Lecture Series Speaker Bios
April 17th 2012 "Understanding The Risk"
Presenters: Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Robert Taylor.
Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Robert Taylor work for the National Park Service Mediterranean Coast
Network, the three National Parks on the southern California coast: Santa
Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Channel Islands National Park
and Cabrillo National Monument. They provide wildland fire and natural
resource protection related to wildfire and mitigating its impacts on pubic
safety and natural resources.
Kathryn is the Network's Fire Chief. She's been a federal wildland fire
fighter for 22 years holding fire positions for the US Forest Service and
National Park Service on wildland fire engines, hotshot and helitak crews.
She is an Operations Section Chief on a Type 1 Interagency Incident
Management Team. She has a BA in Social Science Environmental Emphasis from
SDSU.
Robert is a Biogeographer and Fire Geographic Information System (GIS) Specialist supporting both
Resource Management and Fire programs in GIS, wildfire modelling, data
analysis and education, He has worked for the National Park Service for 11
years, He has a PhD in Geography from UCSB.