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• Select ON COMING HOME AFTER THE FIRES

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  ON COMING HOME AFTER THE FIRES

  Authors:Tara Scott and Sara MartinFrom:Annals of Family Medicine (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  January-February 20201,414 words Article 1360LWhen I first became the Program Director of the Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency in June of 2017, I thought I had my hands full. Learning the ropes of running a community-based residency program, continuing...
• Select Twenty-first century California, USA, wildfires: fuel-dominated vs. wind-dominated fires

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  Twenty-first century California, USA, wildfires: fuel-dominated vs. wind-dominated fires

  Authors:Jon E. Keeley and Alexandra D. SyphardFrom:Fire Ecology (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  July 18, 20198,231 words Editorial 1620LSince the beginning of the twenty-first century California, USA, has experienced a substantial increase in the frequency of large wildfires, often with extreme impacts on people and property. Due to the size of the...
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  Hot topics

  Author:Kathy PiehlFrom:School Library Journal (Vol. 54, Issue 8)

  Aug. 20082,689 words Book review, Childre... 780LFireworks explode in the night sky. Families gather around campfires. Signs in national forests gauge fire danger. Sirens blaring and lights flashing, fire engines speed through streets. Almost every day we experience...
• Select Surface fuel loads following a coastal-transitional fire of unprecedented severity: Boulder Creek fire case study

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  Surface fuel loads following a coastal-transitional fire of unprecedented severity: Boulder Creek fire case study

  Authors:Kate F. Peterson, Bianca N.I. Eskelson, Vicente J. Monleon, and Lori D. DanielsFrom:Canadian Journal of Forest Research (Vol. 49, Issue 8) Peer-Reviewed

  Aug. 20198,017 words Article 1480LBritish Columbia experienced three years with notably large and severe wildfires since 2015. Multiple stand-replacing wildfires occurred in coastal-transitional forests, where large fires are typically rare, and thus,...
• Select Brief communication: Meteorological and climatological conditions associated with the 9 January 2018 post-fire debris flows in Montecito and Carpinteria, California, USA

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  Brief communication: Meteorological and climatological conditions associated with the 9 January 2018 post-fire debris flows in Montecito and Carpinteria, California, USA

  Authors:Nina S. Oakley, Forest Cannon, Robert Munroe, Jeremy T. Lancaster, David Gomberg, and F. Martin RalphFrom:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 18, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 19, 2018148 words Author abstract, Bri...

  The Thomas Fire burned 114 078 ha in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, southern California, during December 2017-January 2018. On 9 January 2018, high-intensity rainfall occurred over the Thomas Fire...

• Select Observed versus predicted fire behavior in an Alaskan black spruce forest ecosystem: an experimental fire case study.

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  Observed versus predicted fire behavior in an Alaskan black spruce forest ecosystem: an experimental fire case study.

  Author:Stacy A. DruryFrom:Fire Ecology (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 7, 20196,820 words Case study 1570LBackground Fire managers tasked with assessing the hazard and risk of wildfire in Alaska, USA, tend to have more confidence in fire behavior prediction modeling systems developed in Canada than similar systems...
• Select Santa Ana Winds of Southern California Impact PM2.5 With and Without Smoke From Wildfires.

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  Santa Ana Winds of Southern California Impact PM2.5 With and Without Smoke From Wildfires.

  Authors:Rosana Aguilera, Alexander Gershunov, Sindana D. Ilango, Guzman&#8208, Janin Morales, and Tarik BenmarhniaFrom:Geohealth (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 9, 20195,575 words Report 1640LAbstract: Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) raises human health concerns since it can deeply penetrate the respiratory system and enter the bloodstream, thus potentially impacting vital organs. Strong winds transport and...
• Select Climate-Disturbed Landscape: Our disturbed Southern California environment may force us to acknowledge our changing relationship with nature

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  Climate-Disturbed Landscape: Our disturbed Southern California environment may force us to acknowledge our changing relationship with nature

  Author:Robert ChianeseFrom:American Scientist (Vol. 106, Issue 6)

  November-December 20183,003 words Column 1450LNearly a year has passed since one of the biggest wildfires in California, the Thomas fire, consumed a quarter of a million acres in less than a month. Igniting northwest of Los Angeles in the foothills of Ventura and...
• Select Combining Regulatory Instruments and Low-Cost Sensors to Quantify the Effects of 2020 California Wildfires on PM2.5 in San Joaquin Valley.

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  Combining Regulatory Instruments and Low-Cost Sensors to Quantify the Effects of 2020 California Wildfires on PM2.5 in San Joaquin Valley.

  Authors:Faraz Enayati Ahangar, Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez, and Ricardo CisnerosFrom:Fire (Vol. 5, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20227,197 words Report 1460LThe San Joaquin Valley in California has some of the worst air quality conditions in the nation, affected by a variety of pollution sources including wildfires. Although wildfires are part of the regional ecology, recent...
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  Ash.

  Author:Paola BruniFrom:The Southern Review (Vol. 58, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 2022 Poem, Brief article morning after the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, August 2020 We wake to salt-and-pepper air, scorched penumbra of an electrical storm gone rabid. Ash flakes butterfly maple, purple ajuga, and Loropetalum in a vague...
• Select The Wild in Fire: Human Aid to Wildlife in the Disasters of the Anthropocene.

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  The Wild in Fire: Human Aid to Wildlife in the Disasters of the Anthropocene.

  Authors:Andrew Mccumber and Zachary KingFrom:Environmental Values (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 20208,604 words Article 1630LShould you help a wild rabbit fleeing a wall of flame? What is our responsibility to wildlife affected by wildfire? This paper focuses on two cases of ad hoc public aid to wildlife that occurred during California's 2017...
• Select Development and evaluation of habitat suitability models for nesting white-headed woodpecker (Dryobates albolarvatus) in burned forest

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  Development and evaluation of habitat suitability models for nesting white-headed woodpecker (Dryobates albolarvatus) in burned forest

  Authors:Quresh S. Latif, Victoria A. Saab, Jonathan G. Dudley, Amy Markus, Kim Mellen-McLean, and Karen RootFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  May 15, 20208,941 words Report 1590LAuthor(s): Quresh S. Latif 1,*, Victoria A. Saab 1,*, Jonathan G. Dudley 2, Amy Markus 3, Kim Mellen-McLean 4 Introduction Wildfire influences vegetation structure and composition in dry conifer forests of western...
• Select Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017

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  Understanding the variability of Australian fire weather between 1973 and 2017

  Authors:Sarah Harris and Chris LucasFrom:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 19, 201913,109 words Article 1390LAustralian fire weather shows spatiotemporal variability on interannual and multi-decadal time scales. We investigate the climate factors that drive this variability using 39 station-based historical time series of the...
• Select Investigators at Purdue University Report Findings in Earth Science (Water Safety Attitudes, Risk Perception, Experiences, and Education for Households Impacted By the 2018 Camp Fire, California).

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  Investigators at Purdue University Report Findings in Earth Science (Water Safety Attitudes, Risk Perception, Experiences, and Education for Households Impacted By the 2018 Camp Fire, California).

  From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week

  June 19, 2021544 words Article 1470L2021 JUN 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in Science - Earth Science. According to news reporting originating in West...
• Select Direct estimates of biomass burning NO.sub.x emissions and lifetimes using daily observations from TROPOMI.

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  Direct estimates of biomass burning NO.sub.x emissions and lifetimes using daily observations from TROPOMI.

  Authors:Xiaomeng Jin, Qindan Zhu, and Ronald C. CohenFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 20) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 18, 2021288 words Brief article Biomass burning emits an estimated 25 % of global annual nitrogen oxides (NO.sub.x ), an important constituent that participates in the oxidative chemistry of the atmosphere. Estimates of NO.sub.x emission factors,...
• Select APIFLAME v2.0 biomass burning emissions model: impact of refined input parameters on atmospheric concentration in Portugal in summer 2016.

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  APIFLAME v2.0 biomass burning emissions model: impact of refined input parameters on atmospheric concentration in Portugal in summer 2016.

  Authors:Solène Turquety, Laurent Menut, Guillaume Siour, Sylvain Mailler, Juliette Hadji-Lazaro, Maya George, et al.From:Geoscientific Model Development (Vol. 13, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  July 8, 2020535 words Article Biomass burning emissions are a major source of trace gases and aerosols. Wildfires being highly variable in time and space, calculating emissions requires a numerical tool able to estimate fluxes at the kilometer scale...
• Select Exotic deer diminish post-fire resilience of native shrub communities on Santa Catalina Island, southern California

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  Exotic deer diminish post-fire resilience of native shrub communities on Santa Catalina Island, southern California

  Authors:A.R. Ramirez, R.B. Pratt, A.L. Jacobsen, and S.D. DavisFrom:Plant Ecology (Vol. 213, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20126,015 words Author abstract 1420LBrowsing by exotic mule deer on Santa Catalina Island (SCI) off the coast of southern California may diminish the post-fire resilience of native shrublands. To assess this, deer exclosures were established following a...
• Select Health effects of smoke from planned burns: a study protocol

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  Health effects of smoke from planned burns: a study protocol

  Authors:David O'Keeffe, Martine Dennekamp, Lahn Straney, Mahjabeen Mazhar, Tom O'Dwyer, Anjali Haikerwal, et al.From:BMC Public Health (Vol. 16, Issue 185) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 24, 20165,690 words Report 1420LBackground Large populations are exposed to smoke from bushfires and planned burns. Studies investigating the association between bushfire smoke and health have typically used hospital or ambulance data and been done...
• Select Smoke-charged vortices in the stratosphere generated by wildfires and their behaviour in both hemispheres: comparing Australia 2020 to Canada 2017.

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  Smoke-charged vortices in the stratosphere generated by wildfires and their behaviour in both hemispheres: comparing Australia 2020 to Canada 2017.

  Authors:Hugo Lestrelin, Bernard Legras, Aurélien Podglajen, and Mikail SalihogluFrom:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed

  May 10, 2021268 words Brief article The two most intense wildfires of the last decade that took place in Canada in 2017 and Australia in 2019-2020 were followed by large injections of smoke into the stratosphere due to pyro-convection. After the Australian...
• Select Disaster planning is key to patient management during bushfires

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  Disaster planning is key to patient management during bushfires

  From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 23, Issue 52) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 2, 2009254 words Brief article 1110LThe Australian bushfires of February 2009 rank second among the country's disasters. Before this, bushfires in Australia had resulted in 642 recorded deaths, yet little research has been published on bushfires....