[Biology-U-L] EEMB 188 Restoration Ecology Seminar: F08 schedule

[Biology Undergraduate List]

*Chaparral Fire Ecology and Wildfire Management Issues in Southern 
California*

Monday nights 6-7pm, 1 unit.

The first class will be held in the scheduled location (Harder 1013) and 
all of the remaining seminars will be held in MSRB 1302, an auditorium.

*Chaparral Fire Ecology and Wildfire Management Issues in Southern 
California *

October 1 –Lisa Stratton, Ph.D.: Introduction to fire issues and the 
seminar logistics (Harder, South: Rm 1013)

MSRB 1302 - all Remaining Seminars:

October 8 – Wayne Chapman, CCBER: *Chumash use of fire to manage landscapes*

October 15 - Rick Halsey, Ph.D. Chaparral Institute: *Firefighting in 
the chaparral: where scientific truth meets the fireline and Chaparral 
Ecology*

October 22- Jon Keeley, Ph.D; USGS & UCLA: *Fire As An Ecosystem 
Process: Past, Present and Future*; Plants have evolved over hundreds of 
millions of years with fire, but today some natural fire-prone 
ecosystems such as chaparral are threatened by diverse anthropogenic 
changes in their environment


October 29 - Scott Stephens, Ph.D.; UC Berkeley: *Prescribed Fire and 
mastication in Northern California chaparral*: Plant, invasive, and bird 
responses to treatments in three different seasons.

November 5- Marti Witter, Ph.D.; Fire Ecologist: *Santa Monica** 
Mountains** Wildfire Management Plan Design and Considerations*

November 19 – Jan Beyers; USFS – *Responses of invasive and native plant species to mechanical fuel reductions*

November 26 – Lloyd Simpson; USFS: *Zaca fire management, future and 
lessons learned*

December 3 – Max Moritz, Ph.D.; UC Berkeley: *Spatial patterns of fire in southern California shrublands and lessons learned*


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Lisa Stratton, Ph.D.
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration (CCBER)
Harder South, Rm 1005
UCSB,      MC 9615
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Office: (805) 893-4158
Fax:	(805) 893-4222

stratton at lifesci.ucsb.edu