On the 16th of September the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Society and the Environment hosted a number of international visitors at Dartington Hall for a brainstorming session on global fire modelling. The meeting…Read More >
SPECIAL Blog
Blog of the SPECIAL team members
JULES Annual Meeting September 2024
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 >
LEMONTREE Summer School: The ECR Experience
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 >
New Research on the Global Drivers of Wildfire
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 >
Tree Migration to Jumping Spiders: The 2024 MMEE Conference. By Dom Robson
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 >
Temporally enhanced vegetation dataset indicates persistent global greening.
Introduction Group leader Sandy Harrison recently published a manuscript in the journal remote sensing of the environment as part of the LEMONTREE project. The work was led by Sungchan Jeong…Read More >
Exploring the biodiversity and functional traits of China’s forests.
Figure 1. The Fieldwork team including members from LPICEA, Imperial College London’s Colin Prentice, SPECIAL group leader Sandy Harrison and Masters students from Fujian Normal University SPECIAL group leader Sandy…Read More >
Rethinking biomisation to reconstruct vegetation patterns by Esmerelda Cruz-Silva and Sandy Harrison
Improving future projections of changes in climate and the terrestrial biosphere by exploiting the power of the past is the main aim of SPECIAL (Sandy’s Palaeo Environments and Climate Analysis…Read More >
The SPECIAL presence at the EGU General Assembly 2022 by Paul Lincoln
The SPECIAL group took part in the annual migration of geoscientists to Vienna for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly between the 23rd and 27th May. The EGU General…Read More >
Participation in FURNACES annual meeting by Yicheng Shen
The three day FURNACES annual meeting was held from 24th to 26th November. Due to the new COVID restrictions in Germany and Austria, the meeting was held only in virtual…Read More >
