Knowledge for Wildfire

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Improving management of UK #wildfire through knowledge exchange

NERC #KE project at University of Manchester

[Pau Costa Foundation @PauCostaF]

🔥Join #FireFlorence2022 online!

Virtual registration👇
-Livestream and recordings of plenaries and the virtual oral and poster presentations
-Networking opportunities
-Presentation recordings for 3 months

Learn more🔗https://t.co/yh2caPYS63

[Rob Gazzard @essexforester]

@RafaqatWarda Great point which is included into @ukfdrs Work Package 6 and builds upon research undertaken by @ForestryComm @Forest_Research
@KfWf_Manchester @DrTELS @garethdclay work on Wildfire Threat Analysis https://t.co/KMdO8K2gPe

https://t.co/34nONtc3Wq

[Stefan Doerr @doerr_s]

Exciting research post vacancy in Wildfire Behaviour and Risk Mitigation Modelling at our Centre for Wildfire Research: https://t.co/WhgoNDUc1z

[Amy Christianson @ChristiansonAmy]

Fire Twitter hive mind - we are looking for an Indigenous guest for the Good Fire podcast from an underrepresented region in fire (so NOT North America or Australia). Do you know anyone who would be interested & is comfortable w a convo in English?? https://t.co/MenJk4nlsA

[Northumberland Fire & Rescue Service @NlandFRS]

It was a busy week for our Wildfire Team! Officers from around the UK were put through their paces by our Wildfire Team and trainers from the Training, Assurance and Safety Department to make sure they can work safely and effectively at the largest wildfire incidents. #Wildfire

[Gareth Clay @garethdclay]

🚨Fully-funded ESRC-CASE PhD project “Anecdotal Anthropocenes: The role of experiential knowledge in sensing wildfires”
Supervisors: @garethdclay, Aurora Fredriksen, @nat_ogrady with @NLandFRS_CFO
Funder: @NWSSDTP
Full details https://t.co/iZ34lLQ0Wz
Deadline 31st March 2022

[UCL Warning Research Centre @UCLWRC]

Free webinar on 'Warning for wildfires: Trailblazing a safer future’ 27 Jan 15:00–17:00GMT with @uahurtado, Dr Vassiliki Kotroni, @DrCEriksen & @forewarned10. Book here: https://t.co/nNautfbr3M @WildfireScience @wildfirecenter @nswfire @KfWf_Manchester @KCLwildfire_EO

[PyroLife_ITN @PyroLife_ITN]

Remember next week Basics of Risk Communication Course.

More information and registration: https://t.co/5g3fKshOzY

[IAWF @IAWF]

Want to make a difference?🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

Nominate a colleague, or self-nominate, for one of six positions on the IAWF board!💻

There's lots of time – until Oct. 30.🗓️

Details are here: https://t.co/qDtwsDpvxn

#IAmIAWF

[PyroLife_ITN @PyroLife_ITN]

📢📢 NEW #PHDVACANCY! We are hiring 1 PhD candidate.
👉 Topic description: Fire Resilient Landscapes
🔴Deadline: Sept. 12th
More information 🔗https://t.co/aVHVRM11qq

[Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service @manchesterfire]

We would like to hear your views about wildfires 🔥

Please spare 10 minutes to share your thoughts to help us shape our future work.

You can have your say in this survey on the GMConsult website 👉 https://t.co/JMyXE9yOoL

[Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service @manchesterfire]

Let's talk about... wildfires 🔥

We are running a survey to gather views from the public about wildfires.

Can you spare 10 minutes to share your thoughts to help us shape our future work?

You can find the survey on the GMConsult website 👉 https://t.co/JMyXE9QpNl

[Scottish Fire and Rescue Service @fire_scot]

⚠️Please be aware there is a wildfire warning in place across areas of Scotland until 26 April ⚠️ We are asking the public to exercise extreme caution and think twice before using anything involving a naked flame.
Read more here ➡️https://t.co/spajfP8CXe

[Prof Dr Christine Eriksen @DrCEriksen]

The initiatives and women fighting fire and breaking barriers in the American wilderness - via ⁦@NatGeo⁩ https://t.co/E5N0v16nwd

[Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 @DrTELS]

#RingwoodForest fire (10/11 August)🌲🔥

Pre- & post-fire satellite images captured just 3 days apart last week by Sentinel-2A/2B @Sentinel_hub @CopernicusEU can be used for rapid burnt area assessment.

Red🟥 shows healthy vegetation; the burnt area shows up as a dark scar.

[Prof Guillermo Rein. 🔥 @GuillermoRein]

Peat fires paper published in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute led by @eirikgc.

It studies the influence of wind direction (forward, perpendicular, and opposed) and slope (uphill, side hill, and downhill) on multidimensional smouldering spread.

https://t.co/dmt3PCaaeo

[Copernicus ECMWF @CopernicusECMWF]

🔥2019 was a remarkable year for wildfires, with attention-grabbing events in the Amazon, Australia and the Arctic. But was it really an above-average year for fires globally?

Find out in the #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service's recap of the year➡️https://t.co/PZWZCONrrI

[Mark Parrington @m_parrington]

Save the dates for some exciting presentations on global #wildfires at #EGU20 next week!

Session NH7.2 on spatial & temporal patterns of wildfires: 5 May, 14:00-18:00 CEST https://t.co/Vn5dvz4iGc

and the Union Symposium advertised below on 6 May

#shareEGU20

[Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 @DrTELS]

The UK's wildfire season has started. #WinterHill (Lancs) on fire again. Other hotspots in Wales, and large parts of England & Wales with high/very-high Fire Severity Index forecast for tomorrow. It's dry out there!
Photo via @Walton_FIRE
#wildfire

[Shaun Walton 🚒🔥 @Walton_FIRE]

1 of 2 We have now extinguished the wildfire at winter hill, we will be at @ scene damping down for a few hours, please don’t be tempted to visit the moors, traffic is building up and we still have crews doing essential work in the area and on the road way #stayathome