# WKID Solutions > Scaling NASA processes for Innovation to New Technologies ## Posts - [Eaton Megafire - When the Flames Are Gone](https://wkidsolutions.com/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 person to quantify the likelihood of these extreme events in 2010 when the statistics were very challenging because the dataset was sparse. Since then, I’ve been in countless interviews with the media and consulted on dozens of top technologies for helping mitigate the impacts. I […] - [Sustainable Environmental Resilience Technologies: FREE Open-Access paper](https://wkidsolutions.com/sustainable-solutions/): 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 in environmental resilience to commercialization. We use WKID Innovation to define solutions-oriented science and HCD to identify value-added analytics that can be commercialized. By combining these two methods, we intentionally and systematically design changes to policy, economies, sociocultural constructs such as “wildfire risk”, and tools/technologies.  […] - [Wicked Problems need WKID Innovation](https://wkidsolutions.com/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 solution without truly understanding the complexity of the problem and the role that they can play. This is absolutely essential because if you don’t understand your role it is very hard to contribute in a meaningful way. Realistically, no one person can solve any of these […] - [The Climate Crisis: The Marshall Fire is the Perfect Example](https://wkidsolutions.com/marshall_fire_climate_crisis/): 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 was once considered “extreme”, but at the time barely made the news as 4% of the state of California burned in a firey blaze. In December 2021, my community burned in the smallest most destructive fire in Colorado history. The Marshall Fire is one of […] - [Fires on Earth - What You Need to Know](https://wkidsolutions.com/fires-from-space-flames-to-planets/): 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 data visualization expert Carter Emmart and together they tell a visually compelling story for a general audience of fire on Earth, the physics behind it, and the context of those fires with our solar system. Hold onto your seats as you fly around the globe and through space to Venus. - [Best Practices for Meetings: Reduce Stress, Foster Inclusion, and Promote Respect](https://wkidsolutions.com/best-practices-for-meetings/): 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 burn out. What can we do about it? When we first got word of work-from-home orders back in March of 2020, I was the Vice President of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Company size ~6000) New Researchers’ Support Group (membership ~600). Our […] - [Megafires Today: Couldn't we just rake?](https://wkidsolutions.com/megafires-today-couldnt-we-just-rake-it-all/): 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 it seems like it happens less in forested areas where trees are pruned and underbrush is cleared regularly (i.e., Finland). Best, XXX My response… Because of media and uninformed comments by politicians around “raking forests” to prevent catastrophic fires, I have taken the time to […] - [Fire, Technology and Where We Are Today](https://wkidsolutions.com/2272-2/): 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 states. Nearly 24,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel are on the front lines across the country. Today on CU on the Air, host Emily Davies talks with CU Boulder Professor Natasha Stavros, data and fire scientist and director of the Earth Lab Analytics Hub, about the effects of centuries of land mismanagement, technology in fire mitigation, and what we can do to save the Earth and even our lives. How did we get here? Since the […] - [Megafires, Technology, and Innovation](https://wkidsolutions.com/technology-innovation-and-megafire/): 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 group made 4 recommendations for smarter firefighting as megafires menace the US: Better, more accessible fire technology Coordinating everyone and sharing data Funding, with a role for private companies Building resilient communities   Read more about these recommendations at The Conversation: Bringing tech innovation to […] - [The Wicked Wildfire Problem and Solution Space](https://wkidsolutions.com/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 the problem is and what a holistic, systematic solution would look like. She defines the fires that matter as “megafires” a sociopolitical term used to describe fires with high impact to human life, health, property, and natural systems. At this workshop, leading change agents in […] - [NASA Blog: The Climate Connections of a Record Fire Year in the U.S. West](https://wkidsolutions.com/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](https://wkidsolutions.com/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 Southern California, a landscape prime for regular wildfire and a hot bed for many of the recent big fire events in US history. She talks about her personal experience doing field work in a post-fire environment. She even shares a serendipitous connection to fire with […] - [Free WKID Innovation Concept Maturity Quiz](https://wkidsolutions.com/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 viable business. - [NPR Market Place: Active wildfires are fast-moving disasters, and the fallout can be terrible, too](https://wkidsolutions.com/npr-market-place/): 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](https://wkidsolutions.com/sacramento-bee-just-like-paradise-why-california-isnt-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](https://wkidsolutions.com/simultaneous-blazes-like-californias-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](https://wkidsolutions.com/australias-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](https://wkidsolutions.com/la-times-op-ed-with-global-heating-expect-inferno-seasons-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 global heating, expect inferno seasons in the American West   - [TEDX: Eye-Opening use of Science to Inform Making Decisions under Uncertainty](https://wkidsolutions.com/tedx-uncertainty-decision-science/): 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? - [Washington Post: The Dangerous Era of Megafire](https://wkidsolutions.com/dangerous-era-of-megafires/): 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. ## Pages - [Home New](https://wkidsolutions.com/home-new/) - [Research for hire](https://wkidsolutions.com/services/research-for-hire/): Service Detail Home / Service Detail Services #01 Creative Solutions for Creative Result Massa sed elementum tempus egestas sed sed risus pretium. Pretium lectus quam id leo in vitae turpis massa. Suspendisse potenti nullam ac tortor. Rhoncus aenean vel elit scelerisque mauris pellentesque pulvinar. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Cras sed felis eget velit aliquet. 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