Prof. Claire M Belcher
@ClaireMBelcher
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Professor of Wildland Fire
U. Exeter
Joined August 2009
Quote of the conference so far from @ClaireMBelcher: ‘plants are amazing. Don’t rule out their power in driving landscape flammability’ Yes Claire! 🙌 #leverhulmewildfires2023
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Wonderful to have @ClaireMBelcher from @UniofExeter talking about plants...understanding flammability, past, present and into the future #wildfires #leverhulmewildfires2023
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Last year 150 people volunteered to take part in #TheGreatFuelMoistureSurvey. This week they will collecting samples of heather from across the UK, developing our understanding of the flammability of vegetation during this important time in the #wildfire season 🔥 THANK YOU!
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Sampling tins, masking tape, cutters, black pen, what3words app and tape measure ✅ All ready for heather sampling tomorrow as part of #TheGreatFuelMoistureSurvey. Excited to be part of this national survey for monitoring heather moisture @ukfdrs @EPRGManchester @nkettridge
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Listen to @LittleKerryn explain the importance of #TheGreatFuelMoistureSurvey taking place this week. Her work supported by @ukfdrs and @PyroLife_ITN.
Don’t miss @LittleKerryn explaining how this research is helping to provide the science behind a tailored UK fire danger rating system. 🔥
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📢📢The Great Fuel Moisture Survey📢📢 Are you able to spare a small amount of your time one day in the spring of 2023 to collect samples of heather in your local UK heathlands and peatlands to support research working towards the development of a UK fire danger rating system?
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Just to say the wildfire lab @UofE_Research really enjoyed playing #FireTower last night - all your wildfire types will love this game !
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The @ukfdrs team had a great few days at the @Wildfire2022 conference. Thanks to all those involved in organising and presenting - see you in 2024! https://t.co/7yuByT2SHt
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Through this exciting project @ClaireMBelcher, #CindyLooy, and I are coupling palaeo and modern proxies to explore the complex interaction of climate and fire with the potential fire-adaptive trait of active branch shedding in ancient conifers (cladoptosis).
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It was a pleasure to take part in @BBCCountryfile today. The summer drought special highlighted the plight of farmers, wildlife and wildfires during drought conditions. We will have to learn to adapt to climate change. @DWFireRescue @UofE_Research @rayannevitali @ukfdrs
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The @ukfdrs project placing the recent fire weather in a historical context in the @newscientist and providing the on the ground measurements necessary to improve these indices for the future challenges we face.
The UK's “fire weather index”, which estimates how conducive weather conditions are for wildfires, reached its highest ever level on 19 July, the same day the record-breaking heatwave peaked at 40.3°C in Coningsby, Lincolnshire
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Agricultural land provides the largest area of vegetation fire fuels in England - unlike other UK countries. Probably the easiest fuel to manage in the UK. Analysis by T. Nikonovas @ukfdrs based on two decades of satellite data.
As climate changes the risk from wildfire needs to be considered in more activities,breaking up crop continuity and not planting close to property may reduce yields but will result in less loss if fire happens @NFUtweets @NFCC_FireChiefs
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Max. fire weather index for England during the July heatwave was way above anything we have seen in the last two decades. No wonder fire services were so stretched and we had an unprecedented property loss linked to vegetation fires. ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis by T. Nikonovas @UKFDRS
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Here's the wildfire chapter from the UK's Climate Change Risk Assessment, led by @ClaireMBelcher: https://t.co/W8BY3BOAvT
@DrTELS This really puts in to perspective all those predictions we wrote about last year in the CCRA3 wildfire report - what is happening now really shows the stark reality
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I can't believe what I'm seeing here. This is horrific. The UK has *never* seen wildfires like this before. These look to be multiple wildland fires that have spread into urban areas. Unprecedented loss of buildings, I just hope no one has been hurt.
BREAKING: The London Fire Brigade has declared a major incident in response to the surge in fires across the capital as temperatures exceed 40C. https://t.co/NvxWFA7hul 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Hard to believe what we are seeing in the UK todays in terms of #wildfire first extensive losses of homes and infrastructure. Multiple fires. Wildfires are a real threat in the UK now - @ukfdrs #ukwildfire
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Today we have been looking at forestry Litter and Duff fuel moisture content, ignitability and flammability. @ForestryComm colleagues collected samples from Scotland and England along with the local weather data for us to test. @UofE_Research @ukfdrs @ClaireMBelcher
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Spent yesterday doing hourly fuel samples of heather and Gorse with @ClaireMBelcher for @UofE_Research and @ukfdrs. Weather, fuel moisture content, ignitability and flammability all recorded on the hour from 09:00 until 18:00. @FirebreakSvcs @essexforester
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