Catalyzing social and ecological innovation.
We launched Wonder Labs in April 2020 and through the first year of the global COVID-19 pandemic, led NSF-funded longitudinal research on ‘Wildfire Preparedness and Evacuation Planning in a Pandemic’ and supported the Yuba-Bear Burn Cooperative's first prescribed burn in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. In 2020, we incubated a fuel management technology–BurnBot––a mechanized solution for safer, cleaner, and cheaper prescribed burning at scale.
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In 2021, we catalyzed private donors and startups to better respond to California’s increasing wildfire risk, culminating in the development and release of the first State of FireTech: Progress, gaps, futures Report in 2022.
Since 2021, our Reimagining 2025: Living with Fire program and Design Challenge has showcased the potential of student-led and community-centered processes of reimagining the future of living and working with fire. |