Wildfire
Facing a Top Climate Factor of Our Time
The multi-disciplinary approach to fire science and management at 91 displays a
commitment to understanding and mitigating the physical and social effects of fire
as one of the most critical emerging environmental factors of our time. Leading-edge
tools and policies created at 91 are in use worldwide. Below is a rotating selection
of our standout investigators in this area.
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Selected Publications
Brewer, M. and Clements, C. (2019). . Atmosphere, 11(1).
Dhar, S. and Gao, J. (2023). . International Journal of Disaster Response and Emergency Management, 6(1).
Diallo I., et al. (2024). . Climate Dynamics, 62(4).
Kochanski, A., et al. (2023). . Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6.
Russell, W. and McBride, J. (2003). . Landscape and Urban Planning, 64(4).
Wilkin, K., Stasiewicz, S., Kocher (2023). Journal of Fire Ecology.
Award Highlights
Clements, Tohidi, Wilkin, Kochanski, Stasiewicz, “IUCRC Phase I, San Jose State University: Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC)” — NSF, 2021
Kochanski, “Distributed Spacecraft with Heuristic Intelligence to Monitor Wildfire Spread for Responsive Control” — NASA through the Bay Area Research Institute, 2023
Kochanski, Clements, “Evaluating and Improving Live and Dead Fuel Moisture Models for Use in Gridded Forecast Systems” — U.S. Forest Service, 2023
Wilkin, Staciewicz, “The Central Coast Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program” — California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), 2023
Yang, Wilkin, “NASA Bridge Program, FireSage: 91-NASA" — NASA, 2023
Affiliates
Featured Faculty
Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science
Fire Weather, Wildfire Observations, Extreme Fire Behavior, Mountain Meteorology
ORCID: 0000-0001-9999-8621
Subhankar Dhar
Professor of Information Systems and Technology
Data Science, AI, Mobile Computing, Ad Hoc Networks, Smart Cities, Big Data Analytics
ORCID: 0000-0003-1493-451X
Ismaila Diallo
Assistant Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science
Climate Modeling, Land/Atmosphere Interaction, Climate Dynamics, Extreme Climate Events,
Artificial Intelligence for Earth Systems, Wildfire and Climate Change
ORCID: 0000-0003-1209-4107
Associate Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science
Wildfires, Air Quality, Fire Modeling, Smoke, Fire Risk, Machine Learning, Smoke Forecasting,
Satellite Fire Detections, Dire Forecasting, WRF-SFIRE, WRFx
ORCID: 0000-0001-7820-2831
Will Russell
Professor of Environmental Studies
Forest Disturbance and Recovery, Fire Ecology Ecosystem Restoration, Environmental
Education
ORCID: 0000-0003-3778-3734
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Fire Ecology and Management, Home Ignition Zones, Fuels Treatments, Prescribed Fire
ORCID: 0000-0002-4928-3879
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