NH42B:
Wildfire Risks Under Climate Change in Coupled Human and Natural Systems Across Scales I

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Session ID#: 33854

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, Peter Hamlington, University of Colorado at Boulder, Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, United States, Seung Hee Kim, Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, 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:

Quantifying the Causes and Propogation of the 2015 Washington Wildfires (257349)
Ruth Engel, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Dr. Miriam E Marlier, PhD, Columbia University, New York, United States and Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Assessment of Wildfire Risk in Southern California with Live Fuel Moisture Measurement and Remotely Sensed Vegetation Water Content Proxies (277697)
Jia Shenyue1, Seung Hee Kim2, Son V Nghiem3 and Menas Kafatos2, (1)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Institute for Earth, Computing, Human and Observing (ECHO), Orange, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Understanding the Socioeconomic Effects of Wildfires on Western U.S. Public Lands (278545)
Jose J. Sanchez, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, Lorie Srivastava, University of California Davis, Environmental Sciences, Davis, CA, United States and Raymundo Marcos-Martinez, CSIRO Australian Resources Research Center, Land and Water, Perth, WA, Australia
Minority Households’ Willingness-to-Pay for Public and Private Wildfire Risk Reduction in Florida (Invited) (283433)
Armando Gonzalez-Caban, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA, UNITED STATES and Jose J. Sanchez, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
Influences of coupled fire-atmosphere interaction on wildfire behavior (Invited) (291034)
Rodman Linn1, Judith Winterkamp1, Alexandra K Jonko1, Isabelle Runde1, Jesse Canfield2, Russell Parsons3 and Carolyn H Sieg4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)US Forest Service Missoula, Missoula, United States, (4)US Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Laboratory Measurements of Gas Phase Pyrolysis Products from Southern Wildland Fuels using Infrared Spectroscopy  (298381)
Nicole Scharko1, Saeed Safdari2, Tyler O Danby1, Joel Howarth2, Toya N Beiswenger1, David Weise3, Tanya L. Myers1, Thomas H Fletcher2 and Timothy J Johnson1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Brigham Young University, Chemical Engineering Department, Provo, UT, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Riverside, United States
Examination of Wildland Fire Spread at Small Scales Using Direct Numerical Simulations and High-Speed Laser Diagnostics (293223)
Nicholas Terry Wimer1, Amanda S. Mackoweicki2, Alexei Y. Poludnenko3, Chad M Hoffman4, John W. Daily2, Gregory B Rieker5 and Peter Hamlington6, (1)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Program, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Univ of Colorado, Mechanical Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States
Assessment of multi-wildfire occurrence data for machine learning based risk modelling (299783)
Moonil Kim, Pyeongtaek University, Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Chul-Hee Lim, Kookmin University, Department of Forestry, Environment, and Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Sea Jin Kim, Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Somin Yoo, Korea University, seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Woo-Kyun Lee, Korea University, Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea

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