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The WRI products to date are many, and can be found below.

Data, maps and analytics
Publications

2024

  • Pludow, A. B. "Considerations of space for prioritizing wildfire risk reductions in the wildland-urban interface." Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Geography, UCSB.
  • Baik, J., & A.T. Murray. “Location analytics to support wildfire response prepositioning.” 2024 Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (https://hdl.handle.net/10125/107069).

2023

  • Murray, A. T.,Baik, J., Echeverri, V., Rini, D., Moritz, M. A.,  Roberts, M. A., Sweeney, S. H., Carvalho, L.M.V.  & Jones, C. “Developing effective wildfire risk mitigation plans for the wildland urban interface.” International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 124, 103531.
  • Arabadjis, S., Sweeney, S., Kenner, C., & Tedesco, D. (2023). “Wildfire, evacuation, and cardiovascular events: a spatial exposure approach." Applied Geography, 159, 103033.
  • Pludow, B. A., Murray, A. T., Echeverri, V., & Church, R. L. (2023). “Evaluation of forest treatment planning considering multiple objectives.” Journal of Environmental Management, 346, 118997.
  • Thompson, C. F., Jones, C., Carvalho, L., Trugman, A. T., Lucas, D. D., Seto, D., & Varga, K. (2023). Autumn surface wind trends over California during 1979–2020. Climate, 11(10), 207.
  • de Orla-Barile, M. (2023). “Observing mountain waves and impacts on surface winds over the Eastern Santa Ynez Mountains in Santa Barbara, CA, during the sundowner winds experiment (SWEX): a case study.” Master’s thesis, Department of Geography, UCSB.

2022

  • Park, I., Fauss, K., & Moritz, M. A. (2022). Forecasting Live Fuel Moisture of Adenostema fasciculatum and Its Relationship to Regional Wildfire Dynamics across Southern California Shrublands. Fire, 5(4), 110.
  • Zigner, K., Carvalho, L.M., Jones, C., Benoit, J., Duine, G.J., Roberts, D., Fujioka, F., Moritz, M., Elmquist, N., & Hazard, R., (2022). Wildfire risk in the complex terrain of the Santa Barbara wildland–urban interface during extreme winds. Fire, 5(5), 138.
Presentations

2024

  • Z. Zheng, A.T. Murray, S.D. Arabadjis and S.H. Sweeney. “A missing dimension in social vulnerability assessment: dynamics of unsheltered homeless population.” All-UC Demography Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA, May 16-17, 2024.
  • V.E. Figueroa and A.T. Murray. “Enhancing wildfire preparedness: integrating socioeconomic factors in strategic hydrant placement.” 2024 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 16-20, 2024.
  • Baik, J. and A.T. Murray. “Location analytics to support wildfire response prepositioning.” 2024 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January 3-6, 2024.

2023

  • de Orla-Barile, M., L. Carvalho, G.-J. Duine, S. De Wekker, J. Fernando, C. Jones, W. Brown, G. Modjeski, E. Gonzalez, C. Thompson, D. Seto and S. Oncley. "Observing mountain waves and impact on surface winds over the Eastern Santa Ynez Mountains in Santa Barbara, CA during the Sundowner winds experiment: a case study." American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 11-15, 2023.
  • Baik, J. and A.T. Murray. “Enhancing strategic positioning through interactive viewshed-based coverage optimization.” 70th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, San Diego, California, USA, November 14-18, 2023.
  • Echeverri Figueroa, V., A.T. Murray, R. Pupa, J. Baik and D. Rini. “Hydrant coverage analysis and assessment as critical infrastructure to support structure fire and wildfire response.” 70th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, San Diego, California, USA, November 14-18, 2023
  • Celebrezze, J., Boving, I., and Moritz, M. "Relationships between live fuel moisture, water potential, and tissue level flammability: the impact of species’ turgor loss point." 2023 Annual Ecological Society of America Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA, August 6-11, 2023.
  • Murray, A.T., J. Baik, V. Echeverri and D. Rini. “Location modeling to mitigate wildfire risk.” International Symposium on Locational Decisions (ISOLDE) XVI and EWGLA XXVIII, Kaiserslautern and Baden-Baden, Germany, June 25-30, 2023
  • Carvalho, L., Jones, C., and Duine, G-J., "The Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX): unveiling the secrets of the most relevant fire weather regime in Santa Barbara, CA." Sedgwick Reserve Research Symposium,  April 8, 2023
  • Echeverri, V., A.T. Murray and R.L. Church. “Land acquisition, contiguity, and compactness.” 2023 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA, March 23-27, 2023
  • Pludow, A., A.T. Murray, V. Echeverri and R.L. Church. “Evaluation of forest treatment planning considering multiple objectives.” Western Regional Science Association 62nd Annual Meeting, Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, USA, February 15-18, 2023.

2022

  • Carvalho, L., Jones, C., Duine, G-J., Clements C., DeWekker, S., Fernando, J. Fitzjarrald, D., Fovell, R., Wang, Z., Downslope Windstorms in Coastal Environments and Interactions with the Continental and Marine Boundary Layers. American Geophysical Union, Chicago, Illinois, USA, December 12-16, 2022.
  • Echeverri Figueroa, V., A.T. Murray and R.L. Church. “Assessing computational performance in land allocation problems with contiguity requirements.” 69th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 9-12, 2022.
  • Pludow, B.A., A.T. Murray, V. Echeverri Figueroa and R.L. Church. “Evaluation of a forest treatment planning heuristic for multiple objective problems.” 69th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 9-12, 2022.
  • Carvalho, L., The importance of the Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX) for fire weather prediction. Invited Talk, FIRESCOPE Predictive Services Committee meeting, Solvang, California, USA, November 9, 2022.
  • Roberts, D.A., Kibler, C., McMahon C., A general framework for identifying the impact of vegetation disturbance using Landsat Timeseries in Santa Barbara County, California. Invited talk at the 2022 California Native Plant Society Conference, San Jose California, October 20-22, 2022.
  • Murray, A.T. “Spatio-Temporal Resilience Assessment and Planning.” UW-Seattle Workshop on Spatiotemporal Computing Roadmap, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. August 18-19, 2022.
  • Murray, A.T. “GIScience in extreme wildfire mitigation through targeted fuels treatment.” Department of Geography and Resource Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. May 3, 2022.
  • Park, I., K. Fauss, & M. A. Moritz. “Modeling live fuel moisture and impacts on wildfire across southern California shrublands.” International Association for Landscape Ecologists - North American Chapter 2022 Annual Meeting", Riverside, USA, March 11-13, 2022.