A team of University of California San Diego researchers has deployed a groundbreaking new platform to advance science and technology that addresses wildland fire challenges in an era of more frequent and devastating megafires.
A team of University of California San Diego researchers has deployed a groundbreaking new platform to advance science and technology that addresses wildland fire challenges in an era of more frequent and devastating megafires.
The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons is a hub for data, models, computing resources, and expertise to enable scientists and technology innovators to collaborate with each other and work with practitioners to move theoretical ideas and experimental workflows into impactful, scalable real-world solutions. With support from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Wildfire Commons has been under development since 2024 by a team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), part of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS) at UC San Diego. On July 31st at 10am PDT, the team will host a live online event to introduce the Wildfire Commons and present its features and capabilities in detail.
The Wildfire Commons advances firetech from research into production by connecting a community of experts and creating partnerships, data standards and innovation pathways centered around open data, cutting-edge science and AI. The Wildfire Commons is an initiative of the Proactive Wildfire & Environmental Sustainability Solutions (ProWESS) Center — a collaboration between UC San Diego’s Societal Computing and Innovation Lab (SCIL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Members of the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab discuss an array of diverse data visualizations. (Photo Credit: Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego)
