New chairman of the Macaulay Institute board of governors, Michael Gibson has been made a CBE in the New Years Honours. [continue reading ... ]

The Board of Governors of the Macaulay Land Use Research institute has appointed Michael Gibson as its new Chairman. He replaces Andrew Raven who sadly died on 2 October 2005, and who was Chairman of the Board for four years.

Promoting and encouraging the sustainable recreational use of the Cairngorms National Park, will be discussed at this week’s Macaulay Institute seminar, by Andrew Coleman, Project Manager of the Upper Deeside Access Trust. The event takes place at 2pm on Wednesday 14 December in the Grampian Room at the Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen. [continue reading ... ]

Land-use experts are inviting people to take a look at the kinds of local landscapes their children might live in decades from now. [continue reading ... ]

Macaulay Enterprises Ltd. (MEL), the commercial arm of The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, will find out this Friday (25 November) at an Awards Dinner at The Savoy Hotel, London, if it has won a prestigious Energy Institute (EI) Award 2005. [continue reading ... ]

The impacts of climate change on farming systems in Scotland will be discussed by Scottish Executive policy makers at a seminar/workshop tomorrow (23 November) funded by the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, the British Council and the Scottish Executive. [continue reading ... ]

A team of scientists from some of Scotland’s leading research institutes has found that some of the UK’s rarest plants are not reproducing sexually as often as they have in the past. [continue reading ... ]

The Board of the Macaulay Institute has announced the appointment of Professor Bill Ritchie as Interim Chief Executive of the Macaulay Institute, on the departure of the present Chief Executive and Director of Research Professor Maggie Gill on 1 February 2006. [continue reading ... ]

World-renowned climate change expert, Professor John Schellnhuber CBE, Founding Director of Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Potsdam, is presenting this year’s 29th Macaulay Lecture. [continue reading ... ]

A complete rethink of traditional approaches to addressing the issue of hunting wildlife for food is necessary if vulnerable species are to be saved, according to Dr. Eleanor Milner-Gulland, a Reader in Conservation Science at Imperial College, London. [continue reading ... ]