In the 1980s prescribed or controlled fire was used for agriculture, brush management, and timber understory maintenance. It was a tool to reduce fuel buildup by maintaining productive forests and reducing brushlands in California. There was a decline in the use of prescribed

Some personal news: I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Geography in January 2025! Very excited for the next chapter of fire 🔥🌲, remote sensing 🛰️, and air quality/public health 🏭🌬️ research University of British Columbia UBC Geography (also at @ubcgeography.bsky.social)

Supreme Court halts EPA’s [air pollution] 'Good Neighbor Plan'. This decision unfortunately shows that the Supreme Court believes "significant economic and operational harm" is worse than "public health harm". Quite a backwards ruling... npr.org/2024/06/27/nx-…

📢call for abstracts! Are you working on #airquality #climatechange and health? Consider submitting an #AGU24 abstract to our AGU_GeoHealth session GH020:agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel… w/ Kai Chen Sam Heft-Neal Makoto Kelp 🌐 Look forward to seeing many of you in DC this December😁

Consider submitting to our session on climate-health-policy! Inviting some exciting speakers for this

Call for #AGU24 abstracts! Are you working on #AirQuality #PublicHealth #ClimateChange? Submit your abstract to the AGU_GeoHealth session #GH020, and join our invited speakers @SusanAnenberg Wei Peng to share your work! Convened with Minghao Qiu Sam Heft-Neal Makoto Kelp 🌐

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The average NEPA impact statement takes 4.5 years to complete. That's ridiculous. Here's a list of things that took less time to BUILD than it takes to complete a 575 page impact statement... 1. Golden Gate Bridge - 4 years, 4.5 months

**job alert** Postdoc position available to work with Prof. John Lin here at UUtah ATMOS: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/170496

Our new paper in Nature Machine Intelligence tells a story about how, and why, ML methods for solving PDEs do not work as well as advertised. We find that two reproducibility issues are widespread. As a result, we conclude that ML-for-PDE solving has reached overly optimistic conclusions.

Really cool/important work led by Tina. Showing that NOAA HMS smoke detections are much less reliable outside of the western US (even though this data is used to attribute health effects of smoke everywhere in USA)

🚨Navigating the academic job market can be brutal! We've tried to create a comprehensive guide for applying to Tenure-Track Asst. Prof positions based on our recent experiences 📚 Check it out: docs.google.com/document/d/106… Thx 🎉to Tina Liu 🔥 Minghao Qiu Dien Wu

Excited to share my latest work in ES&T Letters Environmental Science & Technology Journals! We find that US air pollution monitoring network lacks adequate coverage, leaving millions of people unprotected under the stricter 2024 PM2.5 standard. With Josh Apte and @MarshallJulian pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Need high resolution daily air pollution data for India? We've got you. Great new work led by Ayako Kawano developing satellite+ML-based measures of PM2.5 going back decades, and using it to evaluate recent progress in improving air quality. science.org/doi/full/10.11…