06/01/2021
The Fire Landscapes Adaptive Management & Ecology (FLAME)
Precision Forestry Cooperative
Timeline
PFC significant events
01/01/2020
joins the PFC as research scientist in forest ecology with a specialty in wildfire ecology
12/13/2019
to commemorate Megan O’Shea’s retirement a student fellowship in support of students in PFC doing field work is established, the award is presented at the PFC board meetings to a PFC student who shows leadership and perseverance in field work efforts. Donations to this award can be made here.
01/01/2018
PFC scientist cumulatively reach a landmark of producing over 200 peer-reviewed publications
03/20/2015
PFC sponsors a permanent UW lidar class ESRM433/SEFS533 offered for the 1st time in 2015 with 20 students enrolled, the class grows to 50 students in 2021, the course is taught every spring quarter by PFC remote sensing faculty or PhD candidates under PFC faculty mentorship
01/01/2015
research assistant professor focusing on forest resilience and lidar remote sensing is recruited to join PFC and establishes the Forest Resilience Lab (FRL) at UW
01/01/2014
research social scientist, joins the PFC, some of her work includes Green Cities and Health project
09/06/2007
joins the PFC as an Assistant Professor of Spatial Optimization and establishes the Spatial Optimization Laboratory (SOL/Toth Lab) at UW
06/01/2006
joins the PFC as an Assistant Professor of remote sensing and moves the Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory (RSGAL) to UW
01/01/1999
The Precision Forestry Cooperative (PFC) is Established by the WA legislature Advance Technology Initiative establishes at UW and Prof. James Fridley (who worked on developing this initiative) in named as the 1st Director of the PFC. Prof. P. Schiess (retired 2012), Prof. Gerard Schreduder (retired 2008) and Prof. D. Briggs (retired 2011) begin working closely with the PFC. Megan O’Shea (SEFS MS 1998; retired 2019) joins the PFC @50% FTE as the program’s assistant.
