Stacy Drury is currently a fire ecologist with the Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science program at the Missoula Fire Lab. He received his BS in Terrestrial Ecology from Western Washington University. Later he completed his MS at Wright State University in Biological Sciences where he studied Oak/Maple succession in response to land use changes. Stacy received his PhD in biogeography from the University of Colorado Boulder where he studied fire history and plant distributions in Mexican pine-oak ecosystems.

Stacy has been studying plant ecology and plant responses to fire since 1992. He is familiar with many forest types in North America having conducted research projects in the western US, Alaska, and Ohio’s Allegheny Plateau. He also has international experience having worked in Mexico and Brazil. He is currently interested in everything to do with the spatial and temporal effects of fire on forests.

Current Projects:

• Validation of the FIREHARM model.
• Validation of the TREELIST spatially explicit data layer.
• Validation of the Change in Departure (CID) model.
• Data layer creation for the Ecosystem Management Decision Support System (EMDS).

Publications:

Drury, S. A  and T.T. Veblen. online Nov 21 2007. Spatial and temporal variability in fire occurrence within the Las Bayas Forestry Reserve, Durango, Mexico. Plant Ecology. DOI 10.1007/s11258-007-9379-5

Drury, S.A. and J.R. Runkle. 2006. Forest vegetation change in southeast Ohio: Do older forests serve as useful models for predicting the successional trajectory of future forests? Forest Ecology and Management. 223: 200-210.

Drury, S.A. and P.G. Grissom. Fire history and management implications in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, interior Alaska. In press: Forest Ecology and Management.