Exploring Effective Mitigation Measures and Drivers of Structure Loss in California’s WUI

Hosted by Michael J. Gollner, Associate Professor and Deb Faculty Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

In this talk, Dr. Michael Gollner will give an overview of the pathways to fire spread in the WUI, including embers, direct flame contact, and radiation. We will explore the mitigation measures available, such as home hardening and defensible space, and the evidence justifying these practices to reduce structure losses.

Dr. Michael Gollner is an Associate Professor, Deb Faculty Fellow and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously an Associate Professor of Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD from 2012-2019. Dr. Gollner studies how fires ignite and spread within the wildland-urban interface (WUI), the physics and dynamics of wildland fire spread, the processes by which structures ignite from embers, and emissions and associated health effects from wildfire smoke.

Organized by the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District in California, registration available online: https://ccrcd.org/#calendar-621e0c1f-8bea-4980-90c8-e575b7612dae-event-8dd91330-d6fe-475d-8a72-c4c055380696