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Tina Liu recently accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Geography at University of British Columbia. She will start her position in January in Vancouver where she will build a laboratory studying global and North American fire...

Congratulations to Audrey for her selection this spring as a recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Audrey's thesis work is on using isotope measurements of fire emissions from the Amazon and the western US to quantify characteristics about fuel...

We are tracking the evolution of fires in the Amazon. Please check out the Global Fire Emissions Database website for daily updates. The number of fires in the Legal Amazon was unusually high and fire temperatures were considerably above normal at the time of this...

Liz Wiggins' paper on the radiocarbon content of aerosols from Indonesian fires was published yesterday in PNAS. Colleagues from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology collected aerosol samples from the...

In most climate model projections for the 21st century with moderate to high fossil fuel emissions, the Amazon becomes drier and Indonesia becomes wetter. Within the climate modeling community, this pattern of diverging tropical land precipitation had been...

Weiwei Fu's paper published this week in Global Biogeochemical Cycles shows ocean oxygen minimum zones are poised for a wild ride over the next few centuries. First they will expand from warming, but then they may shrink far below current levels. Recovery of oxygen...

Shane Coffield, a first year Ph.D. student in Earth System Science, was awarded a 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Shane proposes to work on fire prediction and participates in the Machine Learning in Physical Sciences (MAPS) NSF training program....

I am looking to hire 1-2 Ph.D. students and 1-2 postdoctoral scholars in my laboratory during 2018 and 2019. For Ph.D. students, I am particularly interested in working with students on research topics related to the global carbon cycle and analysis of land cover...

In a paper published in November of 2017, Dr. Yang Chen describes how ocean teleconnections during El Nino create a predictable pattern of drought and fire across different tropical continents. The work draws upon the +20 year record of burned area and fire...