Banerjee receives NSF funding to establish international ‘network of networks' on wildfire research
Research will address the fundamental knowledge gaps in the science and engineering aspects of wildfires
July 20, 2021
KEYWORD
wildfires
Fieldwork for a better future
UCI partners with Irvine Ranch Conservancy for climate change adaptation study of plant and microbial ecosystems on Loma Ridge
June 25, 2021
California wildfires disproportionately affect elderly and poor residents, UCI study finds
California’s wildfire burn area has increased by more than 23,000 acres per year over the past two decades, and the number of people who have been adversely affected has nearly doubled. In a paper published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, UCI researchers show that elderly and low-income residents have […]
May 30, 2021
California's wildfire season has lengthened, and its peak is now earlier in the year
UCI environmental engineers analyzed a century’s worth of the Golden State’s blazes
April 22, 2021
Grant will fund anthropologist's innovative study of fire prevention, mitigation methods
To help improve fire prevention policies, Salvador Zarate, UCI assistant professor of anthropology, will use a $12,000 faculty fellowship from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to document the practices of Orange County weed abatement crews. “We experienced our worst fire season ever this year, and we can tap into the deep ecological […]
January 04, 2021
UCI-led project seeks to combat wildfires
A University of California, Irvine-led team has received $3.6 million over three years for a project that uses science and engineering to help California fight wildfires. The funding comes from the University of California Laboratory Fees Research Program competition, a contest designed to promote the development of multicampus projects and collaborations that advance the missions […]
February 14, 2020
Taming wildfires
UCI-created AI tool for predicting blaze size proves successful in Alaska; team now focuses on California
December 16, 2019
UCI team uses machine learning to help tell which wildfires will burn out of control
New technique could help authorities conduct triage in multiple-blaze scenarios
September 17, 2019
Grad student sees traces of fire in ice cores
To make better predictions about future wildfires around the world, climate scientists want to know the prevalence and intensity of past outbreaks. For a study published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Melinda Nicewonger, a UCI graduate student in Earth system science, examined ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica to measure changes […]
November 21, 2018