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Environmental Resilience Technologies
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Sustainable Environmental Resilience Technologies: FREE Open-Access paper

Designing environmental resilience technology that transition research to commercialization providing sustainable solutions In this paper we talk about a model for defining requirements for providing
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Innovation Solutions
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Wicked Problems need WKID Innovation

At WKID Solutions, we have been working for nearly two years to develop resources to help innovators make real changes in the complex systems they
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The Climate Crisis: The Marshall Fire is the Perfect Example

A Climate Emergency that is Personal is a Climate Crisis! In 2003, my family evacuated our home in one of the first megafires of the
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Speaking Engangement

Fires on Earth – What You Need to Know

Dr. Natasha Stavros gave a talk at the American Museum of Natural History for the 2021 Climate Week in New York City. She worked with
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Business meeting and teamwork by business people
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Best Practices for Meetings: Reduce Stress, Foster Inclusion, and Promote Respect

Why do we need Meeting Best Practices? Working remotely, we cannot do what we did in an in-person environment. Remote work has led to an
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Megafires Today: Couldn’t we just rake?

I received this email in my inbox about wildfires and management… Hi Dr. Stavros, I read the transcript of your talk on wildfires. I am
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Speaking Engangement

Fire, Technology and Where We Are Today

Interview Transcript from CU On the Air Already in the U.S. in 2021, some 95 large fires have burned more than 2 million acres in 15
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Articles

Megafires, Technology, and Innovation

Founder Dr. Natasha Stavros wrote an article for The Conversation about bringing tech innovation to wildfires. Dr. Stavros co-led a workshop at the Keck Institute
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megafire
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The Wicked Wildfire Problem and Solution Space

Dr. Stavros gave a plenary talk on the wicked wildfire problem and solution space to frame the context for the Keck Institute of Space Science
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Press

NASA Blog: The Climate Connections of a Record Fire Year in the U.S. West

In this well-written article, Alan Buis, who worked with Founder Natasha Stavros to understand not only climate’s impact on wildfires, but wildfires impact on climate.
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Press

NASA Podcast: Fueled by Fire

In this NASA Podcast, Fueled by Fire (Season 3, Episode 8), Founder Natasha Stavros discusses the role of fire in the Earth System. She discusses
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innovation technology quiz
Resources

Free WKID Innovation Concept Maturity Quiz

Have new ideas about innovative technology? Want to know which are worth pursuing? Take this FREE WKID Innovation Concept Quiz to transition idea to a
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megafire
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NPR Market Place: Active wildfires are fast-moving disasters, and the fallout can be terrible, too

Founder Natasha Stavros discusses the relevance of NASA observations from the FIREX-AQ campaign. The mission collects data on fire emissions that are damaging to human
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Press

Sacramento Bee: ‘Just like Paradise.’ Why California isn’t safer a year after the Camp Fire

Founder Natasha Stavros discusses the effect of snow and rain on the California Fire Season.
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Inside Science: Simultaneous Blazes, Like California’s Camp and Woolsey Fires, Have Become the New Normal

Founder Natasha Stavros talks with Inside Science about human causes for ignition in the wildland urban interface. Under human-caused global warming from climate change, we
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NYTimes: Australia’s Fire Season Ends, and Researchers Look to the Next One

Founder Dr. Stavros discusses innovation technologies for fire management.Founder Dr. Stavros discusses innovative technologies for fire management.
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LA Times Op Ed: Global Warming and More Fire in the American West

Human caused global warming has changed western US climate creating hotter, drier, longer fire seasons that will lead to more megafires. Dr. Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman)
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TEDx
Speaking Engangement

TEDX: Eye-Opening use of Science to Inform Making Decisions under Uncertainty

The word ‘uncertainty’ means different things for all decision makers. It also evokes strong emotions. So how do we make decisions when there is uncertainty?
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megafire
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Washington Post: The Dangerous Era of Megafire

In this 6-min short by the Washington Post, interviewing Founder Natasha Stavros, learn how the west became ripe for destructive blazes from megafires - fires
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Innovation Solutions

Wicked Problems need WKID Innovation

At WKID Solutions, we have been working for nearly two years to develop resources to help innovators make real changes in the complex systems they navigate every day. We all see problems that we wish

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Megafires, Technology, and Innovation

Founder Dr. Natasha Stavros wrote an article for The Conversation about bringing tech innovation to wildfires. Dr. Stavros co-led a workshop at the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) affiliated with California Institute of Technology

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