“One of the best courses that I took at ETH” is how one student described the Applied Ecosystem Management field course, which brings students from various ETH study programmes together for 10 days in Dimitrovgrad, Serbia.
From India’s agroforests to Scotland’s soils: over the past six months, SPROUT PhD students Erika and Alex, together with research assistant Valeria, have spent long stretches of time in the Western Scottish Highlands for the first season of fieldwork. Their projects seek to understand how native woodland restoration shapes both the abiotic and biotic properties of the region’s organic-rich soils.