Find the abstracts for all of the presentations given during the 2022 summer school here.

July 19 – Tuesday:

• Mapping, modeling, and mitigating wildland fire risk: A micrometeorological perspective by Prof. Tirtha Banerjee (link to bio)
• Managing the Urban-Wildland Interface in Southern California: Conservation of a Global Biodiversity Hotspot by Dr. Nathan Gregory (link to bio)
• A multi-scale perspective on wildland fire detection, assessment, and solutions by Dr. Janine Baijnath-Rodino
• A GPU-Accelerated Hydrodynamics Solver For Atmosphere-Fire Interactions by Jhamieka Greenwood
• k-PERIL: probabilistic creation of trigger boundaries for rural communities evacuating from a wildfire by Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos
• Controls on post-wildfire channel sediment yield by Dr. James Guilinger
• Modeling of Fire-Front Propagation using Thermodynamics Principals by Dr. Konstantinos Lazaridis
• Increases in photosynthesis caused by changes in post-fire plant composition in interior Alaska boreal forests by Jinhyuk Kim
• A New Way to Look at Fire: Using AI to Describe Fire and Plume Behavior by Daryn Sagel
• Operational Implementation of Wildland Fire Research by Scott Purdy (link to bio)

July 20 – Wednesday

• Modelling Extreme Fire Behaviour by Prof. Domingos Viegas (link to bio)
• Understanding public preferences for a wildfire mitigation policy in Crete, Greece by Haleema Misal
• Oral Presentation (TBD) by Olivia Haas
• Effects of Prescribed Fire on LAI across North Carolina by Nick Corak
• The influence of fire aerosols on surface climate and gross primary production in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) by Dr. Li Xu
• Modeling polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emissions from wildfires in California by Dr. Shupeng Zhu
• Environmental consequence of Camp Fire in November 2018: perspectives from satellite observations and air quality modeling by Kai Wu
• Global fire response to heat waves by Dr. Yue Li
• Development of an arctic-boreal fire atlas using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite active fire data by Rebecca Scholten
• Effects of mechanical mastication on fuel properties and bushfire behaviour in Australian fuel types by Bianca Pickering
• Bushfire research meets disaster risk reduction: What happens next? by Dr. John Bates (link to bio)

July 21- Thursday

• Wildfires in Northern Europe: what we need to learn, must do, can teach, and must change by Dr. Nieves Fernandez-Anez
• Evidence for a stronger global impact of fire on atmospheric composition by Prof. James Randerson
• Developing Science Support for Prescribed Fire Applications by J. Kevin Hiers (link to bio)
• Emissions and air quality impacts of wildfire and prescribed burns in California by Dr. Laura Kiely
• Investigating the turbulent dynamics of small-scale surface fires by Ajinkya Desai
• Wildland Fire Dynamics: Understanding Flow Effects on Fire Spread by Dr. Michael Gollner