A few notes on the use of #scientometric tools in literature analysis. Prompted by the stimulating discussions started by Enrico Ronchi Prof Guillermo Rein. 🔥 Erica Kuligowski Wojciech Węgrzyński 🔥🎙 Max Kinateder & based on what we have learnt from leading experts such as CiteInsight, Chaomei Chen, Ludo Waltman

The recordings of the webinar on mistakes on the #statistical analysis of #evacuation data by Dr Nikolai Bode are now online: youtube.com/watch?v=OTh5rc…

Our new paper on #Wildfire #Evacuation #gps #Data is now available online on #Nature - #ScientificData lnkd.in/gd9uYbXG This is one of the first #open #datasets of this type which will allow to get more insights on large scale evacuations.

Just published in Australian Journal of Emergency Management: "This paper introduces a freely available simulation platform called *WUI-NITY* that can be used by evacuation planners and decision-makers to forecast evacuation behaviour" 🤩 knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/ajem…

#Pedestrian and #Evacuation Dynamics Conference 2023: call for contribution is online! Deadline for abstracts: 31/01/23. All info here: ped23.phys.tue.nl

Roxborough Park Community #Wildfire #EvacuationDrill: Data Collection and Model Benchmarking by Steve M. V. Gwynne, Enrico Ronchi, Jonathan Wahlqvist, Erica Kuligowski @AmandaK_NFPA Prof Guillermo Rein. 🔥 Max Kinateder et al. 🔓➡ bitly.ws/zXPk #openaccess

Another free webinar from the HBIF iafss group of IAFSS ! This time about preschool children #evacuation. Link for registration👇

New article on the #verification #testing of #wildfire #evacuation models published in #Natural #Hazards journal. This is part of our NIST Public Safety Research-funded project WUI-NITY. Manuscript and tests in #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1007/s11069…

Review of Research on Human Behavior in Large #OutdoorFires by Negar Elhami-Khorasani, Max Kinateder, Vincent Lemiale et al. ➡ bitly.ws/CaTT #Wildfires UBuffalo Engineering and Applied Sciences NRC Canada CSIRO

You can now register to our next webinar: tinyurl.com/HBIF2023 On the 20th of June at 09:00 AM CET Dr Paul Geoerg will give talk about #movement of people with disabilities and heterogeneous #crowds.

Area burned is Alberta is now 1,378,739 ha that is the highest annual area burned in the 1959- 2023 record. ciffc.net/situation/ (QC and SK are also over 1 million ha) This record number will increase as AB is on fire again today. GOES 18 - white = active fires.

The recordings of the webinar by Dr Paul Geoerg on #crowd heterogeneity are now available online: youtube.com/watch?v=8VqSft…

Pedestrian and eating dynamics 2023 :)

Thanks to all participants of the PED23 conference. Fantastic to have 150 people from around the world sharing their interest and knowledge on #pedestrian and #evacuation dynamics. See you all at #PED2025 in Prague!

A recent cartoon for New Scientist #science #scifi

Now out in Perspectives on Psychological Science, our (with Leo Tiokhin) discussion on how changing the reward structure in science to the level of the group, instead of individual scientists, might lead to better science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

🔔Job alert🔔 I'm seeking a motivated, qualitative researcher for a 4-year postdoc position at Universität Bern that will play a central role in my Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project on #community #wildfire #resilience in #Europe. Deadline: 1 Oct 2023. For more details, see: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs…

Call to top engineering graduates wanting to complete a PhD degree with Imperial Hazelab on the wide range of *fire issues in energy systems*. These include batteries, wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, hydrogen systems, and powerlines in wildfires.

You can now register to our next free webinar: tinyurl.com/9HBIF2023 On the 25th of September at 17:00 CET, Dr Stephen Wong will talk about Human behaviour in #wildfire #evacuation

You can now register to our next webinar by Early Career Researchers working on #crowd #evacuation: tinyurl.com/hbif10 On the 8th of March at 03:00 PM CET we will host Dr Hossein Tavanarezaei, Dr Yunhe Tong and MSc Khadija Baig