Research by past graduate students has covered a wide range of geographic locations, from western US, Brazil, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, and Nepal as well as across the United States. Our past lab students have conducted research on a variety of different topics related to wildfire from fire regimes to atmospheric smoke conditions.
- Nastassia Barber, MS 2021. Thesis: Estimating Fuel Moisture in Grasslands using UAV-Mounted Infrared and Visible Light Sensors.
- Harry Podschwit, PhD QERM, 2020. Thesis: Accounting for model uncertainties in statistical forecasts of wildfire parameters.
- Lesly Franco, MS 2018. Thesis: The association between wildfire emitted PM2.5 and hospital admissions in the greater Seattle area.
- Fabiola Pulido-Chavez, MS 2018. Thesis: Effects of high-severity wildfires on the ectomycorrhizal fungal communities of ponderosa pine ecosystem in central Washington.
- Ashley Blazina, MS 2018. Thesis: Historical Disturbance and Recent Management Factors Driving Quercus garryana Vegetation Communities in the Puget Sound Lowlands.
- Deborah Nemens, MS 2017. Thesis: The persistence of oak woodlands in altered fire regimes of the Pacific Northwest.
- Tmthspusmen Wilder, MS 2014. Thesis: Quantifying landscape spatial patterns: a collaborative forest management framework for tribal and federal lands.
- Pratibah Duwal, MS 2014. Thesis: Perceived Impacts of Climate Change on Forests and Livelihoods in the Padampokhari Village on the Parsa Wildlife Reserve Buffer Zone, Nepal.
- Katherine Hoglund-Wyatt, MS 2013. Thesis: Riparian Vegetation Structure and Composition in the Fire–Prone Ecosystem of Eastern Washington. Nature Capital, Stanford University.
- Natasha Stavros, PhD 2013. Thesis: Understanding climate and very large wildfires in the Western United States at scales for modeling air quality. NASA JPL.
- Joseph Restaino, MS 2012. Thesis: Wildfire and fuel treatment effects on carbon storage, eastside Cascade Range, Washington, USA
- Brooke Cassell, MS 2012. Thesis: Fire History of the Sierra de Manantlán Biosphere Reserve in Western México. PhD Student at Portland State University
- Christopher Rynhan, MFR 2009. Using Fuel Mastication to Reduce Fire Hazard in the Cedar River Watershed.
- Gustavo Negreiros, PhD 2002. Thesis: Understanding and Modeling Ecological Processes Controlling Flammability in Seasonally Dry Evergreen Forests of the Brazilian Amazon. Professor at the Geography Department, Federal University do Vale do Sao Sao Francisco, Bahia, Brazil.
- Taylor Cates, BS 2016. Megafires, radiative force, and atmospheric stability in the state of Washington.
- Holly Mouser. BS Capstone. Comparing fire potential between the Yakama Reservation and USFS lands.
- Lukas Vandrell. BS 2014. Ecological and economic tradeoff analysis between the wildfires and prescribed fires in the Naches RD: Values threatened by the Wild Rose Wildfire and saved by the Kaboon Prescribed Fire.
- Jaime Olivia Jazzie, BS 2014. Integration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in fire and land management at the Navajo Reservation. Navajo. MS student at Northern Arizona University.
- John Kirby, BS 2014. Fuel treatments in the Wildland Urban Interface in the Eagle Fire in the Wenatchee-Okanogan National Forest.Silviculturist at the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
- Helen Fillmore, BS 2013. Fuels and Fire hazard at the Washoe Tribal Lands of Nevada. Washoe of Nevada. MS student at the University of Nevada at Reno.
- Brandon Ambrose, BS 2010. Fuelbeds for the fuel treatments in the Yakama Reservation. Fuels Manager at the Yakama Nation.
- Aarin Sensirirak, BS 2009. Insects and Fire in the Tripod Fire.
- Patrick Buttom, 2008. Wildfires in northern India. Smoke Jumper at the USFS North Cascades Smokejumper Base.
- Kelsay Knutson, 2008. Carbon Emissions and Biomass Consumption from Slash-and-Burn Fires: A Case Study from the Chiquitano Forest in Bolivia. MS Student at USC.