DATE: August 10, 2026 - August 12, 2026, 2026

TIME: 8:00 am - 7:00 pm

LOCATION: University of Maryland | College Park MD

Join us for the presentation “Incorporating Municipal Data to Estimate Fuel Loads and Characterize WUI Fire-Derived Chemical Fingerprints from the Lahaina Fire.”

 

Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2026

 

Presenter:

Troy Ferland, Ph.D., is a research scientist specializing in computational non-targeted analysis (NTA) at UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights. He is responsible for building databases and applications for NTA data and collaborating with other researchers on the environmental impacts of fires at the wildland urban interface (WUI).

About the WUI Fire Engineering Summit

The Wildlife-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Engineering Summit brings together academics, local officials, first responders, and other stakeholders to collaborate on shared challenges and work together to shape the future of fire engineering.

 

For more information, see this year’s program agenda.