Julia McMorrow

Julia is a former Senior Lecturer in Remote Sensing at the University of Manchester. She works on wildfire risk management using remote sensing and GIS. As a NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow (now honorary), she carries out action research on wildfire knowledge exchange in the UK. Her associated KE project, Knowledge for Wildfire; improving management of UK wildfire through knowledge exchange, involves liaising with fire service, land management and academic stakeholders to join up cross-sector interests, maximise the use of existing NERC-funded work, and promote new partnerships. She is a member of the England and Wales Wildfire Forum and other national stakeholder forums on vegetation fire and fire statistics.

Julia has also worked on remote sensing and GIS analysis of peat properties, peatland restoration, land cover change in tropical forests, and on the scholarship of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

Wildfire and peatlands:

Spatial and temporal analysis of wildfire risk
Evaluation of satellite and fire service databases
Wildfire and ecosystem services policy
Hyperspectral remote sensing of peat properties and post-fire ecological restoration