NH41C:
Wildfire Risks Under Climate Change in Coupled Human and Natural Systems Across Scales II Posters

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Session ID#: 29070

Session Description:
More people have been moving into or near wildlands following extensive urban sprawl, significantly expanding the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Such an expansion of the WUI has increased human caused wildfires and associated losses. Under ongoing WUI expansion and global climate change, future wildfire risk is expected to increase in both frequency and severity. Wildfires in the WUI exert serious impacts in both natural and human dimensions, thereby impelling investigations of wildfires in coupled human and natural systems together with their impacts on ecosystems and socioeconomic conditions along and beyond the WUI. This interdisciplinary session will encompass topics on: links between wildfire risks and weather conditions and climate change trends; fire detection and fire risk monitoring; post-fire evaluation and ecosystem recovery; socioeconomic drivers related to fire behavior; fire impacts on human health, socioeconomic activities, and ecosystem services; and utilization of models to assess fire risks and severity for pro-active mitigation planning.
Primary Convener:  Seung Hee Kim, Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States
Conveners:  Menas Kafatos, Chapman University, CEESMO, Orange, CA, United States, Peter Hamlington, University of Colorado at Boulder, Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, United States and Chad M Hoffman, Colorado State University, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Program, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Chairs:  Chad M Hoffman, Colorado State University, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Program, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Menas Kafatos, Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States, Peter Hamlington, University of Colorado at Boulder, Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, United States and Son V Nghiem, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Seung Hee Kim, Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States
Index Terms:

3390 Wildland fire model [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4321 Climate impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4323 Human impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evaluating Fire Risk in the Northeastern United States in the Past, Present, and Future (278027)
Daniel Miller, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States and Raymond S Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States
Forest Fire Smoldering Emissions from Ponderosa Pine Duff in Central Washington (291398)
Stephen P Baker1, Emily Lincoln1, Wesley Page2 and Megan Richardson3, (1)USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Lab, Missoula, MT, United States, (3)USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, United States
Simulating wildfire spread behavior between two NASA Active Fire data timeframes (291703)
Bishrant Adhikari, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, Paddington Hodza, Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, Chen Xu, University of Wyoming, Department of Geography, Laramie, WY, United States and Thomas A Minckley, University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, United States
Multi-temporal analysis of forest fire risk driven by environmental and socio-economic change in the Republic of Korea (298041)
Sea Jin Kim, Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Chul-Hee Lim, Kookmin University, Department of Forestry, Environment, and Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Gang Sun Kim, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Woo-Kyun Lee, Korea University, Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
Relationship between Climate Variability, Wildfire Risk, and Wildfire Occurrence in Wildland-Urban Interface of the Southwestern United States (291873)
Seung Hee Kim1, Menas Kafatos1, Jia Shenyue2 and Son V Nghiem3, (1)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing, Orange, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States

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