Wildfires Expert Witnesses
Wildfires expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on wildfires. The wildfires expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electricity, Engineering, Forensic Psychiatry, Land Surveying, and Psychiatry.
Christopher Curtis, PLS
Geomatics Engineer
CBC Geospatial Consulting, Inc.
Sacramento, California
Land Surveying, Engineering
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Aerial Photo Analysis, Mapping, Explosions, Fire Origin & Cause Investigations, Forensic Engineering, Geographic Information Systems - GIS, High Definition Surveying (HDS), Highway Sight Distance, 3D Laser Scanning, LiDAR, Geomatics, Photogrammetry, Visibility Studies, Wildfires, Wildland Fires
Mr. Curtis has more than 30 years of experience in land surveying and geomatics engineering. For nearly 20 years, Mr. Curtis has been retained by law firms, insurance companies, the California Office of the Attorney General, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to provide professional surveying and mapping, expert witness, and litigation consultant in civil and criminal matters related to wildfires, wildland fire origin and cause investigations, explosions, highway sight distance incidents, workplace injury, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death.
As a geomatics engineer, Mr. Curtis has provided project delivery support (GPS control, conventional surveying, photogrammetric mapping, raster imaging, landnet boundary resolution, right of way engineering, and GIS) on projects domestically and abroad. Mr. Curtis’ responsibilities include the supervision and direction of production staff and subconsultants on a project/task basis, cost estimating and scoping, collection, processing, and ana...
Tyler E Morrison, M.D., M.A.S.
Adult & Child IME, PTSD, Fire, Wildfires
Morrison Psychiatry
San Diego, California
Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry
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PTSD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, Fire, Wildfires, Adult, Child, Independent Medical Exam, IME, Case Merit Review, Natural Disasters, Malpractice, Psychedelic Therapy, Ketamine, MDMA, Suicide, Competency to Stand Trial, Testamentary Capacity, Undue Influence, Will Contests
Adult and child psychiatrist, double board-certified. Trained at top 4 psychiatry residency. Active clinical practice, treating adults and children. Experienced educator. Leader of forensic rotation, as well as psychopathology course, for UC San Diego’s child psychiatry fellows. Trusted expert witness providing case merit reviews, independent medical evaluations, and testimony. Disaster & Trauma Psychiatry national committee, elected liaison. Text or call 858-224-2537 or click the "Email this expert" button above to reach out. CV available upon request.
Clark Stoner, PE, PLS
Bear Flag Engineering Inc
Sonoma, California
Civil Engineering, Land Surveying
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Civil Engineer, Land Surveyor, Geomatics Engineer, Boundary Disputes, Easements, LiDAR, Laser Scanning, UAV, Drone, Aerial Photogrammetry, Change Detection, Aerial Photo Analysis, Floodplains, Flooding, Hydraulics, Storm Drains, Sanitary Sewers, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Landslides, Wildfires
Clark Stoner has over 25 years of experience in the civil engineering and land surveying fields. His experience ranges from the design, construction and operation of large scale water and wastewater infrastructure facilities to the design and construction of amusement theme parks, subdivisions and residential, commercial and hospitality projects. He also has extensive experience as technical expert in litigation support matters involving massive flooding events, storm drain and sanitary sewer systems, landslides, land subsidence, change detection, code compliance, construction defect, origin and cause investigations, failure analysis, boundary and easement disputes, and standard of care. He has testified as an expert witness in California and Nevada on a range of issues.
Mr. Stoner has also assisted consulting and legal teams to develop the macro perspective on litigation support matters through use of remote sensing techniques, such as aerial and terrestrial LiDAR, 3D laser sca...
B. Michael Aucoin, D.Engr., P.E., PMP-Retired
Electrical Expert, Inc.
College Station, Texas
Electrical Engineering, Electricity
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Electric power, electrical contact injuries, electrocution, fallen power lines, arc flash injuries, fires of electrical origin, wildfires, electric vehicle, EV charger, E-bike fires, patents, intellectual property, equipment and device operation, impact of outages, electric utility taxes
Recipient of awards as individual and member of team. Electrical engineer and highly experienced expert witness. Texas A&M University and Gonzaga University faculty member and former member of University of Maryland faculty. Member of NASA-Johnson Space Center Mishap Investigation Board. Investigator on research projects for NASA, NSF, US Navy, Electric Power Research Institute. Author. Five U.S. patents. Unique experience in improving safety with fallen power lines. Reviewed 200+ cases, many with eight figures at risk, over 30+ years. Testified in dozens of depositions and trials.