A5019641834- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Landslides and related hazards
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Aeolian processes and effects
Oregon State University
2023-2024
Pacific Northwest Research Station
2021-2022
Portland State University
2020
Abstract Wildfires devastated communities in Oregon and Washington September 2020, burning almost as much forest west of the Cascade Mountain crest (“the westside”) 2 weeks (~340,000 ha) previous five decades (~406,00 ha). Unlike dry forests interior western United States, temperate rain Pacific Northwest have experienced limited recent fire activity, debates surrounding what drove 2020 fires, management strategies to adapt similar future events, necessitate a scientific evaluation fires. We...
Abstract Fire is an integral natural disturbance in the moist temperate forests of Pacific Northwest United States, but future changes remain uncertain. regimes this climatically and biophysically diverse region are complex, typically climate limited. One challenge for interpreting potential conveying projection uncertainty. Using projections Energy Release Component (ERC) derived from 12 global models (GCM) that vary performance relative to region's contemporary climate, we simulated...
Optimized wildfire risk reduction strategies are generally not resilient in the event of unanticipated, or very rare events, presenting a hazard assessments which otherwise rely on actuarial, mean-based statistics to characterize risk. This actuarial approaches is perhaps particularly evident for infrequent fire regimes such as those temperate forests west Cascade Range crest Oregon and Washington, USA (“Westside”), where return intervals often exceed 200 years but fires can be extremely...
Characterizing wildfire regimes where wildfires are uncommon is challenged by a lack of empirical information. Moreover, climate change projected to lead increasingly frequent and additional annual area burned in forests historically characterized long fire return intervals. Western Oregon Washington, USA (westside) have experienced few large (fires greater than 100 hectares) the past century infrequent fires with intervals 500 years. We evaluated impacts on hazard major urban watershed...