UC Berkeley’s Fire Research Group aims to spread information, not flames

How the Fire Research Group at UC Berkeley is tackling the problem of intensifying fires through interdisciplinary cooperation

A picture of fires burning in California between Joshua Tree and Los Angeles from above. Photo by Patrick Campanale on Unsplash.

2020 Fire Season

Correlation with COVID-19

Photo by Victor He on Unsplash.

California Fire Science Seminar Series

  • How do we solve the “Wicked Problem?”: the State of Fire Science in California
  • Managing the Chemical Complexity of Wildland Fire Emissions in Highly Parameterized Air Quality Models
  • A Micro-Meteorological Perspective into Wildland Fire Dynamics
  • Post-fire Soil Carbon Dynamics: Implications on Movement of Particulate and Dissolved Pyrogenic Carbon
  • Fires, Air Pollution, and Public Health: A Remote Sensing-Based Perspective
  • Household Decision Making and Evacuation Behavior during Wildfires
Household Decision Making and Evacuation Behavior during Wildfires by Dr. Erica Kuligowski on Thursday, December 10th.

“The only way to deal with lightning fires is to better manage landscapes and communities. We need more prescribed fire.” — Professor Gollner

What individuals at home can do to prepare for wildfires

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