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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

Overview A number of SPECIAL group members work within the LEMONTREE project which aims to build a new model of the terrestrial biosphere. LEMONTREE is now moving into it’s implementation…Read More >

In the final week of August the LEMONTREE Project hosted it’s first summer school. A number of the SPECIAL team attended the summer school in Utrecht, the Netherlands, including Olivia…Read More >

A new paper titled “The Global Drivers of Wildfire” has been published in Frontiers in Environmental Science, providing insights into the environmental factors that influence wildfires worldwide. The work presented…Read More >

I attended this year’s iteration of the biennial Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution conference, which ran from 15th-18th July, at the University of Vienna.  A packed schedule saw three…Read More >