UC Wildfire Virtual Symposium 3
8:00 am to 12:00 pm
Panels will include Q &A
Speaker and Panelist Bios
- Welcome Remarks – Cecilia Estolano, Chair UC Board of Regents – The Honorable Zoe Lofgren, CA-19 U.S. House of Representatives – Theresa A. Maldonado, VP Research and Innovation, UC
- Keynote Session – Policy and Politics of Wildfire – Assemblyman Richard Bloom, State of CA Assembly – Ken Alex, Moderator, Director, Project Climate, Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment, UC Berkeley
- Panel 1: The Economics and Risk of Wildfire – Ricardo Lara, Commissioner of Insurance – Rod Linn, Moderator, Team Leader, Atmospheric Modeling & Weapons Phenomenology, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Panel 2: Culture, Science and Policy: Alternative Perspectives on Wildfire Management – Frank Kanawha Lake, US Forest Service/ US Department of Agriculture – Anne Foster, Moderator, Chief Clinical Strategic Officer, UC Health
- Panel 3: Disproportionate Impacts of Wildfire – Karen Ross, Secretary of the CA Dept. of Food & Agriculture – Marjorie Zatz, Moderator, interim Vice Chancellor for Research & Economic Development, UC Merced
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