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    Research Associate to investigate Arctic fires in the Thermofluids Division

    2nd January, 20 / Opportunities

    Applications are invited to join the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society as a Research Associate to study experimentally smouldering Artic fire. This project, titled FireFrost, will be held within Imperial Hazelab which is the multidisciplinary research group led by Prof. Guillermo Rein based the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. The […]

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

    2nd January, 20 / Events

    The first of our (approx.) bi-monthly research workshops will be held at Royal Holloway, chaired by Prof. Jay Mistry, focusing on one of our four main research strands, ‘Fire in the Tropics’.

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

    9th December, 19 / In the Media

    A new research programme is speeding up efforts to understand and predict the impacts of wildfires on people, climate and wildlife, according to Dr Adriana Ford, Centre Manager at the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society

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    Burning Issue – Research Professional (8 Nov 2019)

    8th November, 19 / In the Media

    Adriana Ford discusses a new centre aiming to improve the understanding and management of wildfires

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

    19th September, 19 / In the Media

    Listen to Prof Martin Wooster on BBC’s Science in Action

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

    17th August, 19 / Events , Latest News

    New funding will help improve prediction and management of wildfires globally through the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society.

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Mission

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

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  • 20th May, 22

    Furthering our understanding of the global patterns of burnt area, fire size and fire intensity

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May 25, 2022

Well done to our ECRs who've presented research at this year's @EuroGeosciences conference in Vienna! Plus, for those attending, don't miss out on our session - "The socio-ecological dynamics of Anthropocene wildfire regimes" on Friday 27th https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/43581 #EGU22

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Imperial College London,
Department of Physics,
South Kensington,
London, SW7 2BW, UK.

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wildfire@imperial.ac.uk

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