
WIFIRE Lab
@wifirelab
WIFIRE Lab at UC San Diego develops science-driven technologies with the fire management community using collaborative workflows integrating science and AI.
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http://wifire.ucsd.edu/ 25-09-2013 12:38:49
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Introducing CWI board member Ilkay Altintas, Ph.D., who is a research scientist at the UC San Diego, the Chief Data Science Officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, a Founding Fellow of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, and Founding Director of the Workflows for Data Science Center of Excellence and the WIFIRE Lab.


This collaboration between WIFIRE Lab and OpenTopography builds on our two decades of innovations at San Diego Supercomputer Center on #datamanagement, #geoinformatics, #openscience and #cyberinfrastructure. It is about the culture and capability integration and interoperability.


Come join the UC San Diego Rady School of Management team! We are recruiting a social media manager at UC San Diego's premier business school. This is a great role for skilled storytellers who wants to work within an amazing intellectual community. Apply here:bit.ly/3Nyy3N6

Here is Flint. Flint is a spark of #goodfire. Our summer students mentored by Melissa Floca, Rukmini Ravi and Charles Erwin of WIFIRE Lab created Flint to teach kids about #prescibedburns. We need to learn to live with fire and awareness is key! youtube.com/watch?v=FYJvO5…



🔥⚠️ Los #incendios están aumentando. ✅ El equipo de WIFIRE Lab apuesta por la #IA y las quemas prescritas como #prevención 👉🏻 La idea es usar fuego de baja intensidad para limpiar el #medioambiente bit.ly/3PnCCLf freethink.com/series/hard-re…

Here is Flint. Flint is a spark of #goodfire. Our summer students mentored by Melissa Floca, Rukmini Ravi, and Charles Erwin of SDSC's WIFIRE Lab created Flint to teach kids about #prescibedburns. We need to learn to live with fire, and awareness is key! youtube.com/watch?v=FYJvO5…

Food for thought...Using weather, vegetation, and fuel to model how fires will behave to determine the best ways to fight it WATCH: youtu.be/W7V13ZL-ysE Osceola County Freethink WIFIRE Lab


Wildfires like Canada's recent outbreaks are deadly. To address this challenge, UC San Diego WIFIRE Lab is developing BurnPro3D through U.S. National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator. The solution provides knowledge to strategize prescribed burns. 🎥: bit.ly/3XzWhvt



The WIFIRE Lab team has completed a concept demonstration with Homeland Security for a #prescribedburn scenario to showcase the technology’s impact in hazardous settings such as #wildfire response and mitigation. Photo Credit: Sgt. Jake McClung, U.S. Marine Corps ow.ly/sqaG50Pvl0u


#ICYMI A joint effort between WIFIRE Lab and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Homeland Security) demonstrates workflows utilizing #edgecomputing for #wildfire monitoring, response and mitigation. ow.ly/znpM50PGXWj



Speakers include CEO Doug Cannon & Jesse Murray NV Energy, Sr. Policy Director Michael Wara @StandfordWoods, President Marcia McNutt @TheNASciences, Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas, Ph.D. San Diego Supercomputer Center (also founding director WIFIRE Lab). More here: dri.edu/awe-2024-speak…


On Thursday, June 6, SDSC Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altıntaş (Ilkay Altintas, Ph.D.) will moderate a panel regarding the social impact organizations on the frontier of implementing data and AI at the Accelerate Data for Social Impact Conference. Details at data.org/get-involved/a…
