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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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.