 Research Forester |
- Landscape planning
- Operations Research
- Forest Restoration
- Forest landscape modeling and scenario planning
- Restoration of fire adapted systems
- Socioecological aspects of wildfire risk governance
- Transboundary risk assessment
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 Research Mechanical Engineer |
- Quantifying Energy Transport
- Surface Wind Modeling in Support of Fire Management
- Improving Firefighter Safety
- Fire-Induced Effects
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 Latest Research on Estimating Safety Zones |
 Research Forester |
- fire spread in deep and discontinuous fuel beds
- fire simulation for purposes of fire risk assessment
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Meet Dr. Mark Finney, Research Forester |
 Supervisory Research Chemist |
- spatial distribution of daily emissions of atmospheric pollutants and greenhouse gases
- comparing fire emission sources with industrial sources of greenhouse gases and air pollutants
- quantify atmospheric pollutant concentrations downwind from large fires.
- smoke plume dynamics and optical properties of smoke particles
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Meet Dr. WeiMin Hao, Research Chemist |
 Research Forester |
- Multicentury fire history from tree rings in western North America
- Climate and topographic drivers of historical fire regimes across landscapes
- Climate drivers of historical regional-fire years
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 Research Ecologist |
- Fire-induced tree mortality
- Ecological effects of fuel treatments
- Disturbance interactions and ecosystem resilience
- Eco-physiology and tree defenses
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Meet Dr. Sharon Hood, Research Ecologist |
 Ecologist |
- Seasonal variations in live fuel composition and flammability
- Live fuel contributions to wildland fire behavior
- Ecological disturbance interactions
- Advancements in local, regional, national and global fire danger rating
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 Research Ecologist |
- Wildland fuel science
- Whitebark pine ecosystem restoration
- Ecological modeling
- Climate change science
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Meet Dr. Robert Keane, Research Ecologist |
 Research Mechanical Engineer |
- understanding fuel particle ignition
- combustion fundamentals
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Meet Research Mechanical Engineer Sara McAllister |
 Research Ecologist |
- Modeling, measuring, and mapping wildland fuels
- Exploring how fuel heterogeneity affects fire behavior
- Understanding how beetle outbreaks change fuels and fire
- Building capability to more robustly assess fuel treatments
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Meet Dr. Russ Parsons, Research Ecologist |
 Research Physical Scientist |
- The evaluation and development of biomass burning emission inventory systems
- Laboratory and field experiments characterizing the gas and aerosol emissions biomass burning
- Development of satellite based wildfire emission inventories for the United States Airborne and ground based experiments for the validation of smoke dispersion models and atmospheric chemistry transport models
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Meet Shawn Urbanski, Research Physical Scientist |
