APRIL 2024

• Helena has her first 1st author paper accepted, congratulations! Stay tuned!

MARCH 2025

• Manu, Wesley, Francisco and Edouard (etage M2) spend one month in Estação Ecologica Serra das Araras doind a remote sensing and functional trait collection field campaign

• New publication led by Francisco reviewing the role of fire in rewilding across the peer-reviewd literature

• New publication led by Monize on the conservation station of radverges in the Cerrado

• New publication led by Imma on the role of integrated fire management in mitigating the impact of altered fire regimes.

JANUARY 2025

• Francisco starts a 6 month visiting scholarship at AMAP (Montpellier)

DECEMBER 2024

• Imma and Tash attend and present at the American Geosciences Union (AGU) meeting in Washington.

• Francisco givens a talk at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the BES in Liverpool

NOVEMBER 2024

• Francisco gives a talk at the 74th Brazilian National Congress of Botany at the University of Brasilia

JUNE 2024

• FIRE-ADAPT Study Hub in Brazil. Read here

APRIL 2024

• Prof Bruno Rosado (UERJ) visits AMAP

MARCH 2024

• Imma & Manu attend a Workshop on 'Tipping points in the Amazon' at University of Yale, invited by Prof Paulo Brando and Dr Ane Alencar

FEBRUARY 2024

• Helena starts a 6 month visiting scholarship at AMAP (Montpellier)

• Wesley starts a postdoctoral contract at AMAP (Montpellier)

• Adriana Millan (Universidad del Litoral, Argentina) visits IRD

JANUARY 2024

• Ty leaves for Zimbabwe

SEPTEMBER 2023

• CerFogo field capaign at Estacao Ecologica Serra das Araras

• Ty is granted a Fullbright scholarship to do 9 month research in Zimbambwe

JULY 2023

• Davide Ascoli (Uni Torino) visits Imma to discuss the PhD thesis of Gian Luca Spadoni

JUNE 2023

• Kick-off meeting of the ISLETS project - read here

MAY 2023

• First FIRE-ADAPT Study Hub in Solsona (Catalonia, Spain). Read here

APRIL 2023

• Update: Natasha and Ty completed their MPhils and have started their DPhils

• Update: Francisco (Paco) started his Dphil in October 2023

• FIRE-ADAPT project launched (started January 2023). Check our fancy website at https://www.fireadapt.eu/es/

SEPTEMBER 2022 - MARCH 2023: MATERNITY LEAVE

JUNE 2022

• Imma participated as a lecturer in the EU-COST FIRELINKS Summer school 'Bridging the gap between fire ecology and fire behaviour' (13-16 June) in Barcelona (. Carlota and Ruth participated as attendants. https://firelinks.eu/event/bridging-the-gap-between-fire-ecology-and-fire-behaviour-2022-summer-school-in-barcelona/ 

• Imma, Tina, Carlota and Ty presented their work at the GTOE Conference in Tropical Ecology in Montpellier (6-9 June)

• We welcome Manu Machado to the team! She will be working on the NeoFiRE project

APRIL 2022

• New publication led by former group member Simone Matias Reis in Journal of Ecology on tree mortality at the forest-savanna transition in Brazil. 

FEBRUARY 2022

• New publication led by former PhD student Halina Jaconski in Biotropica! We worte this paper while two of the main authors (Halina & Marina) were taking care of newborns :-)

DECEMBER 2021

• Imma starts a new job as Research Director at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement)! Her post is based at the botAny and Modelling of Plant Architecture and vegetation (AMAP) joint research unit.

• Imma travels to Brazil to do fieldwork in the CerFogo project (first trip in two years!) and work with collaborators Maria Antonia Carniello (UNEMAT) and Luiz Gustavo Goncalves (ICMBio)

NOVEMBER 2021

• ​New publication led by Tina Christmann, with a synthesis of research on restoration in tropical montane forests

OCTOBER 2021

• Imma got awarded a 4-year NERC Standard Grant on the Vulnerability of Amazon and transitional forests to altered fire regimes. Stay tuned to updates!

• Thank you to the Department of Ecoinformatics, Northern Arizona University, for inviting Imma to give a seminar on effects of global change on tropical forest transitions. 

SEPTEMBER 2021

• New publication led by Sean Reilly on the usefulness of UAV and UAS data for mapping burned forests in California. This is Sean's first publication! #ProudSupervisor 

AUGUST 2021

• Listen to the podcast 'The science behind forest fires' in which Imma talks about the new reality about forest fires

JULY 2021

• New publication led by Tina Christmann on the ecology of tree islands in the stunning and highly vulnerable campus rupestres of Brazil. This is also Tina's first scientific publication! #ProudSupervisor

JUNE 2021

• Congratulations to Takeshi Inagawa for passing his DPhil viva with minor corrections! Imma was internal examiner. 

• On the 26th June we made a socially-distanced farewell to Ricardo and Thayse who went back to Brazil after spending 18 months in Oxford (essentially in lockdown). Ricardo will continue working with the group, as long as baby Teresa let's him work! 

• New publication led by Charlie Tebbutt on the socioeconomics drivers of fires in Colombia's Amazon. You can read some highlights here and here. This was Charlie's first scientific publication!!!! #ProudSupervisor

• Congratulations to Dr Javier Galán (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) for passing his viva with flying colours on 1st June 2021, and Imma being part of the examinor committee. 

MAY 2021

• Imma participating in a stimulating 3-day Workshop on 'New Directions in Fire ecology and fre modelling' organised by the Leverhulme Wildfire Centre.

APRIL 2021

• I am happy to announce that Dr Wesley Jonatar Alves da Cruz is joining our team this month. He will be working in the project CerFogo and continue based in Caceres (Brazil), from where he will help coordinate the project and lead data analyses and research deliverables.

MARCH 2021

• 15-19 March: Imma delivered a course on 'Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine' in partnership with TrasmittingScience. 

• 12 March: It's Friday week 8! This marks the end of Hilary Term and a break in Imma's teaching schedule. This was a term full of online teaching and a lot of zoom fatigue. A special thanks to the students for attending, making an effort to turn on cameras when having disussions, and for engaging with the lectures.

• 11 March: Tina gave a webinar for the 'Virtual coffee on Tropical Forests', organised by Dr. Aida Cuni-Sanchez. 

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FEBRUARY 2021​

• 9 February; Imma is giving a seminar “Ecological mechanisms of tropical vegetation transitions for co-existing with abiotic stressors and disturbances" at de Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, hosted by Dr Sean Michaletz. The talk will be 12.30pm PT, contact Imma or Sean if you'd like to join!. 

• 2 February DPhil reseracher Tina Christmann has given a lecture on Restoring Tropical Mountain Ecosystems 

 for the Oxford Climate School. Slides available here.

• New publication in Ecosphere, led by Prof Dolors Armenteras, showing how fire causes savanna encroachment in the Orinoco basin. 

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JANUARY 2021

• We start the year in national lockdown and back to working from home fulltime. The group meets every two weeks via Zoom (please get in touch if you would be interested in joining a meeting).