On Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022, Dr. Michele Barbato, Co-Director of the UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center and Director of the CITRIS Climate Initiative at UC Davis, hosted the 2nd  Wildfire Induced Air Pollution Assessment & Mitigation Symposium.

The Symposium provided insights on recent research advancements in the assessment and mitigation of wildfire effects on human health, with presentations by accomplished researchers from a multidisciplinary team supported by the University of California Office of the President, through the UCOP Lab Fees program.

Read more about the Symposium below and watch the full recording, on the CARC youtube channel.

View Full Symposium Recording

Symposium Topics:

1. Wildfire Modeling and Forecast under Changing Climate Conditions
2. Wildfire Health Effects Assessment
3. Wildfire Emission Prediction and Air Quality Assessment
4. Development and Assessment of Wildfire Mitigation Strategies

Symposium Speakers (listed in alphabetical order)

• Allison Aiken, Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Presentation Title: Emission Factors from Laboratory Burns of Urban Fuels (Presentation PDF)
• Michele Barbato, Co-Director of UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center and Director of the CITRIS Climate Initiative
  Presentation Title: Wildfire risk mitigation in the WUI: From ignition-resistant to fire-resistant house (Presentation PDF)
• Katie Benedict, Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Presentation Title: Emission Factors from Laboratory Burns of Urban Fuels (Presentation PDF)
• Kathryn (Katie) Conlon, Co-Director of the UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center and Assistant Professor
  Presentation Title: Developing Exposure Risk Profiles for Populations Experiencing Wildfire Smoke (Presentation PDF)
• Quinn Hart, Applications Developer at UC Davis
  Real-Time updates to GOES weather data processing (Presentation PDF)
• Caitlin Jones, Doctoral Candidate at UC Davis
  Developing Exposure Risk Profiles for Populations Experiencing Wildfire Smoke (Presentation PDF)
• William Lassman, Postdoctoral Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  Connecting wildfire dynamics to air quality: a case study of the 2020 Northern California wildfire season (Presentation PDF)
• Matthew Moody, Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Davis
  Adaptation of a dynamically coupled fire spread model to account for heterogeneous terrain and fuels (Presentation PDF)
• LeRoy Westerling, Professor at UC Merced
  Statistical wildfire simulation

Check out the event page for additional information on the Symposium agenda.

Support for this Symposium Provided by:

• UC Office of the President under award LFR-20-651032
• UC Davis Air Quality Research Center
• UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center
• UC Davis College of Engineering
• CITRIS and the Banatao Institute