ialeUK Webinar: UK Fire Danger Rating System Project - Dynamic Fuels in the South Pennines

Activity: Talk or presentationInvited talkResearch

Description

Gail Millin-Chalabi is a Co-I Researcher at The University of Manchester for the NERC-funded project Towards a UK Fire Danger Rating System. She has been working in the field of Geographical Information Systems and Earth Observation for the past twenty years. Gail’s PhD focused on the use of radar data for characterising burned areas after wildfires in the Peak District National Park. She has since worked with organisations such as South Downs National Park, National Trust, Clyde & Co, Pixalytics, NatureScot, Forest Research and DEFRA to map and monitor the recovery of burned areas after wildfire incidents and to assess wildfire threat for UK peatland and heathland landscapes.
Period2 Jul 2024
Held atialeUK (International Association for Landscape Ecology), United Kingdom
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • Fuel dynamics
  • moorlands
  • wildfires
  • Landscape