2012 Southwest Wildfire Hydrology and Hazards Workshop

You are invited to the 2012 Southwest Wildfire Hydrology and Hazards Workshop, to be held at Biosphere 2 in the stunning foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of Tucson, AZ on April 2 - 5, 2012.

This workshop is organized by the USGS, AZGS, NOAA-NWS, ADWR, USFS, UA, and the USDA.

In recent years, wildfire has been an increasingly common and increasingly destructive phenomenon in the Southwestern United States. Wildfires can damage ecosystems, cause severe flooding and erosion, and affect humans in a variety of ways. Wildfires occur across private and public lands that are managed by a large number of stakeholders, including a number of government agencies. Because of the negative effects on both natural landscapes and human infrastructure, many researchers respond to wildfires to assess damage, provide hazard warning, attempt to mitigate hazards, and to study the wide-ranging effects of fire.

In anticipation of future wildfires, this workshop will serve to bring together researchers from multiple government agencies, academic researchers, and other interested parties to disuss the state of post-wildfire research, to disseminate recent advances in post-fire agency and academic response, and to coordinate response to future wildfires in the Southwest.