Cascadia Wildfire and Urban Smoke Working Group

This informal working group includes researchers, policy experts and technologists addressing issues related to forest fires, forest management (wildland and urban), public health, climate change, city planning, economics, emergency management and ecology.  The group was set up by the Cascadia Innovation Corridor initiative, a program organized by Challenge Seattle, the Business Council of British Columbia, and corporate and academic partners in metro Seattle and metro Vancouver BC.

Since April 2019, our Working Group has held over 110 webinars, recordings of which are all available through this website (see "Webinar Schedule" page) or via this YouTube playlist. We also have held an online symposium, "Wildfire Knows No Borders," with eight speakers, part of the Cascadia Corridor's series of Virtual Forums. 

If you would like to participate in the monthly webinars and other discussions and receive access to recordings and summaries of the webinars, please send an email to jon.fink@pdx.edu.