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Trinity College Botanic Garden on Culture Night: Plants and Planet Tour
Trinity College Botanic Garden took part in Culture Night on Friday 18 September, welcoming visitors for Plants and…
Trinity Herbarium Reopens Following Major Renovation
Trinity College Dublin’s Herbarium, home to up to half a million preserved plant specimens representing three centuries…
iCRAG Summit 2026
The Witness Trees team – Jenny McElwain, Leticia Candido and Richard Slevin, attended the iCRAG Summit 2026 at Hodson…
Conservation Horticulture at Mount Usher Gardens
Members of the Plant Climate Lab recently joined colleagues from Trinity College Botanic Garden and the National…
Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene Conference
This August Miriam Slodownik travelled to Washington DC, US, to participate and present at the “Climatic and Biotic…
Witness Trees Project 2026 Fieldwork Campaign
The Witness Tree Project is a long-term monitoring initiative that began in 2022 at the Trinity College Botanic Garden…
How will pioneer salt marsh plants respond to rising CO2?
In the VAL Lab, a new experiment is underway using the PGC20 Growth Chambers. Over the next six months, Jenny Clarke —…
Cells to Ecosystems Summer School in Philadelphia, USA
This summer, two members of our lab attended the Cells to Ecosystems Summer School at Haverford Campus in Philadelphia,…
Jennifer McElwain Joins BBC Radio 4 Discussion on Tree Evolution
We are delighted to share that Jennifer McElwain, recently appeared on BBC Radio 4's renowned programme In Our Time. In…