Collaboration

The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR)

Using the BIFoR FACE Facility for your research

The BIFoR FACE woodland "Mill Haft" offers the opportunity to complete research in patches of woodland that are experiencing the atmosphere of the future. Facilities include; 

  • team of technicians available to support your field work
  • welfare facilities on site (including a shower and lockers)
  • parking
  • electrical vehicles to help transport heavy equipment up to the forest
  • bench space and a flux lab and tower in the woodland (data and power)
  • woodland laboratory - including outside dirty lab area, inside clean space and offices
  • met masts (data and power)
  • canopy access so all parts of the canopy can be reached including the sunlit leaves
  • access to a stream 'Wood Brook' running through the woodland that has data and power nearby for stream monitoring
  • a 'Data Manager', who can give advice about data we already hold eg meteorological data from 2015 onwards
  • a tissue bio- bank of leaf / twig / pollen / soil samples from 2015 (in most cases)
  • Wi-Fi on site

  • The bIFoR facility

    Contact us via our enquiry form

    Whether you are interested in completing research in the experimental patches or just looking for a great place to complete forest research / stream research please complete our online form.

    This form must be filled by all investigators who wish to perform experiments or measurements, or request core data Requests must be submitted by the person in charge of a project (the Chief Principal Investigator, PI). Other collaborators including post-docs and graduate students should be listed as co-investigators.

    Contact us through our enquiry form

A key document for users of the BIFoR FACE facility, is the BIFoR FACE: Intellectual Property and Data Protocol