Potomac Institute for Policy Studies901 N. Stuart Street, Suite 200Arlington, VA 22203(Printable Agenda)

Tuesday - October 24, 2017

Time

Topic/Title

Speaker

08:30

SERDP/ESTCP Welcome and Updates

Dr. Kurt Preston, RC Program Manager

08:45

RC-2651: Ignition, Propagation, and Emissions of Smoldering Combustion: Experimental Analysis and Physics Based Modelling

Dr. David Blunck, Oregon State University

09:30

RC-2643: Improving Parameterization of Combustion Processes in Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Models through Infrared Remote Sensing

Dr. Scott Goodrick, USDA Forest Service

10:15

Break 

 

10:30

RC-2642: Examination of Wildland Fire Spread at Small Scales Using Direct Numerical Simulations and Frequency Comb Laser Diagnostics

Dr. Peter Hamlington, University of Colorado, Boulder

11:15

RC-2641: Multi-scale Analyses of Wildland Fire Combustion Processes in Open-canopied Forests using Coupled and Iteratively Informed Laboratory-, Field-, and Model-based Approaches

Dr. Nicholas Skowronski, USDA Forest Service

12:00 

Working Lunch - TC Meet with Resource Conservation & Resiliency Manager

13:00

RC-2640: Fundamental Measurements and Modeling of Prescribed Fire Behavior in the Naturally Heterogeneous Fuel Beds of Southern Pine Forests

Dr. David Weise, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station

13:45

RC-201303: Using a Computational Fluid Dynamic Model to Guide Wildland Fire Management

Mr. James Furman, Air Force Wildland Fire Center, AFCEC/CZO

14:30

TC Meet with Resource Conservation & Resiliency Program Manager

16:00

Adjourn

Wednesday - October 25, 2017

Time

Topic/Title

Speaker

08:30

RC-2650: Assessing the Impacts of Climate and Land Use/Land Cover

Dr. Vicken Etyemezian, Desert Research Institute

09:15

RC-2639: The Role of Phenology and Phenology Change in the Transmission of Arthropod-Borne Diseases: Implications for Management on Military Lands

Dr. Sharon Anne Bewick, University of Maryland, College Park

10:00

Break

 

10:15

RC-2638: Effects of Climate on Host-pathogen Interactions in Chytridiomycosis

Dr. Corinne Richards-Zawacki, University of Pittsburgh

11:00

RC-2637: Understanding Climatic Controls of Blacklegged Ticks and Lyme Disease: Experiments and Models to Quantify Risk in a Changing Climate

Dr. Richard Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

11:45

Working Lunch - TC Meet with Resource Conservation & Resiliency Manager

12:45

RC-2636: Climate Changes Impacts on Fire Regimes, Plant Invasions, and Tick-Borne Diseases

Dr. Brian Frederick Allan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

13:30

RC-2635: Leptospirosis in Endangered Island Foxes and California Sea Lions: Outbreak Prediction and Prevention in a Changing World

Dr. James Lloyd-Smith, University of California Los Angeles

14:15

Break

14:30

RC-2634: Effects of Climate Change on Plague Exposure Pathways and Resulting Disease Dynamics

Dr. Tonie E Rocke, USGS, National Wildlife Health Center

15:15

RC-2633: Assessing White-nose Syndrome And Non-Stationary Changes On Bat Populations On And Near DoD Installations In The West

Dr. Sarah H Olson, Wildlife, Conservation Society

16:00

TC Meet with Resource Conservation & Resiliency Program Manager

17:00

Adjourn

Thursday - October 26, 2017

Time

Topic/Title

08:30

RC-201576-T2: An Online Resource Center for Supporting the Application of Environmental DNA Technology 

Dr. Katherine Strickler,  Washington State University 

09:15

RC-2245: DCERP Outbrief

Dr. Patricia A. Cunningham, RTI International

12:15

Working Lunch/TC Meet with RCR Program Manager

13:00

RC-201416: Pulverized Paper as a Soil Carbon Source for Degraded Training Lands 

Ryan Busby, ERDC-CERL

13:45

RC-201415: Improving Safety and Economics Using Switchgrass on Military Airfields 

Travis DeVault, USDA APHIS WS NWRC

14:30

TC Meet with RCR Program Manager

15:30

Adjourn