Those interested in researching the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires joined us for this CONVERGE Virtual Forum. This session focused on encouraging communication, coordination, and collaboration among researchers and research teams.
During this session, researchers had the opportunity to:
- learn about emergent research needs,
- hear from researchers who have already launched or are planning to initiate research focused on the 2025 Southern California Wildfires,
- receive updates from extreme events reconnaissance and research network leads, and
- identify possibilities for ethical and effective cross-disciplinary coordination and collaboration.
Participants were encouraged in advance of this forum to visit this shared document. It provides an outlet for researchers—and those interested in informing the research response—to communicate about studies that have already been launched or are being planned in response to the 2025 Southern California Wildfires. There is also space for sharing ideas regarding research that is needed, as well as information about available data, equipment, resources, and funding opportunities.
CONVERGE is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, Program on Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.