Category: Black Carbon
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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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Andean Soil Carbon: The Deep Pool, Still Uncredited
A new policy brief distils our Global Change Biology study of 36 plots across the Colombian Andes: soil carbon rises six-fold from lowland to high-elevation forest, and a fire-derived fraction nine times the Amazon average makes it exceptionally durable — yet carbon-credit standards still treat soil as optional.
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High-elevation tropical forest soils in Colombian Andes are rich in carbon from past fires
New research reveals that high-elevation tropical forest soils in the Colombian Andes store large stocks of pyrogenic and organic carbon, with clay content and fire history as key controls.
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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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Adding fire-derived carbon to the JULES land-surface model for the Amazon
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.
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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 forest fire: rare for millennia, absent for 800 years
A new policy brief shows that intact Amazon forests have not burned for about 800 years, and that the carbon those ancient fires left is still in their soils: any fire in old-growth forest is a break with that history.
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Even Amazon forests with no record of fire carry its legacy deep in their soils
Charcoal-derived carbon makes up a tenth of the soil carbon under Amazon forests with no known fire history, and half of it lies deeper than most soil surveys ever sample.