Ms. Candice Charlton is an Assistant Lecturer and Student Experience Liaison in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, UWI. She is also a graduate student working towards the award of her Ph.D. in physics. Her research interests are climate studies and forest or bush fires. With the increasing intensity and length of droughts we can expect more bush or forest fires and so Ms. Charlton is using remote-sensing and other techniques to better understand the bush-fires that have occurred and the potential and risk of bush-fires based on location so that we can be better prepared and able to address these challenges e.g. through monitoring and early-warning systems.