Experts > Wildfire

Brandon Collins

Research scientist, Berkeley Forests

• bcollins@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Forest management and prescribed burning

J. Keith Gilless

Professor of forest economics

• (510) 642-7171
• gilless@berkeley.edu

Expertise: forest economics and management, wildland fire protection planning.

Scott L. Stephens

Professor of fire science in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

• (510) 642-7304
• sstephens@berkeley.edu

Expertise: wildfire, prescribed burning, fire history, urban fires, fire behavior and fire prevention.

William Stewart

Cooperative Extension specialist in environmental science, policy and management

• (510) 643-3130
• billstewart@berkeley.edu

Expertise: forest management, resource economics, and watershed management.

Rob York

Assistant cooperative extension specialist and adjunct associate professor of forestry in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

• ryork@berkeley.edu

Areas of Expertise: Forest management and prescribed burning

John Balmes, M.D.

Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

• jbalmes@ucsf.edu

Air pollution, respiratory and cardiovascular health, exposure to pesticides, exposure to psychosocial stress

Carl Pennypacker

physicist and astrophysicist

• crpennypacker@lbl.gov

Expertise: Remote sensing; fire detection networks; fire spotting instrumentation for aircraft and satellites.

Tarek Zohdi

Professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Fire Research Group

• zohdi@berkeley.edu

• https://msol.berkeley.edu/

Areas of Expertise: Computational modeling and simulation of wildfire behavior, development and implementation of new firefighting technologies

Ronald Cohen

professor of chemistry, earth and planetary science

• (510) 642-2735
• rccohen@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Atmospheric chemistry; air quality monitoring in urban neighborhoods; air quality sensors; formation of atmospheric aerosols.

Allen Goldstein

Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• ahg@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, chemical composition of wildfire smoke