by Louise Gathercole | Nov 25, 2024 | Blog
My name is Fritha, a PhD student with the Centre for Forest Protection. I’m based at the University of St Andrews and I work with colleagues at Forest Research. Working with me for six months is our research intern Jack. We work on mapping values,...
by Louise Gathercole | Jul 17, 2024 | Blog
The Centre for Forest Protection was well represented at the IUFRO World Congress 2024 in Stockholm at the end of June. The congress was the largest ever with over 4300 delegates and 30 parallel scientific sessions to choose from at times. “Fantastic opportunity to...
by Louise Gathercole | May 8, 2024 | Blog
Louise Gathercole and Jiaqi Wei Our Coordinator caught up with Centre for Forest Protection PhD student Jiaqi Wei, who is working on the potential threats to UK trees of Xylella bacterial infections. How did you become interested in plant health? In London, I grew up...
by Louise Gathercole | Apr 24, 2024 | Blog
Phoebe spent her six month Centre for Forest Protection internship working with Scientists at Kew using data generated during our pilot year. She developed knowledge and skills in genomics, bioinformatics and programming in R as well as joining in with lots of other...
by Louise Gathercole | Apr 17, 2024 | Blog
Sian spent six months as a CFP intern at the Hampshire office of Forest Research from October 2023 to March 2024 working on our project using spatial modelling to understand environmental predisposition to tree diseases. She also had the opportunity to visit an...
by Louise Gathercole | Apr 10, 2024 | Blog
Eve spent six months working at the Edinburgh office for Forest Research. You can read about her experiences with fieldwork and mathematical modelling in Eve’s internship diary.
