The GIgaFire Project
Principle Investigators: Jonathan Greenberg and Erin Hanan
Overview: The GigaFire Project is a set of interconnected research projects focused on quantifying the state and dynamics of wildland fuels as well as the impacts of varying fuel managements on fire severity, long-term carbon sequestration, and water quality. This project combines advanced modeling, remote sensing and GIS, and machine learning in a big data computational environment. The project is a collaboration between PI's Greenberg and Hanan in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, and land managers and scientists at CAL FIRE and the California Air Resources Board. The overarching goal is to produce actionable data for land managers coping with the increasing scale and severity of wildfires.
Overview: The GigaFire Project is a set of interconnected research projects focused on quantifying the state and dynamics of wildland fuels as well as the impacts of varying fuel managements on fire severity, long-term carbon sequestration, and water quality. This project combines advanced modeling, remote sensing and GIS, and machine learning in a big data computational environment. The project is a collaboration between PI's Greenberg and Hanan in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, and land managers and scientists at CAL FIRE and the California Air Resources Board. The overarching goal is to produce actionable data for land managers coping with the increasing scale and severity of wildfires.
Lifeform cover mosaic for 2015.
Key Personnel:
- Jonathan Greenberg, Associate Professor and PI
- Erin Hanan, Assistant Professor and PI
- Nikki Inglis, Postdoctoral Scholar
- Taylor Brown, PhD Student (NRES)
- Johanson Onyegbula, MS Student (NRES)
- Ashley Cale, PhD Student (NRES)
- Adriano Matos, Geospatial Lab Technician
References:
- TBD
Funding Sources:
- CALFIRE. "Research for a Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Carbon and Fuels Mapping Model Prototype (Phase 2)”. 2022. Greenberg, J.A.
- CALFIRE. "Fuel succession: monitoring and modeling ladder fuels to balance fire risk and carbon retention". 2022. Hanan, E.J. and J.A. Greenberg.
- CALFIRE. “Research for a Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Carbon and Fuels Mapping Model Prototype (Phase 1)”. 2021. Ramirez, C. and J.A. Greenberg.
- California Air Resources Board. "Advanced Carbon Modeling Techniques for the Forest Health Quantification Methodology". 2021. Greenberg, J.A. and E. Hanan.
Press Coverage:
- "A look into the GigaFire Project, the latest research in fire fuel mapping", ABC 10, 27 October 2022.
- "Modeling designed to aid firefighters", The Record Courier, 25 October 2022.
- "Big data modeling, forest fuels mapping aids in mitigating catastrophic wildfire risk", Nevada Today, 21 October 2022.