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PhD Opportunity: A data analytic assessment of the health risks and impacts from wildfires
Supervisors: Professor Majid Ezzati (Imperial College London) and Professor Sandy Harrison (University of Reading) We welcome applications for a funded 4-year PhD studentship to start in January 2022. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and ambitious student with a strong analytical background to conduct cutting-edge and high-impact interdisciplinary research on the health risks […]
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Upcoming: Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Perspectives in Research Engagement (16 Sept)
You are welcome to join us for the upcoming webinar ‘Fire in the Tropics- Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Perspectives in Research Engagement’, supported by Leverhulme Wildfires, PAGES and DiverseK Primarily, this is for early career researchers, paleoecological scientists, and other researchers working with IPLCs, but it is open to anyone interested. Any questions, please […]
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An introduction to wildfire ignition, fire spread, and fire suppression
Francesco Restuccia, Lecturer in Engineering at King’s College London, and Guillermo Rein, Professor of Fire Science at Imperial College London, discuss wildfire ignition, fire spread, and fire suppression. They look at problems such as the wildland urban interface (WUI), fire spread, fire suppression, ignition criteria, to have a better fundamental understanding of how these fires […]
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Wildfires becoming harder to control (10 Aug 2021)
Professor Demeritt spoke with the BBC Radio4 Today programme about how heavy forestation and fuel built up from previous fires, as well as difficult terrain, have all contributed to wildfires being much harder to control. He added that it seems likely that wildfires will become an inevitable part of life for people in places such […]
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Why are wildfires getting worse? (6 Aug 2021)
Professor Guillermo Rein explains why wildfires are getting worse in this video for The Sun.
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KCL researchers take flight in ‘SwathSense 2021’ project to improve the way Land Surface Temperature is measured
KCL researchers, including members of Leverhulme Wildfires, successfully carried out an airborne campaign last month – ‘SwathSense 2021’ – with the aim of improving the way land surface temperature is measured. Land surface temperature (LST) can be very different to air temperature and is a key parameter related to many Earth system processes, for example […]
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NCEO Researchers track effects of the devastating Western North America heatwave
NCEO Researchers, including Leverhulme Wildfires researchers at King’s College London, used European and American satellites to help contextualise the exceptional heatwave which has recently enveloped Western Canada and the North-Western United States. Read the article here Image: IMS land surface temperatures on 29th June 2021. Temperatures are in Kelvin
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Smoke increases fatigue in flying butterflies
Landscape fires burn across millions of square kilometres of Earth’s landscapes each year. Though each of these fires maybe individually small, the very large numbers of fires burning simultaneously can seriously degrade local and regional air quality by releasing a complex mixture of gases and aerosols. These smoke emissions may not only have significant effects […]
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Investigating fundamental wildfire drivers
by Alex Kuhn-Regnier Alex Kuhn-Regnier is a PhD student at Imperial College London based in the Department of Physics. He investigates wildfire models and how to improve the representation of the ecological impacts of future wildfire changes. My PhD began by asking the question “What are the fundamental drivers of wildfires?” Far from being […]
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Wildfires in the Lab – creative experiments through art and science (14 & 15 July)
A Creative Learning Lab with artist and researchers exploring Wildfires The Exchange, King’s College London is delighted to invite you to a Learning Lab on 14 and 15 July 2021, involving artists and scientists to present their experiments from a 3 months’ research residency project developed in collaboration between Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and […]
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