What is the Wildland Urban Interface?
And why should we care about it?
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AGENDA – JULY 28 UC WILDFIRE SYMPOSIUMre
| WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS 8:00 – 8:05 | Theresa A. Maldonado, UC Vice President, Research & Innovation Michael V. Drake, UC President | |
| KEYNOTE SESSION with California Agency Stakeholders California Wildfires: What we know What we don’t know 8:05 – 9:00 | Jessica Morse, Deputy Secretary for Forest and Wildfire Resilience, California Natural Resources Agency Steve Hawks, Staff Chief of Wildfire Planning & Engineering Division, Cal Fire Joaquin Esquivel, Chair, California Water Board Elizabeth Scheehle, Chief, Research Division, California Air Resources Board Moderator: Susan Hubbard, Associate Lab Director, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
| PANEL 1: Understanding Fire in the WildlandFire Interface (WUI) 9:00 – 9:55 | Michael Gollner, UC Berkeley Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez, UC Merced Dan Cayan, Scripps / UC San Diego Charles Jones, UC Santa Barbara Moderator: Prasant Mohapatra, UC Davis Vice Chancellor for Research | |
| BREAK 9:55 – 10:05 | ||
| PANEL 2: WUI Fire Impacts to Human Health and the Environment 10:05 – 11:00 | John Balmes, UC San Francisco & UC Berkeley David Eisenman, UC Los Angeles Michelle Newcomer, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Allison Aiken, Los Alamos National Lab Moderator: Roger Wakimoto, UCLA Vice Chancellor for Research | |
| PANEL 3: WUI Strategies 11:00 –11:55 | Lenya Quinn-Davidson, UC Agriculture & Natural Resources Michele Barbato, UC Davis Max Moritz, UC Santa Barbara / UC Agriculture & Natural Resources Van Butsic, UC Berkeley / UC Agriculture & Natural Resources Moderator: Wendy Powers, UC Agriculture. & Natural Resources Associate Vice President | |
| CLOSING REMARKS 11:55 – Noon | Theresa Maldonado |