Cobian-Iñiguez Fire Laboratory
Our Work in the Media & Recent Events
November 2022
Description: Wildland-urban-interface building material flammability project is presented at Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston, MA.
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September 2022
Description: PI Jeanette Cobian appears on Radio Bilingüe (Spanish public media) to speak on wildfire behavior, prescribed burning and more.
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The full interview can be found here
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July 2022
Description: PI Jeanette Cobian is co-author in PNAS Nexus paper on fire science in the anthropocene.
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The full article can be found below:
A press release on the article:
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June 2022
Interview with Univision 21
Description: PI Jeanette Cobian speaks at the Univision 21 evening broadcast about recent fires and fire behavior.
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This Spanish language interview can be found here:
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Jeanette Cobian wins Hellman Award
Description: PI Jeanette Cobian wins the prestigious Hellman Award granted to promising assistant professors.
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More information on Award
https://www.hellmanfellows.org/
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May 2022
New Publication on Air Quality and Emissions
Description: New study on the effects of the 2020 Wildfires on the air quality of the San Joaquin Valley published by Jeanette Cobian and collaborators Faraz Enayati Ahangar and Ricardo Cisneros.
Link to Paper:
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/5/3/64
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PI Jeanette Cobian attends Fire and Climate Conference
Description: PI Jeanette Cobian attends the Fire and Climate Conference in Pasadena, CA. Collaborative work on smoldering fire behavior was presented by co-author Lucas Carmignani.
Link to Conference
https://fireandclimateconference.com/pasadena/
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Graduate Student Shusmita Saha wins Travel Scholarship
Description: Graduate student Shusmita Saha wins travel scholarship to attend the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute
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April 2022
First annual lab BBQ
First Annual End of the Year BBQ celebrated by the Cobian-Iñiguez group.
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April 24th
1pm
Yosemite Lake
March 2022
PhD student Shusmita Saha presents at WSCI
Description: PhD student Shusmita Saha presents here research on metal particle ignition at the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute.
Meeting info:
Western States Combustion Institute, 2022 Meeting
March 20, 2021. Stanford CA.
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January 2022
University Friends Circle (UFC) Presentation
Description: UG Research Assistant Nicholas Maldonado presents his ignition research at the University Friends Circle.
More information here:
January 11th, 2022
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October 2021
Society of Women Engineers
Society of Women Engineers UC Merced Student Chapter Research Night Panel
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October 18th
8pm
COB 2 170 (UC Merced
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UC Riverside Virtual Science Night
Presentation: Video Game Development Using Fire Science and Big Data
Arlington High School, Riverside, CA(Virtual)
November 9th, 2021
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December 2021
Cobian-Iñiguez Fire Lab wins CITRIS SEED Grant
Description: CI Fire Lab wins CITRIS SEED Grant alongside collaborators at UC Merced MS&E and UC Berkeley. The new project will investigate novel sustainable and flame-resistant materials.
More information on the project here:
2021 CITRIS SEED Grant awardees
December 2021
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