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Title: Historical role of fire and land management in the Klamath Mountains, California
Lecture: ARF Brownbag | April 6 | 12:10-1 p.m. | Virtual event
Speaker: Clarke Knight, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/clarke-knight
Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Clarke Knight discusses her most recent paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Knight, along with co-authors from the Karuk and Yurok Tribes, found strong Indigenous influence on forest conditions in the Klamath Mountains over the last millennium. As restoration ecologists debate management actions for California forests, this research suggests a large-scale intervention would be needed to return to historic forest biomass levels.
Bio: Dr. Clarke Knight is a paleo ecosystem scientist and a postdoctoral scholar at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Currently, Clarke's research at USGS is focused on the production of well-dated, high-resolution reconstructions of past climate to understand climate variability in western North America, particularly extreme hydrologic events. Before starting her postdoctoral position, Clarke completed her PhD at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. She also earned degrees from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and Smith College.