Exploring Wildfire with The Conversation

About this event

Boise State faculty, staff, students and community members are invited to learn about how changing wildfire weather and hydroclimate conditions are affecting the risk and ability of firefighters to do their jobs from regional experts at “Exploring Wildfire with The Conversation.”

This panel event, moderated by editor Stacy Morford from the international publishing venue The Conversation, will be hosted from noon to 1:15 p.m. on Dec. 2, 2026, at The Incubator on the second floor of Albertsons Library.

Free lunch will be served, and registration is required.

Panelists include:

• Jennifer Pierce, professor in the Department of Geosciences

• Nick Nauslar, Fire Science and Operations Officer of the National Weather Service Fire Testbed

• Stephen Philmore, Senior Director of Fire Programs at BurnBot

• Aaron Hummel, Fire Chief of the Boise Fire Department

• Alejandro Flores, professor in the Department of Geosciences

In collaboration with The Conversation U.S, this event is hosted by the Boise State University School of the Environment, the Division of Research and Economic Development, and supported by Boise State’s TRANSFORM project: a four-year, $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Accelerating Research Translation (ART) program.