news — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab

Fun collaboration with NPR data journalists on “Dangerous Air”, a look at the patterns of exposure to wildfire smoke and their impacts across CA. Check out their great reporting and beautiful maps!

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Wildfire smoke is part of life in much of the Western U.S.

Public health officials have long told people to shelter in their homes or public buildings when the smoke is thick.

New research shows that's not enough to keep you safe. https://t.co/oUZHXbmWYy
— Nate Rott (@NathanRott) September 8, 2021

NPR coverage of our (soon to be released!) ongoing research on smoke infiltration

Check out our new paper (preprint aka working paper) using satellites and ML to measure the impact of electrification on economic livelihoods, led by @NWRAT with colleagues at @atlasai_co . Quick 🧵 https://t.co/xfatDuClrN
— Marshall Burke (@MarshallBBurke) September 8, 2021

New working paper led by Nathan on using satellites and ML to measure the economic impacts of electrification.

Tweet summary:

New ICML paper led by Jeff on using a number of sources of satellite imagery to better figure out where smoke plumes are

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Paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01637