Max Moritz is a statewide wildfire specialist within UC Cooperative Extension. Much of his research is focused on understanding the dynamics of fire regimes at relatively broad scales and
applying this information to planning and management of fire-prone landscapes and community development. He has used a number of different spatial approaches to quantitative analyses of fire history patterns, stemming from his early work on chaparral shrublands in the Santa Barbara region. Max is leading the Santa Barbara South Coast Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program (RWMP) which demonstrates novel approaches to wildfire mitigation that employs nature-based planning solutions.