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 Project Highlights

UC Climate Action Seed Grant: Scaling Science-Driven Vegetation Treatments for a Wildfire Resilient California (UCOP)

 

UC Climate Action Seed Grant: Scaling Science-Driven Vegetation Treatments for a Wildfire Resilient California (UCOP)
This effort uses the BurnPro3D platform to create 3D fuel and fire models to enable 1) site and scenario-specific modeling of prescribed burns and 2) monitoring of ecological impacts. The project, a collaboration with CAL FIRE, advances the ability to on-ramp multi-modal data sources for fuel modeling to help achieve the goal of scaling vegetation treatments to reduce wildfire risk by transforming the existing tool suite for training, planning and execution of prescribed burns.
 

 

Extending Firemap Beyond Initial Attack Modeling with a Suite of Open Source Fire Modeling Tools (NASA)

 

Extending Firemap Beyond Initial Attack Modeling with a Suite of Open Source Fire Modeling Tools (NASA)
Firemap provides real-time information on weather conditions and ignitions. Deployed across California and Colorado, it is used to model fire behavior over the first five hours after ignition for initial attack planning. Integrating the ELMFIRE and GridFire models into the platform enables predictions over three to five days for fires not caught on initial attack. California’s Fire Integrated Real-Time Intelligence System (FIRIS) provided testing and pilot deployment of the models, which were provided by the Pyregence Consortium. 


Research Grants

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


Previous Research Grants (selected)

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