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Congratulations to Professor Lorna Dawson, who has been named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in New Year Honours List! 🤩👏
She was recommended for the award by His Majesty the King for her services to innovations in soil and forensic science.
She was recommended for the award by His Majesty the King for her services to innovations in soil and forensic science.
December 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Congratulations to Professor Lorna Dawson, who has been named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in New Year Honours List! 🤩👏
She was recommended for the award by His Majesty the King for her services to innovations in soil and forensic science.
She was recommended for the award by His Majesty the King for her services to innovations in soil and forensic science.
The December edition of Hutton Highlights is out now! 🤩
Inside: the opening of our new Hutton Hub, Scotland’s first Scottish-bred blueberry 🫐, our impact on the UK economy 📈, support for potato farmers in Kenya 🥔 — and more.
Read it here: www.hutton.ac.uk/hutton-highl...
Inside: the opening of our new Hutton Hub, Scotland’s first Scottish-bred blueberry 🫐, our impact on the UK economy 📈, support for potato farmers in Kenya 🥔 — and more.
Read it here: www.hutton.ac.uk/hutton-highl...
December 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The December edition of Hutton Highlights is out now! 🤩
Inside: the opening of our new Hutton Hub, Scotland’s first Scottish-bred blueberry 🫐, our impact on the UK economy 📈, support for potato farmers in Kenya 🥔 — and more.
Read it here: www.hutton.ac.uk/hutton-highl...
Inside: the opening of our new Hutton Hub, Scotland’s first Scottish-bred blueberry 🫐, our impact on the UK economy 📈, support for potato farmers in Kenya 🥔 — and more.
Read it here: www.hutton.ac.uk/hutton-highl...
🎄Holiday Closure Notice🎄
🕒 📆 The Hutton will close at 5pm on Wednesday, 24 December, and reopen on Monday, 5 January 2026.
Receptions at Craigiebuckler & Invergowrie will close earlier, at 12 noon on 24 December.
✨Happy Holidays!✨
🕒 📆 The Hutton will close at 5pm on Wednesday, 24 December, and reopen on Monday, 5 January 2026.
Receptions at Craigiebuckler & Invergowrie will close earlier, at 12 noon on 24 December.
✨Happy Holidays!✨
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🎄Holiday Closure Notice🎄
🕒 📆 The Hutton will close at 5pm on Wednesday, 24 December, and reopen on Monday, 5 January 2026.
Receptions at Craigiebuckler & Invergowrie will close earlier, at 12 noon on 24 December.
✨Happy Holidays!✨
🕒 📆 The Hutton will close at 5pm on Wednesday, 24 December, and reopen on Monday, 5 January 2026.
Receptions at Craigiebuckler & Invergowrie will close earlier, at 12 noon on 24 December.
✨Happy Holidays!✨
We've had a great year here at the Hutton, filled with inspiring projects and amazing science. 🔬
To celebrate it all, we've put together a video highlighting some of this incredible work. 🤩
Here's to another successful year in 2026! 🎉
To celebrate it all, we've put together a video highlighting some of this incredible work. 🤩
Here's to another successful year in 2026! 🎉
The James Hutton Institute 2025 highlights
YouTube video by James Hutton Institute
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December 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We've had a great year here at the Hutton, filled with inspiring projects and amazing science. 🔬
To celebrate it all, we've put together a video highlighting some of this incredible work. 🤩
Here's to another successful year in 2026! 🎉
To celebrate it all, we've put together a video highlighting some of this incredible work. 🤩
Here's to another successful year in 2026! 🎉
Join us on Monday 15 Dec for a presentation on Accessibility in Microsoft products from Ben Watt, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft!
We'll cover Windows 11, Microsoft 365 Apps, and Copilot, with online and in-person attendees both welcome.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accessibil...
We'll cover Windows 11, Microsoft 365 Apps, and Copilot, with online and in-person attendees both welcome.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accessibil...
December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Join us on Monday 15 Dec for a presentation on Accessibility in Microsoft products from Ben Watt, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft!
We'll cover Windows 11, Microsoft 365 Apps, and Copilot, with online and in-person attendees both welcome.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accessibil...
We'll cover Windows 11, Microsoft 365 Apps, and Copilot, with online and in-person attendees both welcome.
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/accessibil...
🎉We're delighted to be welcoming the first visitors to our new Hutton Hub!
This state-of-the-art development offers a space to collaborate and use cutting-edge technology to help the north-east achieve a just transition. 💻
Find out more 👉 youtu.be/3o2V9DGz4kE?...
This state-of-the-art development offers a space to collaborate and use cutting-edge technology to help the north-east achieve a just transition. 💻
Find out more 👉 youtu.be/3o2V9DGz4kE?...
October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🎉We're delighted to be welcoming the first visitors to our new Hutton Hub!
This state-of-the-art development offers a space to collaborate and use cutting-edge technology to help the north-east achieve a just transition. 💻
Find out more 👉 youtu.be/3o2V9DGz4kE?...
This state-of-the-art development offers a space to collaborate and use cutting-edge technology to help the north-east achieve a just transition. 💻
Find out more 👉 youtu.be/3o2V9DGz4kE?...
🍩 Missed Professor Kate Raworth’s brilliant 46th TB Macaulay Lecture on Doughnut Economics? Don’t worry! 🙌
Hosted with the Macaulay Development Trust, the full talk + Q&A is now on YouTube 🎥 Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnyB...
Hosted with the Macaulay Development Trust, the full talk + Q&A is now on YouTube 🎥 Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnyB...
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🍩 Missed Professor Kate Raworth’s brilliant 46th TB Macaulay Lecture on Doughnut Economics? Don’t worry! 🙌
Hosted with the Macaulay Development Trust, the full talk + Q&A is now on YouTube 🎥 Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnyB...
Hosted with the Macaulay Development Trust, the full talk + Q&A is now on YouTube 🎥 Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnyB...
🤩 Thanks to the 400+ who joined us at the 46th TB Macaulay Lecture with economist Kate Raworth! 🍩
She shared her revolutionary Doughnut Economics & global applications. 🙌
A huge thanks as well to the Macaulay Development Trust and the EICC staff for making this amazing evening possible!👏
She shared her revolutionary Doughnut Economics & global applications. 🙌
A huge thanks as well to the Macaulay Development Trust and the EICC staff for making this amazing evening possible!👏
October 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🤩 Thanks to the 400+ who joined us at the 46th TB Macaulay Lecture with economist Kate Raworth! 🍩
She shared her revolutionary Doughnut Economics & global applications. 🙌
A huge thanks as well to the Macaulay Development Trust and the EICC staff for making this amazing evening possible!👏
She shared her revolutionary Doughnut Economics & global applications. 🙌
A huge thanks as well to the Macaulay Development Trust and the EICC staff for making this amazing evening possible!👏
🍄 Celebrate Fungus Day UK at our Invergowrie campus!
🚶♀️ Join our fungal foray, explore medicinal mushrooms, & discover fungi-powered packaging + research projects. Free event, Sun 5 Oct, 12–4pm - no booking needed!
🔬 More: ow.ly/Rmry50X5Cm2
🚶♀️ Join our fungal foray, explore medicinal mushrooms, & discover fungi-powered packaging + research projects. Free event, Sun 5 Oct, 12–4pm - no booking needed!
🔬 More: ow.ly/Rmry50X5Cm2
October 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🍄 Celebrate Fungus Day UK at our Invergowrie campus!
🚶♀️ Join our fungal foray, explore medicinal mushrooms, & discover fungi-powered packaging + research projects. Free event, Sun 5 Oct, 12–4pm - no booking needed!
🔬 More: ow.ly/Rmry50X5Cm2
🚶♀️ Join our fungal foray, explore medicinal mushrooms, & discover fungi-powered packaging + research projects. Free event, Sun 5 Oct, 12–4pm - no booking needed!
🔬 More: ow.ly/Rmry50X5Cm2
🤖🌳 Inspired by a Hutton project, Aberdeen teens Anjishnu Bhaduri, Adwait Sharma & Jayawant Sivarajan built ThistleDroid—a robot that tests land for reforestation & plants seeds!
🥇 Winners at #WROUK2025, they’ll rep GB in Singapore this Nov.
👉 ow.ly/tr9X50X4nYe
🥇 Winners at #WROUK2025, they’ll rep GB in Singapore this Nov.
👉 ow.ly/tr9X50X4nYe
September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🤖🌳 Inspired by a Hutton project, Aberdeen teens Anjishnu Bhaduri, Adwait Sharma & Jayawant Sivarajan built ThistleDroid—a robot that tests land for reforestation & plants seeds!
🥇 Winners at #WROUK2025, they’ll rep GB in Singapore this Nov.
👉 ow.ly/tr9X50X4nYe
🥇 Winners at #WROUK2025, they’ll rep GB in Singapore this Nov.
👉 ow.ly/tr9X50X4nYe
🌟 Great to see our HydroGlen Development Officer, Niamh Carr, named in Aberdeen’s 30 Under 30! Chosen for her innovation, expertise & leadership, she’s coordinating a Just Transition Funded project helping farmers & communities switch to green hydrogen.
ow.ly/ONlH50X2LOL
ow.ly/ONlH50X2LOL
September 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
🌟 Great to see our HydroGlen Development Officer, Niamh Carr, named in Aberdeen’s 30 Under 30! Chosen for her innovation, expertise & leadership, she’s coordinating a Just Transition Funded project helping farmers & communities switch to green hydrogen.
ow.ly/ONlH50X2LOL
ow.ly/ONlH50X2LOL
⏳ Just one week to go until the 46th #TBMacLecture!
World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics
📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist!
More: ow.ly/NYVI50X1ytj
World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics
📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist!
More: ow.ly/NYVI50X1ytj
September 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
⏳ Just one week to go until the 46th #TBMacLecture!
World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics
📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist!
More: ow.ly/NYVI50X1ytj
World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics
📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist!
More: ow.ly/NYVI50X1ytj
Thank you to everyone who attended our two sold-out #forensic science focused events on Monday! 🔬✨
Tonight, don’t miss our final event of this year’s #AberdeenScienceFestival: “Using Virtual Reality to Support a #JustTransition”
🕕6:00–8:00 pm
More: ow.ly/S5TS50WWNwk
Tonight, don’t miss our final event of this year’s #AberdeenScienceFestival: “Using Virtual Reality to Support a #JustTransition”
🕕6:00–8:00 pm
More: ow.ly/S5TS50WWNwk
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended our two sold-out #forensic science focused events on Monday! 🔬✨
Tonight, don’t miss our final event of this year’s #AberdeenScienceFestival: “Using Virtual Reality to Support a #JustTransition”
🕕6:00–8:00 pm
More: ow.ly/S5TS50WWNwk
Tonight, don’t miss our final event of this year’s #AberdeenScienceFestival: “Using Virtual Reality to Support a #JustTransition”
🕕6:00–8:00 pm
More: ow.ly/S5TS50WWNwk
🌱✨ Hutton scientists are supporting smallholder farmers in Ghana to adopt climate-smart, regenerative agriculture.
✅ Restoring soils & boosting yields
✅ Using soil sensors feeding into a MRV platform developed at Hutton
More: ow.ly/lU1a50WYOVm
✅ Restoring soils & boosting yields
✅ Using soil sensors feeding into a MRV platform developed at Hutton
More: ow.ly/lU1a50WYOVm
September 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🌱✨ Hutton scientists are supporting smallholder farmers in Ghana to adopt climate-smart, regenerative agriculture.
✅ Restoring soils & boosting yields
✅ Using soil sensors feeding into a MRV platform developed at Hutton
More: ow.ly/lU1a50WYOVm
✅ Restoring soils & boosting yields
✅ Using soil sensors feeding into a MRV platform developed at Hutton
More: ow.ly/lU1a50WYOVm
📢 It is #NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek, a chance to celebrate the contributions of our postdoctoral researchers
🔬 Within the Hutton's Postgraduate School, our focus is supporting PhD students through mentoring, training & research excellence.
More: ow.ly/KusE50WXsnE
🔬 Within the Hutton's Postgraduate School, our focus is supporting PhD students through mentoring, training & research excellence.
More: ow.ly/KusE50WXsnE
September 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
📢 It is #NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek, a chance to celebrate the contributions of our postdoctoral researchers
🔬 Within the Hutton's Postgraduate School, our focus is supporting PhD students through mentoring, training & research excellence.
More: ow.ly/KusE50WXsnE
🔬 Within the Hutton's Postgraduate School, our focus is supporting PhD students through mentoring, training & research excellence.
More: ow.ly/KusE50WXsnE
🌍 Soil is the foundation of life, but it’s under threat. Scientists at the Hutton believe we can learn from #ClimateChange communication to protect our #soils.
🗣️ Clear messaging & trusted voices could bridge the gap between concern & change.
More: ow.ly/uY2C50WVFSr
🗣️ Clear messaging & trusted voices could bridge the gap between concern & change.
More: ow.ly/uY2C50WVFSr
September 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
🌍 Soil is the foundation of life, but it’s under threat. Scientists at the Hutton believe we can learn from #ClimateChange communication to protect our #soils.
🗣️ Clear messaging & trusted voices could bridge the gap between concern & change.
More: ow.ly/uY2C50WVFSr
🗣️ Clear messaging & trusted voices could bridge the gap between concern & change.
More: ow.ly/uY2C50WVFSr
🐝✨ Did you know #HoneyBees can help track “forever chemicals” in our environment?
A new study from the Hutton and University of Graz shows #bees are effective bioindicators for #PFAS contamination, offering a natural way to monitor pollution.
More: ow.ly/tzj650WUugK
A new study from the Hutton and University of Graz shows #bees are effective bioindicators for #PFAS contamination, offering a natural way to monitor pollution.
More: ow.ly/tzj650WUugK
September 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🐝✨ Did you know #HoneyBees can help track “forever chemicals” in our environment?
A new study from the Hutton and University of Graz shows #bees are effective bioindicators for #PFAS contamination, offering a natural way to monitor pollution.
More: ow.ly/tzj650WUugK
A new study from the Hutton and University of Graz shows #bees are effective bioindicators for #PFAS contamination, offering a natural way to monitor pollution.
More: ow.ly/tzj650WUugK
🌍 As part of #CWNE25, we invite you to a Farming Taster Day at #Glensaugh Research Farm:
🚶♂️ Farm tour showcasing climate-positive farming
🌱 Learn about peatland restoration, GHG reduction & agroforestry
📅 25th September | 🕙 Tours 10am & 2pm
More: ow.ly/NhJx50WTQu5
🚶♂️ Farm tour showcasing climate-positive farming
🌱 Learn about peatland restoration, GHG reduction & agroforestry
📅 25th September | 🕙 Tours 10am & 2pm
More: ow.ly/NhJx50WTQu5
September 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🌍 As part of #CWNE25, we invite you to a Farming Taster Day at #Glensaugh Research Farm:
🚶♂️ Farm tour showcasing climate-positive farming
🌱 Learn about peatland restoration, GHG reduction & agroforestry
📅 25th September | 🕙 Tours 10am & 2pm
More: ow.ly/NhJx50WTQu5
🚶♂️ Farm tour showcasing climate-positive farming
🌱 Learn about peatland restoration, GHG reduction & agroforestry
📅 25th September | 🕙 Tours 10am & 2pm
More: ow.ly/NhJx50WTQu5
🌾 #Flax, once a staple of Scottish agriculture, could play a key role in sustainable textiles and low-impact #farming today.
We’ve been working with Soil Association Scotland through the Flax Field Lab to test this crop’s potential.
More: ow.ly/1Spp50WT7Cr
We’ve been working with Soil Association Scotland through the Flax Field Lab to test this crop’s potential.
More: ow.ly/1Spp50WT7Cr
September 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🌾 #Flax, once a staple of Scottish agriculture, could play a key role in sustainable textiles and low-impact #farming today.
We’ve been working with Soil Association Scotland through the Flax Field Lab to test this crop’s potential.
More: ow.ly/1Spp50WT7Cr
We’ve been working with Soil Association Scotland through the Flax Field Lab to test this crop’s potential.
More: ow.ly/1Spp50WT7Cr
🐗 Once extinct in Britain, wild boar are back in Scotland’s forests — and their numbers are set to rise.
New Hutton research predicts the population will grow from 1,472 to 2,399 by 2075, spreading across the Highlands, Perthshire, Moray & more.
More: ow.ly/axCq50WPxBr
New Hutton research predicts the population will grow from 1,472 to 2,399 by 2075, spreading across the Highlands, Perthshire, Moray & more.
More: ow.ly/axCq50WPxBr
September 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🐗 Once extinct in Britain, wild boar are back in Scotland’s forests — and their numbers are set to rise.
New Hutton research predicts the population will grow from 1,472 to 2,399 by 2075, spreading across the Highlands, Perthshire, Moray & more.
More: ow.ly/axCq50WPxBr
New Hutton research predicts the population will grow from 1,472 to 2,399 by 2075, spreading across the Highlands, Perthshire, Moray & more.
More: ow.ly/axCq50WPxBr
🥔 Hutton scientists from the National #Potato Innovation Centre (#NPIC), have introduced two new potato varieties to #Kenya.
🌱 Malaika & Glen combine local grower traits with resistance to devastating #PCN pests. Boosting yields & #FoodSecurity.
More: ow.ly/qGtY50WK4nI
🌱 Malaika & Glen combine local grower traits with resistance to devastating #PCN pests. Boosting yields & #FoodSecurity.
More: ow.ly/qGtY50WK4nI
August 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🥔 Hutton scientists from the National #Potato Innovation Centre (#NPIC), have introduced two new potato varieties to #Kenya.
🌱 Malaika & Glen combine local grower traits with resistance to devastating #PCN pests. Boosting yields & #FoodSecurity.
More: ow.ly/qGtY50WK4nI
🌱 Malaika & Glen combine local grower traits with resistance to devastating #PCN pests. Boosting yields & #FoodSecurity.
More: ow.ly/qGtY50WK4nI
🌱 As part of #CWNE25, join the team behind the Climate-Positive Farming Initiative at Glensaugh for a day of farm walks and indoor displays.
🚶 Each walk lasts 90 minutes – sturdy footwear is recommended!
📅 25th September | 🕙 Tours 10am & 2pm
More: ow.ly/5vIp50WHr2V
🚶 Each walk lasts 90 minutes – sturdy footwear is recommended!
📅 25th September | 🕙 Tours 10am & 2pm
More: ow.ly/5vIp50WHr2V
August 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🌱 As part of #CWNE25, join the team behind the Climate-Positive Farming Initiative at Glensaugh for a day of farm walks and indoor displays.
🚶 Each walk lasts 90 minutes – sturdy footwear is recommended!
📅 25th September | 🕙 Tours 10am & 2pm
More: ow.ly/5vIp50WHr2V
🚶 Each walk lasts 90 minutes – sturdy footwear is recommended!
📅 25th September | 🕙 Tours 10am & 2pm
More: ow.ly/5vIp50WHr2V
🌳 New research from the #DiversiTree project shows that introducing species such as oak, sycamore, birch, Scots pine, beech and Norway spruce into UK Sitka #forests can:
✅ Boost biodiversity
✅ Increase resilience
✅ Support long-term sustainability
More: ow.ly/vvsE50WGujK
✅ Boost biodiversity
✅ Increase resilience
✅ Support long-term sustainability
More: ow.ly/vvsE50WGujK
August 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🌳 New research from the #DiversiTree project shows that introducing species such as oak, sycamore, birch, Scots pine, beech and Norway spruce into UK Sitka #forests can:
✅ Boost biodiversity
✅ Increase resilience
✅ Support long-term sustainability
More: ow.ly/vvsE50WGujK
✅ Boost biodiversity
✅ Increase resilience
✅ Support long-term sustainability
More: ow.ly/vvsE50WGujK
🥔 Just a week ago, #PotatoesinPractice2025 brought together over 670 attendees for a day of innovation and collaboration featuring:
🗣️ Four expert-led seminars
📢 56 exhibitors
🌾 Live working demonstrations
🚜 Display of static machinery
💬 Feedback: ow.ly/AhHJ50WFSti
🗣️ Four expert-led seminars
📢 56 exhibitors
🌾 Live working demonstrations
🚜 Display of static machinery
💬 Feedback: ow.ly/AhHJ50WFSti
August 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🥔 Just a week ago, #PotatoesinPractice2025 brought together over 670 attendees for a day of innovation and collaboration featuring:
🗣️ Four expert-led seminars
📢 56 exhibitors
🌾 Live working demonstrations
🚜 Display of static machinery
💬 Feedback: ow.ly/AhHJ50WFSti
🗣️ Four expert-led seminars
📢 56 exhibitors
🌾 Live working demonstrations
🚜 Display of static machinery
💬 Feedback: ow.ly/AhHJ50WFSti
📢 #ICYMI, Prof Lorna Dawson, Head of Soil Forensics at the Hutton, was featured in the documentary series Murder Case.
In The Vanishing Cyclist, she helps police crack one of Scotland’s most unusual missing-person cases.
📺 Watch now: ow.ly/McTv50WF7tm
In The Vanishing Cyclist, she helps police crack one of Scotland’s most unusual missing-person cases.
📺 Watch now: ow.ly/McTv50WF7tm
August 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
📢 #ICYMI, Prof Lorna Dawson, Head of Soil Forensics at the Hutton, was featured in the documentary series Murder Case.
In The Vanishing Cyclist, she helps police crack one of Scotland’s most unusual missing-person cases.
📺 Watch now: ow.ly/McTv50WF7tm
In The Vanishing Cyclist, she helps police crack one of Scotland’s most unusual missing-person cases.
📺 Watch now: ow.ly/McTv50WF7tm