Team: 15
School: New Mexico School for the Arts
Area of Science: Environmental Science
Proposal: The Hearing, Exploring, Analyzing, and Visualizing of Nubes (EL HEAVN) is a project that will analyze how a simple plume model can accurately predict the behavior of a fire and communicate this data to firefighters through sound. This is a replication study of a UNM model, Stormscapes: Simulating Cloud Dynamics in the Now. We hope to achieve 90% accuracy in predicting fire spread with half of the complexity which will reduce the computational footprint of the model and make it more accessible for use in the field.
We have access to photos and air quality data from the Aztec Springs Prescribed Burn in Santa Fe gathered by students of Dr. Dubey and Dr. Guerin and plan to collaborate with researchers based at UNM who wrote the initial model. Based on our research so far and the previous Supercomputing Challenge project, Modeling Forest Fire Risks in New Mexico, the variables we will direct our focus towards are slope and wind. The model will set values for this variable based on GIS data for the area of the fire and the observed movement of the smoke produced by the fire and then predict the path that the fire will take. The direction, speed, and intensity of the fire will be mapped to pitch and volume so that the information can be effectively and efficiently communicated with first responders.
Mentors: Mohit Dubey and Stephen Guerin
Team Members:
Madelyn Kingston
Django Beaudoin
Lexington Smith
Elisea Jackson
Sponsoring Teacher: Acacia McCombs