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Fast Fires

Team members from Earth Lab and ESIIL saw their work published in Science magazine and featured in the news.

Balch, J. K., V. Iglesias, A. L. Mahood, M. C. Cook, C. Amaral, A. DeCastro, S. Leyk, T. L. McIntosh, R. C. Nagy, L. St. Denis, T. Tuff, E. Verleye, A. P. Williams, and C. A. Kolden. 2024. The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020). Science 386:425–431. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk5737

The Team also developed a curriculum tool in collaboration with CEEE to go along with the new paper. It can be found here, and is built on NSF's CODAP (Common Online Data Analysis Platform), which is designed to make it easier to get real data into the hands of students. https://datapuzzles.org/puzzle-pieces/fast-and-destructive-wildfires-united-states-2012-2020