Research Officer – Towards a UK wildfire danger rating system – Swansea University
Fixed term position for 3 years duration.
Deadline 08/11/2020
We are seeking to appoint a researcher on a new NERC-funded research project “Towards a UK wildfire danger rating system”. The project (https://ukfdrs.com) aims to establish and test the key scientific underpinning components required for an effective, tailored UK fire danger rating system for use in establishing the likelihood and impact of current and future wildfire regimes.
This large-scale project is coordinated by the University of Manchester (UoM) in collaboration with six other institutions (Swansea University, University of Exeter, University of Birmingham, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Portsmouth, and Forest Research) and supported by a diverse stakeholder advisory board. Across the whole project, there are 9 academic Co-Investigators, 4 PDRAs and two technicians.
The project includes six linked work packages: (1) Fuel mapping: landscape scale to local fuel structure, (2) Fuel moisture regime characterisations, (3) Flammability and aspects of fire behaviour in key UK land cover types (4), Assessing UK fire behaviour, (5) Assessing outputs against actual fire occurrence and (6) Scoping landscape-scale and national wildfire risk assessment.
Swansea University will be involved in all aspects of the project, with a leading role in work package 4. Applicants are therefore expected to have substantial experience in environmental modelling, ideally associated with the occurrence and behaviour of wildfire.
