Leda N. Kobziar lkobziar@ufl.edu

University of Florida Assistant Professor of Fire Science & Forest Conservation

Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS)

School of Forest Resources and Conservation/ School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE)

208 Newins-Ziegler Hall

PO Box 110410: Gainesville, FL 32611-0410

Professional Preparation

August, 2006 to present: Appointment to University of Florida, Asst. Professor

2006 Ph. D.: Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California at Berkeley

Dissertation Title: “The effects of fire and fuels reduction treatments on fire hazard and soil

carbon respiration in a Sierra Nevada pine plantation”

2000 M. S., Forest Science, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management: University of California at Berkeley

Thesis: “Using a plot-transect method to determine fire history for Boulder, Colorado ponderosa pine forests.”

1996 B.S. and B.A.: The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

Current Grants (award year)

2008 PI -Dendrochronology in the Southeastern US for ecological and validation of historical structures applications

(Ximenez-Fatio Museum, FL; $10,200)

2008 PI -Calibration of the Fine Fuel Moisture Meter for N. American Vegetation, (Wiltronics Inc., AU, $12,000)

2007 PI -Assessing Fuels Treatments in Florida’s Wildland Urban Interface (SNRE; $18,000)

2007 Co-PI -Developing a web-based M.S. program in ecological restoration (USDA Challenge Grant, $442,000)

2006 PI -Fire in the Juniper Prairie Wilderness: Is it a viable tool for ecosystem management? (IFAS, $92,000)

• Assessing Burn Severity Patterns using Ground, Remote Sensing, and Aerial Techniques

• Understory Vegetation Response to Prescribed Burn and Wildfire in a Sand Pine Scrub Ecosystem
• Sand Pine Mortality Patterns: The unexpected gradient between life and death

Publications

Kobziar, L. N., Stephens, S. L., McBride, J. R., (Accepted, in revision; 2007). The efficacy of fuels reduction

treatments in a Sierra Nevada pine plantation. International Journal of Wildland Fire

Kobziar, L. N., 2007. The role of environmental factors and tree injuries in soil carbon respiration

response to fuels treatments in pine plantations. Biogeochemistry 84: 191-206.

Kobziar, L. N., Moghaddas, J., Stephens, S. L., 2006. Tree mortality patterns following prescribed fires in

a mixed conifer forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 3222-3238.

Kobziar, L. N., Stephens, S. L., 2006. The effects of fuels treatments on soil carbon respiration in a Sierra

Nevada pine plantation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 141: 161–178.

Kobziar, L. N., McBride, J. R., 2006. Burn patterns and vegetation response along two northern Sierra

Nevada streams. Forest Ecology and Management 222: 254-265.

Kobziar, L. N., McBride, J. R., Stephens, S. L., (Under revision). Using systematic sampling and

bracketing in a fire history study for Colorado's Front Range ponderosa pine forests. Forest Ecology and

Management

Kobziar, L. N., 2008. (In preparation). Wildfire and salvage logging severity impact soil carbon respiration patterns.

Fire Ecology.

Kobziar, L. N., 2008 (In preparation). Sand Pine Mortality Patterns: The unexpected gradient between life and death.

Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

Lyons-Tinsely, T. and Kobziar, L. N., 2008 (In preparation) Tree mortality and bark beetle infestations following fuels

treatments in Sierra Nevada pine plantations. Forest Ecology and Management.

Kobziar, L. N. et al. 2008 (In preparation) Challenges to Educating the Next Generation of Fire Ecologists. Fire

Ecology.

Other Papers and Presentations

Godwin, D. R., Kobziar, L. N. 2007. Fire Management in the Wildland Urban Interface: How American,

Australian, and Canadian programs are hitting home. Wildfire Lessons Learned Center, available online at:

http://www.wildfirelessons.net/Home.aspx

Invited Papaer, 2007. “Different species, different patterns: The predictors of first-order fire mortality in seven

trees of the Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest.” Special Session on Tree Mortality; Second Fire Behavior

and Fuels Conference, Destin, FL, March 26-30, 2007.

Paper, 2007. “How to keep plantations from burning: The efficacy of fuels reduction treatments in a Sierra

Nevada pine plantation.” Second Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, Destin, FL, March 26-30, 2007.

Invited Paper, 2006. “Tree mortality patterns following replicated prescribed fires in a mixed conifer forest.”

Special Session on National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study; Third International Fire Ecology and Management

Congress, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2006.

Paper, 2006. “Soil carbon respiration response to fuels treatments and prescribed burning in Sierra Nevada

pine plantations.” Third International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2006.

Invited Presentation, 2006. “Management Implications of Fire Hazard Reduction Prescriptions in Pine Plantations”,

Forest Leadership Team Meeting, Sept. 21, 2006. USDA Forest Service District Office, Sonora, CA.

Report, “Fire Hazard Reduction in Ponderosa Pine Plantations.” Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program,

June, 2006. Co-Principle Investigators: Scott Stephens, John Swanson, Ken Blonski, John Shelly.

Poster, “Burn Patterns and Vegetation Response along two Northern Sierra Streams.” Sierra

Nevada Science Symposium, November, 2002.

Courses Taught, University of Florida, 2006-2008

Introduction to Forest Resources and Conservation

Fire Modeling

Fire in Natural Resource Management

Fire Ecology and Management

Principles of Natural Resource Management (guest lecturer)

Academic Service, University of Florida

• Undergraduate Programs Committee Member

• Association for Fire Ecology, Board of Directors
• Association for Fire Ecology Education Committee Member
• Faculty Advisor: Florida Chapter, Student Association for Fire Ecology; 5 MS/ 2 PhD Graduate Students
• Reviewer: Canadian Journal of Forest Research, International Journal of Wildland Fire,

Forest Ecology and Management, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Forestry, Southern Journal of Applied Forestry,

Tahoe Science Consortium, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium

Professional Membership

Xi Sigma Phi, the Forestry Honor Society (member since 1999)

Society of American Foresters (SAF)

Association for Fire Ecology (AFE)

North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Association for Women in Science (AWIS)

North Florida Prescribed Fire Council