UCI Science Delivery: Audrey Odwuor and the Caldor Fire

UC Irvine Earth System scientists prepare to head to the Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe to study the fire's smoke.
Friday, September 03, 2021
Lucas Joel
UCI Physical Sciences Communications

Ph.D. student Audrey Odwuor, along with UCI Department of Earth System Science Professor Claudia Czimczik, is sampling the smoke billowing from the Caldor Fire in Lake Tahoe with a filter like this one.

Picture Credit:
Lucas Joel

Fires are burning in the West. The Caldor Fire in Lake Tahoe is making what you breathe more smoke than air, forcing thousands to evacuate. Find out what some scientists from the UCI Department of Earth System Science are doing in response.

The Department of Earth System Science acknowledges our presence on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Acjachemen and Tongva peoples, who still hold strong cultural, spiritual and physical ties to this region.