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Environmental Impacts of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface

Webinar Recording, January 31, 2025

How do scientists measure air quality, and what do we know about the air in greater Los Angeles following the January fires?

Experts from Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the University of Colorado Boulder shared information about the environmental hazards of smoke, data collected since the January 2025 fires, and lessons learned from previous similar fires.

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