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Kerryn Little

@littlekerryn.bsky.social
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#Wildfire 🔥 & #climate researcher at University of Birmingham. Interested in all things fire (but especially fuels, fire-climate interactions, fire danger forecasting & fire ecology).

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Tim Curran @timcurran.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Final panel at #FBF2026 with @littlekerryn.bsky.social et al. Some great suggestions, including the importance of social science in solving wildfire issues. I agree completely. We have quite a lot of useful knowledge, the question is how we can get people to use it and change behavior when needed.
Group of panelists discussing generational insights of fire science.
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Kerryn Little @littlekerryn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🔥 New research shows how surface fire weather + synoptic weather patterns lead to vegetation fires across England
Fig. 1. Graphic showing the three layers of relationships investigated in this paper, from top to bottom: synoptic weather patterns surface fire weather – vegetation fires. Mean sea level pressure (MSLP) anomalies and Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) values are for June 26, 2018, the day the Saddleworth Moor Fire in England was declared a major incident, which remains one of the largest fires experienced in the UK at 18 km2 (Graham et al. 2020). The vegetation fire layer shows all spring (blue) and summer (orange) vegetation fires >1 ha recorded between April 2009 and April 2020.
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Kerryn Little @littlekerryn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We are collecting records of fire behaviour in the UK! Do you have fire behaviour observations (recent or historical) for a specific location, date and time? We welcome you to fill in this survey to help us to validate and improve FireInSite fire behaviour predictions. Survey link: arcg.is/CyqWj2
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Kerryn Little @littlekerryn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Does your research involve fire and shrub fuels? 🔥🌿 Please submit to our special session: "Shrubland fuels and their fire behaviour modelling challenges" at the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, New Orleans! Abstracts due soon-15th July! afefirecongress.org/special-sess...
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Kerryn Little @littlekerryn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
In a series of workshops in 2023, USA and UK wildfire scientists exchanged perspectives on priority directions for wildfire science research: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Fire regimes are changing across the globe, with new wildfire behaviour phenomena and increasing impacts felt, especially in ecosystems without clear adaptations to wildfire. These trends pose signifi...
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Kerryn Little @littlekerryn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New paper linking persistent high pressure systems to extreme fire weather and wildfire activity across Europe: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Persistent positive anomalies in geopotential heights drive enhanced wildfire activity across Europe | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Persistent positive anomalies (PPAs) in 500 hPa geopotential height are upper-air circulation patterns associated with surface heatwaves, drought and fuel aridity. We examined the association between ...
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Kerryn Little @littlekerryn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
PhD opportunity!! ➡️Heathland Flammability Responses to Environmental Change 🌿🔥 centa.ac.uk/studentship/... Work with a great team of researchers at University of Birmingham, University of Exeter, Forestry England & Met Office!
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Kerryn Little @littlekerryn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Testing the waters as it seems more and more people are making the move over here and I don't want to miss out on seeing all your cool research! 🔥🌳🌡️💧
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