Simeoni, professor and head of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering, will use a laboratory wind tunnel at WPI, field studies in a New Jersey forest, and data analysis to determine if scars on a landscape, ash deposits, and other indicators widely used by investigators reliably point to the place where a wildfire originates.
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Researcher awarded grant to assess reliability of wildfire burn patterns as a forensic tool - Wildfire Today
National Institute of Justice commits over half a million dollars to improve training and guidelines for wildfire investigations
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