Kristofer Daum

Research

In my research in the Trugman Lab at UCSB's Geography Department, I seek to explore the ways in which changing climatic baselines, evolving land use patterns, and altered disturbance regimes affect landscape resilience in complex coupled human-natural systems. At present, I am researching how further inclusion of ecohydrological variables in wildfire spread models might improve their accuracy, and how alternative forestry practices might mitigate the risk of catastrophic wildfires in California.