The Institute’s exhibition at the Royal Highland Show this year ‘A Century of Changes in the Scottish Landscape‘ has prompted a former staff member of Nature Conservancy to donate landscape images to the Institute. [continue reading ... ]
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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.
Photographs Donated to Macaulay
Macaulay Scientist Wins Prize at Symposium
Congratulations to Liz Bourne on her winning the prize for the best talk at the recent Botanical Society of Scotland Student Symposium. The panel of judges felt the talk to be of an excellent standard, and commended Liz on the clarity of science and the way that she communicated her research. The prize is a tour for two at the new Scottish Whisky Heritage Centre in Edinburgh. [continue reading ... ]
Glensaugh News – 12 October 2009
At Glensaugh we are engaged in the on-going management of the Agroforestry plot system, which is now being managed as a demonstration for visitors.
Soaring Demand for Allotments
The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute’s Bob Ferrier, a keen allotment holder, responds to the announcement that pressure groups are urging the Scottish Government to address the soaring demand for plots as increasing numbers of people seek to save money by growing fruit and vegetables. [continue reading ... ]
Smart Science Boosts the Economy
Pioneering work on human gut disorders potentially worth billions, the development of livestock vaccines and grazing systems to benefit farming, DNA fingerprinting tests to improve water quality and the use of 3-D imagery to inform planning assessments. [continue reading ... ]
Science Institutes Join Forces
The Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute have agreed in principle to unite, strengthening Scotland’s rural-environmental research capacity and further enhancing their international competitiveness. [continue reading ... ]
National Soil Archive on the BBC
Over the past 70 years the levels of crucial minerals in our basic foods have declined significantly. This is bad news for consumers in the west, but potentially deadly news for those in the developing world who cannot afford a perfectly balanced diet. Dr Steve Hillier from the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute introduces the National Soil Archive, stored at the Institute’s Craigiebuckler site, and explains its importance in monitoring the quality of the soil we produce our food in during BBC Radio 4’s ‘Costing the Earth’ with Alice Roberts, originally broadcast on Monday 28th September at 9pm. [continue reading ... ]