Its back to school !

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In early June of this year, four classes of students from the College of Einville-au-Jard (5th term) took part in a defoliation experiment on young beech trees in the framework of the LabEx ARBRE project MEPIB-DEATH. This event was supported by the EFPA department at INRA and EUREKA Lorraine. With school beginning again this month, Cathy Massonet and Nathalie Bréda with the Joint Research unit EEF, Pascale Frey-Klett with LabEx ARBRE and Cyril Galley with CPIE of Nancy-Champenoux will meet with teachers whose students participated in SURVIVORS to organize the next follow-up phases of the collaborative research project. This will include proposing exercises using dendrometric measurements taken for these young trees, as well as leaf area and chlorophyll levels, which will involve teachers in mathematics, life sciences, physics and technology. The young up and coming researchers will discover how research can simultaneously spur knowledge in a variety of disciplines.  Students now in their 4th term will meet with researchers this coming autumn who will talk about the first wave of research results and will present the projects next steps.

photo @ P Frey-Klett