Congratulations to all HDRFS Seed Grant Awardees!
We would like to congratulate the following NSHE faculty, who were selected to receive seed grant funding for their projects. These awards are funded through the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1: Harnessing the Data Revolution for Fire Science (HDRFS) for one year at $30,000 to provide additional research and sustainability in areas relevant to the HDRFS project.
Marco Giordano
Assistant Research Professor, Atmospheric Physics, Desert Research Institute
Project Title:
New instrumentation and methods for characterization of land surface variables in Nevada Fire Science studies
Brittany Kruger
Associate Research Professor, Geology, Desert Research Institute
Project Title:
Undergraduate Research: The impact of black carbon on aqueous microbial metabolisms
Collecting High-Fidelity Wildfire Data using Multi-Task Allocation in UAV Networks with Cooperative Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
Project Title:
FirePrune: Multi-modal Dataset and MLLM-Guided Model Pruning for AIPowered Wildfire Detection
Project Title:
Exploring quartz luminescence as a proxy for soil temperatures in wildfire-affected landscapes
Project Title:
Evaluating the Effects of Increased Individual Health Knowledge on Risk Perception and Protective Action during Compound Events (Extreme Heat and Wildfire Smoke)
Project Title:
Comparing Properties of Ash from Wildland-Urban Interface and Wildland Fires
Project Title:
Metabolomic Profiling of Fire Severity Effects on Soil CO₂ Emissions
Acknowledgement: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. OIA- 2148788.