Roland Stull, a professor in the UBC Dept. of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS), has won research support from the Canadian Safety and Security Program (CSSP), announced March 12, 2013 by The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defense.
Collaborating with Natural Resources Canada, British Columbia’s Ministry of Environment, and Parks Canada, Stull’s research team will help enhance Canada’s ability to predict and track smoke from forest fires and provide guidance to health agencies with regards to evacuation decisions.
For the past six years, Stull’s team has run the BlueSky wildfire smoke forecasts for western Canada, initially supported by the B.C. Ministry of Environment, and more recently with support from all the western provinces (see here). This new funding from CSSP will allow full Canadian coverage of wild-fire smoke forecasts. For more information, click here.
