Abstract In 2019 the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region funded an assessment of contemporary wildfire hazard across all land ownerships in the state of […]
California Wildfire Behavior: Insights from Laboratory Scale Experiments
Abstract In the state of California, record breaking wildfires have become a common occurrence. The recent 2020 fire season for instance, brought the largest wildfire […]
Hydrologic dynamics following wildfires in California and Hydrological and Chemical Resilience to Compounding Wildfires
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 […]