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 […]
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. Learn more about the bi-directional feedbacks here: Read it on the NASA Climate Blog
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 the science of how fire behaves, its impacts and drivers. Listen Now: Dr. Stavros discusses what it means to her personally as an Aries, born and raised in […]
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 health and have uncertain, variable effects on climate depending on what burns and how it burns.
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.
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 will see longer, hotter, drier fire seasons. As people continue to expand development into wildlands, we will see more devastating fires occurring at the same time.
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.
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 […]
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 known for their destructive impacts on people and ecosystems.