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I am a physical geographer specialising in the impacts of climate change on wildfire and the consequences for society and the carbon cycle. My research has raised alarm about the rising extent and severity of forest fires globally and advanced how climate models represent fire impacts on the carbon cycle.

Harnessing my training in physical geography, my work connects process understanding across the spatial and temporal scales studied by field researchers through to climate modellers. I use machine learning to disentangle patterns and trends in global datasets, relate those insights to underlying mechanisms, and distill those mechanisms into process representations that are appropriate for use in global modelling applications.

My research group at UEA are studying the impact of climate change, ignition patterns, and land use on fire extent and severity, and evaluating the potential for forest management to mitigate wilder fires in future. We are focussing our research on the prediction and mitigation of wildfires with greatest potential to cause damage to society, ecosystems, and natural capital.

I co-lead the State of Wildfires Project, an annual initiative of an international network of fire scientists. This report examines the causes of extreme wildfire events of the latest fire season, evaluates future wildfire risks under climate change, and identifies opportunities to minimise risk through climate action and land management practices.

As a member of the Global Carbon Project (GCP), I contribute to the leading international effort to monitor of the global carbon budget and evaluate how people have disturbed the carbon cycle and climate through fossil fuel emissions and land use. Our findings are used by governments and international organisations to understand and quantify the human footprint on Earth’s climate.

More about my research

To find out more about my research on fire, climate change, emissions and the carbon cycle, please follow a theme below.