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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Apr 8

Congratulations to our Centre Manager, Adriana Ford, for winning the Staff Category of the @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Faculty of Natural Sciences Image Competition, with her photo "Purposeful Flames", taken at the @FIRE_ADAPT Brazil Study Hub!🔥🇧🇷
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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Apr 8

🔊🔥SAVE THE DATE for the Leverhulme Wildfires Summer Conference 2026, to be held at Imperial College London on Tuesday 21st July 2026. Watch this space for more information coming soon!

#WildfireResearch #ClimateResilience #EnvironmentalScience #LeverhulmeWildfires #FireScience

Leverhule Wildfires Summer Conference 2026- Tues 21st July, at Imperial College London

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Mar 28

🔊Imperial College London Natural Sciences image competition exhibition, 2nd April!

We're happy to represent #wildfires through Adriana Ford's shortlisted entry "Purposeful Flames' taken in Brazil in the FIRE-ADAPT project.

Can't make it? View the shortlisted photos and vote here:
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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Mar 28

Latest from our Just Fire team!
🔥 New paper on global human-fire interactions led by Cathy Smith out April 2025.
🔥 ESRC grant for work on Indigenous fire knowledge in Kenya.
🔥 Congrats to Abi Croker, now Postdoc at Princeton!

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Mar 28

📢 Call for abstracts!

Centre researchers are convening a fire modelling session at the International Congress of Fire in the Earth System — Abstract submissions welcome!

🔗 The Congress website for more information and abstract submission: firecongress.eu

#Wildfires #fire

PhD in Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches (closing date 3 Mar 2025) - Leverhulme Wildfires Centre

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Feb 26

Just a few days to go to apply for this exciting PhD opportunity at the Centre on environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

NB International fees are covered, so it's open worldwide!

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Feb 10

We have an exciting new PhD opportunity, exploring #environmentaljustice in #firegovernance through arts-based approaches.
Based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, supervised by Adriana Ford and @eliapos.bsky.social
Apply by 3rd March
#politicalecology
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PhD opportunity with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society at Imperial College London Title: Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches P...

How Potassium in Biomass Could Improve Wildfire Emission Estimates - Leverhulme Wildfires Centre

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Feb 26

📢New blog post by our Centre member Farrer Owsley-Brown @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #wildfires - how potassium in biomass could improve emissions estimates

Farrer @farrerfires.bsky.social · Feb 21

short @centrewildfires.bsky.social blog on our recent paper investigating how the potassium emission line produced by flaming fires could help to improve smoke emission estimates: centreforwildfires.org/news/how-pot...

By Farrer Owsley-Brown, King’s College London Leverhulme Wildfires researchers from King’s College London have published a new paper, “Can the remote sensing of combustion phase improve estimates of l...

PhD in Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches (closing date 3 Mar 2025) - Leverhulme Wildfires Centre

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Feb 10

We have an exciting new PhD opportunity, exploring #environmentaljustice in #firegovernance through arts-based approaches.
Based at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, supervised by Adriana Ford and @eliapos.bsky.social
Apply by 3rd March
#politicalecology
centreforwildfires.org/news/phd-in-...

PhD opportunity with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society at Imperial College London Title: Exploring environmental justice in fire governance through arts-based approaches P...

L.A. Wildfires: Reimagining recovery and resilience - Leverhulme Wildfires Centre

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Jan 24

New blog post by Alex Mines, our new PhD student at CEP @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, on the LA wildfires and how prioritising resiliency strategies can help insurance markets and wildland-urban interface communities
#lawildfire #wildfires

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by Alex Mines, Imperial College London/ Leverhulme Wildfires In the aftermath of the palisades and Eaton Wildfires of Los Angeles this month, California’s communities, policymakers, and insurance mark...

The Conditions that Led to the L.A. Fires

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Jan 15

The room was almost overspilling at the Geography departmental seminar today @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social such was the interest in Doug Kelley's (from CEH) talk about the State of Wildfires. #wildfires You can view the latest report here:
essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Jan 15

Our Centre Associate Director Prof Apostolos Voulgarakis @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social contributes to this Time magazine article on the #LAwildfires, where he explains the role of the dry Santa Ana winds and climate change #wildfires
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Climate change has exacerbated the size, intensity, and damage caused by the wildfires.

time.com

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Jan 8

Congratulations to our Associate Director, Prof Martin Wooster at King's College London, for being made an MBE for his contribution to wildfire science! 👏🥳

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-e...

King's expert in wildfires and satellite imaging awarded MBE in New Year Honours

Recognition for researcher who helped bring global attention to landscape fire and smoke

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Luke Richardson-Foulger @lukemrf.bsky.social · Dec 17

Hello World! I'm Luke, a PhD student at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, NCEO, & @centrewildfires.bsky.social studying peatland wildfires 🔥🌿: their emissions, climate impact, and human health effects. My work utilises infrared remote sensing, earth observation, and a lot of soil.

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Dec 10

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Leverhulme Wildfires Webinar - Christoph Neger & Laura Ponce Calderón - fire management in Mexico

YouTube video by Leverhulme Wildfires

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Fire in Practice Godwin Dzekoto Collaborative fire management in Ghana

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Dec 10

Missed our recent webinars on fire management in Ghana and Mexico? Fear not, you can watch the recordings online!

#wildfires #climate ##firemanagement

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YouTube video by Leverhulme Wildfires

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Nov 25

🔉🔥Our second free webinar this week is on Wed 27th Nov 14:30-15:30

"Revisiting fire management in Ghana: Integrating historical practices, institutional dynamics and collaborative approaches", with Godwin Dzekoto from A Rocha Ghana

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fire-in-pr...

#wildfire #firemanagement

Fire in Practice - Collaborative Fire Management in Ghana

Join Godwin Dzekoto from A Rocha Ghana on integrating historical fire practices, institutional dynamics and collaborative fire management

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Leverhulme Wildfires Guest Webinar on integrated fire management in Mexico

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Nov 25

🔉🔥We have two webinars this week - please register for free on Eventbrite!
The first is on Mexico's challenging path towards integrated and intercultural fire management by Christoph Neger and Laura Ponce Calderón
Tues 26th Nov 16:00-17:00 GMT
#wildfires #IFM
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leverhulme...

Join this webinar with Christoph Neger (UNAM) and Laura Ponce (ECOSUR) on Mexico’s path towards integrated and intercultural fire management

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Nov 23

Next up we have Dr Balasubramanyan Chandramoham from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and COP29 Observer, highlighting small island states and young people in COP29 and #climatechange

#climate
#climateyouthsummit

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Nov 23

From science to business- Jono Adams from Anthesis on a business perspective post COP29 #COP29Azerbaijan

#climate #climatechange
#climateyouthsummit

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Nov 23

The talk we shared by Dr Joyce Kimutai from @granthamicl.bsky.social
at our UNA Climate and Sustainability Youth Summit 2024, is available on YouTube - do check it out.
#climate #flooding
#climateyouthsummit

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YouTube video by Casina Pio IV

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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Nov 23

Now up at the UNA Climate and Sustainability Youth Summit 2024, our very own Prof. Apostolos Voulgarakis from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and Technical University of Crete, talking about #wildfires and #climate

#climateyouthsummit

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Nov 23

The UNA Climate and Sustainability Youth Summit 2024, co-hosted by our Centre, is underway @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social with insightful talks by Sir Jim Skea, Chair of @ipcc.bsky.social & Dr Carl Wright, Secretary General Emeritus Commonwealth Local Government
#climateyouthsummit
#climatechange

Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society @centrewildfires.bsky.social · Nov 23

Only a couple of hours until the UNA Climate and Sustainability Youth Summit 2024, which we are co-hosting at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social with United Nations Association Climate and Oceans.
#climateyouthsummit
We plan to livestream it here starting at 13.30 GMT:
www.youtube.com/@unitednatio...

Climate and Sustainability Youth Summit 2024, COP29 fringe, London.
Join us to hear from leading experts in research and business as they discuss COP29 and share the latest insights.on Climate action