Congratulations to former UC Berkeley student and Fire Lab member Lilly Etzenbach who received the first place award for her poster on our work on the flammability and burn injury risk of astronaut clothing fabric in space at the ASGSR American Society for Gravitational and Space Research conference! Many thanks to co-authors David Urban @Carlos […]
Uncategorized
Siyan Wang Receives Student Scholar Award at 2024 SFPE Annual Conference
Siyan Wang, a fourth year Ph.D. Candidate in the Berkeley Fire Research Lab, was awarded the Student Scholar Award at the 2024 SFPE Annual Conference & Expo in Louisville, Kentucky for her research on characterizing emissions from wildland/WUI fuel combustion with advanced spectrometry technology. This research aims to further our understanding of the health and […]
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 participates in SoCal Policy Forum on wildfire
Prof. Gollner participated in a SoCal Policy Forum on Climate Change: Navigating the Challenges of a Perpetual Fire Season alongside CA Natural Reaources Secretary Wade Crowfoot, Sen. Anthony Portantino and BizFed CEO Tracy Hernandez. The forum was a partnership between the Southern California News Group and UC Riverside. Highlights of the discussion are featured in […]
Research on Embers featured in National Geographic
Meet the wildfire super-spreaders: Scientists study ways to stop windborne embers from sowing destruction.
New article published in Physical Review Fluids
We published a new article, led by former graduate student and now postdoctoral scholar Sriram “Ram” Bharath Hariharan: “Effects of circulation and buoyancy on the transition from a fire whirl to a blue whirl,” published in Physics of Fluids. Abstract: The relative influence of circulation and buoyancy on fire whirls (FWs), blue whirls (BWs), and […]
Congratulations to Recent Graduates and New Members of the Group
Congratulations are in order for our recent cohort of graduates and alumni from the group: Dr. Mohammadhadi Hajilou, who was a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Gollner at the University of Maryland recently accepted a position as a Senior Engineer at Gexcon US. Prof. Jeanette Cobian was a postdoctoral scholar with Prof. Fernandez Pello at the […]
Article highlighting our fire research featured in Knowable Magazine
A new article by Alexandra Witze entitled “Firenadoes and drifting embers: The secrets of extreme wildfires” was recently published in Knowable Magazine. We’re really excited about this article as it does a great job of describing the type of research we do in the lab, how it impacts modeling fire behavior, and future directions in […]
Three new articles accepted in Combustion and Flame
Three articles from the group were recently accepted in Combustion and Flame. Two address the blue whirl, further investigating its structure and the conditions under which it forms, and one looks at downstream heating from wind-blown flames. The first article by Ram on the blue whirl is available at the link below, while the other […]
Postdoctoral Scholar Position Available
Location Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA Position Description The University of Maryland, College Park is recruiting one postdoctoral scholar to work on a project exploring the behavior of fire whirls. The postdoctoral scholar position is an immediate need, so preference will be given to candidates available in March-June […]