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  • Quantifying past fire-biodiversity relationships in European Landscapes

    7th January, 21 / Latest News

    Photo: wildfire at Eagle Creek Trailhead, USA. Credit: Luke Flynt (Unsplash) Jacob Mercer is a Leverhulme Wildfires 2020 summer placement student, reading Mathematics and Statistics at Worcester College, Oxford. Through the Natural Environment Research Council research experience placement scheme, Jacob had the opportunity to undertake a project supervised by Dr. Daniele Colombaroli at Royal Holloway, […]

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  • Introduction to King’s Earth Observation & Research Group

    2nd December, 20 / Latest News

    Ahead of our next Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop this month on Earth Observation, check out this introductory video below, of the King’s Earth Observation and Wildfire Research Group, which is led by the Centre’s Associate Director, Prof. Martin Wooster, in the Department of Geography.

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  • Simulations show Large Human-made Wildfires in Indonesia Impact on El Niño Weather

    21st November, 20 / Latest News

    Photo: Firefighters battle a blaze near Pekanbaru, Riau in 2019. These wildfires, initiated by humans, quickly become out of control in the region, burning for months on end with devastating consequences. Source: Wahyudi/AFP/Getty Images [1]. Clara Bayley is Leverhulme Wildfires summer placement student. She has recently completed her undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at the […]

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  • Carbon-releasing ‘zombie fires’ in peatlands could be dampened by new findings

    4th November, 20 / Latest News

    New simulations have provided clues on reducing peat fires, which hide underground and are notoriously bad for human health and the environment – watch the video below and read more here.

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  • “World: we got this” PODCAST – Fire in the Tropics with Prof Martin Wooster

    28th October, 20 / Latest News

    In the King’s College London podcast “World: we got this” (of the School of Global Affairs) we hear Professor Martin Wooster, Associate Director of Leverhulme Wildfires, talk about the importance of mapping wildfires, why not all wildfires are bad, and the unique threat posed by fires in the tropics.

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  • Determining the role of crop residue burning in post-monsoon air quality degradation across Northern India

    6th October, 20 / Latest News

    Photo: Crop residue burning in the Punjab, India (2020). Different waste materials are burnt at different times of year. Unlike here in Feb, in Oct/Nov it is mainly the leftover straw from rice production. Millions of tonnes of material are burned annually. Credit: M. Wooster, King’s College London. Outdoor air pollution is the world’s greatest […]

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  • An interview with Prof. Jay Mistry

    7th September, 20 / Latest News

    Prof. Jay Mistry is an Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, and Professor of Environmental Geography at Royal Holloway University of London. Her interests lie in environmental management and governance, participatory visual methods, Indigenous geographies, and fire management, particularly in tropical savannas. Our Centre Director, Prof. Colin Prentice, talked to Prof. […]

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  • Leverhulme Wildfires partners with charity Generating Genius, engaging students from African and Caribbean backgrounds in wildfire challenge

    24th July, 20 / Latest News

    The Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society recently partnered with Generating Genius to run an outreach activity aimed at engaging A-level students in the topic of wildfires. Generating Genius is a UK-based charity which helps talented students of African and Caribbean heritage, and who come from disadvantaged backgrounds, to develop the skills and confidence […]

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  • Advances in the global observation of wildfires – using European satellites for real-time mapping the location and radiative strength of landscape burning from space

    17th July, 20 / Latest News

    Image: Sentinel-3B SLSTR Night Time FRP – Data on active fires from the European SLSTR instrument now joins that from the US MODIS instrument in providing daily mapping of the strength if fires worldwide. The image shows the extent of fires detected in a single month. Satellite Earth observation (EO) of landscape burning is a […]

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  • Firewise Communities – helping neighbourhoods prepare and respond to wildfires

    29th June, 20 / Latest News

    Photo: Fire at Upton Heath, Dorset, in 2011 adjacent to the Dorset Firewise community just prior to their evacuation. Photo Credit: Urban Heaths Partnership Last year, Firewise Communities launched in Dorset as part of a new UK initiative to provide community guidance and support for preparing and responding to wildfires. Dr Adriana Ford, our Centre […]

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Our mission is to lead game-changing global research for understanding, predicting and managing wildfires.

Latest News

  • 17th August, 19

    Wildfire research centre to launch with £10m from the Leverhulme Trust

  • 19th September, 19

    ‘South East Asia choking – again’- BBC’s Science in Action (19 Sept 2019)

  • 8th November, 19

    Burning Issue – Research Professional (8 Nov 2019)

  • 9th December, 19

    Spreading like wildfire; the double-threat of changing landscapes and climate – Climate & Environment at Imperial (9 Dec 2019)

  • 2nd January, 20

    Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop: Fire in the Tropics (23 Jan 2020)

  • 2nd January, 20

    Research Associate to investigate Arctic fires in the Thermofluids Division

  • 2nd January, 20

    Research Assistant/Associate in Earth Systems Modelling

  • 10th January, 20

    PhD Studentship: Physical and socio-economic drivers of changing fire dynamics in Ethiopia’s drylands and impacts on ecosystem services

  • 10th January, 20

    PhD Studentship: Contested fire management: Understanding trade-offs between traditional and government approaches to fire management

  • 14th January, 20

    Climate change increases the risk of wildfires confirms new review (14 Jan 2020)

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March 2, 2021

If you have a technical background, are happy working with instrumentation, and maybe keen on helping develop our new Airborne Remote Sensing Capability then we are recruiting! Deadline 7th Mar. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CEH884/nceo-airborne-earth-observatory-instrument-technician
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