| FEATURED
SPEAKERS
Dr.
Richard Alley - Dr.
Tim Barnett - Dr.
William J. Bond - Dr.
Ross Bradstock - Dr.
Mark Cochrane - Dr. Mike Flannigan - John Gledhill - James
Hubbard - Dr.
Józef Piwnicki - Dr.
Stephen Pyne - Brian
Stocks - Dr. Tom
Swetnam
Dr.
Richard Alley
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
"Back
to the Future of Climate Change: Where Surprises Meet Sure Things"
Richard Alley
is a Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University in
State College, Pennsylvania. He earned Bachelor's (1980) and Master's
(1983) degrees in Geology from Ohio State University, and earned
his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1987).
He studies ice cores -- samples of ice that record Earth's past
climate. His research focuses on abrupt climate change, glaciers,
ice sheet collapse, and sea level change.
Dr. Alley has
spent several years in Antarctica and Greenland, obtaining ice cores
from which he has been interpreting past climate change. The implications
of past climatic shifts and rapid climate change for wildland fire
management are significant. What would happen if the climate of
Boston became that of Atlanta, within a ten-year period? This would
certainly make our concepts of reference condition obsolete, as
well as our budgeting for fire planning based on recent expenditures.
Dr.
Tim Barnett
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
LaJolla, California, USA
"Future
Climate of Planet Earth: A Sneak Preview"
Dr.
Tim Barnett investigates the physics of climate change and long-range
climate forecasting, focusing his research on greenhouse gases,
ocean current effects on climate, and climate forecast model development.
He is internationally recognized for developing methods for seasonal
climate prediction and detection of global warming signals. Past
work has included prediction of El Nino and La Nina events, their
effects on floods and droughts, and biological consequences, such
as effects on fisheries of warmer ocean temperatures. His recent
work compares increasing ocean temperatures with predictions from
global climate models, showing a compelling relationship with human
activity. Dr. Barnett will describe different scales of climatic
variability, how global warming might affect them, how soon significant
changes may occur, and what this might do to fire climate.
Dr.
William J. Bond
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
The
textbooks tell us that global biome distribution is largely determined
by climate with local modification by soils. However large areas
of the globe support far too few trees for their climate potential
to grow woody biomass. They include some of the most frequently
burnt areas on earth. I will discuss recent evidence for fire as
a primary determinant of these ‘open’ ecosystems, their
evolutionary origins and conflicting ideas on when, where and why
fire became important in terrestrial ecosystems.
"Fitting
fire into global ecology"
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Dr.
Ross Bradstock
NSW Department of Environment and Conservation
Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia
"The
fire and climate change prognosis in southern Australia: is Gondwana
a goner?"
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Dr.
Mark Cochrane
South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota, USA
"Changing
Fire Regimes: Context and Consequences of Climate Change in Amazonia"
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Dr.
Mike Flannigan
Canadian Forest Service
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
"Fire
and Climate Change in Boreal Forests"
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John
Gledhill
Tasmania Fire Service
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
The
Influence of Global Climate Change on Fire Management Programs and
Policies – An Australian Fire Manager’s Perspective
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James Hubbard
USDA Forest Service
Washington, DC, USA
How
Might Changing Climate Affect Fire Management in the United States?
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Dr.
Józef Piwnicki
Forest Fire Protection Laboratory
Forest Research Institute
Raszyn, Poland
Climate
change and wildland fire policy in Poland
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Dr. Stephen Pyne
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, USA
"The
Big Burn, Then and Now"
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Brian
Stocks
B.J. Stocks Wildfire Investigations
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Wildland
Fire Management in Canada: New Challenges Under a Changing Climate
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Dr.
Tom Swetnam
Laboratory of Tree Ring Research
Tucson, Arizona, USA
"Climate,
Forest, and Fire Regime in the Western U.S."
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