{"id":1109,"date":"2024-07-05T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T13:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/?page_id=1109"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:28:22","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>LEMONTREE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/lemontree\/\">Land Ecosystems Models based On New Theory, obseRvations and ExperimEnts<\/a>, or LEMONTREE, project aims to develop a next-generation model of the terrestrial biosphere and its interactions with the carbon cycle, water cycle and climate using eco-evolutionary optimality theory.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the SPECIAL group below to the Fire-Vegetation Interactions, Vegetation Dynamics and Implementation working groups. Our team member Olivia Haas is the ECR lead of the Fire-Vegetation Interactions working group.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1112\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Lemontree.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Lemontree.png 394w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Lemontree-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See project and group PI Sandy Harrison discuss the LEMONTREE project in the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Climate Modeling: Predicting Vegetation&#039;s Role in Future Climates\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lEdLyAZS73w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>EcoARCH: Ecological Archaeologies of the Afrotropics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>EcoARCH aims to investigate how human activities, climate and wildfire have shaped landscapes and biodiversity across Africa and Arabia over the past six thousand years. The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under its Horizon Europe Synergy Grant scheme and will run from 2026-2032.<\/p>\n<p>The project is led by Professor David Wright at the University of Oslo, and also involves collaboration with Penn State University and the University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politics.ox.ac.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-07\/logo-european-research-council.png\" alt=\"European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant | DPIR\" width=\"257\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few SPECIAL group members also belong to the <a href=\"https:\/\/centreforwildfires.org\/\">Leverhulme Centre<\/a>, working across the<a href=\"https:\/\/centreforwildfires.org\/phase-2\/\"> Fire-Veg<\/a> and Climate teams. The Fire-Veg group aims to incorporate a realistic treatment of fire-vegetation interactions in the next generation of fire and earth system models and is led by members of the SPECIAL research group.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the model the group is currently building upon in both the LEMONTREE and Fire-Veg projects read this paper <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/ac6a69\">here<\/a>. The model is the work of Dr. Olivia Haas\u2019 PhD thesis and is central to the fire related projects within the SPECIAL group.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1111\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Leverhulme-Centre-for-Wildfires.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Leverhulme-Centre-for-Wildfires.png 2069w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Leverhulme-Centre-for-Wildfires-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Leverhulme-Centre-for-Wildfires-1024x366.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Leverhulme-Centre-for-Wildfires-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Leverhulme-Centre-for-Wildfires-1536x549.png 1536w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Leverhulme-Centre-for-Wildfires-2048x732.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>RAIN<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The RAIN project is a NERC grant titled <a href=\"https:\/\/hosting.northumbria.ac.uk\/greensahara\/\">where and why does it rain in the desert<\/a>? The project is a collaboration with a number of universities. Prof. Sandy Harrison is the lead on the quantitative analysis of this project, using modelling and simulations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>FIRE-ADAPT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireadapt.eu\/en\/\">FIRE-ADAPT<\/a> project looks at the role of integrated fire management on climate adaptations in tropical and sup-tropical ecosystems. It is a collaboration across 10 countries in Europe and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, an exchange within the FIRE-ADAPT project occurred between the University of Reading and Centre d\u2019Ecologie Fonctionnelle &amp; Evolutive (CEFE).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1110\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2024\/07\/Fireadapt-logl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEMONTREE The Land Ecosystems Models based On New Theory, obseRvations and ExperimEnts, or LEMONTREE, project aims to develop a next-generation model of the terrestrial biosphere and its interactions with the&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#112;&#97;&#108;&#97;&#101;&#111;&#99;&#108;&#105;&#109;&#97;&#116;&#101;&#47;&#112;&#114;&#111;&#106;&#101;&#99;&#116;&#115;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1109","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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