Centre for Landscape and Climate Research

Call for Expressions of Interest in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021

The Centre for Landscape and Climate Research is inviting expressions of interest from eligible candidates who are interested in developing an application for funding for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship call 2021 [MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021].
Please agree your project idea with a suitable supervisor from the University of Leicester before submitting your application form. We can advise you on possible supervisors in your chosen research area.

Submit your Expression of Interest by downloading the Word Application Form to take part in the Postdoctoral Fellowship Writing Retreat by the University of Leicester no later than 5th September 2021.

Selected candidates will be notified by 10th September via email. The Writing Retreat will be held by video meeting and comprise of sessions delivered by Marie Curie and research development experts, and grant holders. It will also include free time for the fellows and supervisors to meet independently. Mentoring support from the supervisor is available during the development stage of the proposals of selected applicants. Full proposals have to be submitted by 12 October 2021 17:00:00 Brussels time (16:00:00 London time).

University of Leicester celebrates top 3% global sustainability ranking:

The University of Leicester is celebrating global sustainability success on Earth Day after being ranked 21st out of 766 universities in the world, in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking, placing it in the top 3%.

As part of the ranking For Goal 15, Life on Land, the University is first in the world for using its academic excellence to shape its commitment to conserving the biodiversity of the local land and buildings as part of its Biodiversity Action Plan, by protecting natural habitats and encouraging wildlife.

https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/22-top-sustainability-ranking?dm_i=I8Y,6UCTG,U77GK5,RFLP8,1

University of Leicester celebrates top 3% global sustainability ranking The University of Leicester is celebrating global sustainability success on Earth Day after being ranked 21st out of 766 universities in the...

Read about tree recruitment failure in Scots Pine forests of Siberia after fire in our new article - hot off the press.

Highlights:

Tree recruitment after fire ranges from failure to abundant recruitment in southern Siberia.

Separability of tree recruitment level endpoints first occurs in winter 3–4 years after the fire.

There may be a boreal snow-seedling feedback similar to arctic shrub-snow dynamics.

Postfire recruitment failure in Scots pine forests of southern Siberia Wildfire disturbances effect changes in vegetation communities that in turn influence climate. Such changes in boreal forest ecosystems can persist ov…

The team from the Centre for Landscape and Climate Research with other members of the Landscape Decisions Programme that we are now coordinating. A £10.5 million research programme funded by UK Research and Innovation over 4 years. It will develop new mathematics, new modelling approaches and gain knowledge on landscapes and communities in order to support the delivery of the 25-year environment plan by the UK government and make wise landscape decisions.

Our new publication is out: "Detection of oil pollution impacts on vegetation using multifrequency SAR, multispectral images with fuzzy forest and random forest methods".

Detection of oil pollution impacts on vegetation using multifrequency SAR, multispectral images with fuzzy forest and random forest methods Oil pollution harms terrestrial ecosystems. There is an urgent requirement to improve on existing methods for detecting, mapping and establishing the …

We need to plant more trees.

Tree-planting in England falls 71% short of government target New figures show 1,420 hectares were planted in year to March 2019 against target of 5,000

CLCR has been awarded the Programme Coordination Team for the Landscape Decisions strategic programme by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

A multi-disciplinary programme coordination team at the University of Leicester has been appointed for the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund programme 'Landscape Decisions: Toward a new framework for using land assets'.

The four-year £10·5 million programme will address the challenge of delivering better, evidence-based decisions within UK landscapes through research collaboration with policy, business and land management partners to deliver an interdisciplinary decision-making framework to inform how land is used.

https://nerc.ukri.org/research/funded/programmes/landscape/news/coordination-team/

Programme manager position available at Leicester: https://jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/1072/programme-manager-landscape-decisions-programme.html

Great and thought-provoking seminar by Dr Chris Munyati from Northwest University in South Africa, our current LIAS fellow working on Earth observation for food security.

Some of the team from the University of Leicester at the ESA Living Planet Symposium this week in Milan.

Prof. Heiko Balzter speaking at the global conference in Edinburgh today.