Torrential rain from winter storms may have dampened the fears of summer wildfires, but Landscape Services wasn’t getting lulled into a false sense of security. Volunteer overtime crews of up to 16 staff members worked five weekends and used…
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Bronco Ember, a miniature satellite designed by students to detect nascent wildfires, passed its final inspection in the NASA TechLeap Challenge and is scheduled for a suborbital flight test at the end of June. The team has also earned $500,000…
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The cool, crisp autumn air gently rolling through campus belies the persistent threat lurking in the hillsides that surround Cal Poly Pomona: wildfires. In past decades, wildfire season was confined to the sweltering summer months and the threat diminished as…
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The 2018 wildfire season was the deadliest and most destructive on record in California, according to CAL FIRE. Yet, after almost every wildfire, a house survives, somehow protected from the flames that consumed its neighbors. Douglas Kent, an adjunct professor…
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Architecture students in Professor Pablo La Roche's design studio designed two carbon-neutral prototype houses that will be built in Pamo Valley, a small ranching community in the back country of San Diego.
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