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What Drives Ecosystem Recovery After Fire? Insights from a Global Study

Posted on
7th March 2025

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 >

What Drives Ecosystem Recovery After Fire? Insights from a Global Study

Fire Management in Practice: Fire-ADAPT French Study Hub

Posted on
19th February 2025

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 >

Fire Management in Practice: Fire-ADAPT French Study Hub

Understanding Past Climate to Predict Future Vegetation Changes

Posted on
7th February 2025

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 >

Understanding Past Climate to Predict Future Vegetation Changes

New Publication on Global Greenness Trends and Patterns

Posted on
23rd January 202523rd January 2025

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 >

New Publication on Global Greenness Trends and Patterns

How Well Do Global Models Simulate Fire? A Deep Dive into CMIP6

Posted on
8th January 2025

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 >

How Well Do Global Models Simulate Fire? A Deep Dive into CMIP6

A New Framework for Predicting Burnt Area

Posted on
11th December 2024

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 >

A New Framework for Predicting Burnt Area

A Paleo-Science Approach to Fire Modelling: SPECIAL Group Visit to Bordeaux

Posted on
25th November 20244th December 2024

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 >

A Paleo-Science Approach to Fire Modelling: SPECIAL Group Visit to Bordeaux

Digging into variable selection methods: Team training session

Posted on
6th November 20246th November 2024

One of the benefits of belonging to a large research group such as SPECIAL, is the opportunity to draw upon, and learn from, the skills that other members of the…Read More >

Digging into variable selection methods: Team training session

Beijing: Centre of the Universe?

Posted on
23rd October 202423rd October 2024

SPECIAL group leader Sandy Harrison and LEMONTREE/Leverhulme Project co-PI Colin Prentice are currently spending their normal month as  “Distinguished Visiting Professors” at Tsinghua University this October. The plan was to…Read More >

Beijing: Centre of the Universe?

LEMONTREE Energy Partitioning Workshop Advancing Plant Pigment Research for Better Earth Monitoring

Posted on
16th October 202416th October 2024

From September 25th to 27th, a new collaborative group of scientists gathered at the scenic Warbrook House Heritage Hotel in Hook, UK, for the LEMONTREE Energy Partitioning Workshop. The goal?…Read More >

LEMONTREE Energy Partitioning Workshop Advancing Plant Pigment Research for Better Earth Monitoring

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