Last week SPECIAL Group PI Sandy Harrison led an exciting workshop at Dartington Hall on incorporating eco-evolutionary optimality (EEO) theory into land surface models (LSMs). Sandy and Sophia represented the…Read More >

INTRODUCTION On April 3rd, the SPECIAL research group at the University of Reading hosted researchers from the University of East Anglia for a seminar exploring how fire science can move…Read More >

SPECIAL Group PI Sandy Harrison has been involved in the publication of a key piece of research for the LEMONTREE project regarding the implementation of leaf dark respiration and photosynthesis…Read More >

Introduction A new manuscript from SPECIAL group PhD student Yicheng Shen has recently been published in Ecological Indicators, discussing the factors affecting post-fire recovery. You can read on for a…Read More >

During the last week of January Dr Olivia Haas attended the second half of the Fire-ADAPT French Study Hub in the Oriental Pyrenees. Fire-ADAPT is one of the major projects…Read More >

Research assistant in the SPECIAL group, Jierong Zhao, and SPECIAL group PI, Sandy Harrison, have recently released a pre-print that investigates the importance of CO₂ and climate in influencing changes…Read More >

We are pleased to share with you a new paper involving the lead PI of the SPECIAL group, Sandy Harrison. The paper outlines a new framework for modelling leaf area…Read More >

Introduction Fire is a powerful force of nature and one of the most important disturbances in the Earth’s system. A recent scientific paper involving SPECIAL group PI Sandy Harrison, sheds…Read More >

SPECIAL Group leader Sandy Harrison as involved with the publication of a new piece of work that outlines a framework to predict burnt area of wildfires using remote sensing data….Read More >

One of our SPECIAL Group members Olivia Haas had the opportunity to travel to France to present her research. It is great to see our staff generating these international networks…Read More >