Smoke impacts on people’s lungs, disruptions to education for children in the foster care system, soil and air testing for toxic contaminants, the role vegetation plays in spreading—or not—fire, and modeling future fire spread and escaping planning.
These were just some of the research efforts dozens of UCLA experts shared with each other over the course of three lunchtime dialogues—organized and hosted by Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLAGC)—on October 2, 10, and 23.
Read a summary of each day below and watch the presenters briefly discuss their work in these short videos. And stay tuned to this page for updates on future work that emerges from these conversations.
UCLA is a research powerhouse, and SLAGC aims to act as a force multiplier for these efforts by facilitating deliberate interdisciplinary cross-pollination and dialogues that wouldn’t happen organically in the course of UCLA experts’ busy day-to-day schedules.
Each day featured five or six experts presenting for about five minutes each on their work related to the 2025 LA fires recovery and impacts followed by question-and-answer discussion sessions.
Over the course of these three meetings, attendees and presenters represented a diverse cross-section of UCLA’s expertise:
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The goal: provide an informal forum for researchers to learn from each other about the various fire-related efforts happening across campus to discuss possible synergies and avenues for future collaboration.
Stay tuned to this page for further updates.
