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Member Since 2009
John T. Abatzoglou
Professor, University of California Merced
Professional Experience
University of California Merced
Professor
2020 - Present
University of Idaho
Assistant/Associate Professor
2009 - 2020
San Jose State University
Assistant Professor
2008 - 2009
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Education
University of California Irvine
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2024
Publications
Predictive Understanding of Links Between Vegetation and Soil Burn Severities Using Physics‐Informed...

Burn severity is fundamental to post‐fire impact assessment and emergency response. Vegetation Burn Severity (VBS) can be derived from satell...

August 13, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Converging on the Climate Driven Wildfire Risks of the Wildland Urban Interface
ACTIONABLE CLIMATE SCIENCE: BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS III ELIGHTNING
union sessions | 15 december 2023
Alison Kessenich, Melissa S. Bukovsky, Seth A. McG...
The wildland urban interface (WUI), defined as the geography where houses either intermingle or sit within a certain distance of wildland vegetation, ...
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Evaluating a hydrology model’s ability to simulate snow processes and identifying avenues for improvement
QUANTIFYING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF SNOW AND SNOW PROCESSES II POSTER
cryosphere | 15 december 2023
Bhupinderjeet Singh, Kirti Rajagopalan, Jennifer C...
Snow magnitude and timing are crucial inputs for water supply projections in snow-dominant watersheds. Hydrology models are a commonly used tool for t...
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Drivers of Recent Extreme Regional-to-Continental Fire Seasons
COMPOUND, CONSECUTIVE, AND CASCADING EVENTS: CHALLENGES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF MULTIHAZARDS II ORAL
natural hazards | 15 december 2023
John T. Abatzoglou, Crystal Kolden, Matthew W. Jon...
In the past decade, several regions across the globe have experienced devastating fire seasons with fire attributes unparalleled in the modern era. Th...
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