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Tom enjoys highly collaborative research focusing on greenhouse gas and reactive emissions from wildland fires in tropical peatlands, savannas, and UK heathlands. He is particularly interested in complex interactions between agricultural practices, land degradation, fire emissions characteristics and their associated impacts. 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