Current and Past Awarded Grants
Highlighted CCI Project:
Keeping fire on the landscape: Consequences for carbon balance and forest resilience
Project Profile - BattlesHighlighted CCI Project:
Quantifying the Carbon Costs and Benefits of Maintaining Fuel Treatment Effectiveness
Project Profile - HurteauUsing 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
Forecasting the impacts of climate change, land use change, and management on wildfire risk and downstream impacts in Southern California's montane forests and surrounding shrublands. PI: Erin Conlisk, Ph.D., Point Blue Conservation Science
Assessing the utility of handheld LiDAR to quantify forest understory structure and evaluate change following disturbance. PI: Alanna Post, Sonoma State University
Indigenous burning, Prescribed Fire, and Goldspotted Oak Borer Management. PI: Joelene Tamm, University of California Riverside
Quantifying the Relationships among Stand Structure, Fire Behavior and Burn Severity from Prescribed Fire in California Foothill Oak Woodlands. PI: Kaili Brande, University of California Santa Barbara
Natural range of variation (NRV) assessment for Southern California montane forests. PI: John Williams, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Timing is everything: Prescribed burn season and the optimization of multiple management objectives. PI: Leander DL Anderegg, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Influence of prescribed burn season on tree survival, soil microbial resilience, and carbon cycling in mixed conifer forests. PI: Sydney Glassman, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Restoring Resilient Landscapes in the Western Klamath Region - implications for future fires, vegetation, habitat, and carbon dynamics. PI: Susan Prichard, Ph.D., University of Washington
Improving Climate-Based Seed Selection for Forest Health and Carbon Sequestration. PI: Joe Stewart, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Timely prediction of wildfire burn severity in California forests with spaceborne observations of 3D vegetation structure. PI: Matthew Clark, Ph.D., Sonoma State University
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
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
Simulating the heterogeneous consequences of widespread forest health treatments for California mixed conifer forest resilience to climate change and wildfire, PI: Laura Kueppers, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
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