Posts Tagged ‘UC Berkeley’
Disaster Lab’s FIRE Foundry Program featured on ABC7 News for its work to increase diversity in Fire Fighting
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Read MoreUC Berkeley Society of Women Engineers on Project Vesta at JIFX: Technologies for Wildfire Mitigation
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…
Read MoreDisaster Lab launches the FIRE Foundry program to establish a tech-savvy wildfire prevention workforce
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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