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A peat fire has been burning in North Carolina since May 4 inside the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. It is only 75% contain so fa...

I was quickly reading over a new paper on renewable energy policy [ Krey and Clarke 2011 ], and realized that there is a visual link between...

Last Wednesday 1 June, I gave this Inaugural Lecture on Multiscale Modelling of Tunnel Fires at the I Fire Engineering Conference at Unive...

Yesterday 23 May, I gave this invited talk on Forecasting Fire Dynamics at the Institute of Physics Combustion Group meeting on Combustion ...

Spinger has published a new book on combustion. It is based on the long-running undergraduate course at UC Berkeley ME140 Combustion Process...

I was quoted in the article that The Independent published last Saturday on Spain's wetlands National Park Las Tablas de Daimiel : Th...

The unusual warn and sunny weather spell that we have been enjoying recently over most of the UK has unfortunately led to an intensification...

We have published recently a paper in Combustion and Flame titled " Numerical Investigation of the Ignition Delay Time of a Transluce...

Yesterday 6 April, I gave this talk on Climate Feedbacks on Smouldering Earth at the 2011 European Geosciences Union , Vienna: Climate Fe...

Last Thursday 24th Feb, I gave this invited talk on Travelling Fires at the 6th International Congress on Performance-Based Design for Fire...

" A Novel Multiscale Methodology for Simulating Tunnel Ventilation Flows During Fires "   published in Fire Technology 47 (1), ...

On 29 Nov 2010 I was interviewed by Scottish TV about a recent research paper published about " Forecasting Fire Growth ". Here g...

This year University of Edinburgh Christmas Lecture was given by the winner of the Tam Dalyell Prize 2010 - Professor Jose Torero. The le...

We published recently a paper in Fire Safety Journal titled " Forecasting Fire Growth using an Inverse Zone Modelling Approach "...

The recent article of Banyan in The Economist, Where there's smoke , talks about the endemic haze that invades large parts of South East...

The very first research paper on the 2009 Daimiel peat fires has just been published. It is still pending volume and page numbers, but the m...

Alberto Martínez Arias me ha entrevistado en el programa ' Puntos de Vista ' de Radio Exterior RNE (ver dia 2 de septiembre aqui ...

Did you know about the first steps of Dilbert the engineer ? See the short video bellow. It is a classic video comic, but full of truth and ...

I did this comparison combining photos that I took at Las Tablas de Daimiel, Spain, in Nov 2009 during the peat fires and in Aug 2010 af...

"Daimiel era un desierto gris" elpais.com, por RAFAEL MÉNDEZ 24/08/2010 ( a translation to funny English is here ). ENTREVIS...

Given the attention paid during the last month to peat fires because of the dramatic events taking place in Russia this summer [*], some mi...

We are delighted to inform you that Volume 1 of ' Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective ' - our four volume book series - will...

As published this month in Nature Geoscience , forest wildfires that took place in Greenland millions of years ago are helping scientists to...

He escrito para el Anuario El país un articulo corto sobre el incendio soterrado de las Tablas de Daimiel. Incluyo el texto abajo. La vers...

As a young academic, and hence self-named newcomer to science, I was moved from the chair by some comments by The Institute of Physics in i...

This short film of the animated character Bean Maxwell caricatures a situation familiar to many of us. Enjoy.  - On the Level: All Bean...

Prof  Amy Smith from MIT gave in 2006 a TED talk on how to develop clean-burning solid fuels from local resources for indoor cooking. She s...

Prof Mike Hulme from University of East Anglia said it better: " Climate scientists get kudos from working on an issue in the public ey...

My comments on Daimiel made it to the New York Times (via AP), here goes my 15 min of fame: Spain Begins to Flood Park With Peat Fire

The good news that the National Park of Las Tablas de Daimiel begins to be flooded again was confirmed yesterday by EFE . It is hoped that t...

I have posted in the Edinburgh Fire Research Blog a longer comment with new photos or my visit to Las Tablas de Daimiel fire. See here: ...

One of the currently most popular research topics is Carbon Capture and Storage (technology to remove carbon dioxide directly from the atmo...

Some of my comments on the peat fire in Daimiel have started to appear in media publishing in the English language: ( P resence in Spani...

Apariciones mías en medios españoles a cuenta del incendio soterrado de Las Tablas de Daimiel: ( for English-speaking media see here ) 10/1...