UC Merced Fire Resilience Experts:
Wildfire Management & Climate Change:
Dr. Crystal A. Kolden
Title: Associate Professor and Director (FRC)
Email: ckolden@ucmerced.edu
Department: Management of Complex Systems
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Wildfire management, prescribed fire, mitigation, and wildfire recovery
Communication Languages: English only
Title: Associate Professor and Director (FRC)
Email: ckolden@ucmerced.edu
Department: Management of Complex Systems
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Wildfire management, prescribed fire, mitigation, and wildfire recovery
Communication Languages: English only
Dr. John Abatzoglou
Title: Professor and Graduate Program Chair (MIST)
Email: jabatzoglou@ucmerced.edu
Department: Management of Complex Systems
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Climate change and wildfire, risk modeling, public safety power shutoffs
Communication Languages: English only
Title: Professor and Graduate Program Chair (MIST)
Email: jabatzoglou@ucmerced.edu
Department: Management of Complex Systems
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Climate change and wildfire, risk modeling, public safety power shutoffs
Communication Languages: English only
Dr. LeRoy Westerling
Title: Professor, Department Chair (MCS), and Director, MM Graduate Program
Email: lwesterling@ucmerced.edu
Department: Management of Complex Systems
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Climate change and wildfire, smoke, and vegetation modeling for the California State Climate Assessment.
Communication Languages: English
Title: Professor, Department Chair (MCS), and Director, MM Graduate Program
Email: lwesterling@ucmerced.edu
Department: Management of Complex Systems
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Climate change and wildfire, smoke, and vegetation modeling for the California State Climate Assessment.
Communication Languages: English
Health & Air Quality Impacts:
Dr. Sandie Ha
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: sha55@ucmerced.edu
Department: Public Health
Website: Professor Ha's website
Research Interests: Smoke and poor air quality impacts on health
Communication Languages: English
Dr. Ricardo Cisneros
Title: Associate Professor
Email: rcisneros@ucmerced.edu
Department: Public Health
Website: Professor Cisneros' website
Research Interests: Smoke and air quality
Communication Languages: English, Spanish
Title: Associate Professor
Email: rcisneros@ucmerced.edu
Department: Public Health
Website: Professor Cisneros' website
Research Interests: Smoke and air quality
Communication Languages: English, Spanish
Dr. Yemi Adebiyi
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: aaadebiyi@ucmerced.edu
Department: Life and Environmental Sciences
Website: www.aadebiyi.com
Research Interests: Smoke and air quality forecasting
Communication Languages: English, Yoruba
Title: Assistant Professor
Email: aaadebiyi@ucmerced.edu
Department: Life and Environmental Sciences
Website: www.aadebiyi.com
Research Interests: Smoke and air quality forecasting
Communication Languages: English, Yoruba
Forest Ecology, Soils, and Hydrology:
Dr. Safeeq Khan
Title: Associate Professor of Hydrology
Email: msafeeq@ucmerced.edu
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Forest health and fire effects on hydrology and water
Communication Languages: English
Title: Associate Professor of Hydrology
Email: msafeeq@ucmerced.edu
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Forest health and fire effects on hydrology and water
Communication Languages: English
Dr. Roger Bales
Title: Professor
Email: rbales@ucmerced.edu
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering; Management of Complex Systems
Website: Faculty Website
Research Interests: Ecosystem services, adaptive management, forest water & carbon balances
Communication Languages: English
Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
Title: Professor
Email: aaberhe@ucmerced.edu
Department: Life and Environmental Sciences
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Fire effects on soils and biogeochemical cycling of essential elements (C,N,P) and fate of pyrogenic matter.
Communication Languages: English
Title: Professor
Email: aaberhe@ucmerced.edu
Department: Life and Environmental Sciences
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Fire effects on soils and biogeochemical cycling of essential elements (C,N,P) and fate of pyrogenic matter.
Communication Languages: English
Dr. Emily Moran
Title: Associate Professor
Email: emoran5@ucmerced.edu
Department: Life and Environmental Sciences
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Fire effects on reforestation
Communication Languages: English
Title: Associate Professor
Email: emoran5@ucmerced.edu
Department: Life and Environmental Sciences
Website: Lab Site
Research Interests: Fire effects on reforestation
Communication Languages: English
