A CEED Research Fellow will study fire effects to biodiversity in Catalonia
A CEED (Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions) Research Fellow has been recently awarded one of the five Victorian Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.
Òdena's wildfire images taken by drones
InForest mixed unity, composed by CTFC and CREAF, has published the first images taken by drones of the burned area from Òdena's wildfire (Barcelona area), occurred last july which burned more than 1.200 ha. InForest is pioneer in drones use for ecology and conservation research.
Scientists and Catalonian National Police collaborate to catch tiger mosquito stowaways in private vehicles
The BaixLlobregat Mosquito Control Service is carrying out vehicle searches in coordination with the Mossos de Esquadra (Catalonian National Police) as part of the Atrapaeltigre.com project led by a team from CEAB-CSIC and CREAF. According to 2014 citizen data collected using the app Tigatrapp, this summer Spanish may have transported as many 800,000 tiger mosquitos in their vehicles.
The City of Barcelona uses Tigatrapp, a mobile device application for tracking and preventing spread of the tiger mosquito
AtrapaelTigre.com is a citizen science project promoting active collaboration of citizens by way of its app, Tigatrapp. The initiative originated in Catalonia and is capable of managing information from thousands of tiger mosquito breeding sites.
Second round of meetings of the WaterInnEU European project
The three days session in Antwerp (Belgium) had three main objectives: to celebrate the second plenary progress meeting, the first Advisory Board meeting and the first stakeholders meeting. The follow-up meeting, in the 4th month of the project, was the first after the kick-off.
ECUAFLUX project studies the impact of climate change in Ecuador’s Andean mountains
The lakes of El Cajas National Park, located at 4,000 metres high in Ecuador’s Azuay province, are the scene of the fieldwork carried out within the research project ECUAFLUX, an initiative to analyse the carbon cycle in the Andean basins of Ecuador and foresee the impact of climate change on natural ecosystems. Carles Gracia, CREAF researcher and UB lecturer, is one of the experts who participates in the project.
Is environmental education working?
In the year 1970, an international meeting was held, organized by IUCN and UNESCO, on Environmental Education in the School Curriculum, at the Foresta Institute of Carson City, Nevada. One of the results of that meeting was the first largely accepted definition of environmental education, a concept born perhaps a couple of years before and mainly developed at the United Kingdom.
CREAF has entered the National Support Group of the Forest Technological Platform
CREAF has officially entered at the National Support Group (NSG) of the Forest Technological Platform representing the Spanish forest technological sector.
