About

With 77 hectares of green space, Silwood has been used for nearly a century to study the natural world and as a testing ground for Imperial innovations. Silwood Park was the birthplace of ecology, where the foundational ideas in ecology and evolutionary biology were first formulated. Today, the campus is home to researchers and postgraduate students studying all aspects of life on Earth, from soil microbes to tropical forest trees, and from freshwater ponds to coral reefs.