Kings-NCEO: Earth Obs & Wildfire Research Group

Deadline for our Senior Lecturer position in Earth System Science, expanding our EO and/or Environmental Modelling capabilities has been extended to 23rd June. Come join us ! tinyurl.com/KCL101 @NCEOscience @kclgeography

Come join our dynamic Research Group at King's College London as a Senior Lecturer, expanding our existing skills and science foci to target one or more complementary research areas. Further details at tinyurl.com/KCLJob100. Application deadline currently 9th June 2025.

Want to join our Earth Observation & Environmental Science team at @kingscollegelon and @NCEOscience helping run #experiments and #campaigns in UK and overseas? Training provided. Apply by 11 Feb at shorturl.at/Cp0iu @centrewildfires @kclgeography

Latest group paper - led by @MJGrosvenor - on measured #airquality impacts of Kalimantans #peatland fires. Catastrophic and surprisingly well modelled using atmosphere.copernicus.eu/data whose fire emissions we helped develop. nature.com/articles/s4324… @centrewildfires @NCEOscience

New paper out in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques today!

we have also been flying over some gas flares at the tar sands near fort mcmurray. the scale of this industry is insane! we are investigating how the angle you view the target affects the measurements. this is part of the new @ESA_EO FRM4Fire project.

saw some incredible northern lights during our flight tonight @kclgeography @centrewildfires @KCLwildfire_EO @NCEOscience

We are in Alberta doing an airborne campaign over fires. Yesterday we flew over one of the many fires burning in Saksatchewan and saw this pyrocumulonimbus forming from the huge smoke plume of a nearby fire, which looked like an explosion! #wildfire @kclgeography @centrewildfires

Remember our @NCEOscience Airbone Earth Observatory. At #FIA2024 we're at the @UKRI_News stand with these wonderful models our team have made representing our recent campaigns collecting multangular observations over fluxtower instrumented croplands and wildfires in Canada. 🏡

Teak plantation wood being transported in #laos. Next month those distant hils might not even be visible 'cos of extreme amount of airborne particulate matter present during the #burning season - posing significant hazards to health. @kclgeography @centrewildfires @NCEOscience

Back in Laos to service our air quality sensor network. A beautiful place, that a month or two per year seems to host some of the world's worst AQ - due to extensive land clearance and agricultural fires. We are collaborating across the region to see if that's correct.

Read how our team developed and deployed an adapted airborne thermal hyperspectral sensor - enabling our new 'wobbly OWL' imager to collect unique far off nadir data to support new satellite mission designs kcl.ac.uk/news/enhanced-…

Want to join us helping to run #experiments and #campaigns in UK and overseas? Training provided. Closing date 20th Sept. kcl.ac.uk/jobs/072934-fi… @NCEOscience @centrewildfires @kclgeography

Want to come and join us in London as a #researcher working on the #EarthObservation of #wildfire ? Apply before Sept 20th jobs.ac.uk/job/DCE980/res… @centrewildfires @kclgeography @NCEOscience

We were also flying over the @ONforestfires #AFFES helicopter in the @BAS_News Twin Otter, taking EO (thermal and hyperspectral) and smoke (gas and particulate) measurements of SLK033.

Great day for our team measuring smoke and fire in the Ontario forest with our Canadian counterparts. At the end of the day we found smoke from fires in Quebec seriously degraded air quality far more than the local burns. @NCEOscience @centrewildfires @kclgeography

we are currently validating satellite fire products. we had a successful flight over a 60MW fire during both sentinel-3a and 3b overpasses last night

We have liftoff... Searching for fires on our first test flight underlying the #Sentinel3 satellite to validate our active fire products delivered by #ESA

The @KCLwildfire_EO thermal instruments are in the camera hatch on the aircraft! 2 days of installing instruments, computers, and a silly amount of cables. Plane now very full! Hopefully ready for a test flight over a #wildfire in Ontario today. @ESA_EO @kclgeography