UC BERKELEY WILDLAND FIRE SEMINAR

Wildland Fire Seminar

UC Berkeley, Fall 2001 Semester 

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM) 198/298

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The UC Berkeley Wildland Fire Seminar is a lecture and discussion series organized by WFRG members with the purpose of bringing distinguished members of the fire science community from across the country to UC Berkeley.  We hope to promote discussion and awareness about the most recent research, policy, and management in the field. Weekly readings and distinguished guest lectures followed by discussion. Faculty and persons outside of UC Berkeley are encouraged to attend the seminar.

• Credits: 1 - 2 units

• Course Control Numbers:

  • Undergraduate - ESPM 198, sec. 001, cc# 30844

  • Graduate - ESPM 298, sec. 002, cc# 31171

• Room: 103 Mulford Hall

• Time and Day: Thursdays, 3:00-5:00

• Course Format: 50 minute distinguished guest lecture follwed by 30-45 minutes for discussion. Weekly readings.

• Prerequisites: none

• Professor: Scott Stephens.  To vistit Dr. Stephens homepage, click here.

WFRG gratefully acknowledges the sponsors of the 2001 Wildland Fire Seminar:

Dr. Scott Stephens

UC Forest Products Laboratory

FALL 2001 SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS

 

DATE	SPEAKER (Click for bio sketch)	TOPIC OR TITLE  (Click for abstract and suggested readings)
Aug. 30	Scott Stephens University of California Berkeley	Organizational Meeting and Introduction
Sept. 6	Peter Brown Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Researach	Reconstruction and analysis of fire regimes using tree ring data
Sept. 13	David Sapsis California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Fire Resource Assessment Program	Characterizing the Fire Threat to Wildland-Urban Interface Areas in California
Sept. 20	Tom Parker San Francisco State University	The Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi on Postfire Vegetation Dynamics
Sept. 27	Kevin Shaffer California Department of Fish and Game	Fire and Wildlife: Can we manage their interaction?
Oct. 4	Timothy Ingalsbee Western Fire Ecology Center	The War on Wildfire: The Social, Economic, and Ecological Impacts of Firefighting
Oct. 11	Mark Finney USFS Missoula Fire Science Laboratory	Spatial Strategies for Landscape Fuel Treatments
Oct. 18	Peter Wohlgemuth USFS Riverside Fire Laboratory	Fire, Geomorphic Processes, and Watershed Response in California Ecosystems
Oct. 25	Francis Fujioka USFS Riverside Fire Laboratory	A New Methodology for the Analysis of Two-Dimensional Fire Spread Simulations
Nov. 1	Thomas Swetnam Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona	Fire and Climate Change in the Western US:  Long and Short-Term Perspectives from Tree-Rings
Nov. 8	Domingo Molina University of Lleida, Spain	Wildland and Prescribed Fire in Spain and the Rest of the European Union and MARF - Qualitative simulation model to automatically refresh the forest fuel type layer (to be used in FARSITE) under both temporal and spatial changes
Nov. 15	M. Kat Anderson USDA NRCS National Plant Data Center	The Mountains Smell Like Fire: Indigenous Burning in the Coniferous Forests & Oak Woodlands of California's Sierra Nevada
Nov. 29	Wayne Minshall Idaho State University Sponsored by the Entomology Student Association (ESO)!	Effects of Disturbance by Wildfire on Forested-Stream Ecosystems: Observed Patterns in Time and Space
Dec. 6	Dale Wade USFS Southern Research Station	Southern Fire Management: Can it serve as a model for other regions?

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Last updated: 10/25/01