Birmingham Institute of Forest Research
Year 13 Geographers spent a day at Birmingham Institute of Forest Research, having a guided tour of the Free-Air Carbon Enrichment (FACE) site in the morning followed by an informative session on climate change, creating digital trees to add to BiFor's presentation at COP30 in Brazil in November.
Built in 2016, BIFoR’s unique Free-Air Carbon Enrichment (FACE) facility exposes patches of 180-year-old oak woodland to elevated CO₂ concentrations (approximately 550ppm). BIFoR-FACE provides data to challenge and constrain climate projection models and is the world’s only place to study, by direct experiment, how the vast northern temperate forests will respond to future increases in atmospheric CO₂.
