Training events for ECSFI staff

Phil Haygarth, Martin Blackwell, Clare Deasy and myself are organising parallel training events for ECSFDI staff on 11th March at Loddington (arable focus) and North Wyke (pasture/livestock focus). The objective is to provide CPD training events on diffuse pollution from agriculture and its control to catchment sensitive farming officers and coordinators and related professionals.

Science Policy Success

The Science Policy Success conference was held at Edinburgh’s Dynamic Earth on Wednesday 7 October and Thursday 8 October 2009.
More than 100 Scottish Government staff, academics, scientists from the Scottish research institutes and individuals from the rural and environment agencies attended.

knowledge scotland: science-policy online resource

Knowledgescotland is an important initiative to improve the links between science and policy.