Talk 1 Abstract In recent years, wildfires in the western United States have occurred with increasing frequency and scale due to prolonged periods of droughts […]
Integrating multiple sources of historical forest reconstructions to inform landscape-level restoration
Abstract We analyzed historical timber inventory data collected systematically across four large landscapes, along with historical ariel photography from another landscape to gain insight into […]
Wildfire effects on water quantity, water quality, and aquatic ecology from forested headwaters to downstream communities
Abstract Wildfires have the potential to have devastating effects on aquatic ecosystems and community drinking water supply through impacts on water quantity and quality. Given […]
Fires and Their Impacts: From Household Burning to Wildfires
Abstract Fires, including wildfires, prescribed burns, agricultural burning, or residential biomass burning, emit substantial amounts of particles, reactive trace gases, and longer-lived species to the […]
Using Localized Severe Fire Weather Inputs in Statewide Hazard Mapping in California
Abstract The state of California is statutorily required to map hazards to people and property for areas of the state that are under local and […]
Keepers of the Flame: Education and Collaboration in Cultural Burning
Abstract The Keepers of the Flame project aims to connect students, community-members, researchers, policymakers and Indigenous fire practitioners to learn about cultural burning and discuss […]
Smokey the Beaver: can beaver dams keep riparian corridors green during wildfire?
Abstract Beaver dams are gaining popularity as a low‐tech, low‐cost strategy to build climate resiliency at the landscape scale. My research from a case study […]
Boreal megafires, thawing permafrost and the erosion of ecological legacie
Abstract We are excited for Prof Turetsky to take us on a little journey on some of the interesting problems she has solved and is working […]
Tracing Unnatural Disasters: Sensing wildfires, atmospheres and radiation in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Abstract On 26 April 1986, the explosion and subsequent open-air graphite fire at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant contaminated the soil, […]