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Under Review
 

Freund, F. and J, A. Baijnath-Rodino, On the electrification of thunderstorm clouds. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, under review


Shu, L., J.A. Baijnath-Rodino, R.A. York, L.N. Quinn-Davidson, T. Banerjee, Spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020, Nature Communications, under review

 

Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., E. Foufoula-Georgiou, T. Banerjee, A synthesis study on fire danger indices worldwide, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology under review

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Refereed Journal Articles

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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., A. Martinez, R.A. York, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, A. AghaKouchak, T. Banerjee, Quantifying the effectiveness of fuel treatment from ground-based, aerial, and spaceborne Observations. Forest Ecology and Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121142


Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., P. Le, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, T. Banerjee, Historical spatiotemporal changes in fire danger and behavior across biomes, Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161954, 2023

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Liu, F.,  J.A Baijnath-Rodino, T. Chang, T. Banerjee, N. Venkatasubramanian, “DOME: Drone-assisted Monitoring of Emergent Events For Wildland Fire Resilience”, in Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2023 (Accepted in shepherding)

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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., S. Li, A. Martinez, M. Kumar, L.N. Quinn-Davidson, R.A. York, T. Banerjee,  Historical seasonal changes in prescribed burn windows in California, Science of The Total Environment. V 836, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155723, 2022

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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., M. Kumar, M. Rivera, K.D. Tran, T. Banerjee, How vulnerable are American States to wildfires? A livelihood vulnerability assessment.  Fire, 4, 54, https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4030054,  2021

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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., E. Foufoula-Georgiou, T. Banerjee, A synthesis study on fire danger indices worldwide, ESSOAR, Open Archive Pre-print, https://essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.1002/essoar.10503854.12020, 2020

 

Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., A. Albizua, L. Sushama, E. Bennet, B. Robinson, Determining social vulnerability of freshwater communities within the Mackenzie River Basin to changes in cold season lake-induced precipitation. Water, https://doi.org/10.3390/w13131816, 13, 1816, 2021

 

Baijnath-Rodino, J.A.  and C.R. Duguay, Assessment of Coupled CRCM5-FLake on the Reproduction of Wintertime Lake-Induced Precipitation in the Great Lakes Basin. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, doi.org/10.1007/s00704-019-02799-8, 2019

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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A. and C.R. Duguay, Historical Spatiotemporal Trends in Snowfall Extremes over the Canadian Domain of the Great Lakes Basin. Advances in Meteorology, doi.org/10.1155/2018/5404123, 2018

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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., C.R. Duguay, E. LeDrew, Climatological Trends of Snowfall over the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin. International Journal of Climatology, doi: 10.1002/joc.5546, 2018.

 

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Books/Theses
 

Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., Climatological trends and predictions in snowfall over the Canadian snowbelts of the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin. UW Space, University of Waterloo Library, http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13397, 2018.

 

Baijnath, J.: 2012. Assessing the Circulation Response to Snow Albedo Feedback in Climate Change. UWSpace.  University of Waterloo Library, http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7165, 2013.

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Selected Published Proceedings

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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., A. Martinez, R.A. York, A. AghaKouchak, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, T.Banerjee, High-resolution mapping of post-wildfire using unmanned aerial vehicles: Creek fire case study, American Geophysical Union, all Meeting 2021, abstract Session H048

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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., S. Li, L.N. Quinn-Davidson, R.A. York, T.Banerjee, Are the good times burning out? Changes in prescribed burn windows over the past four decades in California, American Geophysical Union, all Meeting 2021, abstract Session A106

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Mendoza, M.T., J.A. Baijnath-Rodino, G. Esquivias, R. Imani, P. Amyx, C.K. Huyck, T. Banerjee, S. Ghosh, American Geophysical Union, all Meeting 2021, abstract

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Li, S., J.A. Baijnath-Rodino, T. Banerjee, Spatial and temporal distribution characteristics of escaped prescribed fires in California,  American Geophysical Union, all Meeting 2021, abstract NH022

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​Kumar, M., J.A. Baijnath-Rodino, W. Porter, T. Banerjee, Simulating Southern California wildfire events using the weather research and forecasting model, American Meteorological Society, 23rd Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, Joint 8B.5, 2021

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​Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., E.F. Georgiou, T. Banerjee, Observing global spatiotemporal behavior in wildfire dynamics over the past three decades. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2020, abstract #NH011-01

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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., M. Kumar, M. Riviera, K. Tran, T. Banerjee, Evaluating livelihood vulnerability index for the top 14 American States at high risk of wildfires. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2020, abstract #NH008-0007

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Baijnath-Rodino, J.A., C.R. Duguay, O. Huziy, Evaluation of coupled CRCM5-FLake in reproducing lake-induced snowfall in the Great Lakes Basin. 20th European Geosciences Union General Assembly, proceedings from the conference held 8-13 April 2018 in Vienna, Austria, 2018

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Baijnath, J., C. Duguay, L. Sushama, O. Huziy, Climatological assessment of spatiotemporal trends in observational monthly snowfall totals and extremes over the Canadian Great Lakes Basin.19th European Geosciences Union General Assembly, proceedings from the conference held 23-28 April 2017 in Vienna, Austria, 2017

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Huziy, O., L. Sushama, C. Duguay, J. Baijnath, On the representation of heavy lake-effect snow events for the Laurentian Great Lakes region in a Regional Climate Model. 19th European Geosciences Union General Assembly, proceedings from the conference held 23-28 April 2017 in Vienna, Austria, 2017

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Baijnath J., S2S Spatiotemporal Trends in Snowfall Extremes for the Canadian Great Lakes Basin. S2S Extreme Weather and Climate, Columbia University, New York, United States, 2016

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Baijnath J., Duguay C., LeDrew E. A Climatological Analysis of Lake Effect Snowfall and its Processes over the Ontario Snowbelt Region of the Great Lakes Basin. Canadian Network for Regional Climate and Weather Predictions, University du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Canada, 2016

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Baijnath, J., C. Duguay, E. LeDrew, A Climatological Analysis of Lake Effect Snowfall and its Processes over the Ontario Snowbelt Region of the Great Lakes Basin. Joint Scientific Congress of Canadian Meteorological and Oceanic Society and Canadian Geophysical Union p. 63, Fredericton, Canada, 2016

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Duguay C., Sushama L., Huziy O., Baijnath J., Music B, Representation of large lakes in weather and climate models. Canadian Network for Regional Climate and Weather Predictions, University du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Canada, 2015

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Baijnath, J., F. Freund, J. Li, Trace Gases - A Warning Signs of Impending Major Seismic Activity. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2013, abstract id. NH22A-06, San Francisco, United States, 2013

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Mitsuhisa B., Badders B., Baijnath J., et al., Universal bioreactor platform compatible with nanoracks architecture. NASA Ames Academy, San Jose, United States. 2013

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PUBLIC GUEST APPEARANCES & LECTURES

 

  • Upcoming invited lecturer at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Center for Climate Sciences, February 2023

  • Presenter at the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, Imperial College, London, 2021

  • Interviewed as expert Scientist for ABC News discussing California’s drought emergency, 2021

  • Guest Lecturer for the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists, UC Irvine, 2021

  • Panelist on wildfires in California colloquium entitled “Climatepedia” (student founded climate communication organization), UC Irvine, 2021

  • Guest Lecturer for Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UC Irvine, course entitled Contemporary and Legacy Environmental Challenges (2020/2021/2022)

    • Lecture focuses on physical components of wildfire behavior and propagation as well as sustainable response to mitigating wildfires
       

  • Interviewed as Wildfire Scientist for the “Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) News, Daybreak” show in Montreal, Canada (September 2020)

    • Discussing current wildfires in California and the science behind wildfire behavior
       

  • Guest Lecturer for Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, Graduate level course entitled The Science and Engineering of Wildfires (2020/2021)

    • Lecture focused on explaining global wildfire indices and predictor variables
       

  • Guest Lecturer, Graduate Study Seminar in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine, on topics pertaining to Lake-Atmosphere Interactions in Meteorology (March 2020)
     

  • Bill Nye “The Science Guy” Interviewer and moderator, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario (September 2019)

    • Responsible for mediating and interviewing the famed “Bill Nye the Science Guy” to a live audience of 1000 +

    • Discussed topics on climate change, sustainable sciences, space exploration, mental health and psychedelic chemistry, and artificial intelligence
       

  • Guest Lecturer for Physical Climatology, University of Waterloo, once per year (2014 – 2016)

    • Presentation focused on meteorology and atmospheric sciences and the role of operational and Television Meteorologists

 

  • Guest Lecturer (recorded) for the University of Waterloo Professional Development Program curriculum for co-op students (WATPD) (2014 – present)

    • Recording of my lecturer on problem solving techniques in science and engineering research; course material was used in teaching material curriculum 
       

  • Member and Presenter of the CBC News in Review program (2018)

    •  Presented recordings on the extreme weather of 2018 and its connection to Climate, which was distributed and used as part of the national Canadian high-school curriculum
       

  • Space Educator for the AstroNuts kids' Space Club (2014-2015)

    • Engaged students (ages 8 to 15) in informative planetary and atmospheric science topics at numerous STEM events

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