Mikhail Zhizhin

Jan 13, 2025 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Mikhail Zhizhin |Juliana Reid

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Mikhail Zhizhin January 13, 2025 The impact of wildfires in California has been both devastating and transformative. Recent reports from major media outlets highlight the escalating scale of destruction, with the Palisade Fire near Malibu and the Pasadena Fire serving as stark examples. These fires have not only claimed thousands of structures but also exposed the vulnerabilities in existing disaster response frameworks. The Palisade Fire, in...

Aug 23, 2024 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Mikhail Zhizhin |Juliana Reid

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Mikhail ZhizhinAugust 23, 2024Firefighters are now in their sixth day of battling a massive blaze that erupted at an oil storage facility in Proletarsk[1], Russia.

May 19, 2024 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Mikhail Zhizhin |Kristin Ziv |Christopher D. Elvidge |Morgan D. Bazilian

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Mikhail Zhizhin, Kristin Ziv, Christopher Elvidge, and Morgan Bazilian May 19, 2024 Background A horrible full-scale civil war in Sudan is creating chaos, anarchy, mass starvation, and the world’s largest population of internal refugees – approximately nine million. Still, this devastation, and the complex transnational suffering in the region, are terribly underreported in the United States. The recent fighting between the Sudanese Armed...

May 16, 2024 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Mikhail Zhizhin |Kristin Ziv |Christopher D. Elvidge |Morgan D. Bazilian

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Mikhail Zhizhin, Kristin Ziv, Christopher Elvidge, and Morgan Bazilian May 16, 2024 On the heels of one of the worst Canadian wildfire seasons on record last year, the 2024 season is off to an ominous start. As of May 14, 2024, there are 143 active wildfires in Canada, and 39 are out of control, according to Canadian experts and officials. In the U.S., plumes of smoke from Canada have wafted over large portions of the upper Midwest, Montana,...

Mar 27, 2024 | payneinstitute.mines.edu | Mikhail Zhizhin |Juliana Reid

PAYNE INSTITUTE COMMENTARY SERIES: COMMENTARY By Mikhail Zhizhin March 27, 2024 This study investigates the impact of the war in Ukraine on nighttime light intensity using satellite data. Nighttime light observations from Suomi NPP satellite (2012-2024) covering Ukraine and surrounding areas were analyzed. A segmented regression approach was employed to identify by-day changes and trends in nighttime light intensity over time for each grid cell at a resolution of 0.01 degrees. A Dimming...