The Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab has worked in collaboration with many other labs, state agencies, and governments both abroad and at home on a variety of research projects.
Current Research Projects:
Wildfire Hazard Prediction Systems in South America
Some Past Research Projects:
- Determining community-based mitigation solutions for long-term wildland fire/flood risks. Collaborator: Prof. Robert Freitag, UW College of Built Environments.
- Washington Forest Resiliency Burning Pilot: Fuel Characterization, Tree Mortality Assessment and Air Quality Monitoring and Analysis. Collaborators Roger Ottmar and Susan O’Neil, USFS PNW Research Station.
- The consequences of soil heating for prescribed fire use and fire restoration in the South. Collaborators: Prof. Leda Koziar, University of Idaho and Dr. Morgan Varner, USFS PNW Research Station.
- Evaluating the effects of salvage logging and developing fire resilient forests on the Colville Reservation and Colville National Forest in Washington and El Dorado National Forest in California. Collaborators: Dr. Morris Johnson, USFS PNW Research Station, Dr. Tom de Luca, Colton Miller, Melissa Pingree, SEFS UW.
- Nisqually Garry Oak Habitat: Cultural and Ecological Considerations for Successful Restoration in the Nisqually Tribal Reservation. Collaborator Ashley Blazina
- Solutions for Current and Future Wildfires: Physical and Ecological Models for Fire, Fuels, and Smoke in Ecosystems and the Wildland Urban Interface.
- Improving estimates of future fires, fire emissions, and smoke.
- Research on Fire, Fuels, Landscape Ecology, and the Wildland-Urban-Interface.
- Detailed fuelbed characterization, mapping, and future fire hazard assessment for Eglin Air Force Base, FL. Collaborator James Cronan
- Fire management tools for Mexico’s Biosphere Reserves and Protected Areas. USFS International Program.
- Biomass estimation, carbon emissions, smoke chemistry, carbon fluxes, recovery of burned areas, flammability modeling, combustion modeling in the Amazon Forest in Brazil.
- Fuel characterization and classification to generate and validate fuel models for Mexico. PI: Dr. Diego Perez-Salicrup. Mexico’s UNAM
- Development of a forest fire risk rating for Mexico. PI: Dr. Daniel Vega, University of Durango, Mexico.