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AGU 2025 x WFFRC

Join us at AGU's 2025 annual meeting from December 15 - 19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

A total of 19 WFFRC research members will give 22 presentations and convened sessions. 

Presenter
Presentation Titles
WFFRC Product
Jennifer Balch
The Fastest-growing and Most Destructive Fires in the US (2001 to 2020)
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Claire Bekker
Comparing Air Quality Impacts of Land Management Scenarios to Mitigate Future Wildfire Activity in California
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Johan Eckdahl
Synergies of Climate and Wildfire in Forest Biogeochemical Cycling
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Xiulin Gao
Model Fuel Treatments: Convergent and Contrasting Effects of Prescribed Fire and Mechanical Thinning on Stand Structure, Fuel, and Demography Rates
Jazlynn Hall
Predicting forest burn risk from 2026 to 2040 in interior Alaska
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Winslow Hansen
Erasing the western US forest-fire deficit will require approximately 60 million hectares of ecologically beneficial burning over the next decade.
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Qian He
Interannual Variability of Aboveground Live Forest Biomass in Response to Fire Disturbances in the Western United States
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Nate Hofford
Spatial and temporal variation in Fire Radiative Power (FRP) across the Western United States
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Andy Hudak
Precision and accuracy of aboveground biomass density maps evaluated at six aggregation scales with utility to stakeholders
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Mitch Hung
Aridity reshapes the distribution of wildfire severity in Californian forests
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Christopher Kibler
Environmental drivers of forest resilience after Sierra Nevada wildfires
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Christopher Kibler
Conservation Ecohydrology Poster
Alexandra Konings
Capturing the spatial variability of plant hydraulics at continental scale using differentiable modelling. (Invited)
Gavin Madakumbura
Assessing the Roles of Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Forcing in Wind-Driven Wildfires in Southern California (Invited)
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Miriam Marlier
Characterizing Wildland Fire Smoke: Estimating Exposure and Associated Impacts to Public Health II Oral
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Miriam Marlier
Compound Climate Hazards and Health Risks I Oral
Miriam Marlier
Compound Climate Hazards and Health Risks II Poster
Miriam Marlier
Assessing Compound Climate Exposures and Public Health Outcomes in California (Invited)
Trent Robinett
A daily, long-term, microwave remote sensing-informed dataset of live fuel moisture content from machine learning
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Claire Schollaert
Leveraging forest and fire ecological modeling outputs to estimate emissions and air pollution impacts of wildland fires across the western U.S.
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Anna Trugman
Forests under pressure: resilience and vulnerability in a changing climate (Invited)
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Bowen Wang
What Drives Day-to-Day Changes in Evapotranspiration? Partitioning the relative importance of radiative, atmospheric, and surface conditions
Bowen Wang
What makes a good fire index? An evaluation of fire indices’ ability to represent daily risks of fire ignition and spread in the western United States
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Park Williams
Attributing rapid increases in western US forest-fire activity and above-ground carbon losses to climate change and natural variability (Invited)
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Science for resilience in western ecosystems the fire-water nexus

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Smoke

Actionable Science for Solutions to the Problem of Wildfire Smoke

Science Overviews.

Recent Publications.

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Science Panel. 
Living Sustainably with Wildfire
 

Living Sustainably with Wildfire: Science for Solutions

WFFRC News.

Lara Kueppers
LARA KUEPPERS
University of California, Berkeley

I am thrilled to be collaborating with this diverse and motivated group of scientists in service of a shared objective. These landscapes are changing, and understanding the pace and intensity of that change is an essential part of adapting our stewardship approaches.

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