Talk with a Fire Scientist 

Details:

Join our Fire Scientist, Kristina Fauss, Ph.D., for an engaging look at how wildfire behaves and what we can do to reduce risk at home and in our communities. Learn how home hardening, defensible space, and community-scale planning work together to improve wildfire resilience. You’ll also explore the role of plant flammability in fire behavior and discover practical steps you can take to help protect your home. Through this interactive talk, you’ll gain insight into the research and partnerships that help communities better prepare for and adapt to wildfire. This event will be held both in person and virtually.

Pricing:

Virtual Attendance: Free

General Public: $15

Garden Members or Students with a Valid ID: $10

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About Kristina Fauss

Kristina Fauss, Ph.D. studies the relationships between people, nature, and technology to better understand and support resilient human-environment systems. She earned her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2026 after beginning her career in civil engineering and applying systems thinking to environmental challenges. Her research focuses on wildfire science across multiple scales, from laboratory combustion experiments to geospatial fire hazard analysis and fire movement modeling. By combining fieldwork, experiments, remote sensing, and computational modeling, she works to improve our understanding of wildfire behavior and inform effective approaches to hazard mitigation and ecosystem resilience. As a Fire Scientist at the Garden, Kristina is excited to advance collaborative research that connects science with conservation and land stewardship.

Refund Policy:

We require at least 72 hours’ notice for cancellations. Refunds will be issued to the original form of payment, minus a 15% processing fee. Cancellations made within 72 hours of the class start time are nonrefundable and cannot be rescheduled.