🔊🔥Join us for our next "Fire in Practice: Conversations with Wildfire Practitioners" webinar! When: Wed 23rd July, 10.30-11:30am (BST) (online/ in person at KCL). Speaker: Sam Johnston, International Savanna Fire Management Initiative www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fire-in-pr...

🔊🔥 Two PhD opportunities available with one of our centres Supervisors, Francesco Restuccia, at King’s College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. They will be funded through ERC and present brilliant opportunities with an equally brilliant supervisor! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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!🔥🇧🇷 imperial.ac.uk/natural-scienc…

🔊🔥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

🔊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: lnkd.in/es5Z8xMA

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! centreforwildfires.org/news/giraffe-t…#WildfireResearchch

📢 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

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!

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

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-...

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 centreforwildfires.org/news/l-a-wil...

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/...

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 time.com/7205622/cali...

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...

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.

Missed our recent webinars on fire management in Ghana and Mexico? Fear not, you can watch the recordings online! #wildfires #climate ##firemanagement youtu.be/WJ93hYb1jAk?...

🔉🔥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

🔉🔥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...

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

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

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 youtu.be/huc3aTFOybM

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

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

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...

We very much enjoyed the UK Wildfires 2O24 conference in Aberdeen this week! Thank you @firebreak03.bsky.social and all the organisers and sponsors, and of course all the presenters for their informative talks. Hopefully UK fire community will connect on BlueSky 😊🔥

Hello! We have just joined Blue Sky, and those who don't know us, we do interdisciplinary global wildfires research!🔥 Funded from 2019-2029 by the Leverhulme Trust, and based out of London, UK. We are looking forward to connecting with existing contacts and new people!