International Paleofire Network

New GPWG Policy Brief released: Informing fire policy and biodiversity conservation

By Daniele Colombaroli April 3, 2020Blog, Policy Brief

2019/20 have been exceptional years for highly devastating, catastrophic fires. The destructive Amazon rainforest and Australian fires got attention in the media worldwide, raising debates about consequences of future wildfires…

Assessing changes in global fire regimes

By Elisabeth Dietze February 26, 2024Analyses, PapersNo Comments

A recent study by Sara Sayedi et al. 2024 published in Fire Ecology (DOI 10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9) delves into global fire regime changes and their potential impact on various ecosystem services. Collaborating…

The future of the Global Paleofire Database

By Elisabeth Dietze November 24, 2022Blog, GCD v1, GCD v2, GCD v3No Comments

Dear (future) authors and contributors of the Global Paleofire Database, The International Paleofire Network (IPN) would like to thank you for sharing your paleofire records with the larger community. We…

IPN Seminar w/ Nicholas Hebda

By Elisabeth Dietze April 5, 2022Blog, Seminar, Uncategorized

Nicholas Hebda, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna BC, Canada, has reported on his PhD research on Thursday, 24th February 2022. "Documenting wildfire regime change and event impacts in a…

6th IPN seminar w/ Graciela Gil-Romera

By Elisabeth Dietze December 9, 2021Seminar, Uncategorized

Dr. Graciela Gil-Romera, Philipps Marburg Universität (Germany) | IPE-CSIC (Spain), presented on Thursday, 9th December 2021 her exciting work on "Bridging the gap between past and present fires: sheep, forest…

Seminar video: Grant Snitker (pt. 2)

By Richard Vachula October 24, 2021Seminar

Dr. Grant Snitker (US Forest Service: https://grantsnitker.github.io/) presented on Wednesday the 20th of October, 2021: Leveraging archaeological perspectives in reconstructing historical fire and fuel conditions: a case study from coastal South Carolina,…

Seminar video: Grant Snitker (pt. 1)

By Richard Vachula October 21, 2021Seminar

EGU Galileo conference “Fire impacts at the Earth surface across space and time and perspective for future fire management”

By Elisabeth Dietze October 20, 2021Blog, conferences, Uncategorized, workshop

Join us for a personal interdisciplinary exchange on fire impacts and management across scales and disciplines during an in-person meeting from 28th March to 1st April 2022 close to Berlin,…