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