🔥 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥 I'm seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in #Wildfire Social Science to join the FiRES project at ETH Zürich. Deadline: 29 January 2026. jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Please share! @ethz.ch @afe-fireecology.bsky.social @paucostaf.bsky.social

For the past year, the FiRES project's Masters student Lena Widmer has focused her research on the 2023 Riederhorn wildfire in the Swiss Canton of Valais 🔥 This blogpost provides a summary of her findings. Congratulations Lena on an excellent executed project! 🎉 christineeriksen.com/2025/12/12/m...

Hot off the press: A Reparative Paradigm for Thinking with #Disasters, now published in The Geographical Journal by @rgsibg.bsky.social. This collaborative paper is the last output from our fantastic workshop at @ethz.ch, supported by @snsf.ch and @unibe.ch: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Hot off the press 🔥 Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter #Indigenous #fire, now published open-access in the #FireEcology journal. Thank you @pyrogeographer.bsky.social for leading this collaboration. rdcu.be/eQtLr 🔥 @afe-fireecology.bsky.social

El 2025 va ser un any d'incendis forestals greus a Catalunya. Per això, l'enquesta «Conviure amb els Incendis Forestals a Catalunya» s'ha reobert per permetre que la gent comparteixi les seves experiències. Si us plau, compartiu: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FiRES_CAT 🔥 @paucostaf.bsky.social

Were you impacted by the 2025 #UKwildfires? 🔥 The FiRES survey “Living with Wildfire in the UK and Ireland” has been re-opened to enable people to share their direct or indirect experiences of #wildfires or associated smoke. Please share/ re-post. www.surveymonkey.com/r/firesukie

🎬📽️ New documentary: The Age of Fire 🔥🌍 Earlier this year, the ARTE science show '42: The Answer to Almost Everything' interviewed me, Stephen Pine and Kirsten Thonicke about the current #wildfire crisis. How can we learn to coexist with fire (again)? www.arte.tv/en/videos/12... @unibe.ch @ethz.ch

It’s full steam ahead with a new institutional home for the FiRES project at ETH Zürich. Fieldwork and collaborations continue unabated. You can read more about the move to #ETHZ and other research activities this summer in this blog post: christineeriksen.com/2025/10/03/i...

The PLANAT.ch Committee met in Ticino last week, in part to learn from the hard-won lessons of the devastating floods/ rockslides in Maggia valley last summer. Seeing the damage and ongoing efforts to rebuild left a deep impression. This article describes it well: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🔔Hot off the press📣 This paper is part of Rachel Reimer’s PhD on #risk management and #psychological safety in the mountain guiding and avalanche profession. It shows how human-caused hazards negatively impact physical safety in the profession. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lgxI_GvEq...

Again and again the USFS asked its own researchers how to better protect wildland firefighters, and they came back with the same recommendation: Give them masks. Still, leadership held off. Embracing masks would mean admitting how dangerous #wildfire #smoke really is. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...

🧵California's fire season now starts up to 6 weeks earlier than in 1990. Although the population has ⬆️27% since then, human-ignited fires have dropped. Instead, the most significant factors are climate-related: earlier snowmelt, drying soils + more flammable vegetation as average temperatures rise.

Crying Glaciers: beautiful and heartbreaking Op-Doc by filmmaker Lutz Stautner and artist Ludwig Berger recording the sounds of the melting Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland in an effort to capture the sounds of a disappearing environment. (via The New York Times) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...

☢️New commentary in Geo!☢️ 'Governing layers of shifting sands: Subterranean hazards, unfolding catastrophes and quotidian fragmentation' by @drceriksen.bsky.social & Gregory L. Simon This piece unpacks the governance & management of earthquakes & nuclear waste repositories. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Hot off the press 🚨 'Governing layers of shifting sands: Subterranean #hazards, unfolding #catastrophes and quotidian fragmentation', free to access in GEO: #Geography and #Environment: dx.doi.org/10.1002/geo2... Thank you to @snsf.ch and @rgsibg.bsky.social for supporting this collaborative work.

Please join us tomorrow/Thursday 5 June if you are in Geneva for the #GP2025 #DRR. At 12:45, our learning lab will focus on drought preparedness and wildfire management in Switzerland.

🔥 Hot off the press 🔥 In this collaborative workshop paper, we argue for the need to move from rigidity traps towards reparative disaster governance and management. With financial support from @snsf.ch and @unibe.ch, the paper is free to access online in IJDRR: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Photographer Phil Buehler captures beauty amidst the devastation in the fire scar from the Eaton fire in Altadena: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Last week was all go for the FiRES project in Catalonia 🔥 Together with the @paucostaf.bsky.social and CareNet at @uocuniversitat.bsky.social we distributed 4000 postcards to residents who’ve been impacted by #wildfire or live in at-risk areas. Now we’re keeping our 🤞🏼 for many interesting responses.

Hot off the press🔥 Social resilience research on climate-related hazards: Trends, accomplishments and shortcomings. We review how research engages with communities and places exposed to climate-related hazards.Open access in @plosclimate.org funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

“This is a climate-induced credit crunch.” Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer - via The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s that time of year when I’m asked by the Institute to contribute to the Annual Report. It made me realise that a project stock-take is well and truly overdue, as the Geographies of Disasters team has been very busy. Here's a summary of what we've been up to: christineeriksen.com/2025/03/26/p...

📣🔥 Survey: FiRES @unibe.ch has teamed up with @paucostaf.bsky.social and CareNet @uocuniversitat.bsky.social to study community wildfire resilience in Catalonia 🔥 Have you been impacted or live/work in an at-risk area? Please participate in CAT/ES/EN. Closes 30.6.25: www.surveymonkey.com/r/FiRES_CAT

Please join us at the University of Zurich on Wednesday 26 March for the Uncertainty Symposium. In Part 2, David Bresch, Stuart Kirsch, Michael Schaepman and I will focus on environmental uncertainty and climate change: scenarios, responses and perceptions of the future. www.uzh.ch/de/events/ev...

Do you have 15+ years of fire research experience, a strong publication record, and editorial experience? The Association for Fire Ecology (@afe-fireecology.bsky.social) is seeking a new Editor-In-Chief for its international scientific journal, Fire Ecology: fireecology.org/jobs-posts/f...

After the LA #wildfires, clear skies conceal a 'toxic soup': "Even with only preliminary data, the researchers could say one thing with little doubt. No one should be in or near the burn zone without a mask—especially not doing any kind of exercise." Via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/w...

An average #wildfire in the US West burns up to 895 acres per day (=half a football field a minute). The Palisades fire flared up 16 times faster, burning 14,313 acres on its fastest day (7.5 football fields a minute). Fast fires and why speed matters - via Reuters: www.reuters.com/graphics/CAL...

This master-planned Irvine neighborhood was left untouched by a fall 2020 wildfire amid drought and 80-mph Santa Ana winds. It could serve as a model for a more fire-resistant Los Angeles: www.latimes.com/california/s...

The University of Freiburg in Germany are advertising a Full Professorship for Fire Ecology. Deadline 6 April 2025. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

“I don't think we've incorporated what we learnt from that summer adequately into the imagination that's required for the future.” Five years on from Australia’s black summer: beautiful and haunting stories. This article had me in tears: so many memories. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“Putting a monetary value on the things that you possessed and felt so strongly about, and had so much love for them — like, how do you do that?” The tricky and exhausting task of trying to remember everything lost in a #wildfire. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/r...

Fire chiefs warn that the UK's fire and rescue services and local resilience forums are inadequately prepared and under-resourced for coping with the impacts of climate change: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What is it like to be a kid after the LA #wildfires took almost everything? Disasters impact children and young people in diverse ways short- and long-term. Research and reporting on past events show both vulnerabilities and their often underrated capacities to cope 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/u...

"If extreme weather now means no place is safe, then home remains the safest alternative." Insightful @nytimes.com article on political and cultural factors that influence rebuilding and recovery after #wildfires, incl. memory lapses, property sharks, rule bending. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/a...

Very few fixtures of the modern home are entirely free of plastic. So, what happens when a plastic city, like LA, burns? Insightful article by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social @theatlantic.com on the toxic dangers of wildfire smoke: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

After the #wildfires, Los Angeles gets "moonshot moment" to rebuild, e.g., by using fire-resistant designs, buffer zones and native trees, and by learning from disaster recovery strategies used elsewhere, such as buyouts and building moratoriums. Via @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/aft...

Wind speed is a critical driver of #wildfires. How can wildfire-prone areas, like LA, better gird itself against a threat as consistent, and consistently menacing, as severe wind? Insightful article by @zhonggg.bsky.social and graphics by Zack Levitt @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What is "reasonable risk" when nothing is "foolproof"? Interesting @nytimes.com article demonstrating the social construction of risk in the context of flooding and former mine-sites. #NoNaturalDisasters Kentucky’s Mountaintop Mines Are Turned Into Neighborhoods: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/c...

This @nytimes.com article describes the healing role "fossicking" through ruins can have for wildfire-impacted residents. “All these little things, they’re kind of like finding old friends. But on the other hand, they say to you, ‘My time is done.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

Wondering which journal to submit your research papers to this year?🔥🌍 We’ve created a “social science section” of Fire Ecology, with awesome editors, and the opportunity to create a podcast about your paper. Check out the @afe-fireecology.bsky.social blog post: fireecology.org/journal-news...

Community recovery from #wildfires is filled with challenges that span diverse issues like complex logistics, mental + physical health, rebuilding or relocating, environmental restoration, financial worries, sense of belonging, and stretched social networks. Here are some insights from my research 🧵