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Two summer placements in wildfire research available for undergraduate students
We welcome applications for two 8-week summer placement projects with Imperial’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, on the topic of wildfires. These UROPs are offered on a remote basis. If on-campus attendance is possible this will be considered dependent on the College rules in force at the time, but it will not be essential. *Applications are […]
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KCL researchers in new 10-million-euro project to tackle forest fires in Europe
Image: A forest fire burning in Enskogen, as seen by Sentinel-2 on 16th July (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2018], processed by the Copernicus Support Office) King’s College London will be one of 39 partners from across the world involved in the new research project FirEUrisk, starting this month, which will develop a science-based strategy […]
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Spontaneous ignition of smouldering peat fires (and how to simulate them in the field)
Figure 1: Smouldering wildfire of a carbon-rich soil system in Las Tablas de Daimiel (Photo by Dr G Rein, 2009). Researchers at Imperial College Hazelab, including members of Leverhulme Wildfires, have recently published a new paper developing a multi-step reaction model to study the potential of peatland fires starting from self-heating ignition, in the International […]
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Fire in the NeoTropics – Data Collection Webinar (19th May)
This webinar is open to all potential data contributors working on pollen & sediment charcoal series from the Neotropics. The objectives of this webinar are to discuss: 1. collaborative work aimed at increasing the spatio-temporal resolution of existing vegetation/fire reconstructions; 2. The potential for data integration of Indigenous Knowledge Data in the Neotropical context. Developing […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop – Fire Ecology (25th May)
Workshop number 7 will be on Fire Ecology chaired by Prof. Colin Prentice, Imperial College London (agenda will be provided closer to the time). Please get in touch at wildfire@imperial.ac.uk if you are not a Centre member or affiliate but interested in joining. Agenda here: Leverhulme Wildfires – fire ecology and modelling
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How to Kill a Zombie Fire (24 Mar 2021)
“Underground peat fires refuse to die, even when flooded with water. So scientists developed a new weapon to put them down for good.” This article in Wired reports on new research from Imperial’s Hazelab.
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Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop – Global Modelling (30th March)
Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop number 6 will be focused on Global Modelling, chaired by Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis, TUC/Imperial College London. Please see the agenda below, and get in touch at wildfire@imperial.ac.uk if you are not a Centre member or affiliate but interested in joining.
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Landscape fires estimated to cause over 600 thousand premature deaths each year, many in children under five
Photo: Smoke from surrounding peatland fires often pollutes the air in the city of Palangkarya (Kalimantan, Indonesia) – home to around 250,000 people. During these events. levels of airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) reach many times those considered extremely hazardous to health. Ambient (outdoor) air pollution is the world’s greatest environmental health risk, and a […]
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King’s researchers contribute to new study that says Australia’s ‘Black Summer’ should be a wake-up call
“Satellite data analysis by our researchers revealed the severity of bushfires in Australia during 2019 to 2020 compared to previous years” – Leverhulme Wildfires researchers at King’s College London contribute to an ANU-led study looking at bushfires during the Black Summer of 2019 to 2020.
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Quantifying past fire-biodiversity relationships in European Landscapes
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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