Apr 10 | How Prepared Can We Be? How Prepared Should We Be? | Jeff Rubin: Geology PhD, CEM; semi-retired emergency manager |
Apr 17 | A New Standard of Technology Integration for Fire Situational Awareness and its Impacts | Jessica Block: Associate Director, WIFIRE Lab, UC San Diego |
Apr 24 | Engineering to Reduce Urban Conflagrations (This talk will occur in-person at EB 102 from 10-11am) | Erica Fischer: Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Oregon State U. |
May 1 | Balancing Fire Risk Reduction with Biodiversity Conservation: Lessons in Complexity | Alexandra Syphard: Sr. Research Scientist, Conservation Biology Institute |
May 8 | Utilities, Carbon Emission Reduction and Wildfire Prevention | Kurt Miller: CEO & Executive Director, Northwest Public Power Association |
May 15 | Fire, Protected Areas, and Native Ecological Knowledge in the American West | Doug Deur: Associate Research Professor, Anthropology Dept., PSU |
May 22 | Wildfire Smoke and Public Health | Michael Brauer: Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC; Affiliated Professor, UW |
May 29 | The Mental Health of Wildland Firefighters | Patricia O'Brien: Clinical psychologist and former wildland firefighter |
Jun 5 | Interdisciplinary and Integrated Evacuations Modeling from Near-field Tsunamis and Wildfires: A Human-centered Approach | Haizhong Wang: Professor of Civil Engineering, Oregon State University |
Jun 12 | What Pyrocumulonimbus Clouds Can Tell Us About Explosive Volcanic Eruptions, and Vice Versa | Johan Gilchrist: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oregon |