Spring 2020
January 22: Tracey Osborne, UC Merced
January 29: Jeff Jenkins, UC Merced
February 5: Russ McBride, UC Merced. The lecture can be seen here.
February 12: Juan Meza, UC Merced/NSF
February 19: Hans Florine
February 26: Ajay Gopinathan, Physics, UC Merced
March 4: Russ McBride, UC Merced
March 11: Roger Aines, LLNL
March 18: Christine Wolf, IBM Research, Almaden
March 25: ** No Talk Scheduled - Spring Break **
April 1: Lisa Yeo, UC Merced (pre-recorded)
April 8: Dietrich Klinghardt, Klinghardt Academy (pre-recorded)
April 15: Bruce Tow, SynOvation Solutions (LIVE on Zoom). The lecture can be seen here.
April 22: Roger Bales, UC Merced (pre-recorded watershed video)
April 29: ** No talk **
May 6: ** No talk **
Fall 2020
| Aug. 28 | MCS Core Faculty |
| Sept. 4 | Dr. Michele Samorani (Santa Clara U.) |
| Sept. 11 | Dr. Lianne Lefsrud (U. Alberta) |
| Sept. 18 | Vaarun Vijairaghavan (U. Calgary) |
| Sept. 25 | Danielle Dai'Re (UC Merced) |
| Oct. 2 | Dr. Ariana Torres (Purdue) |
| Oct. 9 | No seminar |
| Oct. 16 | Dr. Basak Kalkanci (Georgia Tech) |
| Oct. 23 | Dr. Léon Valdés (U. Pitt) |
| Oct. 30 | Dr. Bill Schulze (Utah) |
| Nov. 6 | Dr. Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley) |
| Nov. 13 | Dr. Elizabeth Kennedy (Loyola University Maryland) |
| Nov. 20 | No seminar |
| Nov. 27 | THANKSGIVING BREAK - No speaker |
| Dec. 4 | Dr. Kate Ringland (UC Santa Cruz) |
| Dec. 11 | Susannah Howard (SUNY) |
Fall 2020 California Fire Science Seminar Series
Hosted by UC Merced and UC Berkeley
| 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 |
