University Assistant Professors Studying Lahaina Wildfire

Professor Ebrahimian and Professor Lareau are teaming with researchers at the University of Hawai'I and University of Buffalo to gather data and figure how to be two steps ahead of future wildfires.

Local university faculty members will be studying the devastating Lahaina wildfire in Maui. Two assistant professors with the University of Nevada, Reno are working on preventing similar disasters.

Professor Ebrahimian and Professor Lareau are teaming with researchers at the University of Hawai'I and University of Buffalo to gather data and figure how to be two steps ahead of future wildfires.

Hamed Ebrahimian, civil & environmental engineering assistant professor, says, "The objective is we want to be ahead of the fire. As the fire is happening in wildland right now, we are more in the reactive situation, we have to see where the fire is going and then make a decision. We want to be ahead of the fire in terms that we want to predict how the fire is going to behave and where it's going to go."

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