description | A long-term liming experiment was conducted by Rothamsted Research at Harpenden. We re-analysed selected samples to study the exchangeable cations over time. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None yet |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.23637/rcs10-rltlcation-01 |
| Title | Rothamsted long-term liming experiment grain mineral composition |
| Description | The experiment tests the effects of four different amounts of lime (creating a soil pH range for approximately 4.5 to 7.5) with and without fertilizer P, on the grain mineral compostion of three arable crops. The site is a silty clay loam soil at Rothamsted Experimental Farm, from 1962-1996. There was a parallel experiment on a sandy loam soil at Woburn Experimental Farm. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Rothamsted long-term liming experiment grain mineral composition data, Electronic Rothamsted Archive, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden Already used for 3 recent papers, now publicly available |
| URL | http://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/rcs10/01-RLTLGRAIN |
| Title | Rothamsted long-term liming experiment soil chemical properties 1962-1996 |
| Description | The experiment tests the effects of different amounts of lime (and thus soil pH), P and K on a sequence of arable crops, on a silty clay loam soil at Rothamsted Experimental Farm, from 1962-1996. Mg, Mn and S were tested on split plots at different times. Target soil pH was 4.5, 5.5, 6.5 and 7.5. This dataset contains soil pH, Olsen P and exchangeable cations (Ca, K, Mg and Na, ammonium acetate method), on soil sampled several times between 1962 and 1996. There is also a baseline sampling before the experiment was established. There was a parallel experiment at Woburn Experimental Farm. The experiment was under grass from 1997-2019 and no treatments were applied. In April 2019 the experiment was revived, and is currently being used to investigate the effect of different lime, P and Zn treatments on macro and micro nutrient uptake of wheat varieties. For more details contact Dr SM Haefele. This work was partially funded by the BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme - Soil to Nutrition (BBS/E/C/00010310). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Used for 1 paper in prep, now publicly available |
| URL | https://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/rcs10/01-RLTLSOIL |
| Title | Shotgun metagenomic sequence datasets generated from soil samples from Rothamsted Broadbalk long-term experiment |
| Description | fifteen shotgun metagenome datasets generated from soils of the Broadbalk winter wheat long-term experiment at Rothamsted Research associated with article published in Nature Food (https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00671-z) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We report on the influence of inorganic fertilizer and organic amendments in the form of composted farmyard manure to arable soils on nitrogen losses and accumulation on a unique 170-year old field experiment. |
| URL | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB54688 |
| Title | Soil Spectra and Wet Chemistry Measurements from ICRAF Soil-Plant Spectral Diagnostics Laboratory and Rothamsted Research: Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) Phase 2 Project Data 2014-2018 - GhaSIS |
| Description | AfSIS Phase 2 was a collaborative project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Partners included, Columbia Global Center Africa (CGCA), Earth Institute (EI), International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC), The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Rothamsted Research (RRes) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The project aimed to assist national programs in four African countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania) to transition to modern agricultural research and data collection practices that were expected to result in faster agricultural development cycles. In Ghana a total of 3,433 soil samples were collected at two sampling depths (0-20cm, 20-50cm) from Nov 2015 to Aug 2016. All the soil samples were scanned using a ZnSe Alpha I spectrometer at the Soil Research Institute of the Council of Science and Industrial Research (CSIR), Kumasi, Ghana. A subset of 210 soil samples was shipped to ICRAF Soil-Plant Spectral Diagnostics Laboratory and scanned on two spectrometers (HTS-xt and ZnSe Alpha I). The same 210 soil samples were also sent to RRes for wet chemistry analysis. The spectra data scanned at CSIR (using ZnSe Alpha I) and that scanned at ICRAF Nairobi (using HTS-xt Tensor 27) and wetchem data (analyzed at RRes) are available on Dataverse here. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Already used for 1 recent papers, now publicly available |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/SPRSFN |
| Title | Soil Spectra and Wet Chemistry Measurements from ICRAF Soil-Plant Spectral Diagnostics Laboratory and Rothamsted Research: Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) Phase 2 Project Data 2014-2018 - NiSIS |
| Description | AfSIS Phase 2 was a collaborative project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Partners included, Ahmadu Bello University, Columbia Global Center Africa (CGCA), Earth Institute (EI), Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T)/Obafemi Awolowo University, International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC), Rothamsted Research (RRes) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The project aimed to assist national programs in four African countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania) to transition to modern agricultural research and data collection practices that were expected to result in faster agricultural development cycles. In Nigeria, 1,491 soil samples were collected at two sampling depths (0-20cm, 20-50cm) from two states - Kebbi and Ebonyi. The samples were shipped to ICRAF Soil-Plant Spectral Diagnostics Laboratory and scanned on two spectrometers (HTS-xt and ZnSe Alpha I). A subset of 149 soil samples was selected for wet chemistry analysis at RRes. Both the spectra data (scanned at ICRAF) and wetchem data (analyzed at RRes) are available on Dataverse here. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Already used for 1 recent papers, now publicly available |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/WLAKR2 |
| Title | Soil Spectra and Wet Chemistry Measurements from ICRAF Soil-Plant Spectral Diagnostics Laboratory and Rothamsted Research: Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) Phase 2 Project Data 2014-2018 - TanSIS |
| Description | AfSIS Phase 2 was a collaborative project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Partners included, Columbia Global Center Africa (CGCA), Earth Institute (EI), International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC), Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), Rothamsted Research (RRes) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The project aimed to assist national programs in four African countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania) to transition to modern agricultural research and data collection practices that were expected to result in faster agricultural development cycles. In Tanzania, a country wide sampling targeting mainly the croplands was conducted. A total of 29,300 soil samples were collected at both 0-20cm, 20-50cm soil depths. All the samples collected were scanned using the four ZnSe Alpha I spectrometers at Selian Research Lab, Arusha, Tanzania. A subset of 461 soil samples was shipped to ICRAF and scanned on two spectrometers (HTS-xt and ZnSe Alpha I). The same 461 soil samples were also sent to RRes for wet chemistry analysis. The spectra data scanned at Selian (using ZnSe Alpha I) and that scanned at ICRAF Nairobi (using HTS-xt Tensor 27) and wetchem data (analyzed at RRes) are available on Dataverse here. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Already used for 1 recent papers, now publicly available |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/XUDGJY |
| Title | The effect of soil type on yield and macro- and micronutrient content of a wide range of pasture species |
| Description | The objective of the experiment that generated this dataset was to determine the effect of soil type on the micronutrient content of pasture species (a range of grasses, legumes and forbs). The experiment was conducted in a controlled environment facility. Data are presented on the dry matter yield of each species and the concentration of 21 elements measured in the herbage (Al, As, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Mi, P, Pb, S, Se, Ti, Zn and I). Data are also presented on the total and extractable concentration of elements in the soil, as well as details of nutrient/fertilizer addition and experimental design. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This data (as of February 2024) has been used by others: 192 total downloads 15 downloads this month |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/989q8/the-effect-of-soil-type-on-yield-and-macro-and-micron... |
| Title | Water chemistry under low-flow conditions from grazed pastures seeded with different species |
| Description | This dataset contains water quality information of combined surface and subsurface runoff from hydrologically isolated fields under different pasture types at low hydrological flows. Different hydrological processes and a lack of dilution means that water chemistry at low flow may differ from at higher flows, but often the low flow means that automated in-situ measurements of water quality parameters is not possible. Presented here are data on pH, conductivity, nitrogen (nitrate, ammonium, nitrite, total nitrogen), phosphorus (total, soluble reactive, particulate), dissolved carbon, suspended sediment and faecal indicator organisms (E. coli, intestinal enterococci), measured in the laboratory. Also included are the automated in-situ measurements of some of these parameters, where the flow was sufficient to allow them to be taken. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 70 downloads in first 2 years |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98q74/water-chemistry-under-low-flow-conditions-from-grazed... |
| Title | Wet chem data base on soil and plant samples from SSA |
| Description | Cereal grain mineral micronutrient and soil chemistry data from GeoNutrition surveys in Ethiopia and Malawi |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Already used for 1 recent papers, now publicly available https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01500-5 |
| Title | Wet chemistry data for a subset of AfSIS: Phase I archived soil samples |
| Description | This dataset contains a subset of the samples collected during the AfSIS Phase I project and was a collaborative effort between World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and Rothamsted Research. The soil samples were retrieved from ICRAF Soil Archive: https://worldagroforestry.org/output/icraf-soil-archive-physical-archive-systematically-collected-soil-samples and subject to wet chemical analysis at Rothamsted Research in the UK under a Global Challenges Research Fund project, "BBS/OS/GC/000014B: Chemical and Biological Assessment of AfSIS soils" funded through the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. This dataset includes the Site, Cluster, Plot as well as the GPS coordinates and wet chemistry data from 2002 samples collected from 18 countries and 51 LDSF sites. The original data collection was part of the AfSIS Phase I project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and took place between 2009-2013. ICRAF and CIAT contributed the Site, Cluster, Plot and GPS coordinates for the soil samples, ICRAF organized the sub-sampling of the soil samples from the ICRAF physical archive in Nairobi and Rothamsted analysed the soil samples in the UK in 2017 and 2018. Visit our websites here: https://worldagroforestry.org/landhealth and https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/. The AfSIS Phase I project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) from 2009-2013, aimed to provide a consistent baseline of soil information across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Led by CIAT-TSBF, partners included: ISRIC, CIESIN, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and World Agroforestry (ICRAF). ICRAF led the systematic assessments of soil health using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF), which was developed at ICRAF, http://landscapeportal.org/blog/2015/03/25/the-land-degradation-surveillance-framework-ldsf/. LDSF sites were randomized using spatial stratification based on Koeppen-Geiger Climate zones across 19 countries in SSA. In total 60 LDSF sites were sampled. Soil samples were collected using the LDSF at two depths, 0-20 cm (labelled Topsoil) and 20-50 cm (labelled Subsoil). In each LDSF site, approximately 320 standard soil samples were collected. All of these were also scanned using MIR Spectroscopy and are available on Dataverse here: Vågen, Tor-Gunnar;Winowiecki, Leigh Ann;Desta, Luseged;Tondoh, Ebagnerin Jérôme;Weullow, Elvis;Shepherd, Keith;Sila, Andrew, 2020, "Mid-Infrared Spectra (MIRS) from ICRAF Soil and Plant Spectroscopy Laboratory: Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) Phase I 2009-2013", https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/QXCWP1, World Agroforestry - Research Data Repository, V1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This database allowed us to form a successful collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany and ETH Zurich, Zurich in which the controls on soil organic carbon across sub-Saharan Africa were identified and led to one publication https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-305-2021 and further measurements of 14C to calculate the age of organic carbon in these representative African soils, this filling a data gap for Africa and is likely to lead to at least another publication. |
| URL | https://data.worldagroforestry.org/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34725/DVN/66BFOB |
| Title | Wheat and teff grain mineral micronutrient concentration and field data from GeoNutrition on-farm field experiments in Western Amhara region, Ethiopia |
| Description | The data set comprises primary data for the concentration of over 25 mineral micronutrients including zinc (Zn) and selenium (Se) in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and teff (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) grown over two cropping seasons (2018 and 2019) in the Western Amhara region of Ethiopia. Wheat and teff were grown across a landscape gradient (hill slope, mid-slope, foot slope) and supplied with different rates of mineral nitrogen fertilizer and different Zn and Se fertilizer application methods (basal, basal + side dressing, basal + foliar fertilizer) across different farms. The data set also comprises of field data including specific study site, crop variety, fertilizer rates, and crop yields. Wheat experiments were performed in Debre Mewi and Markuma, and experiments with teff were performed in Debre Mewi and Aba Gerima. The concentrations of micronutrients in grain were measured using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Laboratory standards, sample replicates and blank samples were included for quality assurance. The work provide insights on an effect of Zn, Se and N fertilizer, landscape position, and its interaction with micronutrient fertilizers on grain micronutrient concentrations. Agronomic biofortification of wheat and teff with micronutrient fertilizers was influenced by landscape position, the micronutrient fertilizer application method and N fertilizer management. The complexity of smallholder environmental settings and different farmer socio-economic opportunities calls for the optimization of nutritional agronomy landscape trials, with targeted application of micronutrient fertilizers across a landscape gradient required as an additional factor for consideration in ongoing agronomic biofortification interventions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Use in new Institute Strategic Programme "Growing Health" |
| URL | https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/98y40/wheat-and-teff-grain-mineral-micronutrient-concentrat... |
| Title | Woburn long-term liming experiment crop yields 1962-1996 |
| Description | The experiment tests the effects of different amounts of lime (and thus soil pH), P and K on the yields of a sequence of arable crops, on a sandy loam soil at Woburn Experimental Farm, from 1962-1996. Mg, Mn and S were tested on split plots at different times. Target soil pH was 4.5, 5.5, 6.5 and 7.5. There was a parallel experiment at Rothamsted Experimental Farm. The experiment was discontinued in 1997. The dataset contains plot and sub-plot yields for all plots and years, 1962-1996, details of all treatments applied (lime, P, K, Mg, Mn and S) and agronomic details (crop variety, sowing and harvest dates, basal fertilizer). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Already used for 3 recent papers, now publicly available |
| URL | http://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/wcs10/01-WLTLYIELDS |
| Title | Woburn long-term liming experiment exchangeable cations re-analysed |
| Description | Rothamsted Research conducted a long-term liming experiment at Woburn. We re-analysed selected samples to study the development of exchangeable cations over time. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None yet |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.23637/wsc10-wltlcation-01 |
| Title | Woburn long-term liming experiment grain mineral composition |
| Description | The experiment tests the effects of four different amounts of lime (creating a soil pH range for approximately 4.5 to 7.5) with and without fertilizer P, on the grain mineral compostion of three arable crops. The site is a sandy loam soil at Woburn Experimental Farm, from 1962-1996. There was a parallel experiment on a silty clay loam soil at Rothamsted Experimental Farm. The dataset contains grain mineral compostion for 20 different minerals (mg/kg dry soil), for individual plots, measured in 1978, 1981 and 1995. It includes details of the lime and fertilizer treatments, and crop yield. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Already used for 3 recent papers, now publicly available |
| URL | http://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/wcs10/01-WLTLGRAIN |
| Title | Woburn long-term liming experiment soil chemical properties 1962-1996 |
| Description | The experiment tests the effects of different amounts of lime (and thus soil pH), P and K on a sequence of arable crops, on a sandy soil at Woburn Experimental Farm, from 1962-1996. Mg, Mn and S were tested on split plots at different times. Target soil pH was 4.5, 5.5, 6.5 and 7.5. This dataset contains soil pH, Olsen P and exchangeable cations (Ca, K, Mg and Na, ammonium acetate method) on soil sampled several times between 1962 and 1996. There was also a baseline sampling before the experiment was established. There is a parallel experiment at Rothamsted Experimental Farm. This experiment was discontinued in 1997. **This dataset was updated January 2nd 2024, see technical information** This work was partially funded by the BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme - Soil to Nutrition (BBS/E/C/00010310). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Used for 1 paper in prep, now publicly available |
| URL | https://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/dataset/wcs10/02-WLTLSOIL |
| Title | soil shotgun metagenome data generated form Highfield long-term field experiment deposited at ENA |
| Description | nine shotgun metagenomic data sets generated from bare fallow, arable and grassland soils, forming part of the Highfield Ley-Arable experiment at Rothamsted Research |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | collaboration with STFC Hartree Centre and IBM Research Europe |
| URL | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB43407?show=reads |
| Description | 14C age of Organic C in soils |
| Organisation | ETH Zurich |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | African soil data and samples |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, sample analysis paper drafting |
| Impact | Paper published |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | ADD AgRIA project - CHAP and Tiwakiki consulting |
| Organisation | Crop Health and Protection |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Spectral analysis of high value crops like coffee, tea, cocoa |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, CHAP organized some of the wet chemical analysis, TWC provided contact for samples |
| Impact | A follow up project proposal |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | ADD AgRIA project - University College London |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Digestate analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, UCL contributed the experimental setup which was an anaerobic digester |
| Impact | A follow up project proposal |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Agronomic fortification |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint Research Projects |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, joint student supervision |
| Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Bayer-Rothamsted Alliance |
| Organisation | Bayer |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Prof John Crawford participated in the 1st Joint Steering Committee for the Bayer-Rothamsted Alliance on 13th July 2017 |
| Collaborator Contribution | SM to update. |
| Impact | SM to update |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Biophysical drivers of soil resilience in a changing climate |
| Organisation | Aarhus University |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Contributed to the generation of a Danish IRFD Funded project: BROSE project aims to integrate the soil microbiome and physicochemical properties to identify critical drivers of soil resilience and propose a methodology for restoring SOC-depleted soils. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborative research and funding for a 6 month PhD placement, hosted at Rothamsted |
| Impact | No outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | China-UK-USA collaborative project on soil carbon sequestration under arable management, funded by NSFC (41620164006) |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Andy Gregory made a keynote presentation at the International Workshop on Long-Term Field Experiments and Soil Carbon Sequestration (Zhanjiang, PR China; 5-10/11/2018), and hosted two Master students (Keyu Ren, Wei Zhou) for 3 months at Rothamsted to conduct soil aggregate carbon fractionation analysis on soil samples collected from the Broadbalk long-term experiment |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of two Masters students to conduct experimental work (see above). |
| Impact | New data on soil C and N down the soil profile under different treatments at Broadbalk. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | China-UK-USA collaborative project on soil carbon sequestration under arable management, funded by NSFC (41620164006) |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Hosted a Master student (Wei Zhou) for 4 months at Rothamsted to conduct soil aggregate carbon fractionation analysis on soil samples collected from the Broadbalk long-term experiment, and to develop collaborations |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of a Masters student to conduct experimental work |
| Impact | New data and mechanistic understanding on soil C and N down the soil profile under different treatments at Broadbalk |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaboration with CEH and Agrii |
| Organisation | Agrii |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discussed R&D and applications for: a. 25YEP public goods & services, b. Opportunities for an ELMS, soil indicator, C. Common protocol, d. Publications |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussed R&D and applications for: a. 25YEP public goods & services, b. Opportunities for an ELMS, soil indicator, C. Common protocol, d. Publications |
| Impact | on-going |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with CEH and Agrii |
| Organisation | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Discussed R&D and applications for: a. 25YEP public goods & services, b. Opportunities for an ELMS, soil indicator, C. Common protocol, d. Publications |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussed R&D and applications for: a. 25YEP public goods & services, b. Opportunities for an ELMS, soil indicator, C. Common protocol, d. Publications |
| Impact | on-going |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with Curtis Analytics |
| Organisation | Curtis Analytics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discussion, planning, use of facilities |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussion, planning, use of facilities |
| Impact | on-going |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with Glocal Good to develop hand held IR sensor |
| Organisation | Global Good Fund |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We made calibteations between the protoype and conventional chemical analysis and tested a prototype |
| Collaborator Contribution | Designed and contructed a protoype for us to test |
| Impact | We showed the robust calibation of the device and tested its usability. GG decided to partner with NeoSpectra to manufacture a publically available portable device. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaboration with The Eden Project |
| Organisation | The Eden Project |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discussion, planning, use of facilities |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussion, planning, use of facilities |
| Impact | on-going |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Controls on Organic C in soils |
| Organisation | Max Planck Society |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | African soil data and samples |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, sample analysis paper drafting |
| Impact | Paper published |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Controls on soil organic carbon persistence in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Organisation | Dartmouth College |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | African soil data and samples |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detailed analysis of field and lab data |
| Impact | Papers published |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Defra Landscapes, Peatland and Soils Directorate Collaboration |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Defra representatives joining the Advisory Group of the Soil to Nutrition Programme, 28/10/2020 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra representatives joining the Advisory Group of the Soil to Nutrition Programme, 28/10/2020 |
| Impact | on-going |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Developing a predictive toxicity model for metallic anions in plants |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| PI Contribution | Monthly discussions on experimental protocols and results |
| Collaborator Contribution | ARC funding of PI and Postdoc |
| Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Evaluation and comparison of nitrogen gaseous emissions from soils treated with four novel nitrification inhibitors under controlled conditions |
| Organisation | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Rothamsted team provided expertise, training and helped with the deployment of the laboratory system. The project funded by KAUST aimed to study the efficacy of the NIs on soil nitrification and subsequent nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions using a soil incubation method, specifically the DENItrification Incubation System (DENIS) at Rothamsted. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The postdoc visited our lab and carried out 2 incubations that lasted 4 months. He has gone back to Saudi Arabia and will be writing up the results |
| Impact | Two incubations that will result in a publication |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Food system research |
| Organisation | Greenwich University |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint Research Projects |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, joint student supervision |
| Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | GCRF Growing Research Capacity Project |
| Organisation | University of Zimbabwe |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Richard Whalley and Andy Gregory visited University of Zimbabwe (12 February) to discuss the application of soil physical measurements on existing experiments on conservation agriculture, and to discuss equipment needs as part of their work on the Nottingham-led GCRF Growing Research Capacity project (NE/P02095X/1). |
| Collaborator Contribution | unknown |
| Impact | unknown |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | GCRF project with CIMMYT Zimbabwe |
| Organisation | International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Extensive soil and plant analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, organizing the experiments in Zimbabwe and collecting all samples |
| Impact | Nothing yet apart from one publication |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Global Good Fund |
| Organisation | Global Good Fund |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Working with GG to develop a spectral device for optimum scanning parameters |
| Collaborator Contribution | working to develop a spectral device for optimum scanning parameters |
| Impact | none as yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | High-resolution neutron tomography of soil and maize samples |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Department | ISIS Neutron and Muon Source |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have provided access to our unique resource of soils from our long term experiments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, STFC) provided us with 4-days of beamtime award in which they conducted high-resolution neutron tomography of soil samples from the Broadbalk and Hoosfield LTEs with a view to imaging microstructures and organic matter. |
| Impact | on going |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Hutchinsons Helix project discussion |
| Organisation | Hutchisons Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Discussed the data we hold on field experiments here and the novel methods of measurement |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hutchinsons will scan a number of our LTEs with the TerraMap system |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Impacts of liming on crop nutrient composition, yields and economics |
| Organisation | Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Results of field and lab data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detailed analysis of field and lab data |
| Impact | Papers published |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Impacts of liming on crop nutrient composition, yields and economics |
| Organisation | James Hutton Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Results of field and lab data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detailed analysis of field and lab data |
| Impact | Papers published |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Informatics and network analysis of deep metagenomic sequences from the global soil metagenome project |
| Organisation | IBM |
| Department | IBM UK Labs Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Based on the preliminary analysis of the global soil metagenomes that are the subject of this collaboration, we recognised patterns that would benefit from deeper analyses. We approached IBM Research (UK) to discuss collaboration with the Computational Life Science programme and established a joint programme with the team led by Dr Ritesh Krishna. We provided the scientific questions, the biological knowledge and all of the data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | IBM have brought new analysis tools and high performance computer hardware to the project which means we can undertake analysis of the metagenomes in minutes compared with days and weeks on the Rothamsted cluster. They are also working with us on the development of new algorithms and on the interpretation of the results |
| Impact | This collaboration is highly multidisciplinary and brings together computer science, bioinformatics, mathematics, microbiology and genetics. the results include new tools for identifying differences in metagenomic sequences between treatments. The innovation is that the analysis is multi-scale and focused on functions that relate to critical soil properties including water storage, greenhouse gas emission and nutrient efficiency |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Management strategies to increase resilience of maize under abiotic stress |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Andy Gregory and Xiaoxian Zhang 's continued collaboration with CAAS examining soil-root interactions under maize subjected to abiotic stresses |
| Collaborator Contribution | CAAS visiitng scientist (Yang Gao) at Rothamsted 2018-2019 to conduct experimentation and to develop collaboration |
| Impact | New experimental data |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Microbial diversity and microbial genes involved in N cycling |
| Organisation | Edinburgh Napier University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborating on a range of projects on microbial diversity and particularly microbial genes involved in N cycling including the newly discovered Comammox bacteria. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing access and knowledge to the Long term experiments: Park Grass, Hoosfield Acid Strip, Long-Term Classicals at Rothamsted |
| Impact | Several publications are in press |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | N2O, N2, and CO2 emissions in soils of pastoral agricultural use in Uruguay belonging to a long-term experiment: quantification and discrimination of gases in a laboratory incubation system |
| Organisation | INIA Uruguay |
| Country | Uruguay |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We provided training to this master's student in soils processing, isotopes, automated incubation experiments |
| Collaborator Contribution | The student helped us analise samples from a previous experiment, that required isotope analysis. This is very involved, takes a lot of time and also provided training to the student |
| Impact | The experiment at Rothamsted aimed at i) to quantify the annual emissions of N2O and CO2 in contrasting crop-pasture rotations, ii) to evaluate the effect of the different rotations on N2O, NO, N2 and CO2 emissions, and iii) to evaluate the effect of the rotation system on emissions in response to the addition of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | NUE in rice pasture systems |
| Organisation | INIA Uruguay |
| Country | Uruguay |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint Research Projects |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joint Research Projects |
| Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Nestle Visit |
| Organisation | Nestlé (Global) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Colleagues from Rothamsted Research attended a meeting with Nestle in Harpenden re. future collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Colleagues from Nestle attended a meeting with Rothamsted Research in Harpenden re. future collaboration. |
| Impact | Discussions still ongoing. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | New soil monitoring tools |
| Organisation | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique |
| Country | Morocco |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Extensive soil and plant analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, collecting all samples |
| Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | PVA fortification on-farm |
| Organisation | International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Extensive soil and plant analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, organizing the experiments in Zimbabwe and collecting all samples |
| Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | PhD studentship funded by Unilever |
| Organisation | Unilever |
| Department | Unilever Research and Development |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | contributed technical and intellectual experience and insight into project development for Unilever-funded PhD studenship |
| Collaborator Contribution | partners have contributed technical expertise, facilities and access to farms as part of the studentship research |
| Impact | candidate has been recruited to the project and will begin research in February 2022 |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Phosphorus dynamics in arable soils of the Cerrado, Brazil |
| Organisation | Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Project Lead(s): Dr Andrew Neal (Rothamsted Research); Dr Sylvia Morais de Sousa (Embrapa Maize and Sorghum) Project Members: Dr Xiaoxian Zhang (Rothamsted Research); Project Start date: February 2018 Duration: (12 months Project Summary Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient which can limit plant productivity. Cereal production across a significant proportion of soils in developing countries is limited by P-deficiency: inorganic P is rapidly sorbed to clay surfaces, with the effect that as little as 5% of added P fertilizer is accessible to plants. This is particularly true for acid soils, estimated to cover half the world's potential arable land. Resource-poor farmers typically apply little fertilizer because of high costs. This, and the poor availability of P, compromises crop yield, severely limiting food security. In comparison, organic P forms are less susceptible to sorption. Organic P pools and decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) are thus critical for plant sustainable productivity in highly-weathered tropical soils. Exploiting microbial turnover of SOM and release of associated P is a promising approach for improving agricultural efficiency, but there is limited knowledge of biological processes in tropical soils, particularly arable systems. Additionally, soil physical structure controls hydrodynamic processes including delivery of water and nutrients to plants. The effect of plant root exudates upon pore size distribution and pore connectivity in soils is another important, yet poorly-studied, biological process with potential to be managed to increase fertilizer use efficiency. This proposal addresses i) P chemistry in soils of a tropical P fertilizer field trial; ii) phosphatase activity under different crop and fertilizer regimes; iii) biodiversity of microbial processes involved in P cycling; iv) x-ray imaging of soil structure; and v) modelling of the delivery of nutrients to plant roots. * to date with have worked with our Brazilian partners to plan a sampling campaign to provide soil samples from a long-term maize and sorghum phosphorus fertilization experiment to generate chemical information on the fate of phosphate fertilizers in Cerrado soils and identify organic phosphorus compounds; to extract total DNA from the soils to generate metagenomic sequence datasets for each soil treatment; and use x-ray computed tomography to visualize and parameterize microporous structure in the experimental soils. We have also contributed to the preparation of a CAPES fellowship proposal which will support a Brazilian PDRA to work at Rothamsted on soil metagenomics for 6 months, starting later this year. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners are currently harvesting plant material and sampling soils, some of which will be sent to ETH Zurich for 31-P NMR spectroscopic characterization. Soil samples have been stored at -80 C and are awaiting DNA extraction. |
| Impact | This is a new partnership. details will be added as the joint research progresses, but currently a Fellowship proposal has been submitted to CAPES, part of which will be hosted at Rothamsted if the applications succeeds. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | RRes-CEH-JHI Alliance |
| Organisation | James Hutton Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Prof John Crawford participated in the RRes-CEH-JHI strategy meeting on 9th Aug 2017 at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden. Prof Steve McGrath met with Colin Campbell (Director of JHI) on 9th Aug 2017 to plan strategic link between JHI and Rothamsted Research. Steve McGrath and Stephan Haefele also attended an Rothamsted/JHI collaboration workshop on 1st Dec in Aberdeen. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Colin Campbell (Director of JHI) met with Prof Steve McGrath on 9th Aug 2017 to plan strategic link between JHI and Rothamsted Research. |
| Impact | SM to update |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | RRes-CEH-JHI Alliance |
| Organisation | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Prof John Crawford participated in the RRes-CEH-JHI strategy meeting on 9th Aug 2017 at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden. Prof Steve McGrath met with Colin Campbell (Director of JHI) on 9th Aug 2017 to plan strategic link between JHI and Rothamsted Research. Steve McGrath and Stephan Haefele also attended an Rothamsted/JHI collaboration workshop on 1st Dec in Aberdeen. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Colin Campbell (Director of JHI) met with Prof Steve McGrath on 9th Aug 2017 to plan strategic link between JHI and Rothamsted Research. |
| Impact | SM to update |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Roots of Decline |
| Organisation | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres |
| Department | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Continued collaboration and involvement in 'Roots of Decline' S5390 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Continued collaboration and involvement in 'Roots of Decline' S5390 |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Rothamsted Embrapa Joint Initiative |
| Organisation | Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Andy Neal, Xiaoxian Zhang, Stephan Haefele and Martin Blackwell from Rothamsted Research visited EMBRAPA Instrumentation, Sao Jose in Brazil to attend Rothamsted Embrapa Joint Initiative - Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture sandpit in December 2017. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at Rothamsted Embrapa Joint Initiative - Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture sandpit in December 2017. |
| Impact | Discussions ongoing regarding future exchange visits between Rothamsted and Embrapa. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Rothamsted-IBM collaboration on soil metagenomics |
| Organisation | IBM |
| Department | IBM Research in the UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | technical expertise on soil microbiology and metagenomic techniques |
| Collaborator Contribution | bioinformatics, computing hardware and artificial intelligence |
| Impact | none yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Rothamsted/Cranfield University Strategic Alliance |
| Organisation | Cranfield University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | First Joint Management Committee meeting held on 28th September 2017 (attended from Rothamsted Research by Steve McGrath, Tim Mauchline and Stephan Haefele). Second meeting held on 11th December at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden. Ian Clark from Rothamsted had meetings with Jonathan Adams (Cranfield University) to investigate new collaborative projects (4th Aug, 2nd Nov). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at first Joint Management Committee meeting on 28th September 2017 and also the second meeting held on 11th December at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden. Ian Clark from Rothamsted had meetings with Jonathan Adams (Cranfield University) to investigate new collaborative projects (4th Aug, 2nd Nov). |
| Impact | Bursaries for joint PhD studentships. Rothamsted-Cranfield Joint Workshop to be held on 23rd March 2018: Applications of Engineering Science in Agrifood R&D |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Rothamsted/University of Bristol Strategic Alliance |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Attendance at two Rothamsted/University of Bristol workshops to date (Nov 2017 and Jan 2018) formulating ideas for the provision of 4 joint PhDs. Research collaborations on grants will also evolve as part of the alliance. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Attendance at two Rothamsted/University of Bristol workshops to date (Nov 2017 and Jan 2018) formulating ideas for the provision of 4 joint PhDs. Research collaborations on grants will also evolve as part of the alliance. |
| Impact | PhD project ideas are currently being developed. These will be shortlisted and advertised in the autumn of 2018. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Soil health indicators |
| Organisation | Lancaster University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint Research Projects |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, joint student supervision |
| Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Soilscapes, National Soil Resources Institute |
| Organisation | Cranfield University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | soil data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Soil database, web site, coordination |
| Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Spectral analysis tools |
| Organisation | Cranfield University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Joint Research Projects |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, joint student supervision |
| Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Sustainable Soils Alliance Collaboration |
| Organisation | Sustainable Soils Alliance |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Workshop with Ellen Fay & Matthew Orman of the Sustainable Soils Alliance, Stephan Haefele, Steve McGrath, Laura Cardenas, and links to SSA work on "logical sieve" to connect soil quality indicators and public goods. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Workshop with Ellen Fay & Matthew Orman of the Sustainable Soils Alliance, Stephan Haefele, Steve McGrath, Laura Cardenas, and links to SSA work on "logical sieve" to connect soil quality indicators and public goods. Discussed second phase of collaboration. |
| Impact | on-going |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | The potential inhibitory effect of heavy metals on soil N2O emissions |
| Organisation | National Chung-Hsing University |
| Country | Taiwan, Province of China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Rothamsted team provided expertise, training and guidance on the deployment of the experiment. The incubation experiment used the Denitrification Incubation system (DENIS system) to study the impact of targeted element on soil N2O emissions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner carried out the experiment in our lab and is currently preparing a publication from the study |
| Impact | Further data will be shared and prepared for publication with this partner. The Rothamsted researchers will pay a visit to Taiwan to complete the project |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank |
| Organisation | Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | grant commitments |
| Collaborator Contribution | JIC - microbiology JHI - bioinformatics CABI - cryopreservation/database SRUC - bioinformatics |
| Impact | on going |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank |
| Organisation | James Hutton Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | grant commitments |
| Collaborator Contribution | JIC - microbiology JHI - bioinformatics CABI - cryopreservation/database SRUC - bioinformatics |
| Impact | on going |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank |
| Organisation | John Innes Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | grant commitments |
| Collaborator Contribution | JIC - microbiology JHI - bioinformatics CABI - cryopreservation/database SRUC - bioinformatics |
| Impact | on going |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank |
| Organisation | Scotland's Rural College |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | grant commitments |
| Collaborator Contribution | JIC - microbiology JHI - bioinformatics CABI - cryopreservation/database SRUC - bioinformatics |
| Impact | on going |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | UK Soil Observatory with the British Geological Society Survey |
| Organisation | British Geological Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | soil data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Soil database, web site, coordination |
| Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | UKRI Greenhouse Gas ERW Demonstrator meeting |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We can provde arable and pasture systems for the demonstrator project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sheffield will led an outline proposal which we co-wrote and was submitted to BBSRC |
| Impact | No decision yet |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | University of Greenwich Natural Resources Institute workshop |
| Organisation | University of Greenwich |
| Department | Natural Resources Institute Greenwich |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We discussed potential collaborations between RRes and NRI in a range of subject areas and potential schemes, related to work in Dac list countries |
| Collaborator Contribution | NSI suggested future interactions |
| Impact | A project proposal was written and submitted to BBSRC |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop with Cranfield University |
| Organisation | Cranfield University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We discussed potential collaborations betwwen Rres and Cranfield in a range of subject areas and potential schemes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Cranfield suggested future interactions |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | phytase activiety in soil isolates |
| Organisation | University of East Anglia |
| Department | School of Biological Sciences UEA |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have contributed expertise with respect to metagenome-guided isolation of soil bacteria with potential phytase activity, intellectual input into future collaborative experimental work and training of a PhD student with respect to the isolation and culture of soil microbes |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have contributed expertise in phytate chemistry and enzymmatic assays as well as HPLC detection of enzyme mechanisms |
| Impact | No outcomes to date. Collaboration is multi-disciplinary, including microbiology, chemistry and enzymology |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | soilspec4gg soil carbon working group. Woodwell Climate Research Center |
| Organisation | Woods Hole Research Center |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | soil data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Soil database, web site, coordination |
| Impact | https://www.woodwellclimate.org/open-soil-spectral-library/; https://soilspectroscopy.org/ |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | Fertilizer Optimizer app |
| Description | The original conceptualization and development of the optimization tool was by the university of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jansen J, Wortmann CS, Stockton MC, Kaizzi CK (2013). Maximizing net returns to financially constrained fertilizer use. Agronomy Journal 105 (3) 573-578. The Fertilizer Optimizer tool was built as part of the Optimising Fertilizer Recommendations in Africa (OFRA) project, led by CABI. The project was a partnership between CABI, the University of Nebraska Lincoln, national governments and agricultural research and extension systems in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. OFRA was supported by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). In this project this spreadsheet-based tool was converted to an Android app and validated against the original spreadsheet version. This included transferring the spreadsheet logic over to an Android app, and providing parameters for crop and the sixty agro-environmental zones. Translation of the interface was completed and as well as English, French and Portuguese are now supported. An upgrade to a mobile phone app now offers farmers across Africa even more benefits and cutting-edge fertilizer use technology. This will help farmers to grow healthier, more productive with increasingly profitable crops, as a result of more informed use of how small amounts of fertilizer impact the crops which they grow. Pilot work on the CABI Fertilizer Optimizer app in Uganda has shown that some farmers realised up to a seven-fold increase in yields. Using funding from the BBSRC Global Challenges Research Fund, the app has now been upgraded to make it easier to use. The new app includes the integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) practices feature, and a calibration tool which helps farmers to apply the right quantity of fertilizer to their crops. The Fertilizer Optimizer app is designed to help resource constrained farmers to maximise the return on investment on fertilizer, based on what the farmer can realistically afford. In the latest version of the Fertilizer Optimizer app it is possible to calibrate the fertilizer recommendation to the planting conditions of a user's field. Version 1 of the app provided users with an amount of fertilizer to use and an application rate (e.g. 5kg per hectare). Now it is possible to enter field measurements, container sizes and preferred application technique and the app will help to evenly distribute the recommended fertilizers across the crop providing actionable information tailored to a particular field. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The Fertilizer Optimizer has been produced for: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia and is available to use in English, French and Portuguese. Impact stories are reported in blog posts attached to this report. The was launched in the Google play store in January and it is too soon to discuss impact. Outreach and marketing campaigns will be undertaken by CABI, the responsible partner for this part of the project. Open Soils Data Platform BBS/OS/GC/200014B We have developed and implemented an Open Soils data Platform that enables the storage and searching of multiple information sources on soils e.g. soil samples and support materials such as reports for sub-Saharan Africa. The platform uses an agreed set of metadata and controlled vocabularies needed for integrating a range of data. Prototype metadata integration for several data collections has been achieved enabling searching of the catalogue for datasets containing related-information on soils information. The architecture developed is easily extensible to other information resources and databases as soon as they become viable http://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/osdp/documents Issues emerged regarding access to data from African sources e.g OFRA but discussions with these and others are ongoing. The continuing objectives are to engage with stakeholders to populate the catalogue with additional datasets so it becomes a valued repository of data for soil health for Africa |
| Title | GWmodel R package - K Hassal |
| Description | R-shiny app that implements set typology construction techniques |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | None yet |
| Title | Platform for integrated stress management |
| Description | This product has been developed in collaboration with IBM using a mix of proprietary and bespoke software tools. It provides for the input from multiple sensor and data platforms and links to analytic tools to generate new knowledge related to biotic and abiotic stress factors. The first use case is biota stress resulting from insect pests, but is now being extended to include soil, water and nutrition stresses. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This software has now been adopted as a platform by IBM research in Yorktown for further development. We are in discussion with IBM to explore further exploitation. |
| Title | Scripts for: Agricultural intensification reduces selection of putative plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in wheat |
| Description | This repository contains scripts to reproduce the figures and analysis presented in the manuscript entitled "Agricultural intensification reduces selection of putative plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in wheat". Datasets can be found in the Rothamsted Repository. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10975659 |
| Title | Scripts for: Agricultural intensification reduces selection of putative plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in wheat |
| Description | This repository contains scripts to reproduce the figures and analysis presented in the manuscript entitled "Agricultural intensification reduces selection of putative plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in wheat". Datasets can be found in the Rothamsted Repository. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12731905 |
| Company Name | Innovative Solutions For Decision Agriculture |
| Description | |
| Year Established | 2018 |
| Impact | The project has combined historic data with remote sensing information and new field sampling techniques to create the first ever digital soil map of Africa. Built upon the principles of open innovation and co-development, the technologies and methodologies developed by AfSIS are freely available and remain highly relevant in other areas of the world. The Virtual Agronomist app was released in 202r, which is an AI based advice service for farmers delivered via Whatsapp. By November 2024 it has reached over 30,000 farmers in Africa. |
| Website | http://www.isda-africa.com |
| Description | "Attendance at Programa CAPES:CAPES-PRINT (PRINT - PROGRAMA INSTITUCIONAL DE INTERNACIONALIZAÇÃO) Processo nº 88887.717474/2022-00 do Programa CAPES-PRINT " |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Attendance at Programa CAPES:CAPES-PRINT (PRINT - PROGRAMA INSTITUCIONAL DE INTERNACIONALIZAÇÃO) Processo nº 88887.717474/2022-00 do Programa CAPES-PRINT Talk at this event: Developing an improved understanding of the structure and function of the wheat root microbiome |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | "How can soil data help us tackle hidden hunger?". |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A video produced to explain how we can use soil data help us tackle hidden hunger and how soil management could reveal new ways to tackle it in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.geonutrition.com/ |
| Description | "Soil properties which influence bioavailability". |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Steve McGrath was an invited introductory speaker at the DEFRA Minerals from Grassland Workshop on Friday 22 February 2019 at Rothamsted Conference Centre, Harpenden. There were four other presentations and discussions, including research gaps, at the Workshop with 30 attendees |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | "Zero Budget Natural Farming" workshop, Vijayawada, India August 29 - September 12, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Penny Hirsch gave a presentation entitled " Soil and Plant Microbiology" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 17th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, 12-15 Aug Leipzig. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ian Clark gave a presentation entitled Soil pH as a driver of microbial functional gene abundance and crop yield A.B. gave a presentation entlited Ecology of complete ammonia oxidizers "comammox" in soil. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://isme17.isme-microbes.org/ |
| Description | 18th International Symposium of Microbial Ecology, Lausanne, Switzerland. 14-19 August 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Adriana Torres-Ballesteros presented 'Microbiome Connectivity Drives Productivity in Oilseed Rape Crops' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 1st Technical Workshop AHDB-BBRO Soil Biology and Soil Health Partnership - October, NIAB, Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jenni Dungait attended the 1st Technical Workshop AHDB-BBRO Soil Biology and Soil Health Partnership on 31st October at NIAB, Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 23rd Green Technology Expo 5-8 November 2019 Italy - Rimini Expo Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Soil Regeneration: Bioeconomy As Opportunity to Increase Organic Matter and to Reduce CO2 Emissions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://en.ecomondo.com/ |
| Description | 7th Plant genomes and gene editing conference, Rotterdam |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented a talk at the 7th th Plant genomes and gene editing conference, "Rooting around the wheat microbiome" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.selectscience.net/events-conferences/7th-plant-genomics-&-gene-editing-congress:-europe,... |
| Description | A Greener World, Sustainable Farming Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jenni Dungait published 4 page magazine article for A Greener World, Sustainable Farming Magazine in the Fall of 2017. Distributed to 30,000 US farmers. Link: https://agreenerworld.org/solutions-and-certificates/sustainablefarmingmagazine/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | AAB Sustainable Intensification Conference, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden (28-30 Nov 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Papers on the Rothamsted Long Term Experiments & posters were submitted & presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | AHDB National Agromomists Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on micronutrient and phosphate diagnostics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | AHDB West Region Agronomy Conference at Three Counties Showground in Malvern, presentation and discussion on micronutrients |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | AHDB West Region Agronomy Conference at Three Counties Showground in Malvern, presentation and discussion on micronutrients |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | AHDB discussion meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | AHDB Sajjad Awan and James Holmes of AHDB. Discussion meeting with Steve McGrath on: 1. Grain-P thresholds for winter wheat/cereals, 2. Possible development of RB209 using Rothamsted Research results on grain-P analysis, 3. Soil carbon index, lessons from Rothamsted Research. 3/03/2020 at Rres. Future work together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | AICC (Association of Independent Crop Consultants) Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The importance of maintaining healthy soils in agricultural systems by improving crop rotations to increase beneficial rhizosphere microbiomes and reducing the abundance and impact of crop pathogenic microbes and hence improve crop yields. Also presented work on the potential use of plant growth promoting bacteria to improve crop yields by improving nutrient use efficiency for crops and potential protection against crop fungal pathogens. Work was also presented on the improved technologies for monitoring soil health, including wireless moisture probes and optic fibres to measure CO2 emissions and structural changes to agricultural soils during the growing season. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | AMR Canada UK workshop 23/9/21 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | AMR Canada UK workshop 23/9/21 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://genomealberta.ca/Files/Agriculture/2021-09-23_UK-Canada_One_Health_Workshop_AMR_AMU_Report_F... |
| Description | ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida (Oct 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jenni Dungait gave an invited presentation entitled "The Journey Towards Global Soil Health Indicators" in the Innovative Soil Health Research Symposium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida (Oct 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Steve McGrath attended the Tri-Societies meeting on 22-25 October in Tampa and gave an invited presentation in a Special Symposium on Soil Chemistry, Food Security and Human Health and took part in a panel discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Adapt/Modify Symposium, Wellcome Collection, London - Sept 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jenni Dungait was asked to give a public lecture 'Food for Thought' at the Adapt/Modify Symposium, Wellcome Collection in London on 30th Sept 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Advice and information delivery by Steve McGrath and Jon Storkey to Corylus, a company developing solar farms (Phillip Duncan, Director), on impacts of taking land out of intensive agricultural use into a low input system for a period of 25-35 years, and the opportunities for carbon storage. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Advice and information delivery by Steve McGrath and Jon Storkey to Corylus, a company developing solar farms (Phillip Duncan, Director), on impacts of taking land out of intensive agricultural use into a low input system for a period of 25-35 years, and the opportunities for carbon storage. 9/01/2020 and 24/02/2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.corylus-ltd.co.uk |
| Description | Agri-TechE blog - Altered Carbon: New study shows importance of manure for soil health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | blog based upon report of soil extended composite phenotype paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/altered-carbon-new-study-shows-importance-of-manure-for-soil-health/ |
| Description | Agriculture Victoria visit (Bundoora, Victoria - July 1st - 15th 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Neal & Ian Clark visited Agriculture Victoria, Bundoora, Victoria July 1st - 15th, for meetings and workshop as part of BBSRC International Partnering Award (BB/P025986/1: Kenyak yeye: UK-Australia Global Soil Meta-omic Programme) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Agrii Tramlines Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Digging into Soil Organic Matter - Episode 16: Digging into Soil Organic Matter In this episode, we are talking to Professor Andy Neal, Soil Microbiologist from Rothamsted. Andy is currently focusing on a major project called 'Soils to Nutrition'. Today we are going to explore what we mean by soil organic matter and why it is so important to understand when it is influencing the availability of nutrients and water in our soils. This episode was the most listened to Tramlines podcast of 2021, with 341 downloads. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.agrii.co.uk/tramlines-podcast/ |
| Description | All-China Women's Federation: Planting patterns rather than reclaimed water irrigation affect the spread of ARGS in the soil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chinese media coverage following publication of Cropping system exerts stronger influence on antibiotic resistance gene assemblages in greenhouse soils than reclaimed wastewater irrigation in Journal of Hazardous Materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.cnwomen.com.cn/2022/01/05/99241615.html |
| Description | Article in Arable Farming, July 2021 volume 43, issue 7 - Ditching the plough for the good of our soils |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article arising from interview around the concept of soil health and the benefit of organic matter to soil systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/farmersguardian/docs/arable_farming_july_2021 |
| Description | Article in Farmers weekly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Discussed findings from S2N research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/land-preparation/soils/why-regular-liming-can-raise-profits-by-up-to-43... |
| Description | Article in The Times newspaper following publication of Nature Food paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Farmyard manure offers whiff of hope for reducing emissions by Science Correspondent Rhys Blakely, published Saturday December 24 2022, 12.01am |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/farmyard-manure-offers-whiff-of-hope-for-reducing-emissions-68lvg... |
| Description | Article in farmers Weekly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article in farmers weekly |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/disease-management/why-regulatory-changes-are-needed-fo... |
| Description | Australian Society for Microbiology meeting (Hobart, Tasmania July 5th 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Neal made a presentation at Australian Society for Microbiology meeting, Hobart, Tasmania July 5th 2017 entitled 'Exoenzymes to the rescue: soil structure and phosphatase gene microdiversity'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Australian Society for Microbiology meeting, Hobart, Tasmania - July 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andy Neal presented work on phosphatase diversity in soils from the Highfield experiment at the Australian Society for Microbiology meeting, Hobart, Tasmania July 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BBC Countryfile Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Contributed to article by John Craven on selenium in soils, June 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BBC world service interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | article on BBC website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44357673 |
| Description | BCPC annual meeting "Rooting around the wheat microbiome" October 2021 (online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | British crop production council annual meeting. Presentation entitled "Rooting around the wheat microbiome" October 2021 (online). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bcpc.org/events/bcpc-virtual-diseases-review-2021 |
| Description | BCPC talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at BCPC diseases conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | BGI Genomics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Andy Neal and Steve McGrath hosted a collaborative visit of Matt Poulter, Michell Mao and Kaiyu Lei of BGI Genomics to talk about soil metagenomics sequencing projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Beyond Vineyard Ecosystems: Rothamsted Research answers winegrowers' questions about soil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Soil is site-specific, and soil management is not a one-size-fits-all approach. That's why Bragato Research Institute invited Dr Andrew Neal of Rothamsted Research to New Zealand in September 2022 for the Beyond Vineyard Ecosystems conference, as he and his colleagues are developing a new theory of how soils function across the globe and across different agricultural sectors. Here are a few of the audience questions that surfaced during his 45-minute presentation titled "What can the microbiome tell us about the state of our soil?" and Dr Neal's responses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://bri.co.nz/2022/12/12/rothamsted-research-soil-questions/ |
| Description | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Conference - Washington DC, October 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Steve McGrath was invited to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Conference in Washington DC, 2-5th October 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Bio-F Solutions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Biofertilizers and soil microbiome |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Biofortified maize in Zimbabwe: nutritional quality depending on field position and crop management. Presentation at : The Global Symposium on Soils for Nutrition (GSOIL4N) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Biofortified maize in Zimbabwe: nutritional quality depending on field position and crop management. Presentation at : The Global Symposium on Soils for Nutrition (GSOIL4N) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | British Grassland Society/Stapeldon Memorial Trust/British Society for Animal Science webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | presented new research regarding soil as a composite phenotype of the microbial metagenome to farmers and researchers as part of webinar series co-organized by the British Grassland Society, Stapeldon Memorial Trust and British Society for Animal Science. audience reported an new understanding of soil and the importance of structure and organic carbon in system efficiency |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | British Guild of Agricultural Journalists Visit to Rothamsted Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The British Guild of Agricultural Journalists visited the AfSIS spectral lab at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden on 4th May 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | British Society of Soil Science time capsule |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Displays on impoartance of soil carbon and enterrment of Time Capsule filled with objects for ECRs |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CAU Visit - BBSRC International Partnering Award (China) grant |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Richard Whalley & Andy Gregory from Rothamsted Research (with JIC and Lancaster) visited CAU (Beijing) between 31st July - 4th August for a series of workshops and meetings for BBSRC International Partnering Award (China) grant (BB/P025595/1: A Virtual Centre for Monitoring the Rhizosphere). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | CIELivestock webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | presented new data regarding the theory of soil as an extended composite phenotype of the microbial metagenome as part of a webinar event on Environmental Monitoring hosted by the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Livestock |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CINAg Meeting (8th - 10th September, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ian Clark participated in a CINAg Meeting 8th - 10th September at Rothamsted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | CINAg meeting, Beijing, CAU (April 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ian Clark made a presentation at the CINAg meeting in Beijing, CAU (27th-30th April 2017) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | COMSTECH workshop - Healthy Soils |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A virtual Seminar on Saline Agriculture -Solution to Food Security Organized by the UK-Pakistan Science and Innovation Global Network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Calcium Exerts a Strong Influence upon Phosphohydrolase Gene Distribution in Soil. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Linking Biological Processes to Geochemical Cycles Symposium - Soils Across Latitudes meeting, San Diego, CA co-sponsored by the soil science societies of America, Mexico and Canada, January 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cereals 2022 (Duxford) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The importance of maintaining healthy soils in agricultural systems by improving crop rotations to increase beneficial rhizosphere microbiomes and reducing the abundance and impact of crop pathogenic microbes and hence improve crop yields. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Cereals Show 2017 (June 14-15th, Boothby Graffoe) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Posters exhibited at the NIAB Soil Pit, presented by Penny Hirsch, Ian Clark, Susanne Schreiter, Aimeric Blaud, Vanessa Nessner-Kavamura-Noguchi & Maider Abadie. "The power of plants - Soil quality recovery at Rothamsted: increasing soil carbon" and "Roots of Decline - Function of the rhizosphere microbiome". Two further demonstrations at the Soil Pit, included live aggregate stability testing and earthworm demo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Chapter lead for British Ecological Society review of Regenerative Agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | selected to lead development of chapter addressing the benefits of Regenerative Agriculture, and how these can be measured regarding input vs. output based indicators, which data/methodologies are available now and which ones will most likely be available in the future, what the pros and cons of using different indicators are. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Chatting Fit podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Podcast "Soil Health Is Vital For Human Health" for the Chatting Fit series discussing the importance of healthy soils for human health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/chatting-fit/44-soil-health-is-vital-for-I3igF4TVQLh/ |
| Description | Conference Presentation "New Scientist Live" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Virtual Seminar at the "New Scientist Live" event in London on "Future of Food and Agriculture", 28th November |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Conference Presentation on major threats to soils/agriculture to large international investors - S McGrath |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on major threats to soils/agriculture to large international investors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the International Phytobiomes Conference in Montpellier. December 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://phytobiomesconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Mauchline_abstract_Phytobiomes-Conferenc... |
| Description | Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation at the 2nd Plant Microbiome Symposium. Presentation title, "Wheat breeding influences root traits and selection of bacterial communities in the rhizosphere". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Conference presentation Crops, Seeds & Soil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | What is an appropriate amount of carbon for my soil? Presented at Crops, Seeds & Soil 4.0, 01.10.2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Conference presentation EGU General Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Agricultural decision-making under uncertainty: a loss function on the kriging variance from soil properties predicted by infrared and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference presentation EGU General Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A soil health index based on organic carbon to clay ratio. Presentation at the EGU General Assembly, SSS10.5., 4-8 May. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference presentation EGU General Assembly - Effect of organic amendments and inorganic fertiliser |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Effect of organic amendments and inorganic fertiliser application on nitrogen use efficiency and denitrification in controlled and field conditions. Presentation at the EGU General Assembly, SSS10.5., 4-8 May, 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference presentation on Organic C storage in soils - S McGrath |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Organic C storage in soils |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Conference presentation vPICO |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Soil carbon persistence linked to mineralogy across sub-Saharan Africa. Abstract accepted for a vPICO presentation at the EGU General Assembly, SSS5.1 - Mechanisms of soil organic matter stabilization and carbon sequestration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Conference session organisation, SEB Seville, 2019. Host-microbiota interactions across animal and plant kingdoms. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Host-microbiota interactions across animal and plant kingdoms. Session organisation. In the last decade, advances in sequencing and computational approaches have enabled the study of microbial communities associated with eukaryotic organisms at an unprecedented depth. These studies reinforced the notion that microbial communities impact the growth, development and health of their hosts. A prediction of this observation is that translational applications of host-microbiota interactions can impact life on earth for aspects as diverse as sustainable agricultural production and personalised medicine. Given the enormous potential for impact, this research field has been boosted in terms of research efforts globally. Novel methodological approaches and new resources are now available to facilitate next generation discoveries. This session aims at capitalising on these research efforts to highlight emerging trends and foster new, interdisciplinary, research collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Connected pore space controls the efficiency of nitrogen use by the soil microbiome. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joint INIA-Julius Kühn Institute Workshop, Towards more sustainable agriculture through managing the soil microbiome. Montevideo, Uruguay. November, 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cornish Mutual Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Podcast - Cornish Mutual, Episode 1: Farm Resilience: Does it start with Soil Health? June 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://farming-focus.simplecast.com/episodes/farm-resilience-does-it-start-with-soil-health-LpwJmqW... |
| Description | Crash Course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk at Systemic Risks Crash Course for Asset Owners, Jesus College , C |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | CropTech, East of England Showground, Peterborough, 28-29th November |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Stefan Haefele presented on soil health, and also demonstrated on a stand on pest management with contributions from G. Richter, J. Storkey and N. Vavlas . The CropTec show is for all farmers and agronomists seeking the latest information on innovative methods to increase profits from crop production. As the UK's leading technical and knowledge exchange event for the arable farming industry, this two-day show provides the chance to explore ways to improve efficiency and reduce unit costs of production. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://10times.com/ |
| Description | Cryobank networking meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | BBSRC BBR Cryobank networking meeting @Rothamsted |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Dairy Science Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation "Why should agricultural soils be managed for organic carbon sequestration?" to visiting Dairy Science Forum group members at North Wyke |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Dairy discussion group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented research on What metrics to use in sustainable agriculture - Has CO2eq/kg product has its day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Defra Soil Health Workshop - 20th December 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Steve McGrath, John Crawford, Jackie Stroud and Andy Whitmore attended the Defra Soil Health Workshop at Rothamsted Reseach on 20th December 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Defra visit to Harpenden |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussed food and farming policy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Soil Science Seminar series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andy Neal presented a talk entitled "Exoenzymes to the rescue: soil structure and phosphatase gene microdiversity" as part of the Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Soil Science Seminar series and had meetings with Emmanuel Frossard, Tim MacLaren and Ruben Kretzschmar in October 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Departmental Seminar University Nebraska/Rothamsted Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Departmental Seminar University Nebraska/Rothamsted Research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Departmental webinar - Tamm seminar, Department of Ecology, SLU. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Departmental webinar - Tamm seminar, Department of Ecology, SLU. Developing an improved understanding of the structure and function of the wheat root microbiome |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Discussion on Regenerative Agriculture, which parameters to show impact of regenerative practices, over time, on soil health, biodiversity, GHG emissions and water quality - , Global Director Sustainable Sourcing Development, Unilever |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jan Kees Vis, Global Director Sustainable Sourcing Development, Unilever and colleagues Giulia Stellari, Mark Day and Stephen Tummon Dr Gail Smith. Discussion on Regenerative Agriculture, which parameters to show impact of regenerative practices, over time, on soil health, biodiversity, GHG emissions and water quality. To prepare for the review of Unilever's Sustainable Agriculture Code. 4/03/2020 at RRes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.unilever.com/Images/sustainable-agriculture-code--sac---2017_tcm244-515371_en.pdf |
| Description | Discussion with ICL Fertilisers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on potential research, dissemination and open data activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Discussion with co-directors of the Sustainable Soils Alliance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave advice on soil carbon |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.sustainablesoils.org/ |
| Description | Discussion with co-directors of the Sustainable Soils Alliance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Raised awareness of S2N outputs, future collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Dry spectral analysis techniques in agronomy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 13th February in Harpenden we hosted representatives of CABI, GODAN and the Open Data Institute regarding the use of dry spectral analysis techniques in agronomy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | EBI Webinar - Developing an improved understanding of the structure and function of the wheat root microbiome |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EBI Webinar seminar entitled, "Developing an improved understanding of the structure and function of the wheat root microbiome". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/events/developing-improved-understanding-structure-and-function-wheat... |
| Description | Exeter's master students visit to NW |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Showed the DENIS system and explained on going research activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | FWAG workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Assigned natural capital and ecosystem service value to different arable management options |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Far Eastern Agriculture article following publication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | article based upon report of soil extended composite phenotype paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/crops/agriculture/rothamsted-research-discovers-what-make-high-... |
| Description | Farmerama Radio - a mind bending new way of understanding what soil is from Rothamsted research scientist Andy Neal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | podcast resulting from interview with journalist Olivia Oldham at Groundswell conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/farmerama-radio/69-resilient-grapes-soil-insight-and-aotearoa-farm-tour?utm_s... |
| Description | Farmers' Weekly article following publication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | article based upon report of soil extended composite phenotype paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Farming Today interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interview with BBC Radio 4 "Farming Today" regarding disappearance of grasslands, July, 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group - workshop to rank management of arable habitats against their impact on 13 Ecosystem Services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group: Geerah, Jenny Phelps, and Patrick Dreyer with Ian Shield, Stephan Haefele, Andy Whitmore, Helen Metcalfe, Steve McGrath, Andy Neal and Jon Storkey workshop to rank management of arable habitats against their impact on 13 Ecosystem Services. Contribution to ELMs trial to build a methodology for mapping habitats on farm and assigning them a quality score in terms of ecosystem services they deliver |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Fascinating study from Rothamsted explains importance of soil microbes to stabilise structure and maintain carbon in the soil, and how microbes reduce in number & effectiveness with addition of N & P fertiliser and ploughing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | blog based upon report of soil extended composite phenotype paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/charlesdowding/status/1294893920967708675 |
| Description | Featured article in Chemistry World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interview for article: Is modern food lower in nutrients? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/is-modern-food-lower-in-nutrients/4018578.article |
| Description | Festival of Ideas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Celebration of 175th year with a Festival of Ideas. The festival brought together activities, exhibitions and demonstrations to immerse the general public in the science of feeding the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/events/rothamsted-festival-ideas |
| Description | Festival of Science held at Rothamsted Research- exhibit entitled "Hidden Hunger" and The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | More than 8000 visitors attended the event over 3 days, including one day for schools and invited people of importance. Our exhibit "Hidden hunger' discussed the deficiency of essential vitamins and minerals in the diet. Worldwide, more than 2 billion people lack vital micronutrients. Deficiencies of iron, zinc and iodine are recognized as having the largest negative impact on public health (WHO, 2006). In association with AfSIS (Africa Soil Information Service), our lab has recently is focused on developing the use of dry spectroscopy for the rapid and high-throughput analysis of the physical and chemical properties of soil and crop material. We showcased one of the instruments: pXRF (portable X-ray Fluorescence) which analyses the total elemental content of virtually any substance in an instant. We analysed the elemental content of a range of food stuffs from fizzy drinks to 'super-foods', to find out how nutritious (or not!) they are. Visitors were invited to have their own food items scanned. We encouraged visitors to think about how nutritious their food is or is not. We showed our " nutrient maps" of Africa and discussed stable crop varieties grown in Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Field demonstration to the NFU Net Zero Science Advisory Panel , 20 July 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | NZAC will visit in future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Final ComMet workshop, Warwick University (April 24 - 15th 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Penny Hirsch attended the final ComMet workshop (UK metagenomics network, funded by BBSRC) at Warwick University, April 24 - 15th 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Food Systems resilience call from the Global Food Security joint-council programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof John Crawford was a member of the panel for the Food Systems resilience call from the Global Food Security joint-council programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | From DNA to structure and back again: the soil system. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Soil Systems Symposium - Soils Across Latitudes meeting, San Diego, CA co-sponsored by the soil science societies of America, Mexico and Canada, January 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | George Monbiot discussion regarding Yields, Land use and Carbon budgets, Land management and the link to soil/ plant health. 7/02/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | discussion regarding Yields, Land use and Carbon budgets, Land management and the link to soil/ plant health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Global Long Term Experiments International Workshop (15th-17th May), Harpenden |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rothamsted Research hosted the Global Long Term Experiments international workshop in Harpenden 15th-17th May 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Green Farm Collective Regenerative Agriculture Conference 2024 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation discussing the pros and cons of using tillage or glyphosate/min-till approaches in regenerative agriculture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Herts University seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | plant microbiome research Feb 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hosted Dr Harry Kamilaris (CIEL), Nigel Edwards (Group CSR Director, The Hilton Food Group) and Matt Osbourne (CFO, The Hilton Food Group) on the North Wyke Farm Platform |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted Dr Harry Kamilaris (Innovation Manager - Sustainability, Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock), Nigel Edwards (Group CSR Director, The Hilton Food Group) and Matt Osbourne (CFO, The Hilton Food Group) to discuss broad areas of work on the Farm Platform with a focus on soil organic carbon and farm management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | How can soil data help us tackle hidden hunger |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Facebook post showcasing the video discussing using soil data to tackle hidden hunger in Africa. 1.2K Views 34 Likes 2 Comments 23 Shares |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRothamsted%2Fvideos... |
| Description | ICL UK - Technical Conference on Sulphur and Polysulphate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented the findings on the yield and quality responses to sulphate fertilisers and fertilser use |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | INIA's long-term experiments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A. Neal attended a workshop at INIA Triente y Tres to discuss collaboration on INIA's long-term experiments and also gave a talk at Las Brujas. A proposal is currently being prepapred to go to INIA to support a study of the effects of no-till and crop rotation on the soil system. He has also been invited to be a key note speaker at the Congreso REDBIO 2019 to be held in Montevideo in December (http://www.redbio.com.uy/redbio2019/) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ian Clark Presentation in Australia July 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ian Clark visited the Centre for AgriBioscience, Government Department of Environment and Primary Industries, and La Trobe University in Australia between 3rd- 11th July. He gave a presentation on 10th July entitled 'Rothamsted, The Long Game: classical and long-term experiments'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Inside Science interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with BBC Radio 4's Inside Science regarding new theory of soil as an extended composite phenotype of the microbial metagenome, broadcast August 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lf9z |
| Description | International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andy Gregory, Stephan Haefele, Richard Whalley, Xiaoxian Zhang, Malcolm Hawkesford and Simon Vaughan visited the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, Nepal (8-9 February), to bring together scientists who had submitted an outline proposal to the recent GCRF Hubs call, and to explore more general synergies and opportunities between RRes and ICIMOD |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International Fertilizer Association (IFA) Annual Conference, Marrakech, Morocco (21-24 May) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from Rothamsted Research represented The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) on a stand at the IFA world congress in Marrakech. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter (Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, 3-8 September 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Jenni Dungait was chief organiser of the highly successful International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter, Harpenden, 3-8 September, 425 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | International Zinc Symposium from 5-7th September 2018 in Leuven, Belgium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tegan Darch presented a poster entitled 'Zn biofortification using abattoir and industrial waste derived fertilizer' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://10times.com/international-zinc-symposium |
| Description | Interview by Louise Gray |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Prof John Crawford was interviewed by Louise Gray who is an award-winning author currently working on her second book, about growing fruit and vegetables |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Interview for Chemistry World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview for Chemistry World. Interview featured in the article 'plant's bacterial zoos' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/the-plant-microbiome/3008377.article |
| Description | Interview for The Vegetable Farmer magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Steve McGrath was interviewed by Richard Crowhurst for an article in the The Vegetable Farmer on Agricultural Lime Use for Vegetable Production, especially the use of Rothamsted's RothLime model. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Interview for national news |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with BBC word service journalist. Article published in June 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44357673 |
| Description | Interview on Managing soils for carbon and plant productivity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A Parliamentary POSTnote will be published |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0662/POST-PN-0662.pdf |
| Description | Interview on Soils and nutrients in crops 3/12/2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BBC Future will publish an international article on web site Follow the Food, BBC World Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/why-modern-food-lost-its-nutrients/ |
| Description | Interview with Alex Varley-Winter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | interview with independent journalist Alex Varley-Winter around modern understanding of soil systems and how to manage agriculture for carbon sequestration and nutrient use efficiency |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.sustainact.net/a-new-theory-of-soil/ |
| Description | Interview with Clare Wilson about soil health for article in New Scietist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | interview about soil microbiology for New Scientist article "It's time to tuck your plants into a compost bed for winter" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25233632-500-its-time-to-tuck-your-plants-into-a-compost-bed-... |
| Description | Interview with Forbes Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interview: Five ways in which agriculture can be part of the climate solution |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.forbes.com/sites/juergeneckhardt/2023/12/04/five-ways-agriculture-can-help-solve-the-cli... |
| Description | Interview with Impact and Evidence Team of BBSRC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | UKRI research on soils to be used in Impact Case Study for web site and other outlets, e.g. COP26 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Interview with Wicked Leaks about Nutrient Density in Crops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article published online |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/health-farming-seeds/breeding-food-nutrition-common-sen... |
| Description | Interview with journalist Olivia Oldham about soil biodiversity for an article in Wicked Leeks magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | article "Gut health for soil" published in Wicked Leeks December 2nd, 2021 following interview |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/soil-biodiversity-health/gut-health-soil |
| Description | Invitation to AHDB Beef and Livestock Board AGM to discuss soil health and S2N-related research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invitation to AHDB Beef and Livestock AGM, discussion of new insights into soil health arising form S2N research and discussion of future research activities on the North Wyke Farm Platform national capability |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited presentation at High Level Global Systemic Risks Summit, Cambridge, 27 October 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Universal ownership concept and global systemic risks established |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited presentation at the Main Event, Cereals Show, 1 July 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of system for judging organic carbon in soils |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cerealsevent.co.uk/cereals-online-event-2021 |
| Description | Invited presentation to All4climate Pre-COP26 meeting in Italy, 1 October, 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | How land management affects how much Organic Carbon soil can hold |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://all4climate2021.org/ |
| Description | Invited presentation to Devon NFU Winter Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | talk entitled "Your soil needs organic matter: here're five reasons why" presented as keynote to NFU Devon conference, sharing the platform with NFU President. Encouraged discussion of the importance of organic matter for soil resilience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited talk to New Zealand Wine Industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk "What can the microbiome tell us about the state of our soil?", Bragato Research Institute and New Zealand Wine Industry. 300 delegates. discussions of regenerative practices within vineyards and benefits for soil. follow-on calls for interviews and collaboration with Crown Research Organisation scientists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.nzwine.com/en/events/research/beyond-vineyard-ecosystems/ |
| Description | John Innes Center, Women of the future, talk to students about careers for women in science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | About 160 pupils attended the Women in Science event at the John Innes Centre. Scientists from a wide background presented their work and talked to students about the opportunities and variety of careers available. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Kellog's Origins conference "Engraining Sustainable Practices into Food" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kellog's Origins conference "Engraining Sustainable Practices into Food". Steve McGrath Discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=0i7N7ZIxYy8&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Kellogg's Collaboration Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Steve McGrath took part in a collaboration meeting with Steve Zimmerman, Research Fellow, and Alicia Perdon, Research Fellow, Global Innovation and Nutrition from Kellogg's at Harpenden on 20th October 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lab Bulletin - Where there's muck, there's brass: scientists discover what make high carbon soils so valuable |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | blog based upon report of soil extended composite phenotype paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.labbulletin.com/articles/where-theres-muck-theres-brass-scientists-discover-what |
| Description | Lbl, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ian Clark (Rothamsted) Janet Jansson and Rick White III (lbl, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) held video conferences discussions on 14th September 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture at the 2018 International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Microbiome Course in Trieste (November 2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lecture on the topic of Soil Science, King's College London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stimulated the education and devlopment of audience of BBSRC and EPSRC DTP students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Long-term experiment conference, Harpenden |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | • Keynote speaker - Association of Applied Biologists Long-term experiment conference, Harpenden, June 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.aab.org.uk/event/long-term-experiments-meeting-future-challenges/ |
| Description | Meeting with Beeswax Dyson farm representatives, Rothamsted North Wyke |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | presented findings from WP1 S2N so far regarding the benefits of carbon sequenstration in soil for nutrient use efficiency |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with Global Good April 17th |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussions on development of soil nutrient measurement technology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with NFU and Environmental Agency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | DIscussed issues related to the role of carbon in soil and new fertilizer opportunities resulting from biogass digestate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with NFU, farmers and EA @ Kings Bldg, Smith Square, Westminster, London SW1P 3JJ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | presented findings from WP1 S2N so far regarding the benefits of carbon sequenstration in soil for nutrient use efficiency |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with NFU, fartmers and EA @ Rothamsted, Harpenden |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | presented findings from WP1 S2N so far regarding the benefits of carbon sequenstration in soil for nutrient use efficiency |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meganomic Analysis Course and Workshop, Frankfurt |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ian Clark attended the Meganomic Analysis Course and Workshop in Frankfurt between 17th- 20th Sept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Member of expert panel in EU project 'MicrobiomeSupport' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting of expert panel to discuss microbiome research priorities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.microbiomesupport.eu/ |
| Description | NABIM R&D conference - London, 22 November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Steve McGrath gave an invited presentation entitled "Mineral micronutrients" at the NABIM R&D conference in London on 22 November 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | NFU South West Livestock and Dairy Boards webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | presentation of new data relating to the theory of soil as an extended composite phenotype of the microbial metagenome to NFU South West Livestock and Dairy Boards - July 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | National Academies of Science/Royal Society Sustainable Agriculture US-UK Scientific Forum, Washington, 4-7 March 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | National Academies of Science/Royal Society Sustainable Agriculture US-UK Scientific Forum, Washington, 4-7 March 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | National Food Strategy panel visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | National Food Strategy panel visit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/programme-of-engagement/ |
| Description | Nature Conference on Human Spaceflight Microbiology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Made a presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | New Scientist Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | New Scientist Live Future of Food and Agriculture, Invited member of Farmers' Weekly panel discussion - Is modern agriculture good for society and the planet? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | New Scientist Live (ExCel Centre, London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Over 18,000 people attended New Scientist Live and at least 300 attended our display (Journey to the Centre of the Earth, the first 23 cm). Display included the importance of crop rotations to reduce crop yield decline, the introduction of the potential of beneficial microbes for reducing the reliance on inorganic fertilisers and control plant crop pathogens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Nottingham University seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | plant microbiome research Nov 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Novozymes visit - Sept 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentations made by Ian Clark (The Soil Microbiome) and Tim Mauchline (Exploiting the plant microbiome resource). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Nutrient Circularity workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | invited to participate workshop series (19th July and 13th September 2022) to establish a business case for collaborative innovation in Nutrient Circularity, Crop Health and Protection and Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock AgriTech Centres |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Open Farm Sunday - Importance of Soils |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public gained an awareness of the importance of soils in agriculture, and how different soils underpin regional differences in agriculture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | OpenGeoHub LandGIS workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on potential collaboration with OpenGeoHub LandGIS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | OpenGeoHub LandGIS workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on potential collaboration with OpenGeoHub LandGIS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Opening lecture in Symposium for Agritech Cornwall |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on the importance of soil health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Opening lecture in Symposium for Agritech Cornwall |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on the importance of soil health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Opti-S (sulphur supply from manures to arable crops) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Steve McGrath attended a stakeholders meeting on 13th March with stakeholders ADAS, AHDB, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Severn Trent Water and CF Fertilisers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://cereals.ahdb.org.uk/publications/2018/july/19/optimising-sulphur-management-to-maximise-oils... |
| Description | Overview soil-to-nutrition (S2N), Rothamsted Research Institute Strategic Programme. AICC, ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Overview soil-to-nutrition (S2N), Rothamsted Research Institute Strategic Programme. AICC, ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Oxford Real Farming Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | talk titled "How organic carbon fuels soil extended composite phenotypes", January 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.crowdcast.io/e/orfc-global-2021/12 |
| Description | Participation at the CEREALS meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cereals: Participation at the CEREALS meeting and presentation of soil health management as well as spectral soil analysis and its application. At the Thoresby Estate, Nottinghamshire, on the 13th and 14th June 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participation at the Groundswell meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Groundswell: Participation at the Groundswell meeting and presentation of soil health monitoring tools. At the Lannock Manor Farm, Hertfordshire, on the 28th and 29th June 2023. Presentation on our soil carbon index for soil quality at Groundswell to visiting farmers and industry representatives. We also presented our ongoing work with a farmer group in the Cotswold on soil carbon baselining. This is a very popular theme in the moment and farmers want to be informed of ongoing research and activities of RRes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Pasture-Fed Livestock Association (PFLA) AGM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jenni Dungait and Prof Achim Dobermann gave talks at the PLFA AGM on 11th Oct in Hitchin. They also met & had discussions with Paul Muto (Agronomist for Natural England and an expert in species-rich ley seed mixes). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | PhosAgro meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on potential collaboration related to ferrtilsers and contaminants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Phosagro Meeting to discuss collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Steve McGrath met Juan von Gernet and Irina Evstigneeva from Phosagro at Rothamsted Research to discuss collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Phosphohydrolase genes in soil are locally responsive but globally conserved |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RedBio, X Latin American and Caribbean Agricultural Biotechnology Meeting - Montevideo, Uruguay. November 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Phosphohydrolase genes in soil are locally responsive but globally conserved. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, June 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Plain Farmers (Cheshire) Ltd. visit NWFP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | presented new research on soil and organic carbon to visiting group from Plain Farmers (Cheshire) Limited, a dairy farmer cooperative |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Plant genomes and gene editing conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | plant microbiome research May 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Planting Ideas Ltd |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | plant microbiome research Sept 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Poster presentation at the LTE Conference: Depletion of soil organic carbon and porosity after only two arable harvests decreased nitrogen use efficiency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the preliminary FP757 experiment results |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Potato Review - Where there's muck there's brass |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | blog based upon report of soil extended composite phenotype paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.potatoreview.com/features/where-theres-muck-theres-brass/ |
| Description | Presentation at Soils Across Latitudes conferences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Neal was invited to present two talks at the Soils Across Latitudes meeting in San Diego, organized by the Soil Science Societies of America, Canada and Mexico: the first was part of the Soil Systems symposium and the second part of the Linking Soil Microbiology to Biogeochemical Cycles symposium. January 6 - 9, 2019. Both sessions were proceeded with debate regarding new challenges and approaches to incorporating microbial activity into current models of soil processes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at the NFU National Meeting on Soil Carbon Science, 7 July 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Need to monitor, report and verify soil carbon levels and to enable effective management of carbon in soil |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/watch-soil-carbon-science-webinar/ |
| Description | Presentation to Indigro Farmer Academy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of "The SOC/clay ratio for organic amendment management", at the visit from Indigro Farmer Academy, 1st June 2023, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presented to students at RVC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented research on What metrics to use in sustainable agriculture - Has CO2eq/kg product has its day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Prince's Countryside Fund Farm for the Future workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited Farm for the Future workshop for the Prince's Countryside Fund, talk entitled "Organic carbon and the dynamic soil system " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.princescountrysidefund.org.uk/ |
| Description | Print article about research (Farmers Weekly, 'Research identifies top sward species for minerals' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination of research data Research identifies top sward species for minerals - Farmers Weekly (fwi.co.uk) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/livestock-feed-nutrition/research-identifies-top-sward-species-for-m... |
| Description | Progress meeting/visit to farms in Kenya for partnering award |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Jenni Dungait and Laura Cardenas attended progress meeting/visit to farms in Kenya for partnering award plus completion of GCRF proposal (Nov 2017). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Publication of a newspaper interview with Martin Blackwell, which discusses our publications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Currently unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/06/phosphate-fertiliser-crisis-threatens-world-food... |
| Description | Pushing for change in soil management and fertiliser use - BBSRC Impact Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | article and interview for BBSRC Impact Showcase 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.discover.ukri.org/bbsrc-impact-showcase-2021/index.html |
| Description | Quorum Sense podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A microbiologist's perspective with Andy Neal - Webinar. In a simple way, microbiologist Andy Neal from Rothamsted Research in the UK demonstrates the complex interactions between physical soil structure and microbial metabolism with significant implications for nutrient-use efficiency in soils. And you get to experience being a soil microbe! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.quorumsense.org.nz/content/a-microbiologists-perspective-with-andy-neal-webinar-mar23 |
| Description | RANK prize meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | plant microbiome research Sept 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Radio Interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Radio Verulam interview (Tessa Reid) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://radioverulam.com/podcast/partnering-with-nature-for-a-great-garden/ |
| Description | Rank Prize symposium on signalling in the rhizosphere 16-19 September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Rank Prize symposium on signalling in the rhizosphere 16-19 September 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Rank prize filming |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Filming for Rank prize fund 50th anniversary |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Recorded Podcast to appear in Farmers Weekly about fertilisers, with Johann Tasker, Chief Reporter. Steve McGrath. 3/11/2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Recorded Podcast to appear in Farmers Weekly about fertilisers, with Johann Tasker, Chief Reporter. Steve McGrath. 3/11/2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Recorded for Radio 4 farming today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed on the potential role of livestock in sustainable food production - Cardon Net Zero |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Rooting around the microbiome |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | soil and plant health article in SGM |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://microbiologysociety.org/our-work/75th-anniversary-a-sustainable-future/soil-health/soil-heal... |
| Description | Rootstock agricultural conference, Exeter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Inaugural conference for farmers and scientists focussed upon regenerative farming practice. Neal acted as scientific coordinator on organizing committee. conference brought national scientists, farmers and commercial parties together to discuss innovation in practice and understanding of regenerative farming systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.fginsight.com/news/pore-connectivity-is-key-for-healthy-soils-133966 |
| Description | Rothamsted - Unilever discussions regarding regenerative agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | meeting as part of Rothamsted group with Unilever representatives, Sally Redfern - Lead S&T Manager, Future Bio-Based Ingredients, James Holmes - Plant Science & Technology Lead, Future Bio-Based Ingredients, Alistair Smith - Senior R&D Manager, Partnerships, Ingrid Richardson - Sustainable Sourcing Director - Impacts and Assurance, Mollie Liesner - Impact & Assurance Senior Manager, Andrea Granier - Procurement Operations Sustainable Sourcing Manager to discuss collaborative research regarding farming systems using regenerative practice across Unilever suppliers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Rres-Bristol Farming Future Strategic Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Adrian Collins, Andy Neal, Andy Whitmore, John Crawford, Laura Cardenas, Michael Lee, Stephan Haefele, Steve McGrath, Tim Mauchline and Xiaoxian Zhang took part in the RRes-Bristol Farming Futures Strategic Workshop on 12 January in Harpenden. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | SARISA Yields of Decline OSR meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Ian Clark made a presentation at the SARISA Yields of Decline OSR meeting with Velcourt on 9th May. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SARISA, Roots of Decline meeting (27th Sept NHM, London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ian Clark participated in the SARISA, Roots of Decline meeting on 27th Sept NHM, London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SOC/clay ratio as an indicator for soil health? AICC, ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SOC/clay ratio as an indicator for soil health? AICC, ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SRUC Research Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give a key address to all staff at SRUC as part of their research day on the research we have undertaken at Rothamsted on Sustainable Livestock Systems and soil health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | STARS Cohort 3 Welcome meeting (Rothamsted Research, 16-18 October 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Rothamsted hosted the STARS Cohort 3 Welcome meeting on 16-18 October. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | School Visit (Harpenden). Diversity of life in Soil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrations of soil erosion, diversity and benefits of the living things in soils (microbes to mesofauna) and how germs can be spread on hands. Given to a local junior school class of 32 pupils. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Scottish Construction Now - And finally Where there's muck, there's brass |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | blog based upon report of soil extended composite phenotype paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://scottishconstructionnow.com/article/and-finally-where-there-s-muck-there-s-brass |
| Description | SeedQuest article following publication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | article Turf wars: Arable farming creates 'gangsters' paradise' for soil microbes - Life's tough in this criminal underworld SeedQuest magazine |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.seedquest.com/news.php?type=news&id_article=128676 |
| Description | Shanghai Academy of Sciences visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presenated and diusssed teh S2N programme and made contacts for potenial future research collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Society for experimental Biology annual meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | plant microbiome research June 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Soil Health Index meeting with Jason Beedell and Leo Page of Strutt and Parker, Steve McGrath, Jonah Prout, Stephan Haefele, 15/12/2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Outcome - approach to Defra ELM team on the soil carbon index in terms of its purpose, how to use it, and benefits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Soil Quality and Health Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 26-27 February we hosted a Soil Quality and Health Workshop in Harpenden to construct a Bayesian Belief Network in the NERC-funded project in the Soil Security Programme. This involved a number of stakeholders and scientists (e.g. GWCT, ADAS, AHDB, Elm Farm). It is hoped that the SQH-BBN constructed can be published as a multiauthor paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Soil Security Program Meeting (September 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ian Clark attended a Soil Security Program meeting on 6th-7th September at Reading University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Soil Security Programme Meeting, Reading University, 5th-6th September, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ian Clark presented work on Roots of Decline projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.soilsecurity.org/research-programmes/ |
| Description | Soil carbon sequestration: Is it a geographic lottery? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | coverage of talk presented at IFS Agronomy conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/soil-carbon-sequestration-is-it-a-geographic-lottery/ |
| Description | Soil health and the SOC/clay index [presentation]. 29th July 2022, Symposium of the North East Cotswold Farmer Cluster. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Soil health and the SOC/clay index [presentation]. 29th July 2022, Symposium of the North East Cotswold Farmer Cluster. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhame63sPz8 |
| Description | Soil health case study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Soil health case study https://microbiologysociety.org/our-work/75th-anniversary-a-sustainable-future/soil-health/soil-health-case-studies/rooting-around-the-wheat-microbiome.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://microbiologysociety.org/our-work/75th-anniversary-a-sustainable-future/soil-health/soil-heal... |
| Description | Soil microbiome offers key to sustainable harvests - article in Financial Times |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Clive Cookson, Science Editor - Financial Times about the role of soil microbiology in soil health and future agriculture resulting in an article published 16/11/2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ft.com/content/873737ec-3221-4470-9299-0de09963f38c |
| Description | Soil trace elements in cereals production, to NFU branch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented the findings of diagnosis of micronutrient fertilser requirements and effects on yeilds to farmers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Soil variations could undermine carbon scheme in The Scottish Farmer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | coverage of talk presented at IFS Agronomy conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/19773368.soil-variations-undermine-carbon-scheme/ |
| Description | Soil: our most precious asset |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Advice to Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Stapledon Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented an invited talk on sustainable livestock at the Stapledon Seminar Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Stem Cell TV - Where there's muck, there's brass: scientists discover what make high carbon soils so valuable |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | blog based upon report of soil extended composite phenotype paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.stemcell.tv/human-genetics-2/and-finally-where-theres-muck-theres-brass-scottish-constru... |
| Description | Strategic Alliance of Cranfield University/Rothamsted Research Collaboration Workshop: 'Engineering Science for Agritech and Agrifood' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Work shop discussing Engineering Science for Agritech and Agrifood |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Sub-Saharan Africa Soil Fertility Prioritization Survey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Steve McGrath took part in the Sub-Saharan Africa Soil Fertility Prioritization Survey to support USAID efforts to prioritize future soil fertility efforts in Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Sustainable Agriculture for Africa showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sustainable Agriculture for Africa showcase meeting at UM6P Morocco. Reported on microbiome research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme may lead to 'postcode lottery' over soil carbon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | coverage of IFS talk in media |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.farminguk.com/news/sfi-scheme-may-lead-to-postcode-lottery-over-soil-carbon_59495.html |
| Description | Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme may lead to 'postcode lottery' over soil carbon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | coverage of talks given at the International Fertiliser Society by Farming Online Newsletter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.farming.co.uk/news/sustainable-farming-incentive-scheme-may-lead-to-postcode-lottery-ove... |
| Description | Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme may lead to 'postcode lottery' over soil carbon in Crop Production Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | coverage of IFS Agronomy conference talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/2021/12/10/sustainable-farming-incentive-scheme-may-lead-to-postcode-... |
| Description | Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme may lead to 'postcode lottery' over soil carbon in Horticulture Week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | coverage of talk presented at IFS Agronomy conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.hortweek.com/sustainable-farming-incentive-scheme-may-lead-postcode-lottery-soil-carbon/... |
| Description | Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme may lead to 'postcode lottery' over soil carbon in Potato Review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | coverage of talk presented at IFS Agronomy conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.potatoreview.com/features/sustainable-farming-incentive-scheme-may-lead-to-postcode-lott... |
| Description | Sustainable Farming Incentives: Soil carbon inequality in South West Farmer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | coverage if talk presented at ISF agronomy conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.southwestfarmer.co.uk/news/19776623.sustainable-farming-incentive-scheme-may-lead-postco... |
| Description | Sustainable Soils Alliance discussions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussions with Sustainable Soils Alliance about work on a "logical sieve" to connect soil quality indicators and public goods. Discussed second phase examining the cost/practicality aspect, i.e. examining which SQIs farmers are likely to measure and how. With a view to establish this via an ELM Test/trial. Discussed final stage of the work will be a synthesis of the previous steps combined with an analysis of where there are efficiencies/cost effectiveness benefits from combining laboratory analyses and new methods. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sustainablesoils.org/ |
| Description | Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organisation of the 2nd plant microbiome symposium in Amsterdam 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://nioo.knaw.nl/en/plantmicrobiome2 |
| Description | Systems Biology for Plant and Human Nutrition workshop, hosted by ICRISAT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Andrew Neal was invited to present at the Systems Biology for Plant and Human Nutrition workshop, hosted by ICRISAT's Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology, Patancheru, India (March 2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | THE FUTURE OF LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS IN AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Assessment of the importance of long term field experiments in conjunction with changing agricultural practices |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talk at Velcourt annual conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at Velcourt annual conference; "Microbiome facilitated agriculture?" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Talk at first International Workshop on Agricultural Microbiology in Lavras, MG, Brazil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk title: Developing an improved understanding of the structure and function of the wheat root microbiome |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Talk to US Ambassadors of Agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented research on Role of Rothamsted in UK agriculture research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Climate Show with Tom Heap, 30 Jul 2022 On this week's show, Tom Heap explains how the way we treat our soil is key to fighting climate change. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Sky News Climate Show about soil organic carbon, carbon sequestration and soil health on the North Wyke Farm Platform |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhame63sPz8 |
| Description | The Gatsby Plant Science Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Student learning about research and potential placements and PhD opportunities at Rothamsted |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium at Kings College , London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited to present a talk on Soil Science entitled "Improving Soils for Crop Production and Human Nutrition". by The London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium. The London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium is one of the largest BBSRC funded Doctoral Training Partnerships in the UK. Representing an exciting collaboration between six of London's world-class universities and specialist institutions, the consortium provides students with a unique opportunity to pursue innovative interdisciplinary research projects.The aim of the events was to provide a range of leading academic, industry and not for profit speakers and deliver a rounded and comprehensive subject view for each themed day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://lido-dtp.ac.uk/ |
| Description | The SOC/clay ratio as an indicator for soil health? Presentation to the NFU Barnet & St Albans Branch Meeting, Tuesday 29 March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The SOC/clay ratio as an indicator for soil health? Presentation to the NFU Barnet & St Albans Branch Meeting, Tuesday 29 March 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The microbiome: human medicine and agriculture in a microbial world - One day conference at Royal Society, London, 5th October 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | P. Hirsch gave a presentation entitled "Microbiomes for improving crop production" . This one-day conference held by the Royal Society brought together experts from both agricultural and human microbiome sectors to discuss the barriers to technology translation and common principles across both sectors. Speakers discussed the challenges in determining microbiota through to the dynamic forces determining colony structures. The meeting also explored intentional modulation of microbial populations to develop medical therapeutics and improvements in agricultural productivity, covering technical challenges in determining causation and methods to drive the technology forward |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/-/media/events/2018/10/tof-microbiome/Transforming-our-future---The-microbi... |
| Description | Theory of Soil article for IWE International |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | invited article for IWE International magazine on the subject of soil health relating outputs from the Soil to Nutrition programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.aweimagazine.com/article/the-theory-of-soil/ |
| Description | Tillage & Soils - Where there's muck, there's brass: scientists discover what make high carbon soils so valuable |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | blog based upon report of soil extended composite phenotype paper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://tillagemagazine.net/theres-muck-theres-brass-scientists-discover-make-high-carbon-soils-valu... |
| Description | Tutorial at Gatsby Summmer School for undergraduate students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Tutorial on GeoNutrition: spatial aspects of hidden hunger |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Tutorial at Gatsby Summmer School for undergraduate students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Tutorial on GeoNutrition: spatial aspects of hidden hunger |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UK Department for Business and Trade, New Zealand |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Broad range of topics, from agricultural practices (rotations, legacy effects for pathogen and break crops), plant growth bacteria as inoculum, syncoms or mechanisms. Agricultural tipping points and Soil Health Indicators |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | UK-India partnership in Smart Agriculture Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof John Crawford was part of the UK conclave to meet with the Dept. Biotechnology, India to discuss UK-India partnership in Smart Agriculture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | University of Adelaide project meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stephan Haefele visited the University of Adelaide to work on the project "Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Wheat in a hot and dry climate" and participation in the annual project meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | University of Missouri soil health meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | • Andy Neal visited the University of Missouri for discussions on soil health with the policy coordinator, Department of Natural Resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | University of Nottingham / Rothamsted Research Graduate Centre for International Agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A meeting was held on 19th September 2017 at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden regarding the proposed University of Nottingham / Rothamsted Research Graduate Centre for International Agriculture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Virtual Seminar at the "New Scientist Live" event on "Future of Food and Agriculture", 28th November 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | presented new data and theory of soil as an extended composite phenotype of the microbial metagenome |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Virtual Seminar at the "New Scientist Live" event on "Future of Food and Agriculture", 28th November 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar presented on recent and current work related to the dry spectral laboratory at Rothamsted |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Virtual Seminar at the event UK-INDIA AGRI INNOVATION: FUTURE PROOFED AND CLIMATE SMART PARTNERSHIPS, 1st to 4th December 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar presented on recent and current work related to the dry spectral laboratory at Rothamsted |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Virtual Seminar at the event UK-India AGRI Innovation: Future proofed and climate smart partnerships, 1st to 4th December Conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Virtual Seminar at the event UK-India AGRI Innovation: Future proofed and climate smart partnerships, 1st to 4th December |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Visit of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and CAAS, PR China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Made a presentation on Soil Health to academics, drawing on examples from Rothamsted (28/11/19) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit of NFU to Rothamsted Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit of NFU representatives to Rothamsted to discuss research areas and activities. I gave a short talk to the visitors about Microbiology research at Rothamsted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit to CAAS Farmland Irrigation Research Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | discussing work carried out at Rothamsted and potential collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit to CAAS Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussions on potential collaboration on crop-rotation changes in soil properties and microbial community and functions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit to IBERS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to discuss soil and plant diagnostic research on sward species |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for "Endophytic Microbes for Crop Nutrition: Reality or Myth?" - 2-day workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for "Endophytic Microbes for Crop Nutrition: Reality or Myth?" - 2-day workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | WIldfarmed growers group meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote Presentation "Soil Organic Carbon and Emergent Soil Health" to Wildfarmed growers group at annual meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | What does 175 years of Rothamsted's Broadbalk experiment tell us about nutrient use efficiency in agriculture? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | International Forum on Irrigation and Drainage Development and Technological Innovation of the Belt and Road in Beijing, China from July 2019. Hosted by China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Women of the Future (JIC) to inspire the next generation of female STEMM professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Soil health and microbial biodiversity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workers Daily - new research: planting patterns affect the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in soil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chinese media coverage following publication of Cropping system exerts stronger influence on antibiotic resistance gene assemblages in greenhouse soils than reclaimed wastewater irrigation paper in Journal of Hazardous Materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://web.app.workercn.cn/news.html?id=198462 |
| Description | Working group - UK plant microbiome initiative |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The plant microbiome initiative aims to exploit the potential of the plant microbiome and place the UK at the forefront of global research, facilitation and policy. The initiative will facilitate new collaborative projects among the partners drawing on the leading scientific expertise and cutting edge facilities required to unlock the plant microbiome's potential. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/pmicrobiome |
| Description | Working with an Innovative Farmers group in the Evenlode catchment (Gloucestershire/Oxfordshire), |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | August 2018 and ongoing - Tegan Darch working with an Innovative Farmers group in the Evenlode catchment (Gloucestershire/Oxfordshire), to look at how no-till can reduce sediment loss and improve soil health compared to conventional farming. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The BBSRC microbiome workshop was hosted by Rothamsted Research in January 2019. The goal of this was to bring together BBSRC institute researchers working on the areas of microbiome research (plant/soil, animal, human) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop to shape BBSRC bid to Industry Strategy Challenge Fund, Birmingham (15th Aug 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof John Crawford was invited to BBSRC workshop to shape BBSRC bid to Industry Strategy Challenge Fund, Birmingham 15th Aug. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Workshop with Future Farming and Food organisation, 23 March 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and workshop on soil carbon and productivity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Workshops/Meetings for BBSRC International Partnering Award (China) grant (BB/P025595/1: A Virtual Centre for Monitoring the Rhizosphere). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Richard Whalley & Andy Gregory (with JIC and Lancaster) visited CAU (Beijing) 31/07/2017 - 04/08/2017 for a series of workshops and meetings for BBSRC International Partnering Award (China) grant (BB/P025595/1: A Virtual Centre for Monitoring the Rhizosphere). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | World Economic Forum blog "A 10-year plan to save the world's soil" based upon recent publication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | blog in response to our publication "Soil as an extended composite phenotype of the microbial metagenome" published on World Economic Forum Global Risks platform |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/a-10-year-plan-to-save-our-soil/ |
| Description | World Soils Day tweet |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | tweet for World Soils Day showcasing the effect of organic carbon inputs to soil upon soil porosity - 94 retweets; 30 quote tweets; 190 likes (as of 10/01/2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/Rothamsted/status/1335136816278745093/video/1 |
| Description | article in Phys.Org covering Nature Food paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | article prepared and published in response to Nature Food publication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://phys.org/news/2023-01-nitrous-oxide-emissions-higher-soils.html |
| Description | article in Seed Today, US-based media following research publication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | article published in response to press release describing research publication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.seedtoday.com/article/236073/turf-wars-arable-farming-creates-gangsters-paradise-for-soi... |
| Description | article published in Farming Online, UK-based online media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | article published in response to press release following research publication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://farming.co.uk/news/turf-wars-arable-farming-creates-gangsters-paradise-for-soil-microbes |
| Description | beijing news: study finds that reclaimed water irrigation has no significant impact on the soil |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chinese media coverage following publication of Cropping system exerts stronger influence on antibiotic resistance gene assemblages in greenhouse soils than reclaimed wastewater irrigation paper in Journal of Hazardous Materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.bjnews.com.cn/detail/164239700014813.html |
| Description | china science daily: reclaimed water irrigation has no significant effect on the spread of antibiotic resistance genes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chinese media coverage of Cropping system exerts stronger influence on antibiotic resistance gene assemblages in greenhouse soils than reclaimed wastewater irrigation in Journal of Hazardous Materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2022/1/472067.shtm |
| Description | coverage of Nature Food paper in Mirage News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | article "Nitrous Oxide Levels Rise in Soils Lacking Organic Matter" published by Mirage.News real-time media portal. January 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.miragenews.com/nitrous-oxide-levels-rise-in-soils-lacking-925193/ |
| Description | discussions with Parliamentary Environment, Food and Rural Affairs committee regarding soil health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | roundtable discussions with EFRA select committee regarding soil health within agricultural systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | interview for Crop it Like It's Hot podcast - Soil Health, how to measure and promote it |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | discussion around soil health, soil carbon and theory of soil for podcast |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.croptecshow.com/crop-it-like-its-hot-podcast/ |
| Description | interview, Farming Today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Soil scientists at Rothamsted Research are calling for a national strategy for managing soils to maximise carbon capture. They've raised concerns that payments under the newly announced Sustainable Farming Incentive - which will reward farmers in England for working to improve their soils - could create something of a postcode lottery, as some soils are able to sequester more carbon than others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0012ff9 |
| Description | invited contribution to New Scientist Live panel discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | online live debate hosted by Farmers Weekly as part of New Scientist Live Future of Food and Agriculture virtual event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | invited participation and presentation at Devon NFU meeting "'Soils our Greatest Asset" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | invited presentation "Your soil needs organic matter: here are four reasons why" to Devon-based members of NFU |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | invited presentation at Groundswell 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | invited talk at Groundswell, "Our soil carbon dilemma: should we hoard it or use it?" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | invited presentation at International Fertiliser Society meeting December 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 2021 IFS Agronomic Conference, Updating Evidence-Based Management of Crop Nutrition, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK on 9-10 December. Talk titled The benefits of increasing soil carbon - so much more than just sequestration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://fertiliser-society.org/ifs-events/2021-ifs-agronomic-conference/ |
| Description | presentation to Maize Growers Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | presentation at MGA's 2022 conference, title of presentation "Our soil carbon dilemma: should we hoard it or use it?" to farmers and agronomists |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | presentation to NPK Club |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | invited presentation "Soil Organic Carbon and Emergent Soil Health" to NPK Club at Farmers' Club, London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | roundtable discussion of complex systems research in agricultural settings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | roundtable discussions at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge with Nick Talbot, Executive Director, Sainsbury Laboratory Norwich; Giles Oldroyd, Director of the Crop Science Centre; Henrik Jönsson, Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge; Sarah Butler-Sloss, Chair of the Aurora Trust; Sian Ferguson, Trust Executive for the Aurora Trust and Mark Leonard Trust; Peter Hesketh, CEO of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation; Gary Wilson, Head of Science Programmes, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation; and Mark Sainsbury, trustee of the Mark Leonard Trust. Discussions centred upon the need for systems science approaches to agricultural problems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | science and technology daily: the planting model was found to have a significant impact on the spread of antibiotic resistance genes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chinese media coverage following publication of Cropping system exerts stronger influence on antibiotic resistance gene assemblages in greenhouse soils than reclaimed wastewater irrigation in Journal of Hazardous Materials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.stdaily.com/index/kejixinwen/2022-01/05/content_1244269.shtml |