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I am delighted to announce that the PhD thesis of my student Rory is now online: Smouldering and self-sustaining reactions in solids: an ...

Researchers at the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde have studied a burning Bing. A 30 m high waste heap at Bogside, North Lanarkshi...

I recently sent a Letter to the Editor of Scientific American calling her attention to the abysmal technical gaps in the September issue art...

Yesterday, on the train from King's Cross to Waverly, I read in History Today an interesting article about the other Great Fire of Rome...

(aka, Accidental Emissions from Fossil Fuels) Next week, I will present at the Royal Academy of Engineering a brief poster summarizing the...

The organic soil of Loiusiana marshes near New Orleans is smouldering in at least two separated locations. The fire continues to slowly spr...

Prof Ian Rotherham, ecologist and landscape historian at Sheffield Hallam University, has written a letter to The Telegraph " Peat cutt...

Quenching the Reactive Earth - Accidental Burning of Fossil-Fuels and Geoengineering I recently gave a research seminar at the Department ...

Our most recent paper on tunnel fires has just been published in the journal Computers and Fluids . The title is: Multiscale Modelling of ...

The NYT published last month a very interesting article on the use of computer modelling of wildfires to aid fire fighting decisions during ...

Remember the Russian wildfires last summer that choked the city of Moscow and other regions? These were smouldering mega fires burning for ...

Fire Technology , the journal of the National Fire Protection Association published by Springer, is preparing an issue on the 2001 fire and...

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...