@TheRealPyroTina

Asst Prof. @UBCgeog | studying 🔥, what drives them + impacts on air quality/public health | here for 🏀 memes | she/her

 Irvine, CA
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Joined April 2013
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Some personal news: I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Geography in January 2025! Very excited for the next chapter of fire 🔥🌲, remote sensing 🛰️, and air quality/public health 🏭🌬️ research @UBC @UBCGeog
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This WaPo article by @karishma__m__ highlights some of our work over the last few years on NW India's agricultural fires, a seasonal and episodic source of regional air pollution. These anecdotes from farmers are especially important. #fires 🔥 #AirPollution 💨 #India
Karishma Mehrotra@karishma__m__22 Nov 2024
As Delhi reels once again from toxic air, a story about a law from 16 years ago that tried to adapt to climate change, but ended up exacerbating a climate disaster. How shifting the rice season unintentionally added to Delhi's air problems. washingtonpost.com/world/202…

How a change in rice farming unexpectedly made India’s air so much worse

No one anticipated that an initiative to save groundwater by delaying the annual rice season would aggravate northern India’s already miserable air pollution.

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For graduate students or postdocs interested in or currently applying for faculty positions, we wrote a guide to share our experiences and make the process less opaque!
Makoto Kelp 🌐@SOA_mazing10 Oct 2024
🚨Navigating the academic job market can be brutal! We've tried to create a comprehensive guide for applying to Tenure-Track Asst. Prof positions based on our recent experiences 📚 Check it out: docs.google.com/document/d/1… Thx 🎉to @TheRealPyroTina @minghao_qiu @dien_wu

A Guide for Applying to Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions

A Guide for Applying to Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions Lead authors: Tina Liu and Makoto Kelp Contributors: Minghao Qiu, Dien Wu, Yun Hang, and Ellen Considine Last updated: November 8,...

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I had also created an #EarthEngine App to visualize NOAA's HMS smoke 💨 and fire 🔥 products. You can check out the app from link below; additional details are in my GitHub repo. Link: globalfires.earthengine.app/… GitHub: github.com/tianjialiu/HMS-Sm…
Tina Liu 🔥@TheRealPyroTina10 Oct 2024
In our new @IJWildlandFire paper, we evaluated the use of NOAA's Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke product in #AirQuality and #PublicHealth analyses of fire 🔥-related smoke 💨. 🧵
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In our new @IJWildlandFire paper, we evaluated the use of NOAA's Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke product in #AirQuality and #PublicHealth analyses of fire 🔥-related smoke 💨. 🧵
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We compared HMS to airport and EPA observations and HRRR-Smoke model estimates of surface smoke. In particular, inclusion of light-density HMS smoke may indicate aloft smoke, leading to overestimates in smoke days and smoke PM2.5. Paper link: doi.org/10.1071/WF23148
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Our paper on an algorithm for hourly fire 🔥 tracking of large wildfires is available as a preprint on ESSD discussions. We tested our GOES-based algorithm on a set of 28 large wildfires in California and derived hourly perimeters, active fire lines, and fire spread rates.
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Paper: doi.org/10.5194/essd-2023-38… Code: github.com/tianjialiu/GOFER #EarthEngine App: globalfires.earthengine.app/…
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Forgot to mention that the final, peer-reviewed version of our paper was published in ESSD in March! doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1395…

Systematically tracking the hourly progression of large wildfires using GOES satellite observations

Abstract. In the western United States, prolonged drought, a warming climate, and historical fuel buildup have contributed to larger and more intense wildfires as well as to longer fire seasons. As...

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Tina Liu 🔥 retweeted
Google Earth
@googleearth13 Nov 2023
We’re pleased to share that most #GeoforGood23 sessions are now available on demand! You can watch them on our website at g.co/earth/GeoForGood23 or on our YouTube playlist at youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… and we’ll be highlighting session recordings on this thread over the next several weeks!

2023 Geo for Good Summit

Our Geo for Good Summit (Oct 10-12, 2023) is an annual conference for those who want to leverage mapping tools and technology for planetary sustainability and human resilience around the world.

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Day 1 of the #BBURNED_FEW virtual workshop is underway with the first five presentations on biomass burning emissions datasets from @GuidovanderWerf @m_parrington @Joh_Kaiser @cwiedinm Ed Hyer & Arlindo da Silva. More info and agenda avaiable at www2.acom.ucar.edu/bburned/f…
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Just one week to go until the first #BBURNED_FEW virtual fire emissions workshop! See the information below for the link to the agenda and registration details.
BBURNED_science@BBURNED_science15 Oct 2023
In three weeks (7-9 November) the first BBURNED virtual workshop #BBURNED_FEW reviewing the current status and new developments of fire emission estimation will take place. More information, agenda and registration details can be found at www2.acom.ucar.edu/bburned/f…
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Tina Liu 🔥 retweeted
NASA Earth
@NASAEarth25 Oct 2023
During Canada’s record-breaking 2023 fire season, NASA scientists tracked the blazes with a new system, FEDS, that uses @NOAA & @NASA satellite data to provide more frequent monitoring of fire activity, growth, and behavior than was previously available. go.nasa.gov/3Sc6Wf4
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In three weeks (7-9 November) the first BBURNED virtual workshop #BBURNED_FEW reviewing the current status and new developments of fire emission estimation will take place. More information, agenda and registration details can be found at www2.acom.ucar.edu/bburned/f…
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Published paper🚨 We design data-driven air pollution sensor networks that account for the legacy of racial/income disparities in the US. We present equitable sensor networks in St. Louis, Houston, Buffalo, and Boston; showing how low-cost sensors can be a way forward 🏙️🌆
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Important new preprint from @TheRealPyroTina (+ friends) showing that the widely-used Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke product 🔥 is unreliable outside of the Western US. HMS has been used to study smoke in the East which should be reconsidered. Link below:
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By burning vast layers of partially decomposed vegetable matter called peat, fires like those in Canada release even more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere hrvd.me/Wildfires098t

Wildfires are much worse than a sign of climate change, says expert

Loretta Mickley, a Harvard wildfire expert, says wildfires are not just a symptom of climate change, but with the increased burning of millenia-old global peat stores, have the potential to worsen...

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Join the AGU Atmos Sci Early Career Committee for a wildfire-themed webinar on Tues, August 22 at 10am PDT. Invited early career speakers (including @Dr_Dmals & @TheRealPyroTina) will present with time for Q&A. Hope to see you there! More details in flyer and comments below!
"Join the AGU Atmospheric Science Section Early Career Committee for Science Seminar on Igniting Early Career Wildfire Studies" on August 22, 2023 at 10 AM PDT / 01 PM EDT. Speakers include: Samantha Kramer from Sonoma Technology, USA presenting "Public Health Impact of Prescribed Fire (PHIRE) Study - Baseline and Projected Prescribed Fire Smoke Exposures in California also Derek Mallia from University of Utah, USA, presenting "Simulating local and regional wildfire smoke episodes with a coupled fire-atmosphere model (WRF-SFIRE) and the last listed presenter, Tianjia Liu from University of California Irvine, USA, presenting "Cascading Delays in the Monsoon Rice Growing Season and Post-Monsoon Agricultural Fires Likely Exacerbate Air Pollution in North India". The moderator is Pablo Saide, Assistant Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Questions/Suggestions or zoom presentation access direct message us @AGU_EarlyAtmos!

ALT "Join the AGU Atmospheric Science Section Early Career Committee for Science Seminar on Igniting Early Career Wildfire Studies" on August 22, 2023 at 10 AM PDT / 01 PM EDT. Speakers include: Samantha Kramer from Sonoma Technology, USA presenting "Public Health Impact of Prescribed Fire (PHIRE) Study - Baseline and Projected Prescribed Fire Smoke Exposures in California also Derek Mallia from University of Utah, USA, presenting "Simulating local and regional wildfire smoke episodes with a coupled fire-atmosphere model (WRF-SFIRE) and the last listed presenter, Tianjia Liu from University of California Irvine, USA, presenting "Cascading Delays in the Monsoon Rice Growing Season and Post-Monsoon Agricultural Fires Likely Exacerbate Air Pollution in North India". The moderator is Pablo Saide, Assistant Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Questions/Suggestions or zoom presentation access direct message us @AGU_EarlyAtmos!

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One day left! 🔥👇
Makoto Kelp 🌐@SOA_mazing25 Jul 2023
1 week left to submit to our RX fire session 🔥👩‍🚒 Our invited speaker is Dr. Crystal Kolden @pyrogeog from UC Merced! #AGU23 See you in San Francisco!
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1 week left to submit to our RX fire session 🔥👩‍🚒 Our invited speaker is Dr. Crystal Kolden @pyrogeog from UC Merced! #AGU23 See you in San Francisco!
Makoto Kelp 🌐@SOA_mazing21 Jun 2023
🚨Call for Abstracts! #AGU23 session on the socio-ecological impacts of prescribed burns and land management in North America🌱🔥 We welcome remote sensing 🛰️, data science 📊, modeling🌐, and field studies 🌾 on a pressing topic. w/ @TheRealPyroTina + ...
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