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Campus & community

Meet our new faculty: Michael Gollner, mechanical engineering

Name: Michael Gollner Discipline: Mechanical engineering Degrees: B.S., 2008, M.S., 2010, and Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2012 Research interests: My work focuses on understanding the physical processes controlling wildfires and other complex thermal-fluid phenomena. We investigate how fires spread, how emissions from fires are generated and how buildings ignite, with the goal of reducing their devastating effects in the future.

East Bay Regional Park District firefighters pose for a photo

Campus & community

Berkeley alum on fighting the 1991 Oakland Hills Fire

burned area in Illilouette Basin

Research

Fire + water: Restoring natural fire to California’s mountains

Sather Gate

Campus & community

All classes canceled Monday, Tuesday

Cal Memorial Stadium

Big Game postponed, more classes canceled because of smoky air

EPA map of air quality in the Bay Area as of 4 p.m. Thursday

Worsening air quality forces cancellation of classes

infrared image shows advancing fire front

New satellite view of Camp Fire as it burned through Paradise

What's left of the Earley's home.

Undergrad’s hometown in ashes: ‘It truly was a paradise’

Jose Ramos Mora, a UC Berkeley senior studying business administration, wipes down the women's bathroom at an evacuation center in Santa Rosa on Friday. (UC Berkeley by Jeremy Snowden)

Berkeley students, alums take on ‘back-breaking’ work at wildfire evacuation center

student in mask

Campus offers advice on air quality and health

A UCPD officer speaks with Santa Rosa residents on Tuesday. Nine campus police officers have responded to the disaster. (UCPD photo)

‘It is part of what I do:’ UC police support wildfire victims

Support, resources offered to all affected by wildfires

fire turned forest into wetland

Wildfire management vs. fire suppression benefits forest and watershed

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Study finds human activity is major factor driving wildfires

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‘The fires just keep coming’

charred hillside

Blodgett researcher seeks ways to lower wildfire risk on tree farms