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European Geoscience Union Meeting 2024
The 5-day conference in Austria’s capital, Vienna, with over 18,000 in attendance, is the meeting that offers an…
The Plant-Climate Interaction Lab houses a new Nikon stereomicroscope
The Plant/Climate Interaction Lab houses a new Nikon stereomicroscope, supported by iCRAG and ERC-TERRAFORM, configured…
Understanding how fossilisation of plants works
Researchers from the TERRAFORM team visited University College Cork in March to carry out a pilot project in…
New publication!
The ERC-funded TERRAFORM project team, led by Prof. McElwain recently published in New Phytologist a comprehensive…
“The Birth of the Modern World: Understanding Floral Dynamics during the Mesozoic”
In February, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr Mario Coiro from the University of Vienna when he visited Trinity…
Botany-Zoology Postgraduate Symposium 2024
Each year at Trinity College Dublin, the Botany-Zoology Postgraduate Symposium provides a space for students to voice…
The Variable Light and Atmosphere Laboratory Launch
At the beginning of February, we celebrated the launch of the Variable Atmosphere and Light (VAL) Laboratory at the…
Are plants Ecosystem Engineers?
In the frosty early days of January, Dr. Will Matthaeus went to Prague to deliver a talk in the Ecosystem Engineering…
Members of the Terraform team take part in the first Irish Paleo Forum (IPF) in Cork
On January 18th, our lab joined fellow Irish paleontologists for the first Irish Paleo Forum (IPF) meeting at…