🚨 New publication! The BBURNED review paper on fire emission estimation in the MODIS era, resulting from our 2023 Fire Emissions Workshop, led by @mparrington.bsky.social from our scientific steering committee is now published in Elementa online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art... @ucpress.bsky.social
I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.
New @harvard.edu research, along w/ Dr. @tinaliu.bsky.social, launches an online platform to help identify areas in need of controlled burns or other #wildfire management strategies, to increase safety and reduce smoke exposure. 🔥
More: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/06...
@soa-mazing.bsky.social
SMRT-Flames Tool: smoke-policy-tool.projects.earthengine.app/view/smrt-fl...
Harvard press release: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/06...
Harvard feature on Karina: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/07...
Happy to announce that Karina Chung's paper on wildfires, smoke risk, and land management in the western US is now published in ES&T! Karina started working on the project with us as a freshman at Harvard!
Paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs....
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Our new paper shows how recent prescribed (Rx) burns in the western US impacted later wildfires. We find that Rx fires reduced wildfire severity + net smoke emissions, even when factoring in smoke from Rx fires. But, we find that these Rx fires were less effective in the wildland-urban interface.
HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts by Whaley et al. published in @egu.eu Geoscientific Model Development gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... #wildfires #airquality #climate
Accompanying the paper, Karina also created a YouTube video demoing the Earth Engine tool, very cool!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_yD...
This project was co-led by @tinaliu.bsky.social and myself
🚨Preprint alert: Led by Karina Chung (an undergrad!), we develop a wildfire smoke risk index that accounts for historical burned area, fuel consumption, and customized land management in Google Earth Engine 🌎 A useful tool to weigh risk-outcome scenarios 🔥
eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
This article highlights some of our work over the last few years on NW India's agricultural fires, a seasonal and episodic source of regional air pollution. It was great to talk to Karishma Mehrotra at WaPo, and these anecdotes from farmers are especially important. #fires 🔥 #AirPollution 💨 #India