STORMS project - Home Page

The James Hutton Institute

This page is no longer updated. The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute joined forces with SCRI joined forces on 1 April 2011 to create The James Hutton Institute.

Please visit the James Hutton Institute website.

This page has been mothballed.

It is no longer being updated but we've left it here for reference.

Further information

The STORMS

project
Silvicultural Techniques Offering Risk Minimising Strategies

- Predicting damage to forests from wind, fire and snow.

Demonstration of project results
STORMS tutorials.Coming soon!
Description and objective of the project
The research partners
Photo Gallery
WWW Resources relating to project.
IUFRO Conference on Wind and Other Abiotic Risks to Forests - August 1998
Fire seminar

Forest damage and weather news

Gales batter Britain From the BBC - 04/01/99
Russian Fires are World disaster From the BBC - 10/10/98
8000 evacuated from forest fire in Canada From the BBC - 10/8/98
At least twenty killed in Mexican forest fire From the BBC
Forest fires in the Amazon worsening. From the BBC
Appeal to save forest as Amazon fires destroy an area the size of Belgium. From the BBC
100,000 trees damaged by ice and snow in Canada. From the BBC

For participants in the project only there are pages covering administration and data.

Last updated: 25th February, 1999 by Roger Dunham