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Education & Experience:
- Bachelor of Science, March 2000, University of Washington, Major: Conservation of Wildland Resources
- US Forest Service - SCEP student working with the Fire Ecologist on the Wenatchee National Forest in Washington, May 2000 - current
Areas of Interest:
- Applying advanced technology to projects and activities that occur in everyday management
- Fire history, historic landscape reconstruction, stand structure, fire behavior, and modeling of ecosystem responses to fire.
Research:
- Forest Service Project examining the susceptibility of forest stands to the transitioning of surface fire to crown fire, and relating that to fire fighter safety.
- Impacts of sheep grazing on fuels and understory vegetation
- Mapping canopy fuel characteristics using an airborne hyperspectral sensor, and high resolution digital imagery for the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains in Washington.
Publications and Presentations:
- Forest susceptibility to crown fire project - Poster presentation, Orlando, FL, November 2003.
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