NEWS

Responsible forestry can pull us back from a 'carbon cliff' - Yvonne Buckley, The Irish Times

Well-managed forests on the right kinds of soil sequester and store carbon, pulling damaging carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Our team's on-site day of learning about Continuous Cover Forestry with Pro Silva Ireland

An update from ForES project postdoc Francesco Martini on the team's recent visit with Pro Silva Ireland to a forest site managed with CCF

Watch: Dot the Botany Bot - an animation explaining how forest ecosystem services can be accounted for

In advance of the holiday festivities, ForES Project PhD candidate Kathleen Conroy of Trinity College Dublin came up with this cute robot...

What is ecosystem conversion and what are the implications for sustainable forestry?

Our project aims to develop a tool to value the ecosystem services that forests provide to enable better decisions for the most...

Upcoming ForES presentations at major summer events in the UK and US

Our Trinity College Dublin researchers will be presenting their ForES work on ecosystem extent accounts for forest sites at a number of...

Fires in forests can be naturally beneficial to ecosystems - unless they get out of hand

Forest fires can be naturally beneficial to ecosystems - unless they get out of hand. ForES PhD student Kathleen Conroy looks at the issues

Which provides 'better' ecosystem services, natural forests or plantations?

The ES in ForES project stands for ecosystem services but which type of forest do we consider to provide 'better” ecosystem services,...

ROLE: ForES Project seeks Postdoctoral Researcher

The ForES project is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher. The position is for 2 years and the successful applicant will work...

ROLE: Postdoc Position with ForES, Accounting for Forest Ecosystem Services in Ireland

Our exciting multi-disciplinary project is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher. This is a collaborative project with researchers...

ROLE: Senior Postdoc Position with ForES, Accounting for Forest Ecosystem Services in Ireland

Our exciting new multi-disciplinary project is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher. The ForES postdoc researcher will play a...

ROLE: PhD Studentship available - Accounting for Forest Ecosystem Services in Ireland

Our ForES project is seeking to recruit a PhD student to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to develop Natural Capital Accounts...

Welcome to ForES: We examine multiple benefits of forests and enhance sustainable forest management

Our research project, which will look to co-develop tools for sustainable forestry management decision-making, is led by natural...