The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen has appointed Professor Richard Aspinall as its new Chief Executive. Professor Aspinall will take over as Chief Executive of the Institute – where he previously worked between 1987 and 1997 on a wide variety of land use topics – on 18 September 2006. He is returning to the Macaulay after nine years in the USA, where he has been Professor and Chair of the School of Geographical Sciences at the Arizona State University since 2004.




The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and SCRI joined forces on 1 April 2011 to create The James Hutton Institute. It is the first Institute of its type in Europe and will make major, new contributions to the understanding of key global issues such as food, energy and environmental security.