Artwork developed by our Amazon Past Fire and Amazon PyroCarbon Projects, funded by UK NERC and ODA grants,…
It is with great sadness that we share the loss of Luciana Pereira, a talented Geography PhD student…
Between 19 and 30 April 2024, the Amazon PyroCarbon Project team travelled to Acre, Brazil, to revisit permanent…
This opportunity has closed. For current PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the Feldpausch group, see Opportunities. FAPESP Opportunity…
This opportunity has closed. For current PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the Feldpausch group, see Opportunities. We are…
Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally…
Prof Ted Feldpausch and Prof Jose Iriarte developed a new display with the Eden Project to communicate to…
Expert talk – ‘The history of people and fire in the Amazon rainforest’ Where: The Core Film Room (1st floor), The Eden Project, Cornwall,…
Phytolith analysis is a well-established archaeobotanical tool, having provided important insights into pre-Columbian crop cultivation and domestication across…
In a major collaboration involving 80 scientists from Europe and South America, our research identified the regions of…
As part of the NERC-funded Amazon Past Fire project, we coordinated a training session with university students in…
This opportunity has closed. For current PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the Feldpausch group, see Opportunities. There is…
A project in partnership between the University of Exeter and UFAC-Brazil held the 2nd Workshop: Exchange of Knowledge…
The Municipal Secretary of Education of Confresa offered the event “I Workshop Exchange of Knowledge and Teaching on…
In our recent paper, “Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance” published in Frontiers in Forests and Global…
Researchers at the University of Exeter describe some of the globally important research that they lead on tropical…
Congratulations to all of the students graduating from the University of Exeter this week. Those completing included a…
This opportunity has closed. For current PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the Feldpausch group, see Opportunities. This project…
In our recent paper, “Forest Fire History in Amazonia Inferred From Intensive Soil Charcoal Sampling and Radiocarbon Dating”…
A two-day hybrid workshop (both online and in-person) was held on 25th and 26th November 2021 that included 20 participants…
The four-day workshop “Science and Practices of Fire in Amazonia: past, present and future”, organized by the University…
This workshop took place on 8–11 November 2021. Read the report: Nearly 300 people join online workshop on…
This video and paper highlight the work we are doing through ForestPlots.net to take the pulse of Earth’s…
Research at the University of Exeter examines how measurements of charcoal reflectance can be used to understand fire…
Header image credit: Paulo Brando