A USC Dornsife-led study found that the Eaton fire’s daily carbon monoxide emissions far exceeded L.A. County’s average daily emissions from all human activity.
A program backed by USC Dornsife Public Exchange in collaboration with the Keck School of Medicine of USC offers free soil testing. It’s filling a critical gap created when government aid falls short and private testing proves costly.
STORY, PHOTOS and VIDEOS: High schoolers living in the regions affected by the Eaton and Pacific Palisades wildfires learn the skills to capture their communities’ stories.
Managing fire risk is also about caring for one’s community. Two USC experts share how learning that ethos can begin in schools.
“I was trying to get to know a place through its remains,” says one student.
A year after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires, emergency management professionals in the Trojan Family recall taking their experience outside the classroom to fight the disaster and save lives.
Two interconnected research collaborations spanning four USC schools are combining social science with machine learning to study the positive effects of community resilience.
Widespread media coverage and critical grant funding help expand Public Exchange’s CLEAN project.
Rosi Dagit realized that the post-fire mud flows would likely smother everything in their path — including the endangered fish in Topanga Creek — so she mobilized a team that included USC Sea Grant as a key player.
Funding from the nonprofit group FireAid will expand Public Exchange’s soil testing campaign, screening for a wider range of contaminants, speeding up lab results and increasing community outreach.
