Heavy metal transport in the wake of urban megafires: Building a dynamical framework to assess, mitigate, and adapt to an emerging climate threat
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Heavy metal transport in the wake of urban megafires: Building a dynamical framework to assess, mitigate, and adapt to an emerging climate threat
PIs: Francois Tissot and Christian Frankenberg
Research Team: Merritt McDowell
Division of Geology and Planetary Science
Climate Science Initiative
2025 Explorer grant
In the context of growing urban megafires threat, we propose (i) acquiring heavy metal concentration data on fine dust and coarse ash from the Eaton Fire, and (ii) combining them with dynamical modeling to generate a predictive open-source model of atmospheric particle transport that would improve community-wide emergency response measures.