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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >