FIREMAN: a BIODIVERSA funded project - Latest News
*NEW* - May 2010 - Upcoming Annual General Meeting to be held in Montpellier, France, 26th-29th May 2010. More details to follow.
*NEW* - April 2010 - Richard Bradshaw and Katharine Welsh complete analysis of temporal and spatial differences in biodiversity across Europe in the Holocene. More details to follow. Manuscript in final stages of preparation.
*NEW* - April 2010 - Successful first year of the FIREMAN project. Read more about what has been going on in the project in the last 12 months by looking at the meeting reports, charcoal database and research pages.
*NEW* - February 2010 - Melina Barrio from University of Santiago de Compostela completes a three month placement at the University of Liverpool. More details coming soon.
November 2009 - A Stakeholders Meeting with delegates from Scandinavia, the Mediterranean and the UK was held in the Peak District UK on 17-19 November 2009. More details and a meeting report from Dr Katherine Allen can be found here.
October 2009 Recent fieldwork has been undertaken by members of FIREMAN at the University of Montpellier in Corsica. More details.
November 2009 - Liverpool FIREMAN social evening was a great success. More details.
November 2009 - Melina Barrio Martinez will visit Liverpool from Santiago de Compostela for 3 months to work on stakeholder attitudes to burning.
October 2009 - Mats Niklasson was the FIREMAN representative at a fire users conference in Sweden organised by county authorities. Fire is recognised as an important tool for managing biodiversity in the boreal region. http://www.fireconference.se/
October 2009 - Katharine Welsh and Tim shaw have gathered data and produced a location map of sites within the new European Charcoal Database. More details.
October 2009 - Mike Harris is interviewing Peak District stakeholders on their attitudes and concerns about moorland burning.
September 2009 - Karen Halsall has completed a full Holocene history of burning on Robinson’s Moss, Peak District UK. This is probably the most complete burning record for the UK to date. More details.
September 2009 - Project members profile page. More details.
September 2009 -Katherine Allen has joined the Liverpool group as a postdoctoral researcher to work with the effects of fire in the Peak District National Park. More details.
August 2009 - Professor Richard Bradshaw meets forest owners. More details.
August 2009 - FIREMAN meeting in Lund.
July 2009 - Information on the recently completed British Isles Charcoal Database (BICD) and links to FIREMAN. More details.
July 2009 - Field Reports from the Peak District, UK. More details.
June 2009 - The latest BIODIVERSA newsletter features all of the projects funded by BiodivErsA. Download the newsletter here and see page 10 for more details about FIREMAN.
June 2009 - Peak District Fieldwork. University of Liverpool FIREMAN members visited the Peak District to gather evidence of past fire regimes. More details.
May 09 - FIREMAN SharePoint is live! FIREMAN partners should have received login details for the SharePoint. More details.
April 2009 - Borrowdale Meeting, UK. Outcomes and pictures of the first FIREMAN annual general meeting in Borrowdale, UK. More details.