To find out more about #GairWood and the research and volunteering opportunities on site, check out leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
Gair Wood | Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere & Forest (LEAF) Centre
leaf.leeds.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
To find out more about #GairWood and the research and volunteering opportunities on site, check out leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
This #NationalTreeWeek we're celebrating all the research and practical conservation and restoration work that's done across our group. For example, a massive thankyou to our regular Friends of #GairWood group for their hard work planting a new hedge at our research woodland over the weekend!
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This #NationalTreeWeek we're celebrating all the research and practical conservation and restoration work that's done across our group. For example, a massive thankyou to our regular Friends of #GairWood group for their hard work planting a new hedge at our research woodland over the weekend!
Using #GairWood as a living laboratory, this PhD project will shed light on the above questions - follow the link for more information and to find out how to apply:
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Applications open 17th Nov 2025, closing date 7th Jan 2026. 💻
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Applications open 17th Nov 2025, closing date 7th Jan 2026. 💻
Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
The concurrent climate and biodiversity crises have driven global, national and regional targets to restore landscapes and create woodlands. In England, Defra’s Environmental Improvement Plan commits ...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Using #GairWood as a living laboratory, this PhD project will shed light on the above questions - follow the link for more information and to find out how to apply:
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Applications open 17th Nov 2025, closing date 7th Jan 2026. 💻
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Applications open 17th Nov 2025, closing date 7th Jan 2026. 💻
📢 PhD opportunity! 📢 Join me, @ejduncan.bsky.social, Tom Sloan + the wider #GairWood team to investigate climate-resilient woodlands in the UK 🌳 with @yes-dtn.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social
Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood
Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland!
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland!
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
The concurrent climate and biodiversity crises have driven global, national and regional targets to restore landscapes and create woodlands. In England, Defra’s Environmental Improvement Plan commits ...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📢 PhD opportunity! 📢 Join me, @ejduncan.bsky.social, Tom Sloan + the wider #GairWood team to investigate climate-resilient woodlands in the UK 🌳 with @yes-dtn.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social
Want to do a PhD in a cool new woodland with a really lovely team?
Come join @catzigle.bsky.social, @ejduncan.bsky.social, and Tom Sloan, (plus me and @sophiebrandon.bsky.social) researching and establishing #GairWood! 🌳🧪🌍
Come join @catzigle.bsky.social, @ejduncan.bsky.social, and Tom Sloan, (plus me and @sophiebrandon.bsky.social) researching and establishing #GairWood! 🌳🧪🌍
Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood
Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland!
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland!
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
The concurrent climate and biodiversity crises have driven global, national and regional targets to restore landscapes and create woodlands. In England, Defra’s Environmental Improvement Plan commits ...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Want to do a PhD in a cool new woodland with a really lovely team?
Come join @catzigle.bsky.social, @ejduncan.bsky.social, and Tom Sloan, (plus me and @sophiebrandon.bsky.social) researching and establishing #GairWood! 🌳🧪🌍
Come join @catzigle.bsky.social, @ejduncan.bsky.social, and Tom Sloan, (plus me and @sophiebrandon.bsky.social) researching and establishing #GairWood! 🌳🧪🌍
Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood
Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland!
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland!
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
The concurrent climate and biodiversity crises have driven global, national and regional targets to restore landscapes and create woodlands. In England, Defra’s Environmental Improvement Plan commits ...
yes-dtn.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Developing Climate-Resilient Woodlands in the UK: Insights from Gair Wood
Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland!
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
Join @catzigle.bsky.social and the #GairWood team for a PhD working with our newly-planted research woodland!
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/dev...
A rewarding day out helping to maintain hedge guards with @ncas-uk.bsky.social at #GairWood @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🌱🌳 #Conservation #Volunteering
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A rewarding day out helping to maintain hedge guards with @ncas-uk.bsky.social at #GairWood @universityofleeds.bsky.social 🌱🌳 #Conservation #Volunteering
The SEE Research Support Admin team recently went on a team building event, volunteering at Gair Wood, namely upgrading tree guards. More information on the Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere & Forest (LEAF) Centre Gair Wood Project can be found: leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/.
June 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The SEE Research Support Admin team recently went on a team building event, volunteering at Gair Wood, namely upgrading tree guards. More information on the Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere & Forest (LEAF) Centre Gair Wood Project can be found: leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/.
The workshop will include a site tour of Gair Wood leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/, some short talks from speakers giving an overview of woodland creation and the challenges to establishment in the region, and a discussion session to identify future challenges and priorities.
Gair Wood | Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere & Forest (LEAF) Centre
leaf.leeds.ac.uk
June 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The workshop will include a site tour of Gair Wood leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/, some short talks from speakers giving an overview of woodland creation and the challenges to establishment in the region, and a discussion session to identify future challenges and priorities.
To kick this off @leedsleaf.bsky.social + @whiteroseforest.bsky.social are hosting a free workshop on 14th July at #GairWood in Leeds to discuss progress with, and challenges to, successful woodland establishment: tinyurl.com/woodestablishment
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June 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
To kick this off @leedsleaf.bsky.social + @whiteroseforest.bsky.social are hosting a free workshop on 14th July at #GairWood in Leeds to discuss progress with, and challenges to, successful woodland establishment: tinyurl.com/woodestablishment
"My motivation kind of grew with the trees"
Volunteers at our #GairWood research and woodland creation site contributed to this new document on the experiences and motivations for volunteering in British woodlands, created by @forestresearchuk.bsky.social
Volunteers at our #GairWood research and woodland creation site contributed to this new document on the experiences and motivations for volunteering in British woodlands, created by @forestresearchuk.bsky.social
In Brief: 'My motivation kind of grew with the trees' – experiences of woodland volunteers in Great Britain - Forest Research
This In Brief explores experiences of woodland volunteers in Great Britain, showing how people might be supported to volunteer.
www.forestresearch.gov.uk
May 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"My motivation kind of grew with the trees"
Volunteers at our #GairWood research and woodland creation site contributed to this new document on the experiences and motivations for volunteering in British woodlands, created by @forestresearchuk.bsky.social
Volunteers at our #GairWood research and woodland creation site contributed to this new document on the experiences and motivations for volunteering in British woodlands, created by @forestresearchuk.bsky.social
4 hours sleep and a very large coffee later, I'm back at #GairWood for some tree protection work with @sophiebrandon.bsky.social and our latest group of volunteers!
February 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
4 hours sleep and a very large coffee later, I'm back at #GairWood for some tree protection work with @sophiebrandon.bsky.social and our latest group of volunteers!
I downloaded a year of footage from the timelapse camera at our research woodland, #GairWood. So satisfying to watch the grass change through the seasons!
February 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I downloaded a year of footage from the timelapse camera at our research woodland, #GairWood. So satisfying to watch the grass change through the seasons!
The #GairWood team expanded recently! Welcome @sophiebrandon.bsky.social!
You're all following @sophiebrandon.bsky.social and @leedsleaf.bsky.social, right? We're growing a research woodland!
January 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The #GairWood team expanded recently! Welcome @sophiebrandon.bsky.social!
In the Leeds area and keen to help with woodland creation? We're running some vital volunteering sessions next week to increase the protection for vulnerable saplings at #GairWood. Please sign up and share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-prote...
Tree Protection Volunteering at Gair Wood
Help to secure the future of long-term research at Gair Wood by protecting trees
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In the Leeds area and keen to help with woodland creation? We're running some vital volunteering sessions next week to increase the protection for vulnerable saplings at #GairWood. Please sign up and share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-prote...
Last year we planted #GairWood, a >60,000 tree research woodland in the north of England. Lots of our team and collaborators are now studying it as it grows!
For more info and videos exploring the site and some key research, check out leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
For more info and videos exploring the site and some key research, check out leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
November 17, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Last year we planted #GairWood, a >60,000 tree research woodland in the north of England. Lots of our team and collaborators are now studying it as it grows!
For more info and videos exploring the site and some key research, check out leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
For more info and videos exploring the site and some key research, check out leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
Gair Wood is one of the most significant woodland creation projects in the North of England, with 66,000 trees planted in 2023! 🌲
The work was showcased at our launch event, highlighting some of the successes of the project so far.
Find out more 👇
leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
July 19, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Gair Wood is one of the most significant woodland creation projects in the North of England, with 66,000 trees planted in 2023! 🌲
The work was showcased at our launch event, highlighting some of the successes of the project so far.
Find out more 👇
leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
Last winter a new woodland was planted on land owned by
the University of Leeds.
Gair Wood will increase biodiversity and public access, as well as providing research and teaching opportunities and capturing carbon as part of the University Climate Plan.
leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
the University of Leeds.
Gair Wood will increase biodiversity and public access, as well as providing research and teaching opportunities and capturing carbon as part of the University Climate Plan.
leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
Gair Wood | Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere & Forest (LEAF) Centre
leaf.leeds.ac.uk
December 9, 2023 at 4:52 PM
Last winter a new woodland was planted on land owned by
the University of Leeds.
Gair Wood will increase biodiversity and public access, as well as providing research and teaching opportunities and capturing carbon as part of the University Climate Plan.
leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/
the University of Leeds.
Gair Wood will increase biodiversity and public access, as well as providing research and teaching opportunities and capturing carbon as part of the University Climate Plan.
leaf.leeds.ac.uk/gairwood/