UC Berkeley Society of Women Engineers on Project Vesta at JIFX: Technologies for Wildfire Mitigation

By Esther Shin | March 30, 2022

The UC Berkeley Society of Women Engineers (SWE) participated in the Naval Postgraduate School Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) demonstration that took place this past February at Camp Roberts. Phoebe Chang and Renee Francisco are both Cal students and currently serve as co-leads for this year’s SWE Team Tech, a collegiate competition team. With Disaster…

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Tackling Language Gaps in Wildfire Emergency Communication

By Berkeley Engineering | March 17, 2022

In the Fall of 2019, Abby Yue Gao’s first semester in UC Berkeley’s Master of Architecture program, her classes had to repeatedly pause due to another severe California wildfire season. Berkeley was spared the flames, but still suffered power shut offs and dreadful air quality thanks to that year’s worst blaze, Sonoma County’s Kincade Fire.…

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Disaster Lab launches the FIRE Foundry program to establish a tech-savvy wildfire prevention workforce

By Sukh Singh | March 9, 2022

Disaster Lab has launched the FIRE Foundry program with 19 recruits in partnership with Marin County, Marin Fire Dept, and the College of Marin. The Fire Foundry program’s objective is to establish a science and technology-savvy, community-oriented wildfire prevention workforce, by providing job training and skills development for underserved, underrepresented, and underfunded community members in…

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