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)
Work Group Facilitator
Jennifer Smith, U.S. Forest Service, California Climate Hub
Staff Scientist
MV Eitzel, UC Berkeley
Work Group Staff Scientists
John Battles, UC Berkeley
Steve Ostoja, U.S Forest Service, California Climate Hub
Members
- Adam Moreno, California Air Resources Board: Landscape Ecology and climate science
- Alexandra Syphard, Conservation Biology Institute
- Andrew Latimer, UC Davis
- Becky Estes, U.S. Forest Service Region 5
- Brandon Collins, U.S. Forest Service Region 5
- Christy Brigham, National Park Service
- Chris Fettig, U.S. Forest Service PSW Research Station
- Chris Keithley, CAL FIRE FRAP: Forestry and vegetation management
- Derek Young, UC Davis
- Emily Schlickman, UC Davis
- Francisco Escobedo, U.S. Forest Service PSW Research Station: Urban and community forestry, ecosystem services
- Juliann Aukema, U.S. Forest Service PSW 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, U.S. Forest Service PSW Research Station: Forest ecosystems
- Megan Jennings, San Diego State University
- Natalie van Doorn, U.S. Forest Service PSW Research Station
Research Station: Urban and community forestry, forest ecosystems - Nicole Molinari, U.S. Forest Service Region 5: Vegetation ecology and chaparral ecosystems
- Ramona Butz, U.S. Forest Service Region 5: Vegetation and fire ecology
- Roger Bales, UC Merced
- Safeeq Khan, UC Cooperative Extension & UC Merced: Forest hydrology
- Sarah Bisbing, University of Nevada, Reno: Forest silviculture and conservation
- Scott Stephens, UC Berkeley: Fire science
- Tirtha Banerjee, UC Irvine: Atmospheric science and wildfire modeling
- Yana Valachovic, UC Cooperative Extension – Forest Advisor: Forestry and vegetation management
- Yufang Jin, UC Davis: Remote sensing and spatial informatics