Stanford researchers track hidden metals in wildfire smoke

Two wildfires with identical air quality readings can carry very different health risks, depending on the metals released from the burning landscape. Researchers at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability are studying smoke variability through controlled burns. With support from the school's Sustainability Accelerator, the team is tracking metal content in soil before and after ignition, following it through the resulting smoke, and training a computer model to forecast the distribution of airborne metals.

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