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Wildfire Research and a Fire Tornado Appearing 4/16 on Discovery Channel in Canada, 4/23 on Science Channel in U.S!

University of Maryland assistant professor Michael Gollner (Department of Fire Protection Engineering) will explain–and demonstrate–the phenomenon known as a fire tornado in a forthcoming episode of Daily Planet, airing on the Discovery Channel ...

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Congratulations to Brian Hall on Successfully Defending his MS Thesis!

Brian Hall, an MS student in Fire Protection Engineering successfully defended  his thesis  on April 9th! Title: Transient Fire Loads on Aluminum Ferries Committee: Professor Michael J. Gollner, Committee Chair Professor James Milke Professor Stanislav Stoliarov Abstract: The transient ...

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Prof. Gollner and Trouve awarded Collaborative Grant with UCSD on Real-time Wildland Fire Modeling

The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) is awarded a grant to build an end-to-end cyberinfrastructure (CI), called WIFIRE, for real-time and data-driven simulation, prediction and visualization of wildfire ...

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Prof. Gollner and Marshall receive Department of Homeland Security Grant on Green Buildings

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a collaborative grant on the "Quantification of Green Building Features on Firefighter Safety" to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Maryland, College Park ...

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Two new papers published on the inclined plate problem in JFM and the Journal of Fire Sciences

Two new publications were recently published, both focused on studying inclined flames. On the heat transferred to the air surrounding a semi-infinite inclined hot plate (Final PDF) Gollner, M. J., Sanchez, A. L., and ...

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Western Wildfires and Climate Change

Interesting info graphic from the Union of Concerned Scientists helps to highlight the importance of understanding and controlling these large conflagrations. Infographic: Western Wildfires and Climate Change Rising temperatures are increasing wildfire ...

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Colin Miller Wins the 2013 John L. Bryan GRA Award

Colin Miller, a Spring 2013 FPE/BS graduate and a new FPE/MS student, has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 John L. Bryan GRA Award. The John L. Bryan Chair ...

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Formal Proceedings of NFPA Sustainable Buildings Symposium Released

The formal proceedings of the symposium that was hosted by NFPA and the Fire Protection Research Foundation in November, "Fire Safety Design and Sustainable Buildings: Challenges and Opportunities," has been ...

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Maryland Day Fire Tornado

Maryland day was a great success, with many visitors touring the laboratory to see what Fire Protection Engineering is all about. The main feature was our fire tornado, created in ...

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Upcoming Conferences

We're on the road over the next few months! We're going to have presentations at several conferences: FM Global Open Source CFD Fire Modeling Workshop 2013 (May 2-3, Mass.) An Experimental Model ...

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