Portland State University and the University of British Columbia

2026-2027 Cascadia Wildfire and urban smoke webinar series

The seventh year of the Cascadia Wildfire and Urban Smoke webinar series will include a diverse set of speakers and panels discussing critical research and policy issues related to the growing threat of wildfire. We continue to feature investigators funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Wildfire Resilience Initiative.

All sessions are held Wednesdays at 1pm Pacific Time on Zoom. Video recordings of previous years’ webinars are available at: https://research.ubc.ca/cascadia-wildfire-urban-smoke

February 17, 2027: Cross-Sector Collaboration at the Wildfire-Energy-Community Interface in Alaska

Presenter: Claire Richards, Washington State University

The interdependency among electric utilities, emergency management, and public health sectors in Alaska highlights the need to shift from reactive disaster response to proactive, cross-sector planning for compounding wildfire and power outage hazards.