Nic Elmquist | Santa Barbara Firesafe Council

Featured Presentation: Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program

by Nic Elmquist | Oct 22, 2021 | Featured Presentations

The Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program (RWMP) is a novel approach to wildfire mitigation. Fire Safe Council Director and UC Santa Barbara professor, Max Moritz, spearheaded a grant proposal to start a RWMP for the Santa Barbara County South Coast. The program was...

Featured Presentation: Kurt Van Speybroeck, National Weather Service

by Nic Elmquist | Jul 13, 2021 | Featured Presentations

Kurt has had quite the career as a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, including working for the National Spaceflight Program out of Houston, Texas. Kurt now works as an Emergency Response Specialist out of the NWS Southern Region Operations Center in Fort...

Featured Presentation: Stephanie Ma Lucero, UC Santa Barbara

by Nic Elmquist | Apr 27, 2021 | Featured Presentations

Stephanie earned her Bachelor’s degree at UC Davis and worked in the post-harvest industry before moving to Santa Barbara in pursuit of her love of plants and restoration. Upon arrival, she was introduced to the chaparral shrublands of southern California and was...

Featured Presentation: Dr. Crystal Kolden, UC Merced

by Nic Elmquist | Feb 25, 2021 | Featured Presentations

Dr. Crystal Kolden is a Assistant Professor in the Management of Complex Systems department at the University of California, Merced. Dr. Kolden’s research focuses on characterizing and understanding wildfire interactions with the human-environment system through...

Santa Barbara County Ag Pass Program

by Nic Elmquist | Jun 9, 2021 | Risk Management

The Santa Barbara County Ag Pass Program was created to provide a uniform way to identify vetted commercial farm and ranch owner-operators and their employees to firefighting personnel, California Highway Patrol Officers, Sheriff’s deputies and other law...