Final Agenda and Schedule
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April 29, Friday & April 30, Saturday – Participants
travel to Flagstaff
April 30, Saturday
Field trip to examine tree-ring
fire-scar & sediment
charcoal
studies. The ponderosa pine forest of the Mogollon Rim
has one of the highest
fire frequencies reported anywhere in the world. Pete
Fulé and
Megan Van Horne will lead participants to NAU's Centennial
Forest about 15 km SW of Flagstaff to
examine a locale where Megan has completed a census of
nearly 1,500 fire-
scarred trees on 1 km2, testing the results of a variety
of sample methods against
the census data. Participants will then travel to Walker
Lake where Scott
Anderson and Douglas Hallett will document ongoing research
on long-term fire and
vegetation histories in the ponderosa pine forest.
May 1, Sunday
7:30-8:45 AM: Registration
Plenary Sessions (Havasupai A & B; all day)
8:45 AM: Introductions, Purpose and Goals of the Workshop:
Organizers:
Scott Anderson & Tom Swetnam – 5 minutes
Craig Allen – 5 minutes
Self introductions by participants – 35 minutes
Regional Fire History & Climate (Moderator: Cathy Whitlock)
9:30-10:00: R. Scott Anderson, Craig D. Allen, J. L.
Toney, R. B. Jass & A. N. Bair
–
Holocene vegetation & forest fire regimes in subalpine & mixed
conifer forests,
Southern Colorado & Northern New Mexico
10:00-10:30: Jennifer Marlon, Cathy
Whitlock & Patrick J. Bartlein – Long-term
relationships between fire, fuel and climate in
the northwestern
U.S.
10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
11:00-11:30: Thomas Kitzberger, Peter
M. Brown, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Thomas W.
Swetnam & Thomas T. Veblen – Multi-scale
synchrony in wildfires and climate in
Western North America over the past 5 centuries
11:30-11:50: Jason S. Sibold & Thomas T. Veblen – Relationship
of subalpine forest
fires in the Colorado Front Range to interannual
and multi-decadal scale climatic
variation
11:50-1:30: Lunch
Modern Fire Climatology (Moderator: Tom Veblen)
1:30-1:50: Patrick J. Bartlein, S.W.
Hostetler, S.L. Shafer, J.O. Holman, & A.M.
Solomon -- A hierarchical view of climatic
controls of wildfire in the Western
United
States
1:50-2:10: Anthony L. Westerling, Thomas
W. Swetnam & Daniel
R. Cayan –
Climate and wildfire in Western North
America
2:10-2:30: Jeremy S. Littell, Donald
McKenzie, David L. Peterson, Anthony
L.
Westerling & Thomas W. Swetnam – Ecological
context of climate impacts on fire:
Wildfire area burned in the Western
U.S. 1916-2003
2:30-2:50: Anthony L. Westerling – Western
North America fire occurrence data
2:50-3:20:
Coffee Break
Charcoal & Fire-Scar Comparisons
3:20-4:40: Craig D. Allen,
R. Scott Anderson, Renata B. Jass, Jaime
L. Toney &
Christopher H. Baisan -- Paired
charcoal and tree-ring records
of high-frequency
fire
from two New Mexico bog sites
3:40-4:00: Steve Wathen – Fire
history of a red fir-dominated watershed in the northern
Sierra Nevada using fire scars and lake sediments
4:00-5:20: Plenary Discussion
Linking Modern & Paleo Fire & Climate
Data – Tom
Swetnam & Tony
Westerling, discussion leaders
Combining & Comparing Sediment & Tree-Ring
Proxies – Scott
Anderson &
Craig Allen, discussion leaders
5:20-7:00: Poster Session (Havasupai C; no-host bar with wine/beer, snacks)
May 2, Monday
Plenary Sessions (Havasupai A & B)
Regional Fire History & Climate (Moderator: Tom Swernam)
8:00-8:20: Mitchell J. Power,
Cathy Whitlock & Patrick
Bartlein -- Fire,
climate, and vegetation
history in the
Northern Rocky Mountains
during the
last 13,000 years
8:20-8:40:
Eric C. Grimm, K. J. Brown, J. S. Clark & J. J.
Donovan -- Fire,
drought and vegetation
cycles on
the northern Great Plains
8:40-9:00: Feng Sheng Hu, Linda B. Brubaker, Daniel
G. Gavin,
Phillip E. Higuera,
Jason A. Lynch, T. Scott
Rupp & Willy Tinner – How
climate and vegetation influenced boreal fire regimes during
the Holocene:
The
Alaskan perspective
9:00-9:20: Emily Heyerdahl, Penny
Morgan, Carol Miller & James
Riser --
Historical climate drivers
of regional fire years
in the Northern
Rockies
9:20-9:40: Ellis
Q. Margolis, Thomas W. Swetnam & Craig D.
Allen – Stand-replacing
fire history and climate
analysis
in the upper elevation
forests
of the Southwestern United
States
9:40-10:00: Richard Guyette,
Michael Stambaugh & Daniel
Dey – Human-drought
interactions in fire regimes
10:00-10:40: Coffee Break
Charcoal Sediment Methods (Moderator: Cathy Whitlock)
10:40-11:00: Dan Gavin & Phil Higuera -- Peak
detection in sediment charcoal records using a Gaussian mixture
distribution
11:00-11:20: Philip E. Higuera, Matthew
E. Peters & Daniel
G. Gavin –
Understanding the
origin of sediment-charcoal
records with
a simulation model
11:20-11:40:
Mihaela Enache & Brian Cumming – Charcoal
morphology and
reconstruction of fire history
from
lake sediments
in Opatcho,
Big, and
Prosser
Lake, British Columbia
11:40-12:00: Grant
A. Meyer & Jennifer
L. Pierce – Records
of fire and geomorphic
response in alluvial
sediments
12:00-1:30:
Lunch
Fire-Scar Methods
1:30-1:50: William
L. Baker &
Kou, X-- Modern
calibration
and
new approaches
to
fire-scar analysis
1:50-2:10: Calvin
Farris, Christopher
H. Baisan & Thomas
W. Swetnam – Spatial
and temporal
validation
of
fire scar data
in a frequently
burned
Arizona
Wilderness area
2:10-2:30:
Megan L. Van Horne & Peter Z. Fulé – Do
fire scar sampling
methods affect estimates
of fire frequency?
2:30-2:50:
Don Falk -- Analytical
foundations
for fire history
in scaling probability
theory
2:50-3:10: Peter
Brown – Fire
severity versus
fire effects:
What are we reconstructing?
3:10-3:30:
Coffee Break
3:30-4:30:
Breakout Discussion Groups
Charcoal Methods
Discussion
Group – Cathy Whitlock,
discussion
leader
Fire-Scar Methods
Discussion
Group – Tom
Veblen, discussion
leader
4:30-5:30:
Plenary
Reports by
Breakout
Groups & Discussion
7:00:
Buffet Dinner
at Zane
Grey Ballroom,
Weatherford
Hotel (optional)
May
3, Tuesday
Plenary Session (Havasupai A & B)
Alluvial Fire
History & Climate (Moderator: Douglas Hallett)
8:00-8:20:
Jennifer
L. Pierce & Grant
A. Meyer – Alluvial
fan records
of climate
driven
variability
in Holocene
fire
regimes
in ponderosa
pine forests
of
Central
Idaho
8:20-8:40: Erica
Bigio,
Thomas
W. Swetnam,
Christopher
H. Baisan & Jedediah
Frechette -- The
integration
of
tree-ring
and
alluvial
fan records
of fire
history
at the
Missionary
Ridge Fire,
Durango,
Colorado
8:40-9:00:
Linda
B. Brubaker & Shelly
Crausbay – Fire
size and
fire severity:
Implications
of small
hollow
charcoal
records
from the
Puget Sound
Lowlands,
Washington
Fire-Scar
Histories:
Climate
and Landscape
Controls (Moderator: Tom Swetnam)
9:00-9:20:
Lori
D. Daniels – Climate-fire
interactions
in the
Cariboo
forests
of British
Columbia
9:20-9:40:
Jose
Iniguez,
Thomas
W. Swetnam & Christoper
H. Baisan – Understanding
the influence
of landscape
structure
on fire
history
9:40-10:00:
Anthony
C. Caprio – Topography,
climate
and patterns
of
past fire,
Sequoia
and Kings
Canyon
National
Parks,
California
10:00-10:30:
Coffee
Break
10:30-12:00:
Breakout
Discussion
Group
Sessions -- topics
to be
decided
and refined
in
discussion
with all
participants
Potential
topics
or questions
to be addressed:
- What
are the highest
priority
fire
history research
questions,
and
methods
development
needs?
- What
are
the key
fire
climatology
questions
that
need
to
be
addressed in
the
coming
decade?
- Spatial
and
temporal gaps
in
fire history
data:
where,
when
and
how to fill?
12:00-1:30:
Lunch
Plenary
Discussions (Havasupai A & B)
1:30-3:00:
Reports
of Breakout
Groups & Discussion
3:00-3:30:
Coffee
Break
Synthesis
Products
and Future
Initiatives (Moderator: Craig Allen)
3:30-3:45:
Mike
Hartman & Connie
Woodhouse – A
fire
history
archive:
The International
Multiproxy
Paleofire
Database
3:45-5:00:
Discussion
of modern
and paleo
data
networks,
and
other
potential
syntheses
products,
for example:
- Development
of spatio-temporal
maps
of fire
occurrence
for
the US,
and
northern
Mexico.
- A modern
fire
occurrence
database
initiative/proposal
(as
complement to IMPD).
- NCEAS
proposal
for
a working
group
on
synthesis of fire & climate
data
and
analyses.
Other
publications
and
proposal
ideas?
Posters
(Note: Havasupai C on Sunday; Oak Creek Room on Monday and Tuesday)
Allison
N.
Bair, R.
Scott
Anderson & Craig
D.
Allen.
A
15,000
Year
Vegetation
and
Fire
History
Record,
Southern
Sangre
de
Cristo
Mountains,
New
Mexico
R.
Scott
Anderson,
R.
B.
Jass,
Ed
Berg,
J.
L.
Toney,
Doug
Hallett,
C.
S.
de
Fontaine
&
Andy DeVolder. Climate
Change & the Development of Boreal
Forest & Fire
Regimes
on
the
Kenai
Lowlands,
Alaska
Franco
Biondi & Scotty
Strachan.
Historical
Ecological
Variability
of
Mt.
Irish,
South-Eastern
Nevada,
Derived
from
Tree-Ring
Records
Christy
Briles,
Cathy
Whitlock & Patrick
Bartlein.
Reconstructing
a Holocene
fire
history
from
a mixed-conifer
forest
in
southwestern
Oregon
Doug
J.
Hallett & R.
Scott
Anderson.
Long-term
Fire
History
Reconstructions
from
Subalpine
Forests
in
the
Sierra
Nevada,
CA
and
Implications
for
Late
Holocene
Drought
Paul
F.
Hessburg,
R.
Brion
Salter & Kevin
M.
James.
Evidence
for
Variable
Fire
Severity
and
Non-Equilibrium
Dynamics
in
Pre-Management
Era
Dry
Forests
of
the
Inland
Northwest,
USA
Philip
Higuera,
Linda
Brubaker,
Pat
Anderson,
Feng
Sheng
Hu,
Ben
Clegg,
Tom
Brown & Scott
Rupp. Vegetational
and
Climatic
Influences
on
Fire
Regimes
in
the
Southern
Brooks
Range,
Alaska
Karen
Jacobs & Cathy
Whitlock.
Fire
and
Vegetation
History
of
the
Last
2000
years
in
Jackson
Hole,
Wyoming
Cara
B.
Meeker,
R.
Scott
Anderson,
Susan
J.
Smith & Anthony
Caprio.
A
high
resolution
record
of
macroscopic
charcoal
as
an
indicator
of
Holocene
climate
change
from
Swamp
Lake,
Yosemite
National
Park,
California
M.
M.
McCoy,
M.
G.
Pellatt & R.
W.
Mathewes.
A
high-resolution
fire
and
vegetation
history
of
a Garry
Oak
habitat
in
coastal
British
Columbia
Tania Schoennagel, T.T. Veblen, W.H. Romme, J.S. Sibold and E.R. Cook. ENSO and PDO interactions affect drought-induced fire occurrence in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests
Rosemary
L.
Sherriff & Thomas
T.
Veblen.
Influences
of
regional
climate
variability
on
fire
occurrence
across
the
ponderosa
pine
zone
of
the
northern
Colorado
Front
Range
Elaine
K.
Sutherland, E.T. Zeigler, E.A. Mace, and E.K. Heyerdahl. Subalpine
forest
fire
history: Evidence
for
mixed
severity fire
regimes
in
mixed-conifer
and
lodgepole
pine
forests
in
western
Montana
J.
L.
Toney & R.
Scott
Anderson.
A
Postglacial
Paleoecological
Record
from
the
San
Juan
Mountains
of
Colorado:
Fire,
Climate
and
Vegetation
History
José Villanueva-Diaz,
J.
Cerano-Paredes,
D.W.
Stahle,
M.D.
Therrell,
M.K.
Cleaveland & J.
Cerano-Paredes.
New
Climate
Sensitive
Tree-Ring
Chronologies
for
Northern
Mexico
and
the
Potential
for
Long-Term
Fire
Frequency
Studies
Megan
Walsh,
Cathy
Whitlock,
Emily
Heyerdahl & Jane
Kertis.
Natural
and
anthropogenic
influences
on
the
Holocene
fire
regimes
of
the
Willamette
Valley,
Oregon
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