Spring 2021 MIST Speaker Series Schedule
The spring speaker series is co-organized with the Environmental Systems Graduate Group. The schedule is posted at Seminars | Environmental Systems Graduate Group (ucmerced.edu).
Talks are Wednesdays, 12:30-1:20pm (Pacific)
Fall 2020 California Fire Science Seminar Series
Hosted weekly by UC Merced and UC Berkeley
Every Thursday from 3:00 – 4:00 pm (PST) from September 10 – December 17, 2020.
| Sept. 10 | How do we solve the “Wicked Problem”?: the State of Fire Science in California |
| Sept. 17 | Radar and Lidar Observations of Wildfire Plume Dynamics |
| Sept. 24 | Human dimensions of wildfire: Examining wildfire risk mitigation on private property and across landscapes |
| Oct. 1 | Fuel Treatments and Megafires: lessons from the 2014 Carlton Complex, north-central WA |
| Oct. 8 | TBA |
| Oct. 15 | TBA |
| Oct. 22 | A Micro-Meteorological Perspective into Wildland Fire Dynamics |
| Oct. 29 | Wildfires across California’s diverse landscape: from ignition, spread, to severity |
| Nov. 5 | Post-fire Soil Carbon Dynamics: Implications on Movement of Particulate and Dissolved Pyrogenic Carbon |
| Nov. 12 | Fires, Air Pollution, and Public Health: A Remote Sensing-Based Perspective |
| Nov. 19 | Challenges and Opportunities for Increasing Prescribed Fire on Federal Lands in the West: Lessons from Case Studies and Broader Implications for Improving US Fire Management |
| Dec. 3 | Damage inspection and research implications on the California structure ignition problem |
| Dec. 10 | Household Decision Making and Evacuation Behavior during Wildfires |
| Dec. 17 | TBA |