There was a flurry of PMIP-related activity over the Christmas and New Year “holidays” because of the need to get papers describing experimental results that are going to be cited…Read More >
SPECIAL Blog
Blog of the SPECIAL team members
A Method for Generating Coherent Spatially Explicit Maps of Seasonal Paleoclimates From Site‐Based Reconstructions by Sandy P. Harrison
The good news this morning is that Sean’s paper describing the new method he’s developed to reconstruct palaeoclimate using data assimilation techniques has been published (open access, of course) In…Read More >
Launch of Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment, and Society written by Pablo Paiewonsky, Alexander Kuhn-Regnier and David Kesner
The launch of the new Leverhulme Centre was celebrated with a symposium on November the 13th, 2019, at Imperial College London. SPECIAL group members Alexander Kuhn-Regnier, David Kesner, Pablo Paiewonsky,…Read More >
On the road to the ERC Starting grant through the SPECIAL highway by Łukasz Pawlik
I’m happy to join the Special group and glad Professor Sandy Harrison agreed to be my supervisor during my stay here at the University of Reading. I currently work as…Read More >
UK-Russian researcher collaboration for improved understanding of global change in the North. The DIMA workshop. By David Kesner
Global change in the Anthropocene knows no political boundaries. We need to understand environmental dynamics on regional to global scales, to understand the implications of global change for the future…Read More >
“Climate Change: the FAQs” and CLIMOVAR workshop. By Laia Comas Bru
What are the causes of climate change? And its consecuences? What can we do about it? These are some of the questions posed by Secondary School students about climate change…Read More >
SPECIAL and the Tsinghua Tiger Team in Gongga Mountains. By Sandy Harrison
The Gongga Mountains in Sichuan are foothills of the Tibetan Plateau and provide a very special opportunity to gather data on the environmental controls on leaf traits. Following a first…Read More >
The SPECIAL contribution to INQUA 2019. By Laia Comas Bru
Sandy Harrison and Laia Comas Bru attended the 20th INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress between 25th and 31st July 2019 in Dublin (Ireland) to represent the SPECIAL research…Read More >
Recent global and regional trends in Wildfire behaviour. By Sandy Harrison
In 2017, Andela et al. (Science) indicated that there had been a global decline in burnt are over the last two decades and specifically attributed this to anthropogenic activities. Furthermore,…Read More >
Science Meets Policy: The Interacademy Partnership Report on the Sustainable Development Goals. By Sandy Harrison
The Interacademy Partnership (IAP) has just released the final report of the working group on “Improving Scientific Input to Global Policy Making, with a focus on the UN Sustainable Development…Read More >
