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Could there be an app for detecting wildfires?

May 13, 2019

Jeff Chambers, CESD faculty scientist and professor of geography at UC Berkeley, has proposed an app that would pull weather satellite data together to help California quickly detect wildfire hot spots and alert emergency responders. His study used data from last October’s Camp Fire and is published as a preprint article in the online journal…

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley Hold Berkeley Fire Research Workshop

May 10, 2019

Environmental scientists and engineers came together Thursday, May 9, at a workshop to share research taking place across Berkeley relevant to “Fire in the Environment.” The workshop covered a range of key topics, including the expected impact of climate change on future fires; wildfire as a natural part of California’s environment; and cutting-edge technologies that…

New Statistical Technique Finds Certain Factors More Favorable for Mountain Snowpack

April 30, 2019

When there are multiple factors at play in a situation that is itself changing, such as an El Niño winter in a changing climate, how can scientists figure out what is causing what? EESA researchers have developed an advanced statistical method for quantifying and visualizing changes in environmental systems and easily picking out the…

EGD Postdoc Represents EESA at National Postdoc Conference

April 27, 2019

Fadji Maina, a postdoctoral fellow with the Energy Geosciences Division (EGD) and board member of the Berkeley Lab Postdoctoral Association (BLPA), represented EESA at the 17th annual National Postdoctoral Association annual conference held April 12-14 in Orlando. Maina attended the conference with six BLPA colleagues and Meg Rodriguez, postdoc manager at Berkeley Lab. The…