Hutton Highlights:
Bringing you a glimpse into the world-leading research at The James Hutton Institute. Through conversations with our scientists and researchers, we'll be delving into everything from the impact of climate change and biodiversity loss to threats to food and water security.
Episodes
16 episodes
Climate change projections and the Cairngorms National Park
Climate change has wide-ranging impacts, including how to manage major and important areas of land such as national parks. We talk with the Cairngorms National Park Authority’s director of nature and climate change about what climate projection...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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31:30
Arable Scotland special: discussing “Farming in a new era” with special guests from LEAF and AHDB
This year’s Arable Scotland is all about farming in a new era. It’s about how the future is already here and the challenges that brings, from climate and weather chaos to biodiversity loss and the impact of global events on key supply chains. T...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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33:13
Top tips for protecting our pollinators and thinking twice about no mow May
We’re joined by guests from North East Climate Action Network and the North East Biodiversity Partnership alongside insect and agroecology experts at the Hutton to talk about pollinators. There’s more to them than you think, including moths bei...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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23:03
The alien truffle, the invasive tree and the Scottish rainforest restoration project
Today we’re talking truffles and a super rare truffle discovery that’s been made recently in Scotland by one of our scientists. It’s discovery in an ancient Scottish rainforest restoration site – where the spruce tree the truffle lives in symbi...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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19:56
Blueberries on steroids: Scotland’s new super fruit – the honeyberry
In our latest Hutton Highlights, we speak with experts and growers about what could be Scotland’s fifth soft fruit – the honeyberry. We hear how it’s not only a superfood, but one that’s also well suited to Scotland’s climate. It could help far...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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25:40
Flooding: a costly catchment-scale challenge, but one we can prepare for
Flooding is an issue that’s increasingly high on the agenda. What’s behind these events, what exacerbates them, why are the obvious solutions maybe not so easy to implement and what can we do to be more prepared for the next one? We take a dip ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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18:18
Clay – the super material that links life of Mars, medicine and cat litter
Day to day, few give much thought to clay. But it’s a substance that goes a long way – literally and metaphorically. It’s a natural material with ever expanding qualities and uses, from showing if there was life on Mars to complex medicinal del...
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Reversing nature loss in Scotland – a complex challenge with surprisingly global implications
In the final episode of our three-part pod on the underlying drivers of biodiversity loss, we’re joined again by NatureScot to look more at who gets a say in the changes we need to make, who can we trust and who benefits from doing things diffe...
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31:50
Reversing nature loss in Scotland – a complex challenge across how we use land, what we buy and eat
In our second pod in a three-part series looking at what’s really driving biodiversity loss in Scotland, we’re again joined by NatureScot and this time look at how doing the right thing isn’t as straight forward as it seems, not least around la...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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23:01
Reversing nature loss in Scotland – just how did we get here?
We know Scotland’s biodiversity is suffering. The latest State of Nature report recently underlined just how much. But do we really know what’s causing it? For a three-part pod series, we'll be joined by a guest from Scotland’s public body on n...
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27:02
Turning to soil science to solve equine grass sickness
Our latest Hutton Highlights podcast looks at how efforts to discover the mystery cause of a devastating horse disease called equine grass sickness (EGS) have turned to soil science here at the Hutton.We talk with experts from the Hutto...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:15
Agent based modelling – what is it and what can it do for us?
Our latest Hutton Highlights podcast takes a delve into the world of computer simulation. We recorded this episode during the European Social Simulation Association Summer School in Social Simulation. The week-long event at the end of August sa...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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29:55
Measuring and monitoring Scotland's peatlands, 600 m high on the Balmoral Estate
For our latest Hutton Highlights podcast, we take a journey up to 600 m high on the Balmoral Estate with some of the experts from our world-leading multidisciplinary peatland team. Up close, what looks like a relatively normal exposed and barre...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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36:48
Our changing uplands; climate impacts, citizen science and plant disease risks
For our third Hutton Highlights podcast, we’re focusing on the Scottish uplands. We recorded this episode on site at the Scottish Game Fair at Scone Palace, where we were sharing our work in everything from preventing the spread of plant pathog...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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17:47
The rise of precision technology to improve the productivity and sustainability of agriculture.
This podcast was recorded on site at The Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh. We take you on a quick tour of some of the work we shared through conversations with the scientists and researchers behind it. In this episode we’re ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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11:32
Finding transformational routes to climate positive farming and food production.
This podcast was recorded on site at The Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh. We take you on a quick tour of some of the work we shared through conversations with the scientists and researchers behind it. In this episode we’re focusin...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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15:02