From the Interface

Robin Daniels, PhD is founder and managing director of Ventures & Impact Studio, Redpill Group. Here Robin shares thoughts on how leading-edge advancements in fields including sensing and artificial intelligence are opening new horizons in monitoring, modelling, and more…

Giacomo Costa’s striking images invite us to contemplate the legacy our architectures leave behind and at spatial and temporal scales that extend beyond the human. Here Giacomo shares thoughts on how art can provoke us to think deeply about our place in a fast-changing world…

Professor Tom Corby is currently principal investigator on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Materializing Data Project at the Manifest Data Lab at Central Saint Martins. Here Tom shares insights on the role of visual arts and media in understanding the complex challenges we face…

An emeritus professor and former director of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tom Swetnam uses tree rings, fire scars, and more to reconstruct spatial and temporal patterns of fires and learn how climate and people shaped these patterns.  Here Tom discusses how denchronology can shed light on our possible fire futures…

A professor and director at the Fire Weather Research Laboratory at San José University, meteorologist Dr. Craig Clements’ research makes the previously unseen inner workings of wildfires visible. Here he sheds light on how the likes of Doppler lidar are helping us to understand fire behaviour and why…

A post-doctorate in the department of Botany at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Raquel Partelli-Feltrin researches how water-stressed trees respond to fire of varying intensities. Climate and fire regimes fast changing, Pyro-Ecophysilogy is central to understanding what that means for the future of forests. Here she shares her insights from the field…

Working at the interface of science, policy and industry, founder of SandStories and author Kiran Pereira researches solutions to the global sand crisis. Here she shares her thoughts on tackling this fast-growing problem…

She has applied her remote sensing data analysis skills to support metropolitan and wildland fire departments during some of the largest California fire complexes on record. Here Krista West shares her thoughts on how remote sensing technologies can help communities live with wildfire…

With over twenty years of experience developing probabilistic catastrophe models, Dr. Robert Muir-Wood works to enhance approaches to the field. Here he shares his thoughts on catastrophe insurance of past, present, and possible future…

At a time when many an architect is positing the possibility of creating timber tower blocks and ‘vertical forests’, urban fire safety expert Phil Murphy illuminates the risks of using combustible materials in high-rise buildings…

An emeritus professor at Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences, Stephen Pyne’s career has taken him from hands-on experience of working on a fire crew to being dubbed ‘the fire laureate’. Here he shares insights on fire and its role in humanity’s past, present, and possible future…

Our eyes in the sky, satellites play a vital role in illuminating the workings of wildfires. The data they capture both complex and copious, but for the likes of Pierre Markuse, valuable insights could easily become lost in translation. Here he sheds some light on the field, and his work within it…