Positive Progress: Sustainable Solutions for Earth’s Space Future
Earth observations are essential to sustainable development on Earth, yet how they are funded and the business model that supports it is not sustainable.
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
Founder Natasha Stavros (PhD) developed the WKID (pronounced “wicked”) Innovation framework to describe how to system engineer change to solve wicked problems. Wicked problems involve multiple organizations and often involve disagreement about the causes and best solutions. What is WKID Innovation? WKID Innovation is a framework to generalize processes for innovation using leadership techniques and […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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
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. Active wildfires are fast-moving disasters, and the fallout can be terrible, too Which is […]
NYTimes: Australia’s Fire Season Ends, and Researchers Look to the Next One
Founder Dr. Stavros discusses innovation technologies for fire management. Australia’s Fire Season Ends, and Researchers Look to the Next One With its otherworldly conditions, Australia has become a testing ground for fire-prediction technology. By Helen Sullivan April 21, 2020 Reposted from NYTimes. SYDNEY, Australia — On March 2, for the first time in 240 days, not […]