Category: Amazon Forest
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PhD studentship: can low-cost sensors and models show which Amazon forests are most at risk of burning?
A PhD at the University of Exeter combining environmental sensing, microclimate modelling and machine learning to predict fine-scale climate, heat stress and fire risk in Amazon forests, with fieldwork in Brazil optional.
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China Scholarship Council and University of Exeter PhD Scholarships 2027 entry
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. Full-time PhD scholarships are available in collaboration with the China Scholarship Council (CSC), for September 2027/28 entry. Available PhD Projects The PhD projects focus on a range of themes related to fire, land-use change, tree mortality, carbon cycling, and forest…
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The Amazon’s hottest days are warming more than twice as fast as its average
A new study in Communications Earth & Environment, co-authored at Exeter, shows that Amazonia’s climate extremes are changing far faster than its averages, and that the fastest-changing region is the central-north Amazon, far from the arc of deforestation.
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Burned Amazonian forests stay altered for at least 40 years, new lidar study shows
New spaceborne-lidar work presented at ATBC 2026 shows Amazonian forests in Acre remain measurably shorter, simpler and lower in biomass for at least 40 years after wildfire, recovering to only about 90% of unburned forest.
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MSc completed: Lorena de Souza Fleury traces a 25-year legacy of soil fertilisation in Amazonian secondary forests
Lorena de Souza Fleury’s MSc at INPA establishes a carbon baseline in Amazonian secondary forests before conversion to farmland, work that will feed into the new Amazon Forest to Field project.
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Amazon Forest to Field Project Officially Launched!
We are pleased to announce the start of the Amazon Forest to Field Project. This major international collaboration, involving researchers from the UK, Brazil,and Australia, will seek to answer one of the biggest open questions in climate science: what happens to the vast stores of carbon in Amazonian soils following forest conversion to other land…