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Melanie Scott is the Director of Marketing and Communications for Synoptic Data and brings a unique background with experience in both meteorology and marketing. Melanie’s previous experience includes working in the private weather sector where she played an instrumental…

BSEE Drexel University, MSEE MIT

Member of Technical Staff:  Bell Telephone Labs, MIT Lincoln Lab, Motorola Semiconductor Products

When I retired I became interested in fighting wildfires. I lived in Quincy MA near the headquarters of the National Fire…

Love fire technology.

Building on a research background in numerical analysis, it was natural for me to work with the San Diego Supercomputer Center, SDSC, starting 1986 on mathematical software and curriculum development for high performance computing when I was hired at San Diego State…

Claire is a Technical Project Manager at the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab, where she leads the management of the Wildfire Science & Technology Commons. She joined the SDSC team in 2019 and has contributed to projects such as the Science Gateways Community…

Ertugrul Taciroglu earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1998. After a stint at the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (UIUC) as a postdoctoral researcher, he joined the Civil & Environmental…

As the Natural Resources Director for the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians and a member of the Squaxin Island Tribe, Joelene Tamm is dedicated to fostering sustainable natural resource management. She founded the Natural Resources Department…

Senior-level research scientist specializing in formulating and executing complex multidisciplinary R&D projects across various industries, including manufacturing, biometrics, personalized medicine and applied science. Expert in employing modern and classic tools of…

Co-Founder & COO, FireSwarm Solutions | 25-year incident and emergency-response veteran championing autonomous ultra-heavy-lift drones for next-gen wildfire suppression.

Prescribed fire and wildfire operations practitioner for 30+ years. Participation in local, state, regional and national wildland fire management response and prescribed fire planning, implementation and monitoring programs. Member of the Joint Fire Science Program…

Dynamic and results-driven professional with a proven track record in business development and operational leadership within the wildland firefighting sector. Passionate about leveraging cutting-edge unmanned technologies to enhance fire management strategies, including…

Rich works as a Technical Development Manager at the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab. He specializes in technologies ranging from client/server to object oriented to distributed systems to grid. Rich has consulted with a variety of high tech labs and enjoys finding…

Mats White is the Assistant Director of Systems at the Oregon Hazards Lab (OHAZ) located at the University of Oregon. With a commitment to enhancing community resilience against natural disasters, he focuses on developing and maintaining a statewide real-time multi-hazard…

With 27 years as a Fire Captain and a lifetime of firefighting heritage, I've dedicated my career to protecting communities from wildfires. Now, as a consultant specializing in wildfire technologies, I'm on a mission to revolutionize how we prevent, respond to, and…

Matt Is a PhD candidate at West Virginia University. He is working on developing methods to better map wildland fuels through remote sensing methods. Specifically he seeks to develop methods to scale measurements collected by terrestrial LiDAR scanning to data collected…

Bryce is a Spatial Wildfire Analyst at Pyrologix, a Vibrant Planet company. He specializes in analysis of wildfire risk to communities, analyzed at the single-structure level. Bryce is an arborist, Part 107 drone pilot, and has an M.S. from the University of Montana…