New version of the charcoal database available soon
2012
Recent Highlights
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GPWG-sponsored a Dartington workshop on fire feedbacks to atmospheric composition and climate, October 2012 (read more)
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Daniau et al. (In Press) Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol 26. DOI
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Power et al (2012) 16th Century burning decline in the Americas: population collapse or climate change? The Holocene, 1-11. DOI
30 July KSL news coverage, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Marlon et al. (2012) Natural versus human causes of fire in the western U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI
2011
IGBP Report on Global Palaeofire Working Group
GPWG_IGBP_Report_2011.pdf
Mooney et al. ( 2011) Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia, Quaternary Science Reviews
Science Perspective: I Colin Prentice
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6011/1636.full
INQUA Congress, Bern, Switzerland - Special Session: Palaeorecords of fire in the Earth System
This special session (view) at INQUA 2011 invites papers describing the most recent scientific results on decadal to millennial-scale changes in fire based on paleoecological data, modelling results, and other proxies of past biomass burning.
2010
Aug: PAGES special edition: Fire in the Earth System
This special edition of PAGES contains several articles by GPWG members and is available for dowload here
2009
Aug: QUESTING SUMMER SCHOOL, BESANCON, FRANCE
The 1st Annual Summer School was a great success. Twelve Professors and twenty-six graduate and postdoctoral students from 10 countries attended a week of courses and discussions on topics in Paleoecology, including this years theme on Paleofire.
Jun: PAGES OPEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE
Jenn Marlon will present results from the latest GPWG efforts at the PAGES Open Science Conference at Corvallis, Oregon (8-11 July 2009). The conference takes place every four years and is a major event for palaeoclimate scientists. Jenn will be presenting in a session called "Land cover, water, and sediment: global and regional synthesis" in the frame of the "human-climate-ecosystem" focus of PAGES.
Mar: WILDFIRES IN BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE FIRE REGIMES, ROUYN-NORANDA, QUEBEC, CANADA
The symposium's main objective was to gather researchers working on the reconstruction and modeling of past, present and future fire regimes. This gathering illustrated how effective collaborations can be developed amongst the numerous researchers, enhancing collaborative research in Europe and North America.
Feb: RADIO BROADCAST: Climate Change, Fires, and the Arrival of Europeans
Mitchell Power gave a live radio broadcast on "Challenges to Living in Prehistoric Americas: Climate Change, Fires, and the Arrival of Europeans". This was the first lecture in a series broadcast on KCPW in collaboration with the Utah Museum of Natural History.
Feb: PUBLICATION IN PNAS
Marlon et al. (2009) Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI)
Jan: GPWG PNAS WILDFIRES PAPER REVIEWED IN THE NEWS
The upcoming Marlon et al. paper published in PNAS has featured on several websites this week, including:
The BBC (READ ARTICLE)
Desert Research Institute (READ ARTICLE)
University of Oregon (READ ARTICLE)
To view the PNAS paper follow link from publications or see news item for 3 February 2009
Jan: THIRD GPWG WORKSHOP REPORT FROM NOVEMBER 2008 MEETING
The third workshop of the GPWG was held in November 2008 at Queens Court Hotel, Exeter. The meeting report and future goals are now available to download on the workshops page.
2008
NOV: BARTLEIN ELECTED AAAS FELLOW
Congratulations to Patrick Bartlein, GPWG Scientific Steering Group leader, who has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This award honours the major contribution Bart has made to the advancement of science or its applications, in terms of modeling and visualization of synoptic climatic and vegetation dynamics across a range of geologic timescales.
30 JANUARY 2009: GPWG SEMINAR AT YALE INSTITUTE FOR BIOSPHERIC STUDIES
NOV: BARTLEIN ELECTED AAAS FELLOW
Congratulations to Patrick Bartlein, GPWG Scientific Steering Group leader, who has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This award honours the major contribution Bart has made to the advancement of science or its applications, in terms of modeling and visualization of synoptic climatic and vegetation dynamics across a range of geologic timescales.
SEP: GPWG FEATURE ON NERC'S PLANET EARTH ONLINE
The GPWG results published in Nature Geosciences were featured in the latest news section of PLANET EARTH ONLINE.
SEP: GPWG IN THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
SEP: UMNH SCIENTISTS FIND HISTORY OF FIRES, CLIMATE CHANGE IN LAKES
SEP: RESEARCHERS TRACE EARTH'S HISTORY THROUGH FIRE
GPWG research was reported on by KSL News, based on an interview with Mitch Power.
WATCH REPORT
SEP: LAST 2000 YEARS OF GLOBAL FIRE - NATURE GEOSCIENCES
Marlon et al. (2008) Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia. Nature Geoscience - Advance Online Publication (DOI)
AUG: GLOBAL PALAEOFIRE WORKING GROUP NEWSLETTER
Download newsletter
JUL: AIMES YOUNG SCHOLAR'S NETWORK INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP
For millennia humans have utilized fire as a tool of landscape management, and in some regions this process continues. The historic impacts of fire on the environment and climate are thought to be significant. This workshop will explore the drivers of human use of landscape fires, as well as the impacts; indigenous and contemporary management of landscape fire across scales from anthropologic, historic, palaeoclimate, ecologic, biogeochemical and climate perspectives.
Further information | AIMES website
JAN: PAGES NEWSLETTER
Fire in the Earth System: The Global Palaeofire Working Group (page 39)
2007
DEC: GPWG IS NOW PART OF THE IGBP CROSS-PROJECT ACTIVITY ON FIRE
View the GPWG 5-year plan
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