Featured Presentations | Santa Barbara Firesafe Council

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...

Featured Presentation: Ethan Turpin, The Burn Cycle Project

by sbfirescadmin | Jun 11, 2020 | Featured Presentations

Ethan Turpin was born in Santa Barbara County, one of the most flammable places on Earth. Working as an independent video producer and media artist since 1999, his documentaries and immersive exhibits have shown in film festivals and museums internationally, spanning...

Featured Presentation: Rondi Guthrie, Southern California Edison

by Nic Elmquist | Sep 1, 2020 | Featured Presentations

The SB Fire Safe Council was lucky to have Southern California Edison Government Relations Manager Rondi Guthrie provide a remote presentation at our last General Meeting on August 27th. We were planning on recording the presentation to be posted here, but technical...

Featured Presentation: Los Padres National Forest Wildfire and Fire Management

by sbfirescadmin | Jun 11, 2020 | Featured Presentations

Kevin Cooper began his career in 1980 at the University of Montana studying grizzly bear ecology and working summers as a backcountry ranger and wildlife researcher with the US Park Service at Mount Rainier and Crater Lake National Parks. After completing graduate...

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In partnership with the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, a team of UCSB graduate students are surveying local communities in order to learn about what plants are commonly found near homes. The results of this survey will help the researchers choose plants for future flammability testing. Click HERE to complete the survey.