Eaton Megafire – When the Flames Are Gone
https://youtu.be/_K6RH-HOkiU Megafires – the fires with devastating effects to life, property, and ecosystems – are becoming more common. Their size, speed, and impact is increasing. Some of this is because of climate change, some of it is because of how we have managed our lands and build our homes and infrastructure. I was the first […]
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 information technologies and data analytics as “environmental resilience technologies”. This methodology combines systematic analysis of the decision space with human centered design (HCD) to provide a model for transition research […]
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 we could solve from obesity, employee burnout, systemic racism, to climate change. So often, people want to dive into the […]
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 21st century. They did it again in 2007. This time my childhood friends lost their homes. In 2020, we evacuated again pre-empting an evacuation mandate for the Bobcat Fire that […]
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 increase in remote meetings that are having uncharacterized effects on employee mental and physical health as well as work-life balance. Long-term implications could reduce employee efficacy and productivity and increase […]
Megafires Today: Couldn’t we just rake?
I received this email in my inbox about megafires and management… Hi Dr. Stavros, I read the transcript of your talk on wildfires. I am curious: does a lack of tree pruning and underbrush clearing (controlled burning) contribute to the likeliness of wildfires? I know that wildfires happen almost everywhere that there is forest, but […]
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 to bring together tech innovators, fire operators, policy makers, and scientists to discuss how to fire fires smarter. Together this […]
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 workshop on Detecting and Tracking the Fires that Matter. What is needed, what is possible, how do we build it? In this talk, Dr. Stavros provides an overview of what […]
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) and Founder Natasha Stavros (@DrFireScience) get real about the mental strain of sounding the alarm as few listen and the urgency to step up and take action. Read the Full Op-Ed: With […]