{"id":94751,"date":"2025-01-17T13:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=94751"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:13","slug":"carleton-experts-available-california-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2025\/carleton-experts-available-california-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available \u2013 California Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Experts Available \u2013 California Wildfires\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

As wildfires continue to burn in California, Carleton experts are available to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in speaking with the experts below, please feel free to contact them directly. If you require other assistance, please email Steven Reid, Media Relations Officer, at steven.reid3@carleton.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For other experts, please visit the Carleton Experts Database: https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marzieh Amini<\/strong>
\nProfessor, School of Information Technology at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: marziehamini@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amini is pioneering a solution to extract important information that can save lives from the sea of social<\/span> media<\/span> posts during disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a disaster, social<\/span> media<\/span> offers a wealth of information, ranging from posts detailing first responder actions and evacuee routes to reports of damaged infrastructure and affected areas. This data can aid first responders and utility crews. However, important insights are often mixed with irrelevant information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has the potential to provide first responders with real-time, actionable insights to help them figure out where to go, who\u2019s been affected and what barriers exist for providing help. More on this project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on Amini, visit: https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/marzieh-amini<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Russill
\n<\/strong>Professor, School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: Chris.Russill@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russill is an academic director at Re.Climate, a centre for climate communication and public engagement at Carleton. His current work focuses on problems of disinformation and denial in their relevance to climate action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russill is publishing a new study on climate misinformation that took place during the wildfires of 2023. The study will be published on June 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on Russill, visit: https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/chris-russill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriel Wainer<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Systems and Computing Engineering at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: Gabriel.Wainer@sce.carleton.ca<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wainer works on modelling methods with various real-world applications \u2013 including wildfires and the spread of smoke from fires. He is available to discuss how wildfires are modeled for prediction and prevention. Wainer is the head of the Advanced Real-Time Simulation lab, located at Carleton\u2019s Centre for Advanced Simulation and Visualization (V-Sim).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on Wainer, visit: https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/gabriel-wainer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Contact
\n<\/strong>Steven Reid (he\/him)
\nMedia Relations Officer
\nCarleton University
\n613-265-6613
\nSteven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking for a Carleton expert?
\nVisit: https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As wildfires continue to burn in California, Carleton experts are available to comment. If you are interested in speaking with the experts below, please feel free to contact them directly. If you require other assistance, please email Steven Reid, Media Relations Officer, at steven.reid3@carleton.ca. For other experts, please visit the Carleton Experts Database: https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/ Marzieh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":87080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[173,108,112],"class_list":["post-94751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-information-technology","tag-journalism-and-communication","tag-systems-and-computer-engineering"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94826,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94751\/revisions\/94826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}