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Rawaf al Rawaf
Researcher & Senior Wildfire Modeler at UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)Rawaf al Rawaf is a lead wildfire modeler for the FIRIS Fusion Center and a researcher for the WIFIRE Lab, focusing on the analysis and improvement of the Firemap interface as well as other GIS-related research projects. He has a background in architecture, economics,…
Ilkay Altintas
Wildfire Commons Principal Investigator at UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)İlkay is the Chief Data Science Officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Founding Director of the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab. Since joining SDSC in 2001, she has been a principal investigator and a technical leader in a wide range of cross-…
Workflows Big Data AI/ML Cloud Technologies Fire Behavior Modeling Databases Sensor Networks
Christopher Anthony
Fellow at UC San DiegoChris is a Fellow at the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab (SCIL) and the ProWESS Center at UC San Diego. Previously, he served California as a Governor Appointee overseeing nearly all aspects of CAL FIRE’s Fire Protection, Resource Management, Support, and…
Wildfire Prevention Strategic Management CAL FIRE Operations Incident Command Emergency Response Wildfire Technology Innovation Forest Resource Management Community Fire Preparedness
Adam Atchley
Research Scientist at LANL (LOS ALAMOS, NM)Fire Behavior Modeling Fire Ecology Fire Effects Vegetation Modeling
John Battles
Professor at University of California BerkeleyJohn J. Battles is a Professor of Forest Ecology and the Rudy Grah Endowed Chair of Forestry and Sustainability at UC Berkeley. He is a field scientist engaged in long-term research of temperate forest ecosystems. His goal is to understand how and why forests change.…
Forest ecology Ecosystem dynamics Forest and Fuel Inventory and Monitoring
GaBriella Branson
Wildland Fire Knowledge Manager at Office of Wildland Fire Data Management ProgramGaBriella is the Knowledge Manager for the Office of Wildland Fire Data Management Program. Prior to being the Knowledge Manager, she was the Intelligence Coordinator at the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center. Her days revolve around documenting the meaning of…
Mark Brown
Executive Officer at Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority (San Rafael, CA)Deputy Fire Chief, Marin County Fire Department – Retired
Executive Officer, Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority
Chief Brown started his career as a volunteer firefighter in 1986 in Sonoma County. He was hired by the Marin County…
Kathleen Clough
PhD Research Assistant at Desert Research Institute (Reno, NV)
Jordan Combs
Senior Product Manager at Spatial Informatics Group (Austin, TX)Decision Support Tools GIS Science Communication Software Development User Experience Use-inspired Research System Administration Community Engagement
Caleb Cramer
Graduate Student at University of Washington
Daniel Crawl
at UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)Daniel is the Chief Technology Officer of the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab. His current projects involve designing and building geospatial systems and visualizations for BurnPro3D and the Fire Integrated Real-Time Intelligence System (FIRIS) Fusion Center. Prior…
Big Data Decision Support Tools GIS User Experience Workflows User Interface Databases
Zach Crennen
Post Bachelor's Research Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, NM)I am a post bachelor’s student with a CS background looking to apply ML to wildland fire. I work on tools to accelerate quic-fire, improve fuel modeling, understand post fire hydrologic effects, and integrate ML into wildland fire
Maytal Dahan
at Texas Advanced Computing CenterCyberinfrastructure Cloud Technologies AI/ML Big Data Community Engagement Science Gateways
Debra Deininger
CRO at N5 Sensors Inc.Debra is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for all things sensing and a goal to make the world a better place through sensors.
Debra has over 30 years of experience in the development and commercialization of environmental sensors and systems and has worked in…
Sensor Networks Emerging Wildfire Technology Wildfire Technology Innovation
Melissa Floca
Chief Innovation Officer at UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)Melissa Floca is the Chief Innovation Officer at the Societal Computing and Innovation Lab (SCIL), based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) within UC San Diego’s School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences. In this role, she brings together policymakers,…
Use-inspired Research Fire Science Community Engagement Decision Support Tools Co-production with Practitioners
Don Hannemann
Data Technology Lead at Department of the Interior
Haley Kawar
Coordinator of Education and Partnerships, CORE Coordinator, Land and Ecology Steward at UC San Diego, S&S Friendly Ranch (Cardiff By the Sea, CA)Community Engagement Community Resilience Use-inspired Research
Kate Kaya
Full Stack Developer at UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA)Kate is a Cyberinfrastructure Developer at SDSC. Since joining SDSC in 2001, her work has included technical project architecture, system administration, and research applications programming for a variety of projects.
Cloud Technologies Databases System Administration Portal Technologies Software Development
Lee Kohlman
Chief Science Officer at Ember Flash AerospaceThe future is defined by how we develop, deploy and utilize new technologies now. As co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Ember Flash Aerospace, Dr. Lee Kohlman is working to build a complete solution for wildfire response and impact mitigation. By bringing together…
Nick LaHaye
Research Data Science at Spatial Informatics Group, LLC. (Pasadena, CA)
The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons is a UC San Diego initiative funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
