On the 21st and 22nd July, members of the SPECIAL research group travelled to Imperial College London to attend the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society Summer Conference. The…Read More >
Chris Ho
Chris is a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London, co-supervised by Professor Sandy Harrison. His research investigates the population health impacts of landscape fire-related…Read More >
ICCS Summer School 2026 – Greener Software Engineering
An introduction to computing climate science During the week commencing 13 July, two members of the SPECIAL team travelled to Cambridge to attend the Institute for Computing Climate Science (ICCS)…Read More >
Improving Wildfire Prediction with Machine Learning and Firebreaks
Introduction Wildfire management involves a range of approaches, including fuel load reduction, community preparedness, and fire suppression once a fire has started. An important management tool is the use of…Read More >
An Introduction to the African Quaternary Human–Climate Interactions Network
Introduction to EcoArch and AQHCI During the first week of June, members of the SPECIAL research team travelled to Nairobi, Kenya, to participate in the kick-off meeting of the EcoArch…Read More >
Boya Zhou
Boya is a PDRA in Eco-Evolutionary Optimality (EEO) vegetation modelling at the University of Reading and a member of the LEMONTREE project. Her research focuses on integrating existing EEO components into…Read More >
Leaf Temperature: A Missing Piece in Climate Models
A new paper from the LEMONTREE project has just been published in Nature Plants by formed LEMONTREE post-doc Xu Lian from Columbia University. The paper involves our S.P.E.C.I.A.L group PI…Read More >
Esmeralda Cruz-Silva
Esme is a Postdoctoral Research Associate working on the EcoArch (Ecological Archeologies of the Afrotropics) project, an international collaboration examining how climate, vegetation, wildfire, and human activity shaped African and Middle Eastern…Read More >
SPECIAL at EGU 2026
Last week a few members of the S.P.E.C.I.A.L research group attended the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Conference held in Vienna. EGU focuses on research around Earth, planetary and space sciences…Read More >
A new explanation for how photosynthesis acclimates to warming
S.P.E.C.I.A.L. group PhD Student Wenyao Gan has recently published the first paper from her thesis in New Phytologist. The paper focuses on how photosynthesis acclimates to warming, in particular, how…Read More >
