[Eoas-seminar] [Seminar-announce] Scientific Computing Colloquium with Christopher Holmes

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"Burning issues: managing prescribed fire and air quality impacts in the eastern United States"

Christopher D. Holmes
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science (EOAS)
Florida State University (FSU)

Please feel free to forward/share this invitation with other groups/disciplines that might be interested in this talk/topic. All are welcome to attend.

NOTE: In-person attendance is requested in our 499 Dirac Science Library (DSL) Seminar Room. Zoom access is intended for external (non-departmental) participants only.

https://fsu.zoom.us/j/94273595552
Meeting # 942 7359 5552


Wednesday, Sep 23, 2026, Schedule:

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3:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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☕ Nespresso & Teatime - 417 DSL Commons

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3:30 to 4:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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🕟 Colloquium - 499 DSL Seminar Room


Abstract:
Fires are widespread and frequent across the eastern United States, but their extent and impacts have been underestimated due to the difficulty of detecting small, short-duration fires from satellites. We use improved fire detections from geostationary satellite instruments (Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on GOES) and a new compilation of locally specific emission factors to develop a new biomass burning inventory for the eastern U.S. Using an atmospheric chemistry model to simulate air quality, we show that our new inventory better fits aerosol measurements than most previous inventories. The results support fire emissions that are higher than most previous estimates with air quality impacts 2-4 times larger than previous assessments. We discuss the implications for health and prescribed fire management.

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Additional colloquium details can be found here,
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🎦 Colloquium recordings will be made available here, https://www.sc.fsu.edu/colloquium<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sc.fsu.edu%2Fcolloquium&data=05%7C02%7Csc-seminar-announce%40lists.fsu.edu%7C2424d76d35c8443ff82308df18f70c88%7Ca36450ebdb0642a78d1b026719f701e3%7C0%7C0%7C639257121494028488%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Ri8Pm3ZYRumQyWnPBMc0BPtQ5Czz%2FQsht71ke3KR1sE%3D&reserved=0>


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