New paper alert: Laboratory Quantification of Emissions from Wildland-Urban Interface Fuels Using Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, published in Environmental Science & Technology, an American Chemical Society journal. Emissions from fires involving structures have different emissions than traditional wildfires. We investigate a range of structure fuels using laboratory experiments to speciate emissions and estimate their effects on toxicity.
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Berkeley Engineering Highlights Wildfire Spread Model
Read the article published by Berkeley Engineering discussing a wildfire spread model developed by Maria Theodori, Maryam Zamanialaei, and Dwi Purnomo. New model sheds light on how wildfires spread through communities by Marni Ellery https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2024/09/new-model-sheds-light-on-how-wildfires-spread-through-communities/
Students present at Stanford Combustion conference
Christina Liveretou, Priya Garg and Joey Dowling all presented at the Spring meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute March 21-22. Postdoctoral scholar Hadi Hajilou also came to support the group. Jeanette Cobian, former postdoctoral scholar and now UC Merced faculty, also presented a paper on work performed at UC Berkeley. Finally, […]
Professor Gollner testifies to Congress
Professor Gollner was invited to testify to the House Oversight Committee on March 16, 2022 addressing federal Wildland Fire policy and mitigation. You can see watch his testimony below. A copy of his statement is also available: Gollner_Testimony and the press release. Chairman Khanna to Hold Hearing on Wildfire Response with U.S. Forest Service, Environmental Experts […]
Christina Liveretou awarded Onassis Foundation Scholarship
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Christina Liveretou who was awarded an Onassis Foundation Scholarship to help support her PhD. Her work is focused on microgravity flammability in collaboration with NASA and smoldering combustion research. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Xingyu Ren on the SFPE Student Scholar Award!
PhD Candidate Xingyu Ren was recently awarded the SFPE Student Scholar award and will make a presentation on his recent work on wildfires at the SFPE Annual Meeting. Congratulations, Xingyu! About the award The Student Scholar Award was established in 2006 by the Board of Governors of the SFPE Foundation to recognize students who are performing […]
Prof. Gollner Presents at 2021 UC Wildfire Symposium Series
Prof. Gollner recently presented at the 2021 UC Wildfire Symposium on Wildland-Urban Interface Fires: What is the Wildland Urban Interface? And why should we care about it? Wildfires and their aftermath impact all Californians and cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars every year. The 2021 UC Wildfire Symposium Series focus on California’s resiliency […]
Congratulations Ram and Joey on winning the CI Image Award Competition!
Congratulations to Dr. Sriram Bharath Hariharan, postdoctoral scholar and Joseph Dowling, PhD candidate on their Combustion Art submission “Walls of Fire” which was selected for the Technical Merit Award in the 12th US National Combustion Meeting! Walls of Fire by Sriram Bharath Hariharan, Joseph L. Dowling, Michael J. Gollner Department of Mechanical Engineering University of […]
Congratulations to Xingyu and Lauren on the Sheldon Tieszen Student Award and Priya on two fellowships!
Xingyu Ren (Berkeley Fire Lab PhD Candidate at University of Maryland) and Lauren Gagnon (Combustion and Fire Processes Lab PhD Candidate at Berkeley) were both awarded Sheldon Tieszen Student Awards for the upcoming IAFSS symposium. The award recognizes excellence in an IAFSS symposium paper in fire safety science by a student making a significant contribution […]
New paper on firebrand ignition of wood published
Critical Ignition Conditions of Wood by Cylindrical Firebrands Hamed Salehizadeh1†, Raquel S. P. Hakes1† and Michael J. Gollner1,2* 1Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States This study investigated the thermal conditions preceding ignition of three dense woody […]