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 >

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 >

A new paper from SPECIAL group PI Sandy Harrison has recently been published in New Phytologist. The paper looks at the ratio between sapwood to leaf area in plants using…Read More >

A new publication involving SPECIAL group PI Sandy Harrison has recently been published in Communications Earth & Environment, sharing work from the Alienor Lavergne on global optimality-based modelling of C3…Read More >

In the second half of 2025, SPECIAL Group research student Theo Keeping graduated with a PhD from the University of Reading. One of the chapters from his thesis has now…Read More >

As the year draws to a close, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate achievements, welcome new faces, and look forward to the exciting opportunities that lie ahead. Celebrating Success of…Read More >

The SPECIAL group was pleased to welcome Sander Veraverbeke to give a guest seminar at the University of Reading in mid-November. Sander is an Associate Professor at the VU in…Read More >

In exciting news – PI Sandy Harrison has secured, alongside international colleagues, a new SYNERGY grant titled EcoARCH! EcoARCH stands for Ecological Archaeologies of the Afrotropics and will investigate human,…Read More >

Earlier in September this year the LEMONTREE Project hosted the second iteration of the Energy Partitioning Workshop (you can read about the first meeting of the consortium here). The LEMONTREE…Read More >