Katy Ivison PhD

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact details

Email: k.e.ivison@bham.ac.uk

Address: Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Katy Ivison carried out her PhD at Durham University on the impact of climate change and biotic interactions on non-native plants in Norway. She is currently working on UK wildfire fuel dynamics, including characterizing the drivers of fuel moisture and investigating modelling techniques to understand and predict fuel moisture.

Qualifications

2023 - PhD, Durham University
2018 – MSci, University of Birmingham

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Ivison, K, Little, K, Orpin, A, Belcher, CM, Clay, GD, Doerr, SH, Smith, TEL, Andersen, R, Graham, LJ & Kettridge, N 2025, 'Unprecedented UK heatwave harmonised drivers of fuel moisture creating extreme temperate wildfire risk', Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6, no. 1, 727. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02746-8

Little, K, Kettridge, N, Belcher, CM, Graham, LJ, Stoof, CR, Ivison, K & Cardil, A 2024, 'Cross-landscape fuel moisture differences impact simulated fire behaviour', International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 33, no. 9, WF24019 . https://doi.org/10.1071/WF24019

Crowley, LM, Ivison, K, Enston, A, Garrett, D, Sadler, JP, Pritchard, J, MacKenzie, AR & Hayward, SAL 2023, 'A comparison of sampling methods and temporal patterns of arthropod abundance and diversity in a mature, temperate, Oak woodland', Acta Oecologica, vol. 118, 103873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2022.103873

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