New UK-Wide Carbon Tracking Platform to Power Climate-Smart Farming

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A new mobile research platform designed by Lancaster University scientists to track how carbon moves through UK farmland will support more sustainable, climate-smart agriculture.

A new mobile research platform designed by Lancaster University scientists to track how carbon moves through UK farmland will support more sustainable, climate-smart agriculture.

This is thanks to new investment from UKRI Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Lancaster University.

The carbon tracking platform is one of 31 projects awarded funding through BBSRC’s latest £27 million round of ALERT, a scheme that gives UK bioscience access to world-class tools for world-class science.

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EoSense chambers - Part of the carbon tracking platform will comprise a suite of automated gas flux chambers that can be deployed in tall grassland or cropping systems and which enable quantification of greenhouse gas fluxes (Photo Credit: Ralf Aben from Radboud University)