Fire & Forest Ecosystem Health Team
Fire & Forest Ecosystem Health Team
What We're Working on Now
The FFEH field crews have finished their field work for summer 2008 in both sites. They have begun developing preliminary fire hazard assessments of both areas using the field data. Fire history samples are beginning to be dated for both sites, which should provide information back to ~1650.
The FFEH workplan is available here
Updates
Discussion
Tom Knudson of the Sacramento Bee has posted a new blog about forests, carbon, thinning and climate change that may ...
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Description
The Fire and Forest Health Team will investigate effects of strategic fuel treatments on fire behavior, tree morbidity and mortality, and forest health.
Researchers
Primary Investigators
John Battles
Dr. Battles studies how and why forests change. Specifically, he focuses on the nonequilibrium determinants of forest composition, structure and function.
Scott Stephens
Scott Stephens is an Associate Professor of Fire Sciences in the department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley. His lab's mission is to conduct scientific research and provide academic training in the fields of wildland fire science, ecology, and resource management.
Staffers
Brandon is a fire ecologist and received his PhD from UC Berkeley. Brandon is currently a cooperator on SNAMP from the USFS PSW Research station in Davis, CA.
Danny Fry is a researcher working in the Stephens lab, he is doing data analysis for the FFEH team.
Gary is a fire ecologist and is Project Manager, leading the field campaign for the FFEH team.
We've just posted The Fire Science brief on the Sagehen study that looked at SPLATs and fire behavior, conducted ...