Modeling the effects of fire and vegetation management on flooding and sediment transport in an urban stream system

This will be a poster presentation on the use of a hydrologic and hydraulic model to improve our understanding and prediction of flooding and sedimentation processes within urban areas prone to invasive grass-fire feedback cycles. Participants will learn the nature of urban grass-fire feedback cycles and the geomorphological landscape changes and responses of a highly disturbed urban riparian system. This work builds upon our current knowledge of wildfire and recovery processes, which can be utilized by local resource managers and engineers to inform and optimize management decisions in urban riverine environments prone to invasive-initiated fires.