Public Engagement
2024-09-12
9NEWS Denver, climate impact of wildfires: https://www.9news.com/video/news/health/impact-wildfire-smoke-health/73-3c5e5b78-b6e0-4407-a0f8-9e96c0ccd26e
2023-12-11
Top five stories from NCAR: "Australian Bushfires put La Nina on repeat" https://news.ucar.edu/132934/2023-year-review
2023-05-10
NCAR press release: https://news.ucar.edu/132892/australian-bushfires-likely-contributed-multiyear-la-nina
2023-02-23
NCAR Explorer Series lecture: How weather and wildfires interact: Insights from aerosols in Sub-Saharan Africa, https://edec.ucar.edu/events/weather-and-wildfires
2022-10-17
Comment on fire-weather interaction paper: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/wildfires-can-intensify-destructive-storms-half-a-continent-away
2022-06-17
Science News: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wildfire-health-risks-air-smoke-west-east-united-states
2022-06-03
2022-05-25 and 26
Companion articles in NASA Earth Observatory:
2022 April and May
PNW fire changing the North American CO seasonal cycle was taken up by multiple news outlets: https://nature.altmetric.com/details/126904322
NCAR press release: https://news.ucar.edu/132838/pacific-northwest-wildfires-alter-air-pollution-patterns-across-north-america
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/18/wildfire-smoke-emissions-study-pacific-north-west
Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/western-wildfires-reverse-u-s-clean-air-gains/
9NEWS: https://www.9news.com/article/weather/weather-colorado/air-pollution-carbon-monoxide-wildfire-smoke/73-a57b27c3-a4c2-4628-bfeb-44bdc3645380; https://youtu.be/LT_rR2yjKOI
Investigative report including AQ, health, policy and management aspects: https://crosscut.com/environment/2022/05/air-quality-impacts-pnw-wildfires-reach-far-new-york
2021-05-05
Commenting on using cell phone signals to measure smoke in WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/how-cell-signals-can-help-track-wildfire-smoke/
2020-09-18
The chemistry in the fire plumes in a WIRED article, in response to large PNW fires in September 2020: https://www.wired.com/story/whats-in-wildfire-smoke-and-how-dangerous-is-it/
Also ran in Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/whats-in-wildfire-smoke-and-how-dangerous-is-it/
2020-02-28
Talking about fire connection to weather for PNW on BBC's Crowd Science program: https://bbc.in/2Vuy3Vo
2020-02-09
Quoted in "Catastrophic Fires Released Billions of Tons of CO2 in 2019" from Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-fire-emissions/?srnd=green
2020-01-24
NPR interview on fire emissions and climate: https://www.wnpr.org/post/bush-fires-burn-australia-look-climate-changes-impact
2020-01-21
Bloomberg article on emissions from Australian fires in 2019 relative to anthropogenic emissions: https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/australia-wildfires-cause-greenhouse-gas-emissions-to-double
2020-01-17:
Mashable article on how fire smoke is processed: https://mashable.com/article/australia-where-does-wildfire-smoke-go/
Taken up by EOS: https://eos.org/articles/where-australias-smoke-goes-to-die
2020-01-09:
NPR interview on Australian bushfires : https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/795366562/how-australian-wildfire-emissions-may-impact-global-climate and related article at https://www.npr.org/2020/01/12/794665203/australias-wildfires-are-releasing-vast-amounts-of-carbon-emissions
2019-10-30:
Earther article on FIREX-AQ: https://earther.gizmodo.com/what-it-s-like-to-work-in-a-flying-smoke-laboratory-1839469634
2018-11-19:
Bloomberg report on the California November 2018 fires, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-19/-insane-california-air-topped-world-health-standard-by-60-times
Picked up by Yale, https://e360.yale.edu/digest/air-pollution-from-california-wildfires-60-times-above-safe-limit
Picked up by the Hill, https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/417398-air-pollution-in-california-due-to-wildfires-exceeds-world
2011-03-29:
UOW news report of receiving the CSIRO Scholarship, https://media.uow.edu.au/news/UOW098724.html