Dear <<First Name>>,
Sadly in this e-News we must share news of the passing of one ECN's founding figures.
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Bill (Oliver William) Heal, 1934-2021
We recently learned the sad news that Prof. Bill Heal died on Sunday 17 January 2021. Bill did his PhD on protozoa at Moor House and went on to coordinate the International Biological Programme (IBP) research there in the 1960s and '70s. He was instrumental in setting up the Environmental Change Network, securing substantial funding from NERC for both ECN and the TIGER programme. John Adamson, former Site Manager of ECN Moor House, said of Bill that he was, in many ways, the father of ECN.
Prof. Heal later took up the post of Head of ITE* North, based at Bush, near Edinburgh. He was an advocate of multidisciplinary research, developed many international collaborations and was much respected for his research, both in the UK and overseas. He will be greatly missed.
* ITE later merged with several other research institutes to become the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, now UKCEH.
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To find out more about the long-term monitoring and research network that Prof. Heal helped to create, please visit our website. You'll find details of our long-term monitoring and research sites, the measurements we make, ECN-related publications and more.
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