We extend a very warm welcome to our four new postdoctoral research fellows supporting the UKRI GCRF Water and Fire project. We are very much looking forward to having Drs Tsitsi Mpofu-Mketwa, Skhue Ncube, Allan Gillies and Lesley Gibson as postdoctoral research fellows on our team. Tsitsi started in post on 1st of September 2020, Skhue and Allan on 1st of October 2020, and Lesley will be joining us on 1st of November 2020.