University of California, Irvine
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 composition, including whether the emissions originated from burning of wood or fine herbaceous fuels.
Audrey is co-advised by Claudia Czimczik and Jim Randerson.
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 attributed...