July 2026
Editor Introduction - Eleanor Lampard
28/07/2026
2nd year PhD Student in Botany. Carbon dioxide tracker and nature adventurer. Hi, I'm Eleanor, and I am currently studying in Dr. Matthew Saunders plant ecophysiology lab. I look at carbon budgets in managed grassland systems on mineral soils in Ireland. Essentially I look at how much carbon dioxide is being released or sequestered and […]
Lichens: The quiet witnesses of an ever-changing planet
28/07/2026
By Ryan Brennan (Research Assistant in Botany and lichen enthusiast) rybrenna@tcd.ie. My first ever encounter with the Lilliputian world of lichens was when I was aroundfourteen years old. Our biology class was covering the binomial system of namingorganisms. The lesson began with differentiating kingdoms and working our waydown to species. I remember raising my hand […]