Professor Craig Clements of our Meteorology and Climate Science department is the founder and director of the SJSU Fire Weather Research Laboratory, dedicated to understanding the science behind the local weather created by wild fires. Their work could lead to enhanced safety for both firefighters and residents near the fires.

Clements and his team have deployed their mobile laboratory to the Detwiler fire, currently raging just outside Yosemite National Park, to study the atmosphere above the fire. Read a news release from the National Science Foundation about this work. Clements team is also featured in a recent NBC News report about the fire.