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BACKGROUND The San Mateo Resource Conservation District (RCD) seeks a Wildfire Resiliency Program Manager to support the fire resilience and ecological health of local forests and help protect communities at the Wildland Urban Interface. RCDs across California serve as local hubs for conservation, connecting people with the technical, financial, and educational assistance they need to conserve...
Work Location: Main office in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, with option for partial remote work; field work throughout Sonoma County. Status: Non-Exempt/ 40 hours/week, including some evening and weekend hours. Compensation: $25.11/hour Posting Date: June 6, 2022 Estimated Start: Start date flexible, depending on availability. Organizational Background The Sonoma RCD (RCD) is a non-...
The Resource Conservation District (RCD) of Santa Cruz County seeks a full-time Program Assistant (PA) or Program Specialist (PS), depending on qualifications and experience, to join its expanding Forest Health and Wildfire Resiliency Program and dynamic team of conservation professionals. The PA/PS will work closely with RCD staff and partners to lead and support forest health and wildfire...
This position is established as a Unit Fire Program Manager (UFPM) for The Karuk Integrated Wildland Fire Management Program. The UFPM serves as the primary contact as delegated for established inter-governmental relationships and other partnership activities relating to the Tribe’s fire and fuels management efforts. The job of a UFPM includes responsibilities such as development and...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has an opening for a nationally recognized Lead Climate Scientist to spearhead a new Climate Impacts and Resilience Initiative. This position will focus on the quality, robustness, and relevance of LLNL’s climate science, security, and resilience efforts, interact with technical leaders and senior managers, and serve as the primary interface between...
Aster Global has an immediate need for a forester/auditor/GIS remote sensing specialist. The ideal candidate will have an interest in the developing market of climate change, agricultural, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) offset (carbon sequestration) projects, including validation/verification (3rd-party audits) of offset projects. The role of Forest Auditor/GIS Remote Sensing Specialist...
Aster Global has an immediate need for a forest biometrician with interest and experience in the developing market for carbon offset projects /credits, including validation/verification (3rd-party audit) of forest carbon offset projects. Strong background in forest biometrics, statistics and growth-and-yield modeling is required. Candidate needs to be a self-motivator with the ability to be...
Sponsor: California Fire Science Consortium
Dr. Eric Knapp and Yana Valachovic
The 2018 Camp Fire, which destroyed 18,804 structures in northern California, including most of the town of Paradise, provided an opportunity to investigate...
Speaker: Matt Reeves, Research Ecologist with the Human Dimensions Program at the Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service
Rough outline:
First 15-20 minutes: Hear from Matt Reeves
Remaining 30-40 minutes: LANDFIRE experts...
Please join the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) on July 7th at 4:00 pm MDT/ July 8th at 8:00 am AEST via Zoom for this month's virtual Meet Up, hosted by IAWF Board Member Trevor Howard.
Trevor Howard has been an IAWF Board...
Sponsor: Society for Ecological Restoration
Speakers:
Marianne Ignace, PhD (Director, Indigenous Languages Program and First Nations Language Centre, Simon Fraser University)
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle (PhD candidate and Public Scholar,...
Symposium Goal: The ACCG Monitoring workgroup and the SOFAR Landscape Design Team is hosting a symposium that will highlight ongoing monitoring and research in the Power Fire and its application in post fire restoration planning (e.g. Caldor Fire)....
Presenter: Savannah D’Evelyn, Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Washington, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Sponsor: Southwest Fire Science...
This interactive hybrid workshop will provide practitioners and decision-makers with tools and ideas that support positive fire outcomes and identify opportunities for accelerated Cohesive Strategy implementation. The program will focus on the theme of...
Wildfire Community Preparedness Day is a national campaign that encourages people and organizations everywhere to come together on a single day to take action to raise awareness and reduce wildfire risks. It is held in the United States and Canada on...
This webinar will include a presentation and panel discussion about the Smoke Ready Communities research partnership which examines collaborative strategies for increasing community capacity to mitigate the public health impacts associated with...
Sponsor: California Fire Science Consortium
Presenter: Dr. Negar Elhami-Khorasani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo.
Destructive wildfires are now a...
Learn tips from agency and organization representatives to prepare for wildfire and evacuation. Registration is required.
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This webinar will be presented by Dr. Ellis Margolis, Research Ecologist, USGS Fort Collins Science Center and Dr. Christopher Guiterman, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) University of Colorado at Boulder, and NOAA's...
Presenter: Professor Francisco Castro Rego, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Extreme fire behavior is very difficult to predict with current simulation models. The tragic wildfire of Pedrogao Grande, in Portugal 2017, was such an example. The...
The International Association of Wildland Fire's (IAWF) Fire & Climate 2022 Conference will concentrate our attention on the most significant forces shaping wildland fire today and better prepare us to focus and respond to the formidable challenges...
Wildland Firefighter Health Series: May 31st - June 2, 2022
Presented as a partnership among the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network and the California Fire Science Consortium, the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, the Northwest Fire Science...
To aid practitioners in planning and implementing conservation actions, we recently developed the Grassland and Sagebrush Conservation Portal in the web platform, ArcGIS Online. This...
Wildland Firefighter Health Series: May 31st - June 2, 2022
Presented as a partnership among the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network and the California Fire Science Consortium, the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, the Northwest Fire Science...
Wildland Firefighter Health Series: May 31st - June 2, 2022
Presented as a partnership among the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network and the California Fire Science Consortium, the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, the Northwest Fire Science...