Category: News
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Revisiting burned forest plots in Acre to track how fire changes soil carbon
Between 19 and 30 April 2024, the Amazon PyroCarbon Project team travelled to Acre, Brazil, to revisit permanent burned-forest plots, collect soils and charcoal for ancient fire dating, and install soil respiration monitoring equipment across nine forest plots, three pastures, and two agroforestry systems.
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People and the Amazon: new display by the Univ of Exeter and Eden Project
Prof Ted Feldpausch and Prof Jose Iriarte developed a new display with the Eden Project to communicate to the public research findings about historical land-use and fire use by pre-Columbian people.
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UFAC workshop trains student teachers to teach about Amazon wildfire
A project in partnership between the University of Exeter and UFAC-Brazil held the 2nd Workshop: Exchange of Knowledge and Teaching on Burning in the Amazon, taught by biologist Yara Araújo Pereira de Paula, Master in Ecology from UFAC. The event had students as its target audience and ran from Monday, 20th to Saturday, the 25th,…
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Workshop Exchange of Knowledge and Teaching on Burning in the Amazon, Confresa, MT-Brazil (video)
The Municipal Secretary of Education of Confresa offered the event “I Workshop Exchange of Knowledge and Teaching on Burning in the Amazon”, which took place on February 22, 23 and 24, 2023, in the face-to-face format at the municipality of Confresa, MT. Funded by the University of Exeter (UK) and the Natural Environmental Research Council,…
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Tropical Forest Research in Geography at the University of Exeter (video)
Researchers at the University of Exeter describe some of the globally important research that they lead on tropical forests and peatlands.
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Fully funded PhD opportunity: Soil carbon dynamics following Amazon Forest fires: quantifying the role of fire severity and charcoal, NERC GW4+ DTP PhD
This opportunity has closed. For current PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the Feldpausch group, see Research opportunities. This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding from the NERC Great Western Four+ Doctoral Training Partnership (GW4+ DTP). The GW4+ DTP consists of the Great Western Four alliance of the University of…
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Amazon PyroCarbon Project Officially Launched!
We are pleased to announce the start of the Amazon PyroCarbon 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 in response to fire? Our team will…