Current and Past Awarded Grants

Using early post-fire dynamics to improve predictions of forest recovery. PI: Derek Young, Ph.D., University of California, Davis

A modeling and scenario-planning platform to enhance California's resilience to wildfire and climate change. PI: Andrew Latimer, Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Carbon Dynamics Investigator for California: An open-source platform for tracking carbon uptake and storage across California’s forests. PI: Troy Magney Ph.D., University of California, Davis.

Improving predictions of fire impacts after mega drought: Lessons for carbon storage, defending the WUI, and improving resilience and recovery following the 2020 Creek Fire. PI: Van R. Kane Ph.D., University of Washington

Mitigating wildfire hazard in the redwoods: effectiveness and tradeoff of fuel treatments. PI: John-Pascal Berrill Ph.D., Humboldt State University

Understanding the costs and limits of vegetation management for wildfire mitigation in coastal California: a comprehensive ecological and economic study at the Soquel Demonstration State Forest. PI: Richard Cobb Ph.D., California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

Assessing fuels treatment effectiveness: the influence of wildfire on treatment lifespan and aboveground carbon dynamics within 20-year-old treated units. PI: Kathryn Low, Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley

Plant community response to increased fire frequency in northern California chaparral. PI: Ashley Grupenhoff, Graduate Student, University of California, Davis

Effects of wildfire on soil emissions of NO and N2O. PI: Elizah Stephens, Graduate Student, University of California, Riverside

Leveraging existing carbon incentive programs to increase utilization of woody biomass residues. PI: Micah Elias, Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley

Applying New Science to Develop a Collaborative Decision Support System for Forest Management in the Southern Sierra Nevada. PI: Wayne Spencer Ph.D., Conservation Biology Institute

Vegetation Trends and Cycles in the Fire-Prone Landscapes of Lake, Napa, and Sonoma Counties, PI: Tosha Comendant, Ph.D., Pepperwood Foundation

Implications of increasing the scale of managed wildfire on forest carbon stocks and pyrodiversity, PI: Scott Stephens, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Assessing smoke-plume injection height as a function of sub-canopy wind convergence of prescribed burns in the Central Sierra Nevada, PI: Stephen Drake, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno

Public health effects of increased prescribed burns for wildfire management, PI: Sumi Hoshiko, MPH, Sequoia Foundation

Evaluating forest resilience and carbon recovery using a chronosequence of co-located pre-, active-, and post-wildfire measurements in California mixed-conifer forests, PI: Jessica Miesel, Ph.D., Michigan State University

Effectiveness and optimization of forest fuels reductions for biodiversity conservation in a changing Sierra Nevada ecosystem, PI: M. Zachariah Peery, Ph.D., San Jose State University

Simulating the heterogeneous consequences of widespread forest health treatments for California mixed conifer forest resilience to climate change and wildfire, PI: Lara Kueppers, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Sierra Nevada-wide provenance trials to support climate-based seed zones and reforestation efforts, PI: Sarah Bisbing, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno

A physiological approach to assess the resilience of Sierra Nevada forest communities following prescribed burns, PI: Ryan Salladay, Graduate Student, University of California, Santa Cruz

Vulnerability in California’s carbon stocks: understanding post-fire regeneration in the state’s high elevation forests, PI: Emily Brodie, Graduate Student, University of California, Davis

Development of rapid-response post-wildfire water quality sampling guidelines to determine watershed and natural resource asset conditions and priorities for future recovery, PI: Michelle Newcomer, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Addressing common misconceptions about dry forest restoration and fuel treatments, PI: Susan Prichard, Ph.D., University of Washington

Measuring wildfire impacts and post-fire recovery of shrubland biomass under different climate conditions, PI: Emma Underwood, Ph.D., University of California, Davis

The Carbon Consequences of Catchment-Scale Prescribed Burning, PI: Matthew Hurteau, PhD, University of New Mexico

Keeping fire on the landscape: Consequences for carbon balance and forest resilience, PI: John Battles, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Impacts of Wildfire and Climate on Ecosystem Services in Southern California: Tool Development and Data Needs, PI: Emma Underwood, PhD, University of California, Davis

Effects of dead tree removal on the resilience and successional trajectory of high-mortality forests, PI: Rebecca Wayman, University of California, Davis

Using UAV's and Big Data to Map Live Trees and Predict Postfire Regeneration, PI: Derek Young, PhD, University of California, Davis

Evaluating plot-level remote sensing tools to increase accuracy and efficiency of fuels management approaches, PI: Lisa Bentley, Ph.D., Sonoma State University

Decentralized biomass torrefaction to reduce cost and improve utilization of woody biomass, PI: Daniel Sanchez, Ph.D., University of California, ANR 

What’s the baseline? Carbon storage in a northern California mixed-conifer forest before fire suppression policies, PI: Clarke Knight, Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley

Threats for Carbon Storage in High Montane Forests in the Sierra Nevada, PI: Sara Winsemius, Graduate Student, University of California, Davis

Tree recruitment and forest expansion following reforestation, PI: Tara Ursell, Graduate Student, University of California, Davis

Redwood Valley Sudden Oak Death Biomass Removal Project. PI: Yana Valachovic, University of Califorina, Agriculture and Natural Resources Cooperative Extension.

Do, Document and Disseminate Project for GHG Benefits of Fuels and Forest Health Treatments in California. PI: William Stewart, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Coast Range Dry Forest Restoration. PI: John-Pascal Berrill, Ph.D., California State University, Humboldt

Quantifying the Carbon Costs and Benefits of Maintaining Fuel Treatment Effectiveness. PI: Matthew Hurteau, Ph.D., University of New Mexico