Frank C. Beall
Professor
of environmental science, policy and management.
Office phone: (510) 215-4233
E-mail: fbeall@ucop.edu
Areas of
expertise: Evaluation of housing and nearby vegetation for vulnerability to
fires in the urban-wildland interface and the identification of possible
mitigation.
Steven Finacom
UC Berkeley staff member and
longtime campus historian
Office phone: (510) 643-9936
E-mail: sfinacom@cp.berkeley.edu
Areas of
expertise: UC Berkeley history and 1923 Berkeley wildfire that left 1,000
students homeless and turned Stephens Hall into an emergency relief
center.
Tom Klatt
Director, emergency planning and
communications for UC Police Department. UC Berkeley representative on the Hills
Emergency Forum, a consortium created to lead and facilitate fire prevention,
suppression and emergency planning.
Office phone: (510) 642-1258
E-mail:
tklatt@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Areas of expertise: Project identification, planning, and design for
wildland fuel modification efforts. Interagency planning and relations for
cooperative planning and management of fire mitigation projects.
David Mandel
Instructor, UC Berkeley Extension landscape
architecture program. UC Berkeley environmental and long-range planner for
campus hill area. UC Berkeley liaison for the Hills Emergency Forum.
Office
phone: (510) 643-0694
Cell phone: (415) 706-1422
E-mail: dmandel@cp.berkeley.edu
Areas of
expertise: Physical and environmental planning and design, stream channel
protection, landscape design, protected species and critical habitats,
regulatory issues.
John Radke
Associate professor of landscape
architecture, director of the Geographic Information Sciences Center
Office
phone: (510) 643-5995
E-mail: ratt@gisc.berkeley.edu
Areas of
expertise: Principal investigator for research team that developed an "East Bay
Hills Fire Hazard" CD that enables residents to type home addresses into a
database for an instant look at their neighborhood's relative fire risk and ways
to improve fire safety. The project distributed about 1,000 free CDs to the
public. Radke and some students recently completed a study of fire conditions in
Claremont Canyon.
Scott L. Stephens
Assistant professor of
fire science
Office phone: (510) 642-7304
E-mail: stephens@nature.berkeley.edu
Areas of expertise: Interactions of wildland fire and ecosystems, including
how prehistoric fires once interacted with ecosystems, how current wildland
fires are affecting ecosystems, and how future fires and management may change
this interaction. Stephens is sponsoring a fire seminar series at UC Berkeley's
Mulford Hall this fall on Thursday afternoons. Open to the campus and community,
it will cover diverse areas in wildland fire including fire history, fire
behavior, urban-wildland intermix, fire and freshwater aquatics. For more
information about his research, see his Web site at: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/grad/html/faculty_html/stephens.html
Carroll
B. Williams
Adjunct professor of forest science
Office phone: (510)
642-8092
E-mail: cbw88@nature.berkeley.edu
Areas
of expertise: Forest health. Studies interactions between disturbances caused by
fire, insects, pathogens, humans and other natural forces, as well as their
impacts on the structure and dynamics of forests and the urban-wildland
interface.
R. Brady Williamson
Professor of civil and
environmental engineering
Office phone: (510) 642-5308
E-mail: williamson@ce.berkeley.edu or bradywil@firstworld.net
Areas of
expertise: Fire safety engineering, fire behavior, fire modeling, fire
interaction with materials, structure and properties of materials.