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PhD Studentships – King’s-China Scholarship Council
Supervisors and Projects Prof Martin Wooster martin.wooster@kcl.ac.uk Project 1: Machine Learning of Wildfire Forecasting Fires are an inherently stochastic process, and thus difficult to forecast. Wildfire danger is commonly calculated largely on the basis of meteorological data and forecasts, to forewarn of periods of high fire risk. However this does not forecast the actual presence […]
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PhD Studentship: Inequalities in the health risks and impacts of wildfires
Supervisors: Professor Majid Ezzati (Imperial College London; www.globalenvhealth.org) and Professor Sandy Harrison (University of Reading) We welcome applications for funded 4-year PhD studentships to start in Spring-Autumn 2021. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious researcher to conduct interdisciplinary research on vulnerability to, and inequalities in, the health risks and impacts of wildfires. Wildfires […]
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PhD Studentship: Quantifying the radiative impacts of African landscape fires across multiple temporal and spatial scales
Wildfires play a fundamental role in the Earth system. Globally, an area of the order 350 Mha is burned on an annual basis, with substantial associated carbon emissions. The disturbance to the atmospheric and surface state caused by fire events can be sensed remotely from space using a variety of techniques, including identification of ‘hot-spots’, […]
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SCENARIO-DTP PhD Opportunity x 3
Three SCENARIO-DTP PhD projects at the University of Reading are being advertised with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society. SCENARIO: Fire-related plant traits and ecosystem recovery. Primary supervisor Sandy Harrison, University of Reading (with Colin Prentice, Imperial, as a co-supervisor) SCENARIO: Climate Feedbacks through reactive greenhouse gases Primary supervisor Bill Collins , University of Reading […]
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PhD Studentship: The complexity of adopting environmental management, conservation and restoration initiatives within fire-prone landscapes
Project description There is a global push to better manage, conserve and restore ecosystems to mitigate the climate and biodiversity crisis. For example, restoration targets such as the Bonn challenge – aiming to restore 350 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2030 – encourage widespread forest restoration. At the same time, the frequency […]
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PhD Studentship: Incentives, Politics, Policies and Wildfire
Project Description Wildfire and human activity interact in complex ways. Identifying the mechanisms through which human behaviour influences wildfire outcomes is crucial for developing effective mitigation and adaptation policies, especially given the uncertainty introduced by the changing climate. This project will add to the understanding of the human drivers of wildfire. The candidate will develop […]
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PhD Studentship: Long-term interactions between vegetation, fire and human impact in Guyana
Applications are invited for a four year fully funded PhD in Tropical Palaeoecology within the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society. The Project The studentship will be based in the Department of Geography, RHUL and supervised by Dr. Daniele Colombaroli, Centre for Quaternary Research (CQR), Prof. Jay Mistry, Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre […]
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PhD Studentship in Environmental Science: The impact of anthropogenic land-use changes on fire regimes during the Holocene
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD on the impact of anthropogenic land-use changes on fire regimes during the Holocene, based at the University of Reading Department/School: Geography & Environmental Science/ School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science, Reading Supervisor: Professor Sandy P. Harrison Project Overview: Land-use change has been one of the major […]
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London NERC DTP NPIF PhD Studentship: Hyperspectral and Thermal Remote Sensing of Landscape Fire Properties
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD in the Remote Sensing of Landscape Fire, to be based in the Department of Geography, King’s College London. Funded by the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) and delivered through the London NERC London DTP, the PhD relates to the NPIF themes of transformative digital technologies, satellites/space technologies, […]
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PhD Studentship: Machine Learning and Data Assimilation for accurate wildfire predictions
Project Description This project aims to incorporate machine learning algorithms in data assimilation processes to improve efficiency and accuracy of wildfire estimations and predictions. The resulting models will assimilate data of wildfire variables (fire incidence, burnt area, fire duration, emissions etc) and wildfire drivers (a wide range, e.g. vegetation-related variables, climate related variables, human/society related […]
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