Tina Liu

🚨 New publication! The BBURNED review paper on fire emission estimation in the MODIS era, resulting from our 2023 Fire Emissions Workshop, led by @mparrington.bsky.social from our scientific steering committee is now published in Elementa online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art... @ucpress.bsky.social

I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.

Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke New app estimates health impacts of breathing smoke from wildfires

New @harvard.edu research, along w/ Dr. @tinaliu.bsky.social, launches an online platform to help identify areas in need of controlled burns or other #wildfire management strategies, to increase safety and reduce smoke exposure. 🔥

More: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/06...

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Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/07/driving-data-fire-managementNew app estimates health impacts of breathing smoke from wildfires

SMRT-Flames Tool: smoke-policy-tool.projects.earthengine.app/view/smrt-fl...
Harvard press release: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/06...
Harvard feature on Karina: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/07...

Happy to announce that Karina Chung's paper on wildfires, smoke risk, and land management in the western US is now published in ES&T! Karina started working on the project with us as a freshman at Harvard!

Paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs....
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Our new paper shows how recent prescribed (Rx) burns in the western US impacted later wildfires. We find that Rx fires reduced wildfire severity + net smoke emissions, even when factoring in smoke from Rx fires. But, we find that these Rx fires were less effective in the wildland-urban interface.

HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts Abstract. Open biomass burning has major impacts globally and regionally on atmospheric composition. Fire emissions include particulate matter, tropospheric ozone precursors, and greenhouse gases, as ...

HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts by Whaley et al. published in @egu.eu Geoscientific Model Development gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... #wildfires #airquality #climate

YouTube video by Karina Chung Technical Demo - SMRT-Flames Tool

Accompanying the paper, Karina also created a YouTube video demoing the Earth Engine tool, very cool!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_yD...

This project was co-led by @tinaliu.bsky.social and myself

🚨Preprint alert: Led by Karina Chung (an undergrad!), we develop a wildfire smoke risk index that accounts for historical burned area, fuel consumption, and customized land management in Google Earth Engine 🌎 A useful tool to weigh risk-outcome scenarios 🔥

eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

This article 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. It was great to talk to Karishma Mehrotra at WaPo, and these anecdotes from farmers are especially important. #fires 🔥 #AirPollution 💨 #India