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 >
Where Local Flames Meet Global Frames: Inside Our Fire Modelling Collaboration in Turin
Introduction The FIRE-ADAPT program is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Staff Exchanges project to integrate research on fire management across stand – global scales. The exchanges program helps to facilitate cross-institutional…Read More >
Effects of climate and society on population density in Northwest China from 2 CE to 1949 CE
A new study published in Global and Planetary Change by SPECIAL group PI Sandy Harrison and PhD student Xin Liu looks at how we can reconstruct population density across Northwest…Read More >
Jiaze Li
Jiaze Li Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Jiaze is a PDRA at the University of Reading working on functional biodiversity. Her research focuses on how deep-time climate shapes global plant diversity, how…Read More >
Wildfires on a changing planet
Exciting new research from the SPECIAL group has been published in Nature Communications. This study, led by Olivia Haas (SPECIAL group post-doctoral researcher), investigates how sensitive parts of the wildfire…Read More >
Jianpu Bian
Jianpu Bian Postdoctoral Research Associate Jianpu is a PDRA working on long-term transient vegetation simulations in the mid-Holocene, and his background is climate dynamics and paleoclimate modelling. Before that,…Read More >
ACER2: The Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses Database (version 2) Description: The Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses (ACER) database (Sánchez Goñi et al., 2017) was originally developed…Read More >
How past climate events can help us understand future trends in climate warming
A new study on Dansgaard-Oeschger events A new publication led by SPECIAL group post-doctoral researcher Mengmeng Liu has recently been published in Climate of the Past. This paper “A global…Read More >
Isidora Xenaki
Isidora is a PhD student based in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading. Her research focuses on identifying the importance of climate, vegetation, and…Read More >
