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Post-doctoral opportunity: Climate Finance and Analytics
Job summary Imperial College London is looking for dedicated candidates for a fixed term position at the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis in the context of research work carried out in collaboration with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, the Environment and Society. You will work as part of a team of post-docs and experienced […]
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Reading Palaeofire Database Workshop (19, 20, 26 Oct)
19th, 20th and 26th Oct, 13:00-16:00 BST (12:00-15:00 UTC) MS Teams Virtual Meeting This 3-day virtual workshop aims to discuss the current research and future opportunities using the Reading Palaeofire Database, an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records. The database can be accessed here; and the Preprint is […]
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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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