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    Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop – Fire Ecology (25th May)

    30th March, 21 / Events

    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)

    24th March, 21 / In the Media

    “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)

    24th March, 21 / Events

    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

    19th March, 21 / Latest News

    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

    22nd February, 21 / Latest News

    “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

    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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    Workshop- Creating Synthesis between Wildfires, Art and Research (27 Jan 2021)

    18th December, 20 / Events

    At the start of 2021, we are launching ‘Wildfires at the Arts-Science Interface’ a series of projects and activities in collaboration with the Arts Cabinet, that aim to create productive intersections between the issue of wildfires and art. The project is kindly funded by KCL Faculty, Departmental and Impact funds as well as Centre contribution. […]

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    Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop: Fire in the North (12 Jan 2020)

    16th December, 20 / Events

    Our fifth Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop, and our first of 2021, will be focused on Fire in the North, chaired by Prof. Sandy Harrison, University of Reading. Please see a draft 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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    Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop: Earth Observation (17 Dec 2020)

    9th December, 20 / Events

    Our fourth Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop will be on Earth Observation, chaired by Prof Martin Wooster. Please get in touch at wildfire@imperial.ac.uk if you are not a Centre member or affiliate but interested in joining. 9.30-11.50 Thursday 17th December

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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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