Brooke is a PhD student at Portland State University whose interests include wildfire, fuel treatments, post-fire restoration and managing for carbon sequestration.
Education:
MS in Forest Resources from University of Washington 2012
BA in Sound Recording from Columbia College, Chicago 2003
Master’s Thesis (defended June 2012): “Fire History of the Sierra de Manantlán Biosphere Reserve in Western México” – A dendropyrochronological study that contributed a tree-ring width chronology, established the use of Pinus douglasiana as a viable species for tree-ring studies, and reconstructed fire history in the reserve from 1938 – 2009.
Academic and Professional Affiliations:
- Society for Ecological Restoration, UW Student Association (President)
- Xi Sigma Pi, National Forestry Honor Society, Alpha Chapter
- Association for Fire Ecology
- International Association of Wildland Fire
Scholarships/Awards:
- College of the Environment Endowed Scholarship, 2013-2014
- Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship – Honorable Mention, 2013
- NASA Washington Space Grant Fellowship, Spring 2013
- International Association of Wildland Fire Scholarship, 2010
- Marvin Klemme Endowed Scholarship, 2010, 2011
- School of Forest Resources Outstanding Community Participation Award
Recipient, Spring 2011
Work Experience:
- Graduate Student Adviser, McNair/EIP, Center for Experiential Learning and Diversity;
- Research Assistant, PWFSL, Fire and Environmental Research and Applications (FERA)
- Teaching Assistant: Intro to Environmental Science; Fire Management
CV: Cassell_CV
Contact: bcassell@uw.edu