Publications

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Prichard, S.J., Keane, R., Rowell, E., Hudak, A., Loudermilk, E.A., Lutes, D., Chappell, L, Hornsby, B., Hall, J., Ottmar, R.D. US Forest Service National Smoke Assessment: Fuels and Consumption. In prep. Springer.

Prichard, S.J., Kennedy, M.C. and Ottmar, R.D. In prep. Bulk density and other forest floor properties of common forest types in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, South Carolina, USA. US Forest Service PNW Research Station Research Paper.

Prichard, S.J. Andreu, A.G., Drye, B., and Ottmar, R.D. In prep. Consume v. 5.0 technical documentation. US Forest Service PNW Research Station General Technical Report.

Coop, J.D., Parks, S.A., Stevens-Rumann, C.S., Crausbay, S., Higuera, P.E., Hurteau, M.D., Tepley, A., Whitman, E., Assal, T., Collins, B.M., Davis, K.T., Dobrowski, S., Falk, D.A., Fornwalt, P.J., Fulé, P.Z., Harvey, B.J., Kane, V.R., Littlefield, C.E., Margolis, E.Q., North, M., Parisien, M,-A., Prichard, S., and Rodman, K.C. In press. Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes. BioScience.

Kennedy, M.C., Prichard, S.J., McKenzie, D. and French, N.K. In press. How do sources of uncertainty in combustible biomass propagate to wildfire emissions? International Journal of Wildland Fire.

Prichard, S.J., Povak, N., Kennedy, M.C., and Peterson, D.W. 2020. Fuel treatment effectiveness following the 2014 Carlton Complex Fire in semi-arid forests of north-central Washington State. Ecological Applications. E02104. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2104

Hudak, A.T., Kato, A. Bright, B.C., Loudermilk, E.L., Ottmar, R.D., Hawley, C., Prichard, S.J., Rowell, E.M., Restaino, J., Axe, T. and Hayakawa, Y. 2020. Towards spatially explicit estimation of pre- and post-fire fuels and fuel consumption from traditional and point cloud measurements. Journal of Forestry.

Prichard, S.J., O’Neill, S.M., Urbanski, S., Eagle, P., Andreu, A. and Drye, B. 2020. Wildland fire emissions factors in North America: summary of existing datasets, measurement needs and management applications. International Journal of Wildland Fire 25, 10–24. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF19066

Prichard, S.J., Kennedy, M.C., Andreu, A.G., Eagle, P.C. and French, N.H. 2019. Next-generation biomass mapping for regional emissions and carbon inventories: incorporating uncertainty in wildland fuel characterization. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. doi: 10.1029/2019JG005083

Gray, R.W., Christianson, A.C., Colwell, R., Hessburg, P. and Prichard, S.J. 2019. The future of prescribed burning in British Columbia. Feature article in BC Forest Professional March-April 2019.

Hessburg, P.F., Miller, C.L., Parks, S.A., Povak, N.A., Taylor, A.H., Higuera, P.E., Prichard, S.J., North, M.P., Collins, B.M., Hurteau, M.D., Larson, A.J., Allen, C.J., Stephens, S.L et al. 2019. Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of western North American forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:239.

Liu, Y., Kochanski, A.K., Baker, K.R., Mell, W., Linn, R., Paugam, R., Mandel, J., Fournier, A., Jenkins, M.A., Goodrick, S., Achtemeier, G., Zhao, F., Ottmar, R., French, N., Larkin, N., Brown, T., Hudak, A., Dickinson, M., Potter, B., Clements, C., Urbanski, S., Prichard, S., Watts, A., and McNamara, D. 2019. Fire behavior and smoke modeling: Model improvement and measurement needs for next generation smoke research and forecasting systems. International Journal of Wildland Fire 28:570-588.

Picotte, J.J., Arkle, R.S., Bastian, H., Benson, H., Cansler, C.A., Caprio, T., Dillon, G., Key, C.H., Klein, R.N., Kopper, K., Meddens, A., Ohlen, D., Parks, S.A., Peterson, D.W., Pilliod, D.C., Prichard, S.J., Robertson, K.M., Sparks, A.M. and Thode, A.E. 2019. Composite burn index (CBI) data for the conterminous US collected between 1996 and 2018.

Prichard, S.J., Andreu, A.G., Ottmar, R.D. and Eberhardt, E. 2019. Fuel Characteristics Classification System (FCCS) field sampling and fuelbed development guide. US Forest Service PNW Research Station General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-972.

Prichard, S., Larkin, N.S., Ottmar, R., French, N.H.F., Baker, K., Brown, T., Clements, C., Dickinson, M., Hudak, A., Kochanski, A., Linn, R., Liu, Y., Potter, B., Mell, W., Tanzer, D., Urbanski, S. and Watts, A. 2019. The Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment—A Plan for Integrated, Large Fire–Atmosphere Field Campaigns. Atmosphere:10: 66.

Prichard, S.J., Hessburg, P, Gray, R., Povak, N, Salter, R.B., Stevens-Rumann, C. and Morgan, P. 2018. Evaluating the influence of prior burn mosacis on subsequent wildfire behavior, severity, and fire management options. Final report to the Joint Fire Sciences Program, Project 14-1-02-30. https://www.firescience.gov/projects/14-1-02-30/project/14-1-02-30_final_report.pdf

Smith, A.M., Kolden, C.A., Prichard, S.J., Gray, R.W., Hessburg, P.F. and Balch, J.K. 2018. Recognizing women leaders in fire science. Fire 1(2):30.

French, H.F., Prichard, S., Kennedy, M., Billmire, M., Andreu, A., Eagle, P., Swedin, K., Tanzer, D., Kasischke, E., Larkin, S., McKenzie, D. and Ottmar, R. 2017. Improving fuel characterization and maps useful for emissions modeling. Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.

Hudak, A., Prichard, S., Keane, B., Loudermilk, L., Parsons, R., Seielstad, C., Rowell, E. and Skowronski, N. 2017. Hierarchical 3d fuel and consumption maps to support physics-based fire modeling. Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program. Project 16-4-01-15.

Prichard, S.J., Kennedy, M.C., Wright, C.S., Cronan, J.B. and Ottmar, R.D. 2017. Predicting forest floor and woody fuel consumption from prescribed burns in southern and western pine ecosystems of the United States. Forest Ecology and Management 405: 328-338.

Prichard, S.J., Stevens-Rumann, C.S. and Hessburg, P.F. 2017. TAMM Review. Shifting global fire regimes: lessons from reburns and research needs. Forest Ecology and Management.

Kennedy, M.C. and Prichard, S.J. 2017. Choose your neighborhood wisely: implications of subsampling and autocorrelation structure in simultaneous autoregression models for landscape ecology. Landscape Ecology

Prichard, S.J. 2017. It’s Impossible to Prevent Wildfires. So How Do We Prepare? Fortune Magazine. https://fortune.com/2017/10/19/california-wildfires-preparation.

Prichard, S.J. 2016. Learning to live with wildfire: how communities can become ‘fire adapted.’ The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/learning-to-live-with-wildfires-how-communities-can-become-fire-adapted-59508.

Crosser, M.S., Gaiser, J.C. and Prichard, S. 2016. Crisscrossing science episode: fire-adapted ecosystems. Linfield College, Linfield, OR.

French, N.H.F., McKenzie, D., Erickson, T., Koziol, B., Billmire, M., Endsley, K.A., Scheinerman, N.K., Jenkins, L., Miller, M.E., Ottmar, R. and Prichard, S.J. 2016. Annual wildland fire emissions (WFEIS v 0.5) for conterminous US and Alaska, 2001-2013. ORNL DAAC.

French, N.H.F., Prichard, S., McKenzie, D., Kennedy, M.C., Billmire, M., Ottmar, R.D. and Kasischke, E.S. 2016. Carbon, fire, and fuels: The importance of fuels and fuel characterization and the status of wildland fire fuels data for the United States. AGU Fall Meeting.

Liu, Y., Kochanski, A., Baker, K., Mell, R., Linn, R., Paugman, R., Mandel, J., Fournier, A., Jenkins, M.A., Goodrick, S., Achtemeier, G., Hudak, A., Dickinson, M., Potter, B., Clements, C., Urbanski, S., Ottmar, R., Larkin, N., Brown, T., French, N., Prichard, S., Watts, A. and McNamara, D. 2016. Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE): Modeling Gaps and Data Needs. Proceedings for the 2nd International Smoke Symposium. November 14-17, 2016, Long Beach, California, USA

Ottmar, R.D., Hudak, A.T., Prichard, S.J., Wright, C.S., Restaino, J.C., Kennedy, M.C., and Vihnanek, R.E. 2016. Pre- and post-fire surface fuel and cover datasets collected in the southeastern United States for model evaluation and development – RxCADRE 2008, 2011, and 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire.

Stevens, J.T., Collins, B.M., Long, J.W., North, M.P., Prichard, S.J., Tarnay, L.W. and White, A.M. 2016. Evaluating potential tradeoffs among fuel treatment strategies in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada. Ecosphere

Stevens-Rumann, C.S., Prichard, S.J., Strand, E.K. and Morgan, P. 2016. Prior wildfires influence burn severity of subsequent large fires. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 6:1375-1385.

Gray, R.W. and Prichard, S.J. 2015. A tale of two fires: the relative effectiveness of past wildfires in mitigating wildfire behavior and effects. In: Keane, Robert E.; Jolly, Matt; Parsons, Russell; Riley, Karin. Proceedings of the large wildland fires conference; May 19-23, 2014; Missoula, MT. Proc. RMRS-P-73. Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 290-293.

Amorim, J.H., Miranda, A.I., Valente, J., Marques, F., Borrego, C., Fernandes, J.M., Ottmar, R., Prichard, S.J., Andreu, A., Fernandes, P.M. and Cunha, J.P.S. 2014. Fire safety management based on integrated monitoring and forecast of smoke exposure. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.

French, H.F., McKenzie, D., Erickson, T., Koziol, B., Billmire, K., Endsley, A., Yager-Scheinerman, N.K, Jenkins, L, Miller, M.E., Ottmar, R.D., and Prichard, S.J. 2014. Modeling regional-scale wildland fire emissions with the Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System Earth Interactions 18:1-26.

Keane, R.E., Dillon, G., Drury, S., Innes, R., Morgan, P., Lutes, D., Prichard, S.J., Smith, J. and Strand, E. 2014. New and revised fire effects tools for fire management. Fire Management Today 73: 37-47.

Prichard, S.J. and Kennedy, M.C. 2014. Predicting fire severity following an extreme wildfire event: effects of fuel treatment, landform, and weather. Ecological Applications 24:571-590.

Prichard, S.J. and Ottmar, R.D. 2014. State of fire behavior models and their application to ecosystem and smoke management issues. SERDP/ESTCP Smoke Symposium Report. https://www.serdp- estcp.org/content/download/28268/278889/version/1/file/Smoke_Symposium_Report_Feb242014.pdf

Prichard, S.J., Karau, E., Ottmar, R.D., Wright, C., Cronan, J. and Keane, R. 2014. Evaluation of the CONSUME and FOFEM fuel consumption models in pine and mixed hardwood forests of the eastern United States. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44: 784-795.

Stevens-Rumann, C., Prichard, S. and Morgan, P. 2014. The effects of previous wildfires on subsequent wildfire behavior and post-wildfire recovery. Northern Rockies Fire Science Network Science Review No. 1. https://www.nrfirescience.org/sites/default/files/NRFSNSciReview1_RepeatFires.pdf

French, N.H.F. McKenzie, D. Erickson, T., Koziol, B., Billmire, M., Endsley, K.A., Yager, N.A., Scheinerman, L.J., Miller, M.E., Ottmar, R. and Prichard, S.J. 2014. Modeling regional-scale wildland fire emissions with the Wildland Fire Emissions Information System. Earth Interactions 18:1-26.

Pettinari, M.L., Ottmar, R.D., Prichard, S.J., Andreu, A.G., and Chuvieco, E. 2013. Development and mapping of fuel characteristics and associated fire potentials for South America. International Journal of Wildland Fire 23:643-654.

Prichard, S.J., Sandberg, D.V., Ottmar, R.D., Andreu, A., Eagle, P., and Swedin, K. 2013. Fuel Characteristic Classification System version 3.0: technical documentation. PNW-GTR-887. US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.

Prichard, S.J. and Peterson, D.L. 2013.Landscape analysis of fuel treatment longevity and effectiveness in the 2006 Tripod Complex Fires. Final report to the Joint Fire Sciences Program, Project 09-1-1-09. https://www.firescience.gov/projects/09-1-01-19/project/09-1-01-19_final_report.pdf

Parresol, B.R., Scott, J.H., Andreu, A., Prichard, S. and Kurth, L. 2012. Developing custom fire behavior fuel models from ecologically complex fuel structures for upper Atlantic Coastal Plain forests. Forest Ecology and Management 273:50-57.

Allain, M., Nguyen, A., Johnson, E., Williams, E., Tsai, S., Prichard, S., Freed, T., and Skiles, J. 2011. A geospatial assessment of mountain pine beetle infestations and their effect on forest health on Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Proceedings of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, MD.

Prichard, S.J., Sandberg, D.V., Ottmar, R.D. and Campbell, P.W. 2011. FCCS User’s Guide v 2.0. USDA Forest Service Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA.

Prichard, S.J. and Kennedy, M.C. 2012. Fuel treatment effects on postfire tree mortality and beetle attack in dry mixed conifer forests, Washington State, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire 21: 1004-1013.

Ottmar, R.D., Prichard, S.J. Parresol, B.R. 2012. Fuel treatment effectiveness in forests of the Upper Atlantic Coastal Plain – an evaluation at two spatial scales. Forest Ecology and Management 272: 17-28.

Hollingsworth, L.T., Kurth, L.L., Parresol, B.R., Ottmar, R.D., Prichard, S.J. 2012. A comparison of geospatially modeled fire behavior and fire management utility of three data sources in the southeastern United States. Forest Ecology and Management 273: 43-49.

Hollis, J.J., Matthews, S., Ottmar, R.D., Prichard, S.J., Slijepcevic, A., Burrows, N.D., Ward, B., Tolhurst, K.G., Anderson, W.R., and Gould, J.S. 2010. Testing woody fuel consumption models for application in Australian southern eucalypt forest fires. Forest Ecology and Management. 260: 948-964.

Prichard, S.J., Peterson, D.L. and Jacobson, K. 2010. Fuel treatments alter the effects of wildfire in dry mixed conifer forest, north-central Washington, USA.Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1615-1626.

Prichard, S.J. and Peterson, D.L. 2010. Lessons learned from the 2006 Tripod Complex Fires: did fuel treatments reduce wildfire severity? Final report to the Joint Fire Sciences Program, Project 07-01-13.

Justice, E., Cheung, B., Danse, W., Myrick, K., Willis, M., Prichard, J. and Skiles, J. 2009. Effects of fuel treatments on carbon flux during a wildfire using satellite imagery: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Proceedings of the ASPRS 2009 Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD.

Ottmar, R.D., Wright, C. and Prichard, S.J. 2009. A suite of fire, fuels, and smoke management tools. Fire Management Today 69: 34-39.

Prichard, S.J., Gedalof, Z., Oswald, W.W., and Peterson, D.L. 2009. Holocene fire and vegetation dynamics in a montane forest, North Cascade Range, Washington, USA. Quaternary Research 72:57-67.

Prichard, S.J. and Peterson, D.L. 2009. Landscape analysis of fuel treatment longevity and effectiveness in the 2006 Tripod Complex fires. Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program. Project 09-1-01-09.

Prichard, S.J., Wright, C.S., Vihnanek, R.E., and Ottmar, R.D. 2008. Predicting forest floor and woody fuel consumption from prescribed burns in ponderosa pine forests. Proceedings of the Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, Nov. 13-17, San Diego, CA.

Shiffman, B., Newcomer, M., Delgado, D., Gantenbein, C., Wang, T., Prichard, S., Schmidt, C. and Skiles, J. 2008. Burn severity assessment in the Okanogan-Wenatchee Forest using NASA satellite missions. Proceedings of the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Ottmar, R.D., Sandberg, D.V., Riccardi, C.L., and Prichard, S.J. 2007. An overview of the Fuel Characteristic Classification System – quantifying, classifying, and creating fuelbeds for resource planning. Canadian Journal of Forest Research40:2383-2393.

Prichard, S.J. 2007. Consume user’s guide. http:/www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/research/smoke/consume/ consume30_users_guide.pdf

Riccardi, C.L., Prichard, S.J., Sandberg, D.V. and R.D. Ottmar. 2007. Calculating physical characteristics of wildland fuels in the Fuel Characteristic Classification System. Canadian Journal of Forest Research37: 2413-2420.

Ottmar, R.D., Prichard, S.J., Vihnanek, R., Sandberg, D.V., Bluhn, B. 2006. Modification and validation of fuel consumption models for shrub and forested lands in the Southwest. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Final Report JFSP-98-1-9-06. Seattle, WA.

Prichard, S.J., Ottmar, R.D. and Anderson, G.K. 2006. Consume 3.0 User’s Guide. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA.

Prichard, S.J., Wright, C.S., Vihnanek, R.E., Ottmar, R.D. 2006. Predicting forest floor and woody consumption from prescribed burns in ponderosa forests. Proceedings of the Third International Fire Ecology and Management Conference: Fire as a Global Process. San Diego, CA.

Wright, C.S. and Prichard, S.J. 2006. Biomass consumption during prescribed fires in big sagebrush ecosystems. In: Andrews, P.L., Butler, B.W. (eds). Fuels Management—how to measure success: Conference Proceedings 28-30 March 2006. Portland, OR. Proceedings Rocky Mountain Research Station RMRS-41. Fort Collins, CO.

Wright, C.S., Prichard, S.J., Vihnanek, R.E. and Ottmar, R.D. 2006. Predicting fuel consumption from prescribed burning trials in western forest and shrublands. Proceedings of the 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, San Diego, CA.

McKenzie, D., Prichard, S.J., Hessl, A.E. and Peterson, D.L. 2004. Empirical approaches to modelling wildland fire in the Pacific Northwest Region of the United States: Methods and Applications to Landscape Simulation. Chapter 7 in L. Buse and A. Perera, eds. Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances: concepts and applications. Columbia University Press, New York, NY.

Ottmar, R.D., Sandberg, D.V., Prichard, S.J., Riccardi, C.L. 2003. Fuel characteristic classification system. Proceedings of the 5th symposium on fire and meteorology, Orlando, FL.

Prichard, S.J. 2003. Spatial and temporal dynamics of fire and vegetation change in Thunder Creek Watershed, North Cascades National Park, Washington. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle.

Prichard, S.J. and D.L. Peterson. 2000. Carbon distribution in subalpine forests and meadows of the Olympic Mountains, Washington. Soil Science Society of America Journal.

Candelario Martinez, A., Reed, D.M., Prichard, S.J., Doble, K.E., Lee, T.D., Lesser, W., Price, D.A., and Greenberg, M.J. 1993. SCP-related peptides from bivalve mollusks – identification, tissue distribution, and actions. Biological Bulletin 185 (3): 428-439.

Candelario, A., Prichard, S.J., Lesser, W., Doble, K.E., Price, D.A., and Greenberg, M.J. 1990. Neurohumoral modulation of the gut and feeding organs of a clam. American Zoologist 30(4):a66.

D.L. Peterson, Prichard, S.J., and McKenzie, D. 2000. Disturbance in mountain forests. In Price, M.F. and N. Butt. (eds.) Forests in Sustainable Mountain Development: a State of Knowledge Report for 2000. CABI Publishing, UK.

Prichard, S.J. 1996. Carbon storage in subalpine forests and meadows of the Olympic Mountains. M.S. Thesis, University of Washington, Seattle.

Prichard, S.J., White, M., and Wayburn, L. 1996. Modeling carbon storage in redwood forests under different management scenarios. In LeBlanc, J. (ed.) Proceedings of the conference on coast redwood forest ecology and management, June 1996, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA.