CLIMAS: Fire and Climate 2001

Calendar > Fire and Climate 2001
Speakers

•	Tim Brown, climatologist, director of the Program for Climate, Ecosystem, and Fire Applications. Brown's research includes analysis of wildland fire-climate and fire-weather relationships and applications product development for wildland fire and ecosystem management planning and decision-making. He is a faculty member of the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.

•	Dan Cayan, climatologist, director of the Climate Research Division of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. His research focuses on climate processes and prediction, climate variability, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and their effects on streamflow, water supply and fire management in the western U.S.

•	Holly Hartmann, postdoctoral researcher, in the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona. Hartmann's research focuses on interpretation and evaluation of climate forecasts, water management policy and institutions, and the use of climate forecasts by stakeholder groups in the southwestern US

•	Douglas Le Comte, senior meteorologist, National Weather Service, Climate Prediction Center. Involved in US drought monitoring and prediction, African drought and flood monitoring, and extended range forecasting for the US Spearheaded development of the US Drought Monitor and is the principal author of the Seasonal US Drought Outlooks.

•	Barbara Morehouse, program manager, with NOAA's Climate Assessment Project for the Southwest, housed at the University of Arizona Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. Morehouse is involved in analysis of climate impacts on urban water systems in Arizona, and work on climate-society-wildfire interactions.

•	Rick Ochoa, meteorologist, at the National Weather Service Office in Boise, Idaho. Ochoa serves as staff meteorologist to the National Interagency Fire Center. His field of interest is fire weather.

•	Jonathan Overpeck, paleoclimatologist, director of the University of Arizona Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. Overpeck's research focuses on global change dynamics, with a major component aimed at understanding how and why key climate systems vary on timescales longer than seasons and years.

•	Roger Pulwarty, project manager for the Regional Assessments program at NOAA's Office of Global Programs in Silver Spring, Maryland.

•	Kelly Redmond, meteorologist, deputy director of the Western Regional Climate Center and Regional Climatologist. Redmond's long-standing research interests cover all facets of climate and climate behavior. He is a faculty member of the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev.

•	Paul Schlobohm, fire management specialist for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Office of Fire and Aviation. Schlobohm is the BLM program lead for fire danger rating and the chair of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's Fire Danger Working Team. His research focus is fire danger applications.

•	John Snook, forecast fire-weather meteorologist for the US Forest Service, Redding, California.

•	Thomas W. Swetnam, ecologist and tree-ring scientist, director of the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Swetnam has developed multi-century fire histories from tree-ring records. His research also focuses on patterns of forest fires, in both the northern and southern hemispheres, linked to El Niño and La Niña.

•	Anthony Westerling, postdoctoral researcher at the Climate Research Division of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. His research focuses on the seasonality of wildfire in the western US and the economic impact of climate variability in the California region.

•	Klaus Wolter, meteorologist, research associate with the NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center in Boulder, Colorado. His expertise centers on large-scale climate variability and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

•	Steve Yool, biogeographer, is assistant professor of Geography at the University of Arizona. In his research, Yool uses GIS and satellite remote sensing to identify and classify the spatial variability of fire severity, and to map fire behavior fuel models.