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How Climate Change Impacts Wildfires

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Episode #6
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As climate change has impacted weather conditions around the world, forests have become increasingly susceptible to wildfires and eventually even people living thousands of miles away could be impacted. Today we hear from ⁠Matthew Hurteau⁠, an expert in forestry and climate change mitigation about what these changes mean not just for those living near the forest, but for everyone in every city or town across the world.

Learn more on ⁠podcast.unm.edu.⁠

About Our Guest(s)

Matthew Hurteau

Matthew Hurteau is a Professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico. His research focuses on the influence of climate and disturbance on forest productivity and species distributions across space and time, as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation in forest ecosystems.

Hosted by UCAM’s Carly Bowling

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Long-time listener, first-time podcaster, Carly Bowling, is a university communication representative in The University of New Mexico’s University Communication and Marketing team (UCAM). She is thrilled to help shed light on the outstanding research work being done at UNM, New Mexico’s only R1 university. In addition to producing IPNRS, she contributes stories and videos to the UNM Newsroom, the University’s official communications platform.

Bowling is a graduate of the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism (’19). Her background includes multimedia journalism, documentary filmmaking, photography and writing. She is passionate about science communication and making academic topics and research accessible and interesting to people from all backgrounds and she hopes you’ll consider subscribing to the show!