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<span style="line-height:107%">The cascading consequences of wildfire:
understanding and mitigating impacts to coupled human-natural systems</span>



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</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;word-break:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Relative to other disciplines,
wildfire science is still a relatively nascent field. Much of the focus in
wildfire science over the past half-century has been on predicting fire
behavior and first-order ecological effects based on <i>post hoc </i>observations
and inference, with less emphasis on controlled experimentation or
understanding the broader impacts of fire beyond the immediate ecological
outcomes of combustion. This has revealed a substantial gap in our scientific
understanding of how wildfires become disasters, and how to mitigate such
disasters. The widely touted concept of “living with fire” can only be achieved
by mitigating wildfire vulnerability across highly heterogeneous
socio-ecological systems and identifying the web of interconnected components
that comprise the vulnerable elements of these systems. This requires 1)
understanding socioecological and biophysical drivers of wildfire disasters, 2)
identifying place-based mitigation strategies appropriate to the
component-at-risk, and 3) developing structural approaches to implement these
strategies. Here, I present a conceptual framework for quantifying and
characterizing wildfire disasters and an overview of drivers of wildfire
disasters distinct from drivers of fire activity. I also present two case
studies illustrating successful long-term wildfire mitigation campaigns in
California and the Pacific Northwest and how each of these mitigation efforts
reduces vulnerability both to the critical ecological function and facets and
the human communities-at-risk. The first case study focuses on community
wildfire mitigation in Santa Barbara County, California, and the unintended
benefits of community vulnerability mitigation to the biodiverse chaparral
ecosystem. The second case study addresses mitigation the wildfire
vulnerability of municipal drinking water in Portland, Oregon, in an
ecologically complex and Congressionally protected forest watershed. These case
studies demonstrate the both the ecological benefits and the cascading
consequences of integrated approaches to wildfire mitigation. <span></span></font></span></p>





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</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;word-break:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">Dr. Crystal Kolden is currently an
Assistant Professor of Fire Science in the Management of Complex System
department at UC Merced and a former wildland firefighter for the US Forest
Service. She received her doctorate in Geography from Clark University and
served as a research scientist for both USFS and US Geological Survey prior to
her academic career. She conducts research across a broad spectrum of natural
hazards topics at the human-environment nexus and seeks to reduce vulnerability
to climate change disasters globally through a combination of applied science
and outreach.<span></span></font></span></p>





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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>@ UC Merced</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">10/22</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Will Kew</span><span><span style="color:black"> </span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">@ PNNL</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">High resolution mass spectrometry applied to organic matter/complex mixtures</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">10/29</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Mary Salcedo</span><span><span style="color:black"> </span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span>@ Virginia Tech</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Form and function of insect wing veins</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">11/5</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Todd Longbottom</span><span><span style="color:black"> </span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">@ UC Merced</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Oxidative weathering of ancient organic matter and formation of modern soils</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">11/12</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span><span><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span>@ UC Merced</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Finding and securing grants for students & postdocs</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">11/19</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Adeyemi Adebiyi</span><span><span style="color:black"> </span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">@ UC Merced</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">How much solar radiation does atmospheric mineral dust absorb?</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">11/26</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">12/3</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Yamina Pressler</span><span><span style="color:black"> </span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">@ Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">Soil food webs and organic matter in fire-affected savanna ecosystems</span></font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:black">12/10</span></font></span></p>
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