Club News and Events
New! First SAFE Meeting For Fall 2008
Thursday, Nov 6, noon to 1pm, Forestry conference room
F212.
Special Treat - Pizza!!!
Join
us this Thursday to brainstorm plans for this year's activities--bring your
ideas! Examples include article
discussion club, hosting speaker/panel discussion events, community
outreach activities, field trips, or just getting together to share
research. Oh, and we’ll eat pizza.
Seminar:
The ’88 fires: Yellowstone and Beyond
Fall term 2008, Monday’s, 11:00am to 1pm, Forestry
conference room F212.
SAFE has organized an EY592
seminar for Fall 2008, on the topic of The ’88 Fires: Yellowstone and
Beyond. Bill Romme has graciously
agreed to serve as the faculty member for the course. The course meets once-a-week
to read articles and discuss topics surrounding the Yellowstone fires of
1988, as well as watch video of presentations from the recent Yellowstone
conference, which took place in Jackson, Wyoming on
September 22-27, 2008.
CSU
Fire Lab discussion group
The CSU Fire Lab is an informal group open to anyone
interested in fire (typically professors, students, USFS, USGS, CSFS, and
other agency personnel). The group
meets every other Tuesday in the Forestry building conference room (F212)
from noon to 1pm. **The Fire Lab
will not meet for Fall term 2008.
See you in the spring!** In
addition to guest led seminars, discussion topics range from recent journal
articles to practice presentations by members for upcoming conferences or
job interviews. Contact Dr. Monique
Rocca or SAFE President Carissa Aoki for more info, or join the listserve
at: http://www.acns.colostate.edu/?page=listserv, list name FIRELAB-L.
Past SAFE speakers and
events
Pine Beetles, Fire, and the Future of Lodgepole Pine Forests in
Colorado.
Panel discussion occurred on April 17th, 2007,
Featuring:
Moderator: Dr. Dan
Binkley, Colorado State
University
Panelists: Dr.
Jessica Clement, Colorado
State University
Paul Mintier, USDA Forest
Service, Sulphur Ranger District
Dr. Jose
Negron, USDA
Forest Service, Rocky
Mountain Research Station
Dr. Bill
Romme, Colorado
State University
Dr. Bob Sturtevant, Colorado
State Forest
Service and Colorado
State University
Click here
for a link to streaming video of the panel discussion and more info from
the event.
First Annual
CSU Wildland Fire Week
April 24 to 29, 2006. Events included:
A talk from and meetings with Dr. Jerry
Franklin, University of Washington
A talk from and meetings with Dr. Tom
Swetnam, University of Arizona
Movie Night: “Fire Wars”
Paul Gleason
Memorial Hike, organized by the Student Firefighters Association
Click here
for some photos from the week!
On May 3, 2007, SAFE was recognized at the SOAR awards by the
CSU student organizations office with the Most Outstanding Educational
Program for Wildland Fire Week 2006.
This is a great honor and recognizes the hard work of everyone in
SAFE, as well as the Student Firefighter Association, for organizing events
during the week. Congratulations!!
Fire Regime
Condition Class and what it means for fire, fuels, and land management
February 23, 2005. A panel discussion featuring:
Dr. Greg
Aplet, The Wilderness Society
Dave Shadis, US Forest Service Region 2
Dr. Ayn
Shlisky, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Skip
Smith, Colorado State University
The Historical Role of Fire in
Rocky Mountain Forests: Relevance for Future Management February
5, 2003. A panel discussion featuring:
Dr.
William Baker, University of Wyoming
Dr. Merrill Kaufmann, Rocky Mountain
Research Station
Dr. William Romme,
Colorado State University
Dr. Tomas Veblen,
University of Colorado
SAFE-CSU sponsored talks (Pre-2005)
Pam Kaval, Ph.D. Student, Graduate Degree
Program in Ecology, CSU
Public perspectives on wild and prescribed
fire
Leigh Lentile, Ph.D. Student, Forest,
Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, CSU
Fire effects and fire scar formation
following the Jasper fire in the Black Hills, SD
Aaron Green, M.S. Student, Forest,
Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, CSU
Fire history in northern Arizona
Paul Evangelista, M.S. Student, Natural
Resource Ecology Laboratory, CSU
Fire effects on exotic plant invasions in
Grand Staircase Escalante, Utah
Nicole Macrury, Ph.D. Candidate, Fishery
and Wildlife Biology, CSU
Wildfire effects on riparian arthropod
communities
Joe Wagenbrenner, M.S. Candidate, Earth
Resources, CSU
Effectiveness of post-fire rehabilitation
treatments
Dr. Peter Brown, Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring
Research
Perspectives on careers in fire ecology
outside of government and academia
Francisco Senra, Ph.D. Student, Forest,
Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, CSU
Use of prescribed fire and fuel treatments
in Spain
Sarah Converse, Ph.D. Student, Fishery
and Wildlife Biology, CSU
Fire effects on small mammal population
dynamics
Brett Dickson, Ph.D. Student, Fishery
and Wildlife Biology, CSU
Impacts of fire and fuel treatments on
avian communities
Paul Gleason, Instructor, Forest,
Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, CSU
Chronology of events at the Cerro Grande fire in
Los Alamos, NM
Dr. Natasha Kotliar, Research Wildlife
Biologist, USGS Ecological Science Center
Fire effects on avian communities
Dr. Bill Romme, Professor, Forest,
Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, CSU
Discussion with students on future of fire
ecology in research and management
Margot Kaye Ph.D. student, Department
of Forest Science, CSU
Fire and Native Americans in the southwest
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