A fully funded NERC GW4+ PhD at Cardiff University, with Exeter, Bath and Florida, on how lightning ignites…
A fully funded NERC GW4+ PhD at the University of Exeter on how wildfire and charcoal change soil…
A PhD at the University of Exeter combining environmental sensing, microclimate modelling and machine learning to predict fine-scale…
中国国家留学基金委和英国埃克塞特大学合作奖学金（博士生项目） Prof Ted Feldpausch is recruiting students for the China Scholarship Council and University of Exeter PhD Scholarships.…
A new study in Communications Earth & Environment, co-authored at Exeter, shows that Amazonia’s climate extremes are changing…
A new policy brief distils our Global Change Biology study of 36 plots across the Colombian Andes: soil…
New spaceborne-lidar work presented at ATBC 2026 shows Amazonian forests in Acre remain measurably shorter, simpler and lower…
Lorena de Souza Fleury’s MSc at INPA finds that forest age, not fertiliser, drove carbon recovery in Amazonian…
Amazon Soil Carbon: Policy Brief Summary The conversion of forest to agriculture in the Amazon triggers a “deforestation…
A new study reveals an unprecedented increase in wildfires in tropical peatlands during the 20th century. Peatlands store vast quantities of carbon below the Earth’s surface – more…
After thousands of kilometres of fieldwork across the Amazon, around two thousand soil samples have passed through the…
The Amazon PyroCarbon project has covered thousands of kilometres across Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Amazonas, Acre, and Pará over…
This opportunity has closed. For current PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the Feldpausch group, see Research opportunities. Pyrogenic…
Amazonian rainforests play an important global role in maintaining biodiversity, regulating climate, generating rainfall, and storing carbon. Yet,…
PhD student Gavyn Mewett has returned from a month of fieldwork in Ghana, where he surveyed lightning-struck trees…
By Oscar Kennedy-Blundell | Postdoctoral Research Associate I am currently working as a postdoctoral research associate focusing on…
The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than…
A new study published in Communications Biology (Nature Portfolio) found a surprising pattern in the world’s largest and…
A new study shows the significant impact of recurring fires and agricultural conversion on soil carbon storage in…
The Amazon rainforest, an important carbon sink, faces increasing threats from deforestation and wildfires. But what happens to…
Our new study published in the journal Science reveals a concerning trend, that tropical forests across the Americas…
We recently published a paper led by PhD student Maurivan Barros Pereira (State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT)),…
Funding is available for Brazilian students with the Feldpausch Research Group at the University of Exeter through the…
In November–December 2024, a seven-member Amazon PyroCarbon Project team established 22 soil plots across contrasting fire histories in…
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