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Prof. Gollner receives NSF CAREER Award
Michael Gollner is the recipient of a 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for “Understanding the Mechanisms of Wildland Fire Spread.” The project’s main objective is to ...
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PhD Student Colin Miller Awarded Green Fellowship for Collaborative Research on the Environment
Mechanical Engineering PhD student Colin Miller, advised by Professor Michael Gollner in Fire Protection Engineering and Geographical Sciences PhD student Kristofer Lasko were recently selected to receive the ‘Green Fellowship ...
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PhD Student Colin Miller accepted into UMD Future Faculty Program
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student Colin Miller, advised by Professor Michael Gollner in Fire Protection Engineering was recently accepted into the Future Faculty Program! The A. James Clark School of Engineering’s Future Faculty ...
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Wildland Fire Course Lab Day – Fire Spread
Last week Dr. Gollner's course, Wildland Fires: Science and Applications got to spend the day in the lab studying how the rate of spread is affected by fuel loading and ...
Read MoreNew Article on WUI Fire Spread Published in SFPE Emerging Trends
Prof. Gollner recently published a short article on Pathways for Building Fire Spread in the Wildland Urban Interface in the Society of Fire Protection Engineers' Emerging Trends Newsletter. The article covers some of ...
Read MoreNew JFSP Research Grant on Ember Generation with UNC Charlotte, IBHS and UT Austin
Sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), the $420,000 “Fire Ember Production from Wildland and Structural Fuels” project will bring together researchers from seven institutions. UNC Charlotte’s portion of ...
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New Paper Published on Upward Flame Spread over Discrete Fuels
A new paper was published by Colin Miller and Prof. Gollner on Upward Flame Spread over Discrete Fuels in the Fire Safety Journal. By using slices of PMMA we were ...
Read MoreNew Paper in AIAA Journal Published: Local Burning Rates and Heat Flux for Forced Flow Boundary-Layer Diffusion Flames
Building on our previous work with buoyant flows, this new paper details measurements of heat fluxes and local burning rates over liquid fuel wicks under forced flow. These laminar flames ...
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Congratulations to Ajay V. Singh, PhD!
Congratulations to Ajay V. Singh, the newest PhD from UMD! He successfully defended his Thesis "A Fundamental Study of Boundary Layer Diffusion Flames" on July 20, 2015. A recording of the ...
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