Agenda

Southwest Wildfire Hydrology and Hazards Workshop
April 2 - 5, 2012
Biosphere 2 Conference Center

POSTER PRESENTERS: Please prepare landscape-oriented posters that are 36" or 42" tall and no more than 72" wide. These will be pinned to the walls in the main meeting room.

Program Overview

Monday April 2, 2012 - arrive at Biosphere 2, check in to "casita" lodging at visitor center, pay for meeting registration there (cash, check, card).  Evening Social, ice-breaker, and dinner. Social starts at 5:30 PM, dinner is at 6:30 PM. Dinner and the reception will be in the lower level of the Biosphere.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

8:00 to 9:30 am:                Presentation and Panel Discussion: Overview of Burned Area Emergency Response Program, its limitations, and the need for interagency and public collaboration

9:30 to 9:40 am:                Break

9:40 to 11:20 am:             Oral Presentations: Modeling of Post-fire Hydrologic Processes

11:20 to 1:00 pm:             Lunch and Keynote Address: Reducing the risk - Improving our  understanding of post-wildfire erosion control treatment effectiveness, Dr. Peter Robichaud, USDA Forest Service

1:00 to 1:20 pm:                Break

1:20 to 2:40 pm:                Oral Presentations and Panel Discussion: Post-fire Warning Systems

2:40 to 3:00 pm:                Break

3:00 to 4:20 pm:                Oral Presentations: Post-fire Research

4:20 to 6:00 pm:                Poster Session

6:00 to 8:00 pm:                Dinner and Keynote Address: Wildfires, Climate Change, and Black Swans in the Southwest: Coping with Surprise, Dr. Thomas Swetnam, University of Arizona

Wednesday, April 4, 2012:  Field trip to area burned by the 2011 Monument fire. 

Note: Following the field trip there will be an optional free tour of the Biosphere 2 facility for workshop attendees. During dinner, there will be a short presentation on the Biosphere 2 LEO project (leo.b2science.org), then optional group tours of the Biosphere 2 facility will occur. Dinner will be held in the Biosphere 2 theater.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

8:00 to 9:40 am:               Oral Presentations: Post-fire Research, continued

9:40 to 10:00 am:             Break

10:00 to 12:00 pm:          Wrap up and Group Discussion

Speaker Schedule for Southwest Wildfire Hydrology and Hazards Workshop

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Burned Area Emergency Response Programs – Chair: Dan Neary

8:00 to 9:30 am:                Todd Ellsworth, Marc Stamer and Penny Luehring: Overview of Burned Area Emergency Response Program, its limitations, and the need for interagency and public collaboration, Presentation and Panel Discussion

9:30 to 9:40 am:                Break

Modeling of Post-fire Hydrologic Processes – Chair: Todd Ellsworth

9:40 to 10:00 am               William Reed, Mike Schaffner*, Chad Kahler and Erin Boyle:   2011 wildfire in the mountainous terrain of southeast Arizona: Verification of empirical formulas used to estimate from 1-year through 10-year peak discharge from post-burn watersheds and associated increased flash flood potential of post-burn hyperconcentrated flows

10:00 to 10:20 am:          David Goodrich, E. Canfield, D.P. Guertin, I.S. Burns, L.R. Levick and  T.J. Clifford: Rapid post-fire hydrologic watershed assessment using the AGWA GIS-based hydrologic modeling tool

10:20 to 10:40 am:          John Moody: An analytical method for predicting post-wildfire peak discharges

10:40 to 11:00 am:          Evan Friedman and Paul Santi:  Debris-flow hazard assessment and monitoring within the 2010 Medano Fire burn area, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado

11:00 to 11:20 am:          Sue Cannon, Joe Gartner, Jason Kean and Dennis Staley:  Lessons learned from public release of post-fire debris-flow hazard assessments in southern California

Lunch and Keynote

11:20 to 1:00 pm:             Dr. Peter Robichaud:  Reducing the risk - Improving our understanding of post-wildfire erosion control treatment effectiveness

1:00 to 1:20 pm:                Break

Post-fire Warning Systems – Chair: Sue Cannon

1:20 to 1:40 pm:                Jayme Laber: The NOAA/USGS Debris Flow Early Warning System for southern California

1:40 to 2:00 pm:                John Brost, Ken Drozd, Glen Sampson, Erin Boyle, and Ryan Fliehman:  From fires to floods: How the NWS in Tucson Arizona helped raise flash flood awareness after a historic wildfire season

2:00 to 2:40 pm:                Chris Smith, Brian Cosson, and Mike Shaffner: Post-Fire USGS and ALERT Systems, Presentation and Panel Discussion

2:40 to 3:00 pm:                Break

Post-fire Research – Chair: Ann Youberg

3:00 to 3:20 pm:                Alicia Kinoshita, Terri Hogue and Jongyoun Kim:  Utilizing remote sensing indices to evaluate hydrologic recovery in the Arroyo Seco watershed

3:20 to 3:40 pm:                Jess Clark, Carolyn Napper, Kevin Cooper and Marc Stamer: Utilization of satellite imagery to evaluate and predict out-year post-fire watershed response and potential application in the southwest

3:40 to 4:00 pm:                Joel Sankey and Cynthia Wallace:   The relative contribution of natural vegetation dynamics and common seeding treatments to post-fire soil stability in rangelands of the Great Basin, USA

4:00 to 4:20 pm:                Joel Sankey, Sujith Ravi, Cynthia S.A. Wallace*, Robert H. Webb, and Travis E. Huxman:  Fire and soil microtopography in a Chihuahuan Desert shrub-grass ecotone

Poster Session – Chair: Mike Schaffner

4:20 to 6:00 pm:                Lee Benda and Dan Miller: Enhancing pre- and post-fire planning using automated tools in a web browser

Rory Sternke and Polly Haessig: BAER from a practitioner’s viewpoint, treatment effectiveness and lessons learned

Brandon Hale,Alicia Kinoshita, Terri Hogue and Carolyn Napper: Evaluating wildfire recovery with paired field hydrology and remote sensing in Southern Sequoia National Forest

Terri Hogue, Alicia Kinoshita*, Brandon Hale and Carolyn Napper: Post-fire hydrologic model assessment for design storm runoff and mitigation

                Stephen Monroe: Rito de los Frijoles – Post Las Conchas Fire Floods – 2011

Carlton J. Rochester, Robert N. Fisher, Cheryl S. Brehme, Denise R. Clark, and Stacie Hathaway:  Reptile and Amphibian Responses to Large-scale Wildfires in Southern California

Barbara Ruddy: A new technique for implementing USGS models for assessing post-wildfire debris- flow hazards

Anne Tillery and Kerry Jones: Analysis of floods and debris flow hazards following short duration, high intensity rainfall events on Las Conchas and Track Fire burn scar areas during summer 2011, northern New Mexico

Brent Travis and Brian Wahlin: Accounting for wildfire effects in slope failure risk analysis

Stephanie Yard and Allen Haden: Montezuma Creek channel repair - Coronado National Memorial

Pete Wohlgemuth: The role of research in the Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) process

Ann Youberg, Susan Cannon, Karen Koestner, Erik Schiefer and Dan Neary: Model assessments for predicting post-fire debris-flow potential in Arizona

Dinner and Keynote  

6:00 to 8:00 pm:                Dr. Thomas Swetnam; Wildfires, Climate Change, and Black Swans in the Southwest - Coping with Surprise

Wednesday, April 4, 2012:  Field trip to area burned by the 2011 Monument fire – Leaders: Ann Youberg and Chris Smith

Breakfast buffet: 6:15 am

Load vans:  7:00 am

Depart: 7:15 am

Those coming from Tucson under their own power should meet at 10:30 am at the Coronado National Memorial Visitor's Center.

Return: 6:30 pm

Dinner: 7:00 pm

Optional tour of B2 Biodomes: 8:30 pm

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Post-fire Research, continued – Chair: Steve DeLong

8:00 to 8:20 am:                Joe Wagenbrenner, Pete Robichaud, Robert Brown, Dan Neary:  Changes in peak flow rates and sediment yields from the Wallow Fire, Arizona

8:20 to 8:40 am:                Erica Bigio, Thomas Swetnam, Christopher Baisan: A fire history reconstruction of the western San Juan Mountains: Results from tree-ring and alluvial sediment methods

8:40 to 9:00 am:                Allen Haden and Christopher Tressler:  2010 Schultz fire- sediment analysis and reduction options

9:00 to 9:20 am:                Jamie Macy: Depth of unconsolidated cinder deposits and potential water-storage capacity at Cinder Lake for runoff events exacerbated by the Schultz Fire, 2010, Coconino County, AZ

9:20 to 9:40 am:                Steve DeLong, Whitney Henderson and Ann Youberg:  Post wildfire landscape change in a small headwater catchment from terrestrial LiDAR

9:40 to 10:00 am:             Break

Wrap up and Group Discussion – Facilitator: David Goodrich

10:00 to 12:00 am