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March 22, 2024
NCAR and GSL scientists focus on Lahaina fire to improve prediction of wildland-urban fires
Research may help with firefighting, evacuationsScientists have successfully applied a pair of advanced computer models to simulate last year’s wildfire that devastated the Hawaiian town of Lahaina. The development could lay the groundwork for more detailed predictions of wildfires that advance into towns and cities, eventually helping with fire...
March 08, 2024
Messaging Under the Microscope: Evaluating Official Risk Communication During the Marshall Fire
As the risk of impact from wildland fires increases across the United States, GSL’s Social and Behavioral Science Branch has performed research aiming to harness the power of social media to inform citizens during an active wildfire. One of our research social scientists examined how Twitter (now X) users engaged with hazard messaging coming fro...
March 08, 2024
Taylor Trogdon named NOAA Team Member of the Month
Taylor Trogdon was recently named NOAA’s Team Member of the Month for December, 2023. Taylor serves as a research meteorologist at the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory in Boulder, CO. In late August and early September, the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory's Taylor Trogdon was invited by the NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC) on a spec...
March 05, 2024
Dr. Ligia Bernardet honored with the NOAA Silver Sherman Award
Dr. Ligia Bernardet, Chief of the Earth Prediction Advancement Division at NOAA Global Systems Laboratory (GSL), has been awarded the Silver Sherman Award for her outstanding leadership and support for community modeling at NOAA. The award was presented at the recent 104th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, which wa...
February 29, 2024
Building a Fire-Ready Nation: A story map
Recent wildfire disasters have devastated Hawaii, California, North Carolina, and parts of the western U.S., while major cities during the summer of 2023 saw dangerous air quality levels due to smoke from Canadian fires. Critical research is being funded by an additional $100 million over five years through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL...
February 26, 2024
GSL wins Department of Commerce Medals!
GSL has received three distinguished medals from the U.S. Department of Commerce.Since 1949, the Department has granted honor awards in the form of Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals. The Gold and Silver Medals are the highest and second highest honor granted by the Secretary of Commerce for distinguished and exceptional performance. GSL’s visualiz...