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Satellite data reveals extent of burnt areas in Europe caused by intense wildfires this summer
By Michel Valette and Haleema Misal The months of June and July in Europe have witnessed record high temperatures leading to many wildfires over the continent. Mediterranean countries are accustomed to wildfires due to ecosystem and climatic factors, but this fire season is especially intense. The heatwave in July also spread to northern Europe, […]
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Leverhulme Wildfires Research Workshop – Pastoralism and Fire in Africa (4 Oct 2022)
More information to follow soon Where: MS Teams When: Tues 4th Oct, 1-4pm BST Chair: Dr Cathy Smith, RHUL Speakers: Pablo Manzano Baena (University of Helsinki): The changing links between pastoral herbivory and fire as ecological processes Sally Archibald (University of Witwatersrand): Understanding and modelling patterns of fire in African rangelands Maike Petersen (University of […]
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Between Fires – rethinking our relationship with fire (31 Aug 2022)
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2022 Wednesday, 31 August, 2022, 16:50-18:30 BST (Online only) Download flyer here Who should have the rights and responsibilities for the work of fire use/recovery? Why? What does living with fire look like in the present and future? In the dominant framing of fire, visible during ‘mega […]
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Dr Daniele Colombaroli
It’s with great sorrow that we share news of the death of Dr Daniele Colombaroli. One of the first members of our Centre’s supervisory team, Daniele was a highly respected and much-liked colleague. We will miss his openness, his unfailing support for students, and his commitment to palaeo-research. Our thoughts are with his wife Carole, […]
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Post-doctoral opportunity: Arctic fires with an emphasis on smouldering combustion and fire spread
Job summary Applications are invited for a Research Associate to study experimentally smouldering Arctic fires and join Imperial Hazelab which is the multidisciplinary research group led by Prof. Guillermo Rein based the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. The purpose of Hazelab is to reduce the worldwide burden of accidental fires and protect […]
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Extreme heat in the UK and wildfires: why we should expect it to happen again
By Theo Keeping and Olivia Haas On Friday 15th July 2022, the UK Met Office issued its first ever Red Warning for exceptional heat. Over the following two days, temperatures across the UK broke records, reaching 40.3°C in England, 37.1 °C in Wales and 34.8°C in Scotland. The weather drove a sharp response in wildfire […]
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A Global Perspective on Local Fire Use
by James Millington (King’s College London) If you do a Google Scholar search for ‘human’ or ‘anthropogenic’ and ‘landscape fire’ you’ll be returned over 5,000 papers. From this you might conclude that there’s lots of information available to enable a coherent global understanding of human impacts on landscape fire. Surprisingly, that’s not the case, […]
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Starting the conversation on decolonising fire science
Reporting from the “Decolonising Fire-Science- An Introduction” Workshop Full report available here by Abi Croker and Adriana Ford Research is a political act, and the way in which we create and communicate knowledge is deeply embedded in global power dynamics, shaped by colonial legacies as well as continued colonial thinking. Our very engagement (or lack […]
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Decolonising Fire Science – Critical Conversations (3rd Aug new date)
The Leverhulme Wildfires EDI Working Group is pleased to invite you to the second of a series of planned events and activities on ‘Decolonising Fire Science’. Title: Decolonising Fire Science: Critical Conversations Date/Time: Wednesday 3rd August (2-4pm BST) Format: Hybrid – Teams, and location to be confirmed (Imperial College) Audience: All Centre members and Affiliates. We […]
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Working in partnership to reduce the threat of wildfire in Scotland
Scotland may be the most northern part of the UK, but with wildfires increasing in frequency and intensity at higher latitudes, a considerable and growing threat exists. To find out more about the work Scotland is doing reduce this threat of wildfires, we spoke to Bruce Farquharson, Deputy Assistant Chief Officer in charge of the […]
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