Understanding Urban-Wildland Interface Fires

Department: 
ESPM
Course Number: 
181B
Course Title: 
Understanding Urban-Wildland Interface Fires
Instructor: 
Beall
Description: 
Covers the basics of how wildfires behave at the interface of homes and wildlands. Included are the interactions between vegetation and structural fires, the relationship of fires with different kinds of biomass, modeling fire behavior given different development and vegetation scenarios, impacts on air quality, and case studies from around the globe.
Units: 
3
Course Type: 
Undergraduate