Category: Black Carbon
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Amazon Soil Carbon — The Missing Credit
Amazon Soil Carbon: Policy Brief Summary The conversion of forest to agriculture in the Amazon triggers a “deforestation multiplier,” resulting in a total carbon loss equivalent to approximately 1.2 times the original forest’s aboveground biomass. While current carbon credit standards like VERRA/VCS focus on standing timber, new evidence highlights the significant, unprotected carbon stocks remaining…
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‘Unprecedented’ wildfires in tropical peatlands during 20th century
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 than all the world’s forest biomass combined – but when they catch fire large amounts of the stored carbon is released into the atmosphere. Wildfires in tropical regions have been on the rise in recent decades, but the history and characteristics of wildfires in tropical peatlands remain largely unknown. …
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From Sample to Data: The Journey Inside the Laboratory
After thousands of kilometres of fieldwork across the Amazon, around two thousand soil samples have passed through the CENA laboratory in Piracicaba. This is the story of how they are dried, ground, sieved, weighed, and analysed to reveal how wildfires affect Amazonian soils.
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On the Road: Thousands of Kilometres in Service of Amazon Wildfire Science
The Amazon PyroCarbon project has covered thousands of kilometres across Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Amazonas, Acre, and Pará over the past three years. This is the story of the road trips, the Guerreira, and the soil that comes home with the team.
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Post-doc opportunity with the Amazon PyroCarbon Project
Pyrogenic Carbon in the Amazon: quantifying soil carbon responses to the effect of fire. 2021/00976-4 – UKRI – NERC – Research Project – Thematic Plinio Barbosa de Camargo (CENA/USP) – Ted R. Feldpausch Institution: Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture USP Supervisor name: Plínio Camargo / Ted Feldpausch Lab. Isotopic Ecology. USP SCENE Recipient:…
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PhD Scholarship: Soil carbon dynamics following Amazon forest wildfires (2026 entry)
A fully-funded PhD scholarship is available at the University of Exeter: Soil carbon dynamics following Amazon forest wildfires About the award Supervisors Lead Supervisor Dr Kees Jan Van Groenigen, Department of Geography, University of Exeter Additional Supervisors Professor Ted Feldpausch, Department of Geography, University of Exeter Eleanor Burke, Met Office Professor Plinio Camargo, University of…
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PhD Scholarship: Integrating sensing, modelling and data analytics to understand forest microclimate dynamics under fire, degradation and climate change in Amazonia
A fully-funded PhD scholarship is available at the University of Exeter: Integrating sensing, modelling and data analytics to understand forest microclimate dynamics under fire, degradation and climate change in Amazonia Supervision Lead Supervisor: Professor Ted Feldpausch Co-Supervisors: Ilya Maclean; I.M.D.Maclean@exeter.ac.uk Project This project combines environmental sensing, computational modelling anddata analytics to understand how climate change,…
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Fieldwork Investigates Forest Carbon, Structure, and Composition on Sandy Soils in Southern Amazonia
Amazonian rainforests play an important global role in maintaining biodiversity, regulating climate, generating rainfall, and storing carbon. Yet, despite their importance, these forests continue to face multiple forms of degradation.
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Integrating Pyrogenic Carbon into JULES: Updates from the Amazon and Conferences
By Oscar Kennedy-Blundell | Postdoctoral Research Associate I am currently working as a postdoctoral research associate focusing on black carbon, or pyrogenic carbon (PyC), in the Amazon Basin. My primary focus is modelling the occurrence of PyC using the RothC model and the JULES land surface model.
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High-elevation tropical forest soils in Colombian Andes store nine times more pyrogenic carbon than Amazonian forests
The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, warmer regions, new research shows.