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wildfires

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

Yosemite National Park

Man on fire

UCI’s Tirtha Banerjee probes the physics behind catastrophic blazes

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 […]

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 […]

Shane Coffield, UCI grad student in Earth System Science

Taming wildfires

UCI-created AI tool for predicting blaze size proves successful in Alaska; team now focuses on California

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

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 […]

Climate change-driven droughts are getting hotter, UCI study finds

Temperature increases during dry periods outpace average climate warming

Climate warming shifts lightning-caused forest fires farther north

Extreme lightning storms are the main driver of recent massive fire years in Alaska and Canada, and these storms are likely to move farther north with climate warming, potentially altering landscapes, according to findings in Nature Climate Change by researchers from UCI, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and elsewhere. Analyzing satellite images and data from ground-based networks, […]

Fires

Southern California wildfires exhibit split personalities

UCI, other researchers examine differences between summer, Santa Ana fires