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  • Postdoctoral Research Associate in Data Assimilation and Machine Learning

    31st March, 20 / Opportunities

    Applications are invited for a Research Associate to join the  Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, to work within the Data Science Institute with Dr Rossella Arcucci, at the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London. The focus of this project is the development of a range of the next generation data assimilation and […]

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  • An interview with Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis

    18th March, 20 / News

    Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis is an Associate Director, and Founding Director, of the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society. He is Associate Professor at the Technical University of Crete and remains a part-time Reader at Imperial within the Department of Physics, in the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group. Our Centre Director, Prof. Colin Prentice, asked […]

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March 18, 2020

Our Director Colin Prentice interviewed Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis on how he got into wildfires, opportunities and challenges in earth system modelling, and his vision for the Centre https://centreforwildfires.org/news/an-interview-with-dr-apostolos-voulgarakis/

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March 11, 2020

Great photo taken by @newscientist during our participation in New Scientist Live 2019. We hope to have reached to UK youth with the importance of fire science and engineering.
The fire whirls in Sirocco is tantalizing.

March 8, 2020

Congratulations @GuillermoRein for your Research Excellence Award! Prof Rein, of @ImperialMechEng, will be leading research on Arctic boreal forests as part of our Centre.

March 4, 2020

In the context of the new real-time Geostationary FRP service mentioned immediately below, here is an example of FRP data from the Himawari-8 satellite collected 6th to 19th Feb 2020. Widespread burning in parts of Asia and the extreme fires in Australia can be identified.