Resource Conservation and Resiliency Short Courses
Thursday, November 29, 2018, 8:30 - 10:00 AM
Instructors:
Dr. Kathleen D. White, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Dr. John Marra, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
This short course examines tools available for resilient infrastructure planning. Topics include an introduction sea level change tools, an exploration of the statistical adjustment approaches to climate derived hydrology data, what those adjustments and diagnostics are, and how to apply the various methods available, the background context on nonstationarity research, and an introduction to the framework based on the shift in assumptions from hydrologic stationarity to nonstationarity and outlines the major steps of the framework.
Thursday, November 29, 2018, 10:15 - 11:45 AM
Dr. John Hall, Joint Fire Science Program
Dr. Rodman Linn, Los Alamos National Lab
Mr. Peter Lahm, U.S. Forest Service
Mr. Ben Hornsby, U.S. Forest ServiceMr. Paul Steblein, U.S. Geological Survey
Given the link between training and testing land sustainability, military activities as an ignition source, and fire's role in fire-affected ecosystems on military installations, an understanding of available and planned wildland fire management tools is key. This short course highlights tools that DoD fire, natural resource, and land managers can use to manage wildland fire and its impacts. Topics include next generation physics models and their potential for management use, available tools for managing smoke air quality challenges, prescribed fire planning tools, and assessing trade-offs between prescribed fire and wildfire: framework development.