FRAP Webinars and Events

Upcoming Webinars and Events:

Influence of Prescribed Burn Season on Tree Survival, Soil Microbial Resilience, and Carbon Cycling in Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forests
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 3:00PM
Sydney Glassman, PhD and Peter Homyak, PhD, University of California, Riverside and Robert York, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
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Past Webinars and Events:

Space lasers don’t ignite wildfires, but they can help monitor fuels and reduce risk
Monday, November 25, 2024 3:00PM
Matthew Clark, PhD, Sonoma State University and Christopher Hakkenberg, PhD, Northern Arizona University
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Webinar Recording
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Coupled Fire-Weather Dynamics: The Interplay Between Convective Plumes, Wind Patterns, and Fire Behavior
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 11:00AM
Adam Kochanski, PhD, San Jose State University
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Pushing the envelope - Are there downsides to extending the burn window for black oaks?
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 3:00PM
Leander Anderegg, PhD and Ryan Fass, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Nicole Molinari, PhD, USDA Forest Service
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Mechanistic Modeling for Future Forest Management: Predicting Vegetation Shifts in a Dry Mixed Conifer Forest
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 2:00PM
Adam Hanbury-Brown, University of California, Davis
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Health Impacts of Future Prescribed Fire Smoke: Considerations from an Exposure Scenario in California
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 11:00AM
Andrew Rosenburg and Sumi Hoshiko, CA Dept. of Public Health
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Treatments Mediated Castle Fire Impacts to the Mountain Home Giant Sequoia Grove
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 3:00PM
Bryant Nagelson, University of Nevada, Reno
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Linking risk of climate change and wildfire to tree nursery inventories to guide cone crop surveys
Thursday, March 21, 2024 2:00PM
Jim Thorne, PhD, University of California, Davis
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Frequent Fire in California Chaparral Reduces Post-Fire Shrub Regeneration and Native Plant Diversity
Wednesday, 2/14/2024 3:00PM
Ashley Grupenhoff, PhD, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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Natural Range of Variation (NRV) in the montane conifer forests of southern California
Tuesday, 1/30/2024 2:00 PM
John Williams, PhD, UC Davis
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Dead tree removal after drought-induced tree mortality: implications for mixed conifer forest recovery, fuels, and carbon
Thursday, 11/16/2023 3:00 PM
Rebecca Wayman & Quinn Sorenson, University of California, Davis
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Plume Dynamics of Three Prescribed Fires in Western States 
Tuesday, 10/24/2023
Stephen Drake, PhD, University of Nevada, Reno
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Assessing the Veracity of Historic Public Land Surveys: A Case Study in California 
Wednesday, 09/27/2023 3:00 PM
Clarke Knight, PhD, US Geologic Survey
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Indigenous Burning, Prescribed Fire, and Goldspotted Oak Borer Management 
Thursday, 08/31/2023
Joelene Tamm, University of California Riverside 
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Using Landscape-scale Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Inform Forest Management Across California Sierra Nevada 
Wednesday, 07/26/2023
Kristin Brunk, PhD, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Prescribed Fire's Impact on WUI Communities: Findings from Listening Sessions and a Survey
Friday, 05/19/2023
Sumi Hoshiko, MPH, CA Dept. of Public Health, and Ana Rappold, PDD, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Assessing Shrubland Biomass in Southern California: New data, New Tools
Wednesday, 06/28/2023
Emma Underwood, PhD, University of California, Davis & Charlie Schrader-Patton, USDA Forest Service
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Mitigating Potential Sediment Delivery from Post-Fire Salvage Logging
Wednesday, 04/12/2023
Drew Coe, CAL FIRE

Mapping trees by drone to improve predictions of post-fire forest recovery
Wednesday, 04/26/2023
Derek Young, PhD, UC Davis
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Forest Fire Prevention, or Forest Resiliency Monitoring Report on the §1038 Forest Fire Prevention Exemption
Wednesday, 03/15/2023
Will Olsen, CAL FIRE

Vegetation Trends and Cycles in Fire-Prone Landscapes of Lake, Napa and Sonoma Counties
Wednesday, 03/15/2023
Partner webinar hosted by CAL FIRE grantee, Pepperwood Preserve
Arthur Dawson

Climate change and drought mortality increase fuel availability and the carbon cost of forest management
Wednesday, 01/25/2023
Marissa Goodwin, University of New Mexico
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Public Health Impact of Prescribed Fire (PHIRE) Study - Smoke Exposure
Thursday, 11/10/2022
ShihMing Huang, MS, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Samantha Kramer, PhD, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Sumi Hoshiko, MPH, California Department of Public Health
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Climate change and wildfires in western North American forests: a review of ecological departures and adaptation strategies
Friday, 09/09/2022
Dr. Susan Prichard, Fire Ecologist, University of Washington and Dr. Keala Hagmann, Research Ecologist, University of Washington
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Post-fire regeneration in California’s high elevation forests
Thursday, 05/19/2022
Emily Brodie, PhD Candidate, University of California, Davis.
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