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When Bill Heal, who has died aged 86, began studying soil decomposers in the 1950s, researchers aimed to understand the ecosystem in which they functioned. Growing awareness of global heating in the decades since has given this work increased urgency: the very slow rates of decomposition of plant material in peat enable the removal of great quantities of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as storage of carbon in its acidic. ....
Robin Walker ROBIN WALKER has been appointed as leader of the Agricultural Professional Practice (APP) postgraduate distance learning programme. Mr Walker s long career at SRUC started in 1999, when he was employed at Craibstone as an oilseeds and novel crop agronomist after completing his PhD at the University of London on nitrogen use in low input cropping systems. He was involved in agronomic research as well as teaching on several undergraduate courses across a range of subjects, mostly within the Agriculture and Countryside Management programmes. He also helped develop some of the first distance-learning specific teaching materials, including a course on Organic Farming which won an Institute of IT Training ‘Online Course of the Year’ award, presented in 2001. ....