Research Projects

Current Research Projects

Natural Resource Management for the Sustainable Range Program Co-PI, with R, Brooks. T. Bacestow), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Do fuel treatments restore ecosystem function? Water use efficiency before and after fire suppression and fuels treatments in fire-prone pine forests in the western United States USDA-USDI Joint Fire Science Program.

Estimating forest productivity over regional and multidecadal time scales using carbon isotopes in tree rings. National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences.

Mapping canopy fuel characteristics to assess potential fire behavior, Lassen Volcanic National Park California, USDI National Park Service.

A comparison of fire severity patterns in the late 19th and early 21st century in a mixed conifer forest landscape in the southern Cascades, USDA-USDI Joint Fire Sciences Program.

Using neutral models to evaluate the effects of topography and landscape patterns of fire severity:  a case study of Lassen Volcanic National Park, National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for Andrew D. Pierce (co-PI)

Simulated effects of fuel treatments on fire behavior and viewsheds in the inner wildland urban interface of Yosemite National Park

Spatial characteristics and patterns of forest fire severity in the early 20th century, Lassen Volcanic National Park

Fire History of Yosemite Valley, California

Fire Regimes and Forest Structure of Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas