Dar Roberts

Dar Roberts is a Professor in the Department of Geography at UC Santa Barbara. He joined UCSB in 1994, serving as Vice Chair of the department from 2006 to 2008 and departmental chair from 2009 to 2014. One of his primary research interests is remote sensing of wildfire. At UCSB this research has evolved, initially focusing on pre-fire fuels (fuel type mapping, live fuel moisture) starting in 1994, transitioning to fire hazard (combined remote sensing and meteorology), active fire mapping (fire temperature and area), fire severity assessment, and  most recently post-fire recovery. He has published close to 50 journal articles related to wildfire. He acts as chair for the organizing committee of the lecture series.