Research

Research Areas

Our data platforms and fire management solutions are powered by dozens of research projects and partnerships aimed at translating science into practice. This work is grounded in five primary research areas:

  • Integrated research workflows
  • Composable systems across the digital continuum
  • Data and knowledge systems
  • Digital twins for complex systems
  • AI for scientific applications


Research Grants

  1. National Data Platform Pilot: Services for Equitable Open Access to Data (NSF)
  2. Eager: Integrating Democratizing Data Services into the National Data Platform (NSF)
  3. Enabling Quantum Leap: Q-AMASE-i: Quantum Foundry at UCSB (NSF)
  4. Wildfire Technology Commons (NIST)
  5. California Wildfire and Landscape Resilience Data Hub - Operational Maintenance and Support (CAL FIRE)
  6. AccelNet-Implementation: Harnessing Global Science Networks to Accelerate Cultures of Learning (NSF)
  7. U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid (NSF)
  8. CyberTraining: FOUNT: Scaffolded, Hands-On Learning for a Data-Centric Future (NSF)
  9. Development of Advanced Satellite Detection and Monitoring for an Integrated Fire Information System (NOAA)
  10. Using Ground Sensing to Inform Fire Science and Decision Support (DHS)
  11. 4D Design and Assessment of Landscape-Level Fuel Treatments in the Sierra Nevada (JFSP)
  12. Scaling Science-Driven Vegetation Treatments for a Wildfire Resilient California (UCOP)
  13. FIRE-PLAN: Community Building Toward an Immersive Forest Network to Catalyze Wildland Fire Solutions and Training (NSF)
  14. BurnPro3D - 3D Vegetation and Fire Modeling for Beneficial Fire (Moore Foundation)
  15. Modeling Infrasound Development and Propagation Related to Wildfires in a Wildland Space (USDA)
  16. A National-Scale Testbed Supporting Artificial Intelligence Research Spanning the Computing Continuum (NSF)
  17. Computing without Boundaries: Cyberinfrastructure for the Long Tail of Science (NSF)


Previous Research Grants (selected)

  1. CI-New: Cognitive Hardware and Software Ecosystem Community Infrastructure (NSF)
  2. SAGE: A Software-Defined Sensor Network (NSF)
  3. VariMat Streaming Polystore Integration of Varied Experimental Materials Data (NSF)
  4. Building the California Forest Data Hub: Can a Federated Database Overcome the Information Management Challenges? (CAL FIRE)
  5. Hazards SEES Type 2: WIFIRE: A Scalable Data-Driven Monitoring, Dynamic Prediction and Resilience Cyberinfrastructure for Wildfires (NSF)
  6. Extending Firemap Beyond Initial Attack Modeling with a Suite of Open Source Fire Modeling Tools (NASA)
  7. NSF Convergence Accelerator Track D Phase 1: Artificial Intelligence and Community Driven Wildland Fire Innovation via a WIFIRE Commons Infrastructure for Data and Model Sharing (NSF)
  8. NSF Convergence Accelerator – Track D Phase 2: Artificial Intelligence and Community Driven Wildland Fire Innovation via a WIFIRE Commons Infrastructure for Data and Model Sharing (NSF)
  9. Demonstration of BurnPro3D's Potential to Provide Support for Prescribed Fire (ESTCP)