Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...

GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools

R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat

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Read the new blog post by @paultgriffiths.github.io and @soa-mazing.bsky.social on using machine learning in tropospheric ozone science. #egublog #machinelearning #atmosphericscience

Harnessing Machine Learning to Advance Tropospheric Ozone Science

Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) offer powerful tools to address long-standing scientific challenges. At the molecular scale, we’ve seen projects like AlphaFold discover unknown ...

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🚨🧪The ML4O3 Perspective on 'Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Tropospheric Ozone Research' is published (as a Highlight) today in @egu-as.bsky.social GMD. Great team effort from our many co-authors. doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...

Our new preprint proposes a framework for predicting summertime temperature jumps on 1-5 year timescales. eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.

Shannon Osaka@shannonosaka.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's not your imagination: Wildfire smoke in the U.S. has dramatically worsened since 2019. According to a new study, it's already killing 41,000 people a year - and it's poised to get much worse. new from me @johnmuyskens.bsky.social and @sadbumblebee.buzz www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University

Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being

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🚨I’m recruiting 1-2 PhD students for my Air Quality Data Science 🌐 group @utah.edu (start Fall ’26), working on multimodal machine learning applications for atmospheric chemistry (wildfires, ozone, dust). How to apply below. Please repost & ping me with recommendations!

What if companies disclosed climate risk the same way insurers analyze it: with event-based probabilistic models that show what could happen, when, and with what likelihood? Check out our new paper in Environmental Research: Climate to learn more! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Starting today I am an assistant professor at Indiana University in the School of Public & Environmental Affairs. Reach out if you want to work together, especially if you are a prospective PhD student or postdoc!

Does prescribed burning reduce overall smoke from wildfire? We have 2 new papers that try to quantify. Answer: each acre Rx burned yields ≥3x more reduction in future wildfire smoke than is emitted in the Rx burn. But can take years to realize benefits. www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/prescri...

smoke impacts of prescribed burning — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University

Yes, it almost certainly does, but benefits in terms of net smoke reductions take a few years to be realized.   By: Marshall Burke Wildfire smoke is a rapidly growing environmental health haz...

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The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪 How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.

New @harvard.edu research, along w/ Dr. @tinaliu.bsky.social, launches an online platform to help identify areas in need of controlled burns or other #wildfire management strategies, to increase safety and reduce smoke exposure. 🔥 More: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/06... @soa-mazing.bsky.social

Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke

New app estimates health impacts of breathing smoke from wildfires

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🔥 Fighting fire with data Better-targeted land management in just 3.5% of Northern California could have cut wildfire smoke exposure by 17.6% in 2020. Researchers have now built a smoke risk index to guide future decisions. 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #SciComm #Wildfires #AirQuality 🧪

Managing Smoke Risk from Wildland Fires: Northern California as a Case Study

Smoke fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from increasing wildfires in the western United States threatens public health. While land managers often prioritize reducing wildfire risk in the wildland-urban ...

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Happy to announce that Karina Chung's paper on wildfires, smoke risk, and land management in the western US is now published in ES&T! Karina started working on the project with us as a freshman at Harvard! Paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs.... (Additional links in comments)

Managing Smoke Risk from Wildland Fires: Northern California as a Case Study

Smoke fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from increasing wildfires in the western United States threatens public health. While land managers often prioritize reducing wildfire risk in the wildland-urban ...

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Makoto Kelp@soa-mazing.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Preprint alert: Led by Karina Chung (an undergrad!), we develop a wildfire smoke risk index that accounts for historical burned area, fuel consumption, and customized land management in Google Earth Engine 🌎 A useful tool to weigh risk-outcome scenarios 🔥 eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Prescribed burns can reduce wildfire severity by 16% and smoke pollution by 14%, a Stanford study finds. “The smoke is a silent and far-reaching hazard, and prescribed fire may be one of the few tools that actually reduces total smoke exposure.” - senior fellow Marshall Burke 🔗 bit.ly/4nlf1v9

Study shows controlled burns can reduce wildfire intensity and smoke pollution

A new Stanford-led study finds that controlled, low-intensity fires known as prescribed burns can slash wildfire intensity and dangerous smoke pollution across the western United States.

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Our new paper shows how recent prescribed (Rx) burns in the western US impacted later wildfires. We find that Rx fires reduced wildfire severity + net smoke emissions, even when factoring in smoke from Rx fires. But, we find that these Rx fires were less effective in the wildland-urban interface.

What happens to science under autocracy? The rise of the National Socialist Party in 1930s Germany provides an (admittedly extreme) example. Prior to the early 1930s, scientists at German institutions won a third of Nobels. 10 years later, that number was 5%, and has never recovered.

An informative new tool to make risks from natural hazards visible and accessible - not just for scientists, but also for planners, emergency managers, and other professionals across disciplines. Tool: experience.arcgis.com/experience/1... Background story: news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/04/22/a...

A New Interactive Tool Models Natural Hazards Fueled by Climate Change

Columbia Climate scientists launch the first long-term dataset to track and predict the occurrence of climate change–fueled extreme events.

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National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia University@ncdp.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ Explore NCDP's new map application that examines how natural hazards, including tornadoes, wildfires, sea-level rise, and tropical cyclones, may be influenced by climate change. Read the full story: ow.ly/8sro50VFP57 Map application: bit.ly/nhccp @climate.columbia.edu #climatechange #earthday

🚨Reminder: Due at the end of this month! Please apply and forward to graduating PhD students and early-career postdocs. We expect to give partial funding support for all accepted participants, and they are automatically enrolled in the Atmospheric Chemistry GRC, thanks!

Hannah S Kenagy@hannahskenagy.bsky.social · 2y ago

This year's atmospheric chemistry GRC will be preceded by the first-ever atmospheric chemistry GRS for early-career scientists! I hope you (or your early career colleagues) will consider joining us in Maine this summer. Policies and application instructions here: www.grc.org/atmospheric-...

New paper by me and Noah Diffenbaugh on identifying predictable Pacific variability in the observational record 1/6 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Identifying a Pattern of Predictable Decadal North Pacific SST Variability in Historical Observations

A pattern of predictable sea surface temperature variability in the North Pacific Ocean is identified by a neural network trained on CMIP6 models The neural network skillfully predicts the same p...

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🚨Preprint alert: Led by Karina Chung (an undergrad!), we develop a wildfire smoke risk index that accounts for historical burned area, fuel consumption, and customized land management in Google Earth Engine 🌎 A useful tool to weigh risk-outcome scenarios 🔥 eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

This year's atmospheric chemistry GRC will be preceded by the first-ever atmospheric chemistry GRS for early-career scientists! I hope you (or your early career colleagues) will consider joining us in Maine this summer. Policies and application instructions here: www.grc.org/atmospheric-...

Colette Heald@coletteheald.bsky.social · 2y ago

Early-career atmospheric chemistry colleagues! Click on the link below to learn more about applying to attend the Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and the GRC that follows. www.grc.org/atmospheric-...

Atmospheric Chemistry colleagues! consider applying to attend this year's Atmospheric Chemistry GRC to join us in Maine and hear about the exciting advances in our field! See the link for more details: www.grc.org/atmospheric-...

Need high resolution daily air pollution data for India? We've got you. Great new work led by Ayako Kawano developing satellite+ML-based measures of PM2.5 going back decades, and using it to evaluate recent progress in improving air quality. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Improved daily PM2.5 estimates in India reveal inequalities in recent enhancement of air quality

Developed PM2.5 estimates unveiled inequalities in PM2.5 exposure, emphasizing need for equitable air quality control policies.

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Prescribed burning can reduce the severity and amount of smoke from wildfires that burn those areas later on, even when accounting for smoke from the prescribed burns themselves, according to new analysis of California’s record-breaking 2020 fire season from @soa-mazing.bsky.social etal. 🧪

Setting fire to a million acres of California could cut smoke by half

As California expands its prescribed burning efforts, a study of more than 180 such projects suggests they are an effective way to reduce a blaze's intensity and smoke

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This article highlights some of our work over the last few years on NW India's agricultural fires, a seasonal and episodic source of regional air pollution. It was great to talk to Karishma Mehrotra at WaPo, and these anecdotes from farmers are especially important. #fires 🔥 #AirPollution 💨 #India

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2y ago

An Indian initiative to preserve vanishing groundwater by delaying the annual sowing of rice has led to a dramatic worsening of air pollution in New Delhi and the surrounding region.

Here's the atmospheric chemistry starter pack! Let me know if you'd like to join! Looking forward to hearing about everyone's fun science on bluesky! go.bsky.app/GgmWgSo