Get to know Pooja Pandey

Get to know Pooja Pandey

11th February 2021
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Hello! My name is Pooja Pandey; I am an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) 13 with Pyrolife. I am excited to be working under the guidance of Dr George Boustras at European University in Cyprus. Specially, I will be working within the Centre of Excellence in Risk and Decision Sciences (CERIDES) researching interagency exchange. I will also be working within the FireAid in Denmark and Tecnosylva in Spain for my secondments. I am from India and have spent most of my life living in the northern part of the country. I have always read news about wildfire fueled by human activities […]

Get to know Carmen Rodríguez

8th February 2021
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¡Hola! My name is Carmen Rodríguez, and I am from Spain, and within Pyrolife I am also known as ESR1. I am doing my research on the potential of social innovation to increase wildfire resilience in Mediterranean socio-ecological systems. I am part of the Governance team at EFI Bonn (Germany), and I am a PhD candidate at KU Leuven (Belgium). The first one of my two secondments will take place in Lisbon (Portugal), hosted by Águas de Portugal, and the second one in Athens (Greece) with Démeter. My background is on forestry engineering, but with my master thesis I already […]

What exactly is transdisciplinarity?

4th February 2021
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Fire science: in language for all

By Kathleen Uyttewaal It’s confusing to wrap your head around multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary work. They are all popular words lately in research, governance, businesses and civic society, so let’s break the concepts down into bite-sized pieces. For this, a metaphor and a snack will help: grab a cookie! Multidisciplinary work is like having flour, sugar, butter, eggs and chocolate all sitting in a bowl (please adapt your theoretical recipe based on dietary needs and/or beliefs!). They are the essential ingredients for a cookie, and they all do great stuff on their own, but they sit there separately without mixing. […]

Get to know Kathleen Uyttewaal

4th February 2021
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Kathleen is a French and U.S. citizen with a Dutch last name, who speaks Spanish with a Chilean accent while living and working in Catalunya. Throughout her career she’s been a perpetual agroecology student, from her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley to her master’s degree in Andalucía, and also as a farm laborer. She has acted as an environmental educator in California and Barcelona, working with participatory methods and youth empowerment. She’s been an agroecology research assistant in Chile and focused her Master’s thesis on climate resilience in California: Narratives from agroecological and indigenous landscapes. Mixing these ingredients of life experience […]

Demonstrate global warning by placing a infrared heater next to an experimental flask

3rd February 2021
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Fire science: in language for all

Written by Hugo Lambrechts Climate change or global warming is a phenomenon that is happening due to an increase in CO2 emmisions. This can be demonstrated by placing a infrared heater next to an experimental flask. The temperature inside the flask is then taken using a infrared termometer every two minutes for 30 minutes. Temperatures can then be plotted on a graph over time and show ‘normal’ climate. Now the jug is filled with some CO2 and the demonstration is repreated and new graph is given to compare temperatures. This is a good way to demonstrate climate change.

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