Kerryn Little PyroLife_ITN Toward a UK Fire Danger Rating System .Kerryn Little discussing at #EGU24 how we may use synoptic climatology to provide a longer term assessments of European fire danger

Toward a UK Fire Danger Rating System Great presentation by Katy Ivison yesterday at #EGU24 outlining the controls on fuel moisture content across the UK and their response to extreme heat wave conditions.

Looking forwards to #EGU24 next week. 5 talks and 2 posters (including 4 highlights) led by amazing researchers and partners as part of Toward a UK Fire Danger Rating System Irish Peatland Resilience PyroLife_ITN and others.

New paper: 'Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes'

fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

As we begin to move into the 2024 wildfire season, here are some of the headline results collected last year by the amazing #TheGreatFuelMoistureSurvey volunteers

Happy to share this piece of research completed with some of the University of Birmingham Undergraduate Geography cohort in the 2022 Fieldwork Project Design and GIS module!
doi.org/10.1071/WF23078

This was a really positive experience of research-embedded education 🧵

We have 3 years of soil moisture / temperature and surface temperature data from across the moors too, please feel free to get in touch if you are interested in doing some science with it! :)

End of an era! Packing up all 36 fuel moisture monitoring plots on the North York Moors. Thank you to the Estates and individuals involved in making such an extensive landscape scale fuel moisture campaign possible. Look out for our results 👀 #firedanger #fireweather #fmc

Thanks to BBC Weekend News @ 10 BBC News (UK) Clive Myrie for reporting wildfire activity globally in 2023. Rebecca Murrell Science Editor summarises key trends including insights from Toward a UK Fire Danger Rating System team Stefan Doerr and Dr. Gail Millin-Chalabi Manchester Geography

Thanks to BBC Radio 5 Live for inviting me to discuss wildfires in Canada and global wildfire trends on the Saturday Breakfast show Dr. Gail Millin-Chalabi Toward a UK Fire Danger Rating System UoM News Manchester Geography

🔥Fieldwork🔥 Pia Labenski & Johannes Senn ⌘ are currently working in the Peak District (up North in England), collecting data on vegetation recovery 🌿 after wildfires. An exciting collaboration with Toward a UK Fire Danger Rating System to monitor fuel dynamics in moorlands. #WildfireResearch #blueberries

Thanks to BBC Scotland for the opportunity to discuss wildfire risk in the UK on behalf of the Toward a UK Fire Danger Rating System UoM News on The Sunday Show today. To watch the interview please visit bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The article refers to Tom's work with the Natural Environment Research Council-funded UK Fire Danger Rating System project (@UKFDRS) which is working to build a new system to help predict how wildfires behave in the UK 🇬🇧.

But more than that, it has been amazing to see the notes, discussions and enjoyment of the sampling by people. Results coming out here soon, but for now a massive THANK YOU!

#TheGreatFuelMoistureSurvey

Absolutely blown away by the #TheGreatFuelMoistureSurvey volunteers. 750 samples and counting of fuel moisture from right across the UK. 55% taken on a single day and ~80% within a two day period of high fire danger last week.

Our NNR team were out collecting heather samples at #HolmeFen last week for the #GreatFuelMoistureSurvey ; a scientific project to develop better wildfire predictions. Learn more about this Natural Environment Research Council Uni of Birmingham project here:

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The latest on the large wildfire burning to the east of Glenuig in the Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Burned ~3,500 ha as of this afternoon (22 April 2023), with a large active headfire on the eastern edge. It may have died down overnight, but good chance of spread tomorrow if winds kick up. [1/3]

College of Life and Environmental Sciences Kerryn Little Great video presented by Kerryn Little on the #GreatFuelMoistureSurvey and how Toward a UK Fire Danger Rating System is helping build our future #resilience to #wildfires . 👍🔥🇬🇧

Forestry Commission Forest Research Natural England Forestry England Scottish Forestry Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales Forest Service Northern Ireland DAERA Defra UK

Listen to Kerryn Little explain the importance of #TheGreatFuelMoistureSurvey taking place this week. Her work supported by Toward a UK Fire Danger Rating System and PyroLife_ITN.

Don’t miss Kerryn Little explaining how this research is helping to provide the science behind a tailored UK fire danger rating system. 🔥