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(letter from the organizers with more details to come)
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The annual Yosemite Hydroclimate Meeting is scheduled for Oct. 13 - 14, 2022. We are planning of an in-person meeting in the Yosemite Auditorium, but there is always a chance of virtual....hoping not. This workshop is an excellent opportunity to describe your work in Yosemite National Park as well as the greater Sierra Nevada region. Fire, smoke, and drought seem to be omnipresent with the Red and Oak fires, so the suggested conference theme is "Research and resource management to address the double hit from drought and fire.” How do we respond to this new regime, as researchers, ecosystem monitors, and managers?
After a third exceedingly dry year and unusual summer weather patterns, extreme fire behavior and risks associated with firefighting have changed in dangerous ways. Recent winters have showed what warm winters look like – intense rain at higher elevations and more rain than snow for part of the winter, leading to shifts in storm flows and seasonal runoff patterns. Also, in honor of the passing of Jan Van Wagtendonk, and his seminal work on fire in Yosemite, retrospectives or remembrances are welcome and will comprise a special session. Jan was a regular attendee, and a major voice of the use of fire. However, as usual, the conference is a forum to present a broad range of waterand climate-related topics from meteorology to mammal and bird population trends. If you would like to contribute a talk, please send us a title and a 250-word abstract summarizing your presentation by September 2. As in the past, most of the talks will be scheduled for 20 min. and additional time for will be allocated for discussion (questions, research or management implications) at the end of some talks, or at the end of the session. We will attempt to accommodate requests for additional time or pairing of talks, as feasible.
As we did last year, the first 60 minutes on Friday afternoon will be allocated to a roundtable discussing updates and changes to instruments and monitoring networks led by Park and other agency staff. The focus will be on keeping Park staff informed, allowing us to share resources and opportunities, and focus our thinking, interpretations, and research goals. A preliminary agenda for the conference will be distributed by Sept. 30. Please contact any of us if you have any questions or suggestions. Please let us know whether or not you plan to attend at your earliest convenience, and start thinking about that abstract!
Cheers
Bruce, Mike, and Adrian
Bruce McGurk, brucemcgurk@comcast.net, 925-698-4683
Mike Dettinger, mddettinger@gmail.com, 619-368-2896
