Rachel C. Smith

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Rachel C. Smith is a doctoral candidate in Fire Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously a firefighter and EMT for Tulalip Bay Fire Department, Smith has served as a Hotshot with the Union IHC and a Smokejumper with the USFS R-5 Redding Smokejumpers. At 19 and 5'0, Smith was the youngest, smallest woman to succeed in the rigorous Smokejumping program, and only the 72nd female Smokejumper ever.

After graduating from Whitman College in May 2003, Smith received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study wildland fire. Over the subsequent sixteen months, Smith studied wildland fire in nine countries, including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Portugal, Spain, Scotland, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua.

Smith later worked as an expert contractor to work on The Nature Conservancy's Global Fire Assessment. Smith has taught fire technology for Pasadena City College since 2005. Smith has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and symposia, including international presentations in Cuba, Indonesia, Chile, Spain, and Portugal. Smith is presently a PhD candidate at the University of California at Berkeley.

[edit] Presentations

The Global Fire Assessment keynote address presented at the 1st Global Fire Initiative Fire Experts’ Meeting. Berkeley, California. February 2006.
LANDFIRE and the Global Fire Assessment presented at Rapid Assessment Rollout Conference. Memphis, Tennessee. February 2006.
El Gravamen Global del Fuego presented at the Primer Taller Internacional sobre Manejo del Fuego. Pinar del Rio, Cuba. April 2006.
The Global Fire Assessment presented at the 2nd Global Fire Experts’ meeting. Bogor, Indonesia. April 2006.
The Global Fire Assessment presented at the 3rd Global Fire Experts’ meeting. Santiago, Chile. July 2006.
Fire as a Global Conservation Issue presented at the 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. San Diego, California. November 2006.
A Avaliação Global do Fogo presented at the V International Conference on Forest Fire Research. Coimbra, Portugal. November 2006.

[edit] Writing

Smith, R. An International Survey of Wildland Fire: Global Problem, Local Solutions. Thomas J. Watson Foundation, 2004.
Smith, R.C., Shlisky, A., Waugh, J., Stephens, S., Moritz, M., and R. Myers. Fuego Como Edición Global de la Conservación. Conference proceedings, Primer Taller Internacional sobre Manejo del Fuego, 2006.
Smith, R., Shlisky, A., Waugh, J., Stephens, S., and Moritz, M. Fire as a Global Conser-vation Issue. Conference proceedings 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, 2006.
Shlisky, A., Waugh, J., Stephens, S., Moritz, M., Smith, R. and R. Myers. Fire as a Global Conservation Issue: Regional Collaboration Toward Collective Action. Conference proceedings IALE World Congress, 2007.