Mapping recovery in the Thomas Fire Scar - Powered by Anecdata.org

Josephine Lesage; Denise Knapp; Jane Disney; Cait Bailey; Ashley Taylor; Alexis Garretson

doi:10.15468/nq3788

Mapping recovery in the Thomas Fire Scar - Powered by Anecdata.org

Citation

John, Lesage J, Knapp D, Anecdata.org Contributors, Disney J, Bailey C, Taylor A, Garretson A (2022). Mapping recovery in the Thomas Fire Scar - Powered by Anecdata.org. Version 1.2. The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/nq3788 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

Fire Recovery & Community Science Help the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Conservation Biology Institute map the recovery of our local wildlands and trails following the Thomas and Whittier Fires! This project tracks the observations made by volunteer botanists hiking along trails in the Los Padres National Forest, to help determine priority conservation and restoration areas. Community Scientists will use this Anecdata project to map trail conditions, areas at risk of erosion, and plant invasion by logging photos and data while hiking trails in the Los Padres National Forest. This data will eventually inform recovery and restoration actions by providing land managers with critical field data from the scars. Wildfires in California are becoming increasingly large and more frequent, and Santa Barbara and Ventura counties have been hit hard by three of the state’s 15 largest recorded fires in the past 20 years. The largest on local record and second largest in the State’s history, the Thomas Fire of December 2017, occurred well outside the typical fire season, graphically demonstrating that changing climate and ground conditions can contribute to shifting and potentially more intense fire patterns. These shifting patterns and conditions are also contributing to changes in how the land recovers from such large-scale fires, resulting in the need for greater human intervention, but such intervention, requires specific knowledge about on-the-ground conditions that is currently lacking. This community science project will provide the necessary baseline assessment of the vegetative recovery in the Thomas and Whittier burn scars and will create an integrated software suite and methodology for including Community Scientists in the data collection process.

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Thomas Fire Scar, California, United States

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Contacts

John
originator
position: Project Administrator
Anecdata.org
homepage: https://anecdata.org/user/earthdoc/

Josephine Lesage
originator
position: Project Administrator
Anecdata.org
homepage: https://anecdata.org/user/CastillejaJosie/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6264-101X

Denise Knapp
originator
position: Project Administrator
Anecdata.org
homepage: https://anecdata.org/user/GardenLorax/

Anecdata.org Contributors
originator
position: Data Contributors
Anecdata.org
homepage: https://anecdata.org/

Jane Disney
originator
position: Associate Professor of Environmental Health
MDI Biological Laboratory
159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
04609
ME
US
email: jdisney@mdibl.org
homepage: https://mdibl.org/faculty/jane-e-disney-ph-d/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4869-9802

Cait Bailey
originator
position: Systems Developer
MDI Biological Laboratory
159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
04609
ME
US
email: cait@mdibl.org

Ashley Taylor
originator
position: Community Manager
MDI Biological Laboratory
159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
04609
ME
US
email: ataylor@mdibl.org

Alexis Garretson
originator
position: Community Environmental Health Laboratory Manager
MDI Biological Laboratory
159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
04609
ME
US
email: agarretson@mdibl.org
homepage: https://alexis-catherine.github.io/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7260-0131

Alexis Garretson
metadata author
position: Community Environmental Health Laboratory Manager
MDI Biological Laboratory
159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
04609
ME
US
email: agarretson@mdibl.org
homepage: https://alexis-catherine.github.io/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7260-0131

Alexis Garretson
user
position: Community Environmental Health Laboratory Manager
MDI Biological Laboratory
159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
04609
ME
US
email: agarretson@mdibl.org
homepage: https://alexis-catherine.github.io/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7260-0131

Alexis Garretson
administrative point of contact
position: Community Environmental Health Laboratory Manager
MDI Biological Laboratory
159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
04609
ME
US
email: agarretson@mdibl.org
homepage: https://alexis-catherine.github.io/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7260-0131

Jane Disney
administrative point of contact
position: Associate Professor of Environmental Health
MDI Biological Laboratory
159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
04609
ME
US
email: jdisney@mdibl.org
homepage: https://mdibl.org/faculty/jane-e-disney-ph-d/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4869-9802

Cait Bailey
administrative point of contact
position: Systems Developer
MDI Biological Laboratory
159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
04609
ME
US
email: cait@mdibl.org

Ashley Taylor
administrative point of contact
position: Community Manager
Anecdata.org
email: ataylor@mdibl.org

Anecdata.org
administrative point of contact
Anecdata.org
email: anecdata@mdibl.org
homepage: https://www.anecdata.org

Community Environmental Health Laboratory
administrative point of contact
position: Community Environmental Health Laboratory
MDI Biological Laboratory
159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
Bar Harbor
04609
ME
US
email: CEHL@mdibl.org
homepage: https://mdibl.org/faculty/jane-e-disney-ph-d/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4869-9802