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British wildfires are getting more frequent. Here’s what that means. (27 Apr 2020)
While small-scale compared to infernos elsewhere, the rise in incidents of serious wildfires could be harder to control in future years. Prof. Guillermo Rein speaks to National Geographic. Read the story here.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Data Assimilation and Machine Learning
Applications are invited for a Research Associate to join the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, to work within the Data Science Institute with Dr Rossella Arcucci, at the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London. The focus of this project is the development of a range of the next generation data assimilation and […]
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An interview with Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis
Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis is an Associate Director, and Founding Director, of the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society. He is Associate Professor at the Technical University of Crete and remains a part-time Reader at Imperial within the Department of Physics, in the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group. Our Centre Director, Prof. Colin Prentice, asked […]
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PhD Studentship: CO2 impacts on past and future fire regimes and their consequences for biodiversity
Project Description Much of the discussion of the drivers of recent changes in fire regimes has focused on the impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities. However, the direct impacts of changing atmospheric CO2 on plant growth and water-use efficiency could also affect biomass production and hence fuel loads, and therefore influence future fire regimes. […]
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Wildfires are ruinous – so how to stop them happening in the first place? (12 Feb 2020)
“In the wake of destruction caused by wildfires, most recently in Australia, experts are seeking ways of limiting their impact by managing forests better” Prof Guillermo Rein (Imperial) talks to the Guardian about megafires and the need for prescribed burning.
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Firing Up Climate Models (27 Jan 2020)
Our Associate Director Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis in EOS (Earth and Space News) on the challenges of incorporating wildfires into climate models.
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UK climate scientist corrects Australian MP Craig Kelly’s ‘blatant misrepresentation’, The Guardian (22 Jan 2020)
“Prof Sandy Harrison tells the Liberal on his Facebook page that his misuse of her study should not go unchallenged”
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Wildfires: Fire expert urges Australian government to “prepare now for 2021”
Imperial’s Professor Guillermo Rein spoke to Caroline Brogan at Imperial about what makes wildfires so dangerous, and what can be done to tackle them.
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Indigenous and Local Knowledges
Applications are invited for the post of Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Indigenous and local knowledge’s within the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society based at Royal Holloway, University of London. This post will involve the conceptualisation and development of a framework and methodology that explicitly considers Indigenous and local communities’ fire knowledges within larger […]
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The Science of a Bushfire (14 Jan 2020)
Podcast with Prof Guillermo Rein for the Naked Scientists
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