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GRASS and LEARN award recipientsWei Wei Xia arrives in NZ on a 6-month LEARN Fellowship
From Nanjing to Palmerston North.......Wei Wei Xia, a PhD student from the Institute of Soil Science, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is in New Zealand to work with Saman Bowatte and Paul Netwon at AgResearch, Palmerston North. Wei Wei is...
Cecile de Klein returns from her GRASS exchange to Europe
Dr Cecile de Klein has returned from her GRASS exchange in Europe. During her 10 week exchange Cecile spent time in Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands and France visiting world experts to share knowledge and exchange research ideas about...
Andre Bannink arrives in New Zealand
André Bannink is a senior research scientist at Wageningen UR Livestock Research in Lelystad (The Netherlands). André’s research focuses on the development of dynamic models representing the fermentation processes in the ruminant...Rumen Microbial Genomics Network is launched
AgResearch, New Zealand is very pleased to announce that aproposal for the formation of an international Rumen Microbial Genomics Network has been funded by MAF New Zealand to support the goals of the Global Research Alliance. The basis...GRASS Alumni - a class of one!
The first Global Research Alliance Senior Scientist Award holder has returned to her home organisation after a successful two month exchange to Ireland, the UK, France and the Netherlands to develop a Global Partnership to bring together resources from...GRASS Recipient - Professor Hong Di
Professor Hong Di, a soil scientist from Lincoln University is a widely respected expert in this area and has been granted a GRASS award to travel to China and work to oversee trials currently being conducted to assess the effectiveness of DCD in reducing...
Panel approves two GRASS Awards
The GRASS Assessment Panel met on 22 November to assess applications received in the latest application round (closed 31 October...
Global Research Alliance: Livestock Research Group Newsletter: August 2011
The LRG has been busy during the last few months advancing its ambitious work programme. Several projects that we initiated in 2010 to develop guidelines and initiate research networks have concluded their first phase, and we are reporting on the...Global Research Alliance: Livestock Research Group Newsletter: May 2011
WELCOME to the first Newsletter of the Livestock Research Group of the Global Research Alliance. The idea of a newsletter arose out of our recent meeting in France when the need to have a vehicle for communicating the activities being...Contestable international livestock emissions research fund launched by New Zealand
New Zealand has established a contestable international fund worth NZ$25 million to support research on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from pastoral farming. New Zealand Agriculture Minister David Carter announced the New...GGAA Conference (October 2010)
The Fourth Greenhouse Gas and Animal Agriculture (GGAA) conference will be held in Banff Canada in October 2010. For more details go to the conference website www.ggaa2010.orgGlobal DNDC Network Workshop November 2009
Expressions of Interest are called for a workshop on Modelling Greenhouse Gas Emissions from terrestrial ecosystems Supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Tentative Dates: 18-19...New Zealand Climate change national greenhouse gas inventory research grants
More than $1 million has been allocated to fund the first tranche of national greenhouse gas inventory proposals received in response to a request for proposals through the Plan of Action for Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change. ...
