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For Your Inspiration – Earth Extremes (Royal Institute) (8 Nov 2024)
For Your Inspiration – Earth Extremes (Royal Institute) (8 Nov 2024) – organised by the Grantham Institute Read more here Book via Eventbrite From the icy cold arctic to the blistering heat of a volcano, animals and plants have adapted to live in these spaces. With our climate becoming more extreme, humans will also […]
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FIRE IN PRACTICE: Godwin Dzekoto – Revisiting fire management in Ghana: Integrating historical practices, institutional dynamics and collaborative approaches (27 Nov 2024)
Register on Eventbrite When: Wednesday 27th November 2024, 14:30-15:30 GMT Where: Online (Zoom) / Melbourne House boardroom (for Centre members) Title: Revisiting fire management in Ghana: Integrating historical practices, institutional dynamics and collaborative approaches Speaker: Godwin Dzekoto, A Rocha Ghana Abstract Fire management in Ghana has historically been shaped by a complex interplay of traditional practices, […]
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Guest Seminar: Mexico’s challenging path towards integrated and intercultural fire management (26 Nov 2024)
Please register on Eventbrite Tuesday 26th November 2024, 4-5pm GMT Title: Mexico’s challenging path towards integrated and intercultural fire management Abstract Over the last decades, researchers and practitioners have proposed integrated approaches to fire management, which consider fire ecology, and a focus on prevention and risk reduction. In some instances, this has also included a non-prohibitive […]
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Guest Seminar – Candice Charlton – Evaluating the skill of meteorological-based indices for determining bushfire potential in Jamaica (21 May 2024)
Evaluating the skill of meteorological-based indices for determining bushfire potential in Jamaica Register for free on Eventbrite Tuesday 21st May 2024, 14:30-15:30 BST (13:30-14:30 UTC) Online and in-person at Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Sir Alexander Fleming Building Room SAF 121 Map Welcome to this special Leverhulme Wildfires Guest Speaker seminar where we are […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires Spring Symposium (14-15 May 2024)
Save the date for our Leverhulme Wildfires Spring Symposium to be held at King’s College London on 14-15th May 2024. This symposium is for all Centre members and affiliates. Who: All Centre members and affiliates. All supervisors strongly encouraged to attend. Location: In-person at the Great Hall, the Strand, King’s College London (online available […]
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Data Dive 3 (18 Mar 2024)
Data Dive on Monday 15th Jan 2024, King’s College London (internal event, affiliates welcome) In the Autumn we held a ‘data dive’ event, where groups of us spent a day asking some initial questions of the Global Fire Use Survey dataset. On 15th Jan we then held a follow up event. We are now holding […]
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ASSW 2024 – High-latitude Fires, Arctic Climate, Environment, and Health Workshop 3 (21 Mar 2024)
High-latitude Fires, Arctic Climate, Environment, and Health 3 Thursday 21st March 2024 Hybrid Open Session(Online/Edinburg, Scotland) 08:30-12:30 (GMT) Organisers: Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, ACRoBEAR, Arctic Voices, and ARCTIC PASSION Conference website: https://www.assw.info Conference registration: https://assw.info/registration Unofficial session sign-up – here >>>PARTICPANTS – LINK TO WORKSHOP GOOGLE DOC << * There is an online […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop – Exploring our time in Leverhulme Wildfires so far through participatory video (12 Apr 2024)
This workshop is for Centre members and affiliates Workshop title: ‘Exploring our time in Leverhulme Wildfires so far through participatory video’ Timings and location: 12th April, 11am – 7pm, Imperial College London (rooms tbc) Description: The workshop will introduce participatory video as a methodology, with teams working to plan, shoot, and edit our own videos […]
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Fire in Practice: Bruce Farquharson – Creating a Resilient Landscape (5 Mar 2024)
Creating a Resilient Landscape 5th March 2024, 4-5pm GMT Register here Abstract Fire is a naturally occurring phenomenon and has been used as a tool for generations across the world. It has the potential to have a catastrophic impact on our landscape, but also to be an incredibly useful tool that can prevent the negative […]
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Fire in Practice: Christine Rosche – Wildfire, Through the Eye of a Canon: From Fire Ranger to Photographer (20 Feb 2024)
Wildfire, Through the Eye of a Canon: From Fire Ranger to Photographer Register on Eventbrite here Abstract What does 28 wildfire seasons look like, literally? Join Christine Rosche as she talks about, and visually describes her progression from boots on the ground, to face behind a camera, and the all the places between. Her roles […]
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