Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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9:00am |
Marty Einhorn
KITP
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Welcome; Introductory remarks[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:15am |
Jennifer Balch
Yale Univ.
David Bowman
Univ. Tasmania
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Why we’re here and what we’re doing[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:30am |
Brad Marston
Brown Univ.
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Linkages with Physics of Climate Change Program[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:00am |
BREAK
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10:30am |
William Bond
Univ. Cape Town
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Global vegetation and fire - an ecological perspective[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:15am |
David Bowman
Univ. Tasmania
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Why Tasmania was the origin of a global theory of fire ecology[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:00pm |
LUNCH
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1:45pm |
Jon Keeley
USGS
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Causes of Megafires on the California Landscape[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:30pm |
Colin Prentice
Univ. Bristol
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Modelling fire as an Earth System process |
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3:15pm |
BREAK
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3:45pm |
All
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Discussion on day's talks and initiation of conversation on pyrogeography |
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5:00pm |
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Wine & cheese social in courtyard |
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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9:00am |
Max Moritz
UC Berkeley
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Does fire exhibit "habitat" preferences? (Controls on fire patterns, from landscape to global scales) |
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9:45am |
Jean Carlson
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Wildfires, Complexity, and Sensitivity to Change |
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10:30am |
BREAK
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11:00am |
Ruth DeFries
Univ. Maryland
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Tropical land use change is fire: a remote sensing perspective |
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11:45am |
LUNCH
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1:45pm |
Paulo Artaxo
Univ. Sao Paulo
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Climatic and ecological effects of biomass burning emissions in Amazônia[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:30pm |
Mark Cochrane
SDSU
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Fire and land cover change in humid tropics[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:15pm |
BREAK
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3:45pm |
All
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Discussion on day's talks and continuing conversation on pyrogeography |
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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9:00am |
Tom Swetnam
Univ. Arizona
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Climate, People and Fire in the Western US: Long-term Perspectives from Tree-Rings[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:45am |
Andrew Scott
Royal Holloway Univ.
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Fire as an Earth System Process: a geological perspective |
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10:30am |
BREAK
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11:00am |
Guido van der Werf
Vriji Univ.
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Fire, climate, and the global carbon cycle[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:45am |
LUNCH
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1:45pm |
Fay Johnston
Univ. Tasmania
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Human health impacts of biomass smoke: the silent wildfire disaster[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:30pm |
Christian Kull
Monash Univ.
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The useful and confounding ambiguity of fire: conflicts over fire use in Madagascar[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:15pm |
BREAK
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3:45pm |
All
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Discussion on day's talks and continuing conversation on pyrogeography |
Friday, May 30, 2008
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9:00am |
Meg Krawchuk
UC Berkeley
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Global pyrogeography: macro-scaled models for understanding the current and future distribution of fire |
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9:30am |
Chris Roos
Univ. Arizona
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Fire, Climate, and Indigenous People in Ancient Southwestern US Forests |
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10:00am |
Jennifer Balch
Yale Univ.
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Amazon transitional forests: Sensitive or resistant to frontier fire?[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:30am |
BREAK
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11:00am |
All
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Concluding conversation on miniconference talks |
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