SCIENCE ADVISORY PANEL
WORK GROUP
The Science Advisory Panel provides support to Task Force leadership and work groups for action plan priorities, science-based decision making, including translating scientific findings related to agency programs, and identifying research gaps to inform future forest health projects.
resources
Learning
Below are a series of briefs intended to communicate three different California ecosystems’ general physical appearance and summarize processes to keep them intact.
Publications
Prioritizing Forest Health Investments: a science-based framework for identifying priorities for forest health investments
Publications
2019 Tree Mortality Work Group: Could We Have Avoided Forest Mortality?
Could we have avoided forest mortality? In response to a request from the 2019 Tree Mortality Working Group, the Panel offered expert opionion on whether recent tree mortality events in California were avoidable (June 2019)
Publications
LiDAR: What Can It Measure and How Can it Be Used?
A summary of applications for and recommendations regarding LiDAR (March 2020)
Partnering Organizations
Work Group Facilitator
Adam Moreno, California Air Resources Board: Landscape Ecology and climate science
Becky Estes, US Forest Service Region 5: Vegetation and fire ecology
Beth Rose Middleton, UC Davis: Social science, environmental justice, Native American Studies
Christy Brigham, National Park Service: Vegetation and public land management
Chris Fettig, US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station: Ecological stressors and disturbances
Chris Keithley, CAL FIRE FRAP: Forestry and vegetation management
Francisco Escobedo, US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station: Urban and community forestry, ecosystem services
Irene Vasquez, National Park Service, Southern Sierra Miwuk and Paiute: Ecological restoration
John Battles, UC Berkeley: Forest ecosystems
Juliann Aukema, US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station: Landscape ecology and conservation biology
Lara Kuppers, UC Berkeley: Climate-ecosystem interactions
Lenya Quinn-Davidson, UC Cooperative Extension – Fire Advisor: Fire ecology and management
Malcolm North, US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station: Forest ecosystems
Natalie van Doorn, US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station: Urban and community forestry, forest ecosystems
Nic Enstice, California Department of Conservation: Forest ecosystems
Nicole Molinari, US Forest Service Region 5: Vegetation ecology and chaparral ecosystems
Ramona Butz, US Forest Service Region 5: Vegetation and fire ecology
Ryan Tompkins, UC Cooperative Extension: Forest and vegetation management
Safeeq Kahn, UC Cooperative Extension & UC Merced: Forest hydrology
Sarah Bisbing, University of Nevada, Reno: Forest silviculture and conservation
Scott Stephens, UC Berkeley: Fire science
Steven Ostoja, USDA CA Climate Hub: Climate adaptation science
Tirtha Banerjee, UC Irvine: Atmospheric science and wildfire modeling
Yana Valachovic, UC Cooperative Extension – Forest Advisor: Forestry and vegetation management
Jin Yufang, UC Davis: Remote sensing and spatial informatics
Jennifer Barton Smith, USDA Climate Hub
Work Group Leads
John Battles, UC Berkeley
Steve Ostoja, USDA Climate Hub