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Wildfires are becoming an existential threat to the well-being of the U.S. population, with wildfire-induced air pollution as one of the most severe contributors to economic and life losses. This symposium will report on recent research advancements in the assessment and mitigation of wildfire effects on human health, with presentations by accomplished researchers from a multidisciplinary team supported by the University of California Office of the President, through the UCOP Lab Fees program. This applied research has the ultimate goal to support the State of California and the US Federal government in their science-informed decision making processes to reduce the negative impacts produced by wildfire-induced air pollution.
Free and open to the public.
Speaker PowerPoint slides are available below! See the 'Agenda' section to view the available speaker presentation slides.
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Symposium Speakers (listed in alphabetical order)
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- Allison Aiken, Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Emission Factors from Laboratory Burns of Urban Fuels
- Michele Barbato, Co-Director of UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center and Director of the CITRIS Climate Initiative
- Wildfire risk mitigation in the WUI: From ignition-resistant to fire-resistant house
- Katie Benedict, Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Emission Factors from Laboratory Burns of Urban Fuels
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Kathryn (Katie) Conlon, Co-Director of the UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center and Assistant Professor
Developing Exposure Risk Profiles for Populations Experiencing Wildfire Smoke
Quinn Hart, Applications Developer at UC Davis
Real-Time updates to GOES weather data processing
Caitlin Jones, Doctoral Candidate at UC Davis
Developing Exposure Risk Profiles for Populations Experiencing Wildfire Smoke
William Lassman, Postdoctoral Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Connecting wildfire dynamics to air quality: a case study of the 2020 Northern California wildfire season
Matthew Moody, Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Davis
Adaptation of a dynamically coupled fire spread model to account for heterogeneous terrain and fuels
LeRoy Westerling, Professor at UC Merced
Statistical wildfire simulation
Symposium Agenda
9:00 – 9:25 AM Introduction and Opening Remarks
- Michele Barbato, UC Davis, Lead Principal Investigator
- Richard Corsi, UC Davis, College of Engineering, Dean
- Camille Crittenden, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Executive Director
9:25 – 10:45 AM Wildfire Modeling and Forecast under Changing Climate Conditions
- LeRoy Westerling, UC Merced
- Matthew Moody, UC Davis (Presentation PDF)
10:45 – 11:00 AM Short Break
11:00 – 12:20 PM Wildfire Health Effects Assessment
- Kathryn Conlon and Caitlin Jones, UC Davis (Presentation PDF)
- Allison C. Aiken and Katie Benedict, Los Alamos National Lab (Presentation PDF)
12:20 – 1:20 PM Lunch Break
1:20 – 2:40 PM Wildfire Emission Prediction and Air Quality Assessment
- William Lassman, Lawrence Livermore National Lab (Presentation PDF)
- Quinn Hart, UC Davis (Presentation PDF)
2:40 – 3:00 PM Short Break
3:00 – 3:40 PM Development and Assessment of Wildfire Mitigation Strategies
- Michele Barbato, UC Davis and CITRIS and the Banatao Institute (Presentation PDF)
3:40 – 4:00 PM Closing Remarks & Overview of Future Activities
- Michele Barbato, UC Davis, Lead Principal Investigator
4:00 – 4:15 PM Lead Principal Investigator, Dr. Michele Barbato, Available for Questions
Support for this Symposium Comes from:
- UC Office of the President under award LFR-20-651032
- UC Davis Air Quality Research Center
- UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center
- UC Davis College of Engineering
- CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
If you have any questions, please contact the Symposium Organizers, Michele Barbato and Olivia Schlanger at mbarbato@ucdavis.edu and oschlanger@ucdavis.edu.