Projects

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1990-present
FireBGCv2 is a computer modeling program and platform that mechanistically simulates fire, vegetation, climate, and fuels dynamics across multiple space and time scales. The spatially explicit ecosystem process model FireBGCv2 is a landscape fire… more
Contact(s): Eva Karau

1998-present
FireFamily+ (FF+) is a software package used to calculate fuel moistures and indices from the US National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) using hourly or daily fire weather observations primarily from Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS).… more
Contact(s): Matt Jolly

1996-2019
Perhaps one of the most critical decisions made by firefighters during daily fire management operations is the identification of suitable safety zones. As a consequence of 11 firefighters being killed on the Inaja Fire in 1957, the U.S. Forest… more
Contact(s): Daniel Jimenez

2010 -present
New research is focused on measuring and predicting the cumulative impact of convective and radiant energy transfer on safety zone size, shape, and location when the safety zone and/or fires are located on slopes or are burning under the influence… more
Contact(s): Daniel Jimenez

2008-present
Mapping fire hazard and risk across multiple spatial scales. This project involves the development of a research computer model called FIREHARM (FIRE HAzard and Risk Model) that computes common measures of fire behavior, fire danger, and fire… more
Contact(s): Eva Karau

1999-2006
FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System is an agency independent plot level sampling system designed to characterize changes in ecosystem attributes over time. The system consists of a sampling strategy manual, standardized sampling… more
Contact(s): Duncan Lutes

2011-2016
Northern Eurasia covers 20% of the global land mass and contains 70% of the boreal forest. During certain times of the year, black carbon (BC) in smoke plumes in high latitudes may be transported and deposited on Arctic ice and accelerate ice… more
Contact(s): Wei Min Hao

2009-2020
A fire severity mapping system for real time fire management application and long-term planning. FIRESEV (FIRE SEVerity Mapping Tools) is a comprehensive set of tools and protocols to deliver, create, and evaluate fire severity maps for all phases… more
Contact(s): Greg Dillon

2000
Often fires are managed to support or reduce the presence of specific plant species or sizes.  FireStem is a computer model designed to aid fire managers in predicting tree mortality based on fire behavior and intensity. FireStem was designed to… more
Contact(s): Daniel Jimenez

2000-present
Image FireWorks is an educational program about the science of wildland fire, designed for students in grades 1-12. FireWorks provides students with interactive, hands-on materials to study wildland fire… more

2013-present
Experimental evidence now shows that flame impingement is required for ignition of fine fuel particles responsible for the spread of wildland fires. However, the characteristics of the non-steady flame zone that produce convective heating of fuel… more
Contact(s): Mark Finney

2003-present
FlamMap is a fire analysis desktop application that runs in a 64-bit Windows Operating System environment. It can simulate potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.), fire growth and spread and… more

1990-2010
Evaluating the ecological benefits of wildfire by integrating fire and ecosystem simulation models The accumulation of canopy and surface fuels, coupled with a general warming of the climate, have contributed to an increase in the frequency,… more
Contact(s): Eva Karau

1995- present
FOFEM FOFEM (a First Order Fire Effects Model) is a computer program for predicting tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke production, and soil heating caused by prescribed fire or wildfire. First order fire effects are those that concern the… more
Contact(s): Duncan Lutes

2013-2016
Analyzing the ‘Spring Dip’ in Foliar Moisture Content and Its Relationship to Crown Fire Activity in the Great Lakes Both firefighters and fire scientists have observed a period of peak crown fire activity in the Great Lakes area during spring when… more
Contact(s): Matt Jolly

2017 - present
ForSys - Scenario planning model for multi-objective restoration and fuel management planning ForSys is a flexible platform for exploring landscape management scenarios and optimizing decisions in terms of where and how to achieve landscape… more
Contact(s): Alan Ager, Michelle Day

2013-2014
Within the Fort Huachuca military installation in southeastern Arizona, there are 11 Protected Activity Centers (PACs) identified for the threatened Mexican Spotted Owl. The PACs include a variety of vegetation types including multi-storied conifer… more

2016-present
Exploring surface and canopy fuel characteristics at the particle, layer, and fuelbed levels across major forest ecosystem types of the US northern Rocky Mountains. The research project FPARDY (Fuel PARticle DYnamics), is a multifaceted study to… more

2007-present
Quantitative wildfire risk analysis requires complete geospatial coverage of fire impact probabilities and sizes. Wildfire simulation is the primary means of estimating these, including the frequency distribution of large fire events. FSim simulates… more

2014-2017
Examining fuel particle heat exchange experimentally and through the use of numerical modeling. Modelers of wildland fire spread have assumed how fuel particle heat exchange occurs during fire spread without the benefit of experimental evidence.… more
Contact(s): Mark Finney

2016 - present
The Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Monitoring (FTEM) application collects data that documents the effectiveness of fuel treatments on wildland fire behavior when a wildland fire intersects with a previously applied hazardous fuels reduction treatment… more
Contact(s): Brianna Schueller

2006-present
FuelCalc is a desktop software application for determining changes in surface and crown fuel loading after thinning, pruning, piling and/or prescribed fire. Ground, surface, and canopy fuel characteristics serve as essential inputs to computer… more
Contact(s): Duncan Lutes

2001-2017
Monitoring surface and canopy fuel conditions after stand-replacing disturbance events in northern Rocky Mountain ecosystems. It is generally assumed that severe disturbances predispose damaged forests to high fire hazard by creating heavy fuel… more
Contact(s): Chris Stalling

1995-2008
Measuring surface fuel litterfall and decomposition in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA Fire exclusion policies and the successful fire suppression program across western United States and Canadian landscapes over the last 70 years have resulted… more
Contact(s): Chris Stalling

2020-present
We are developing a product and methodology that allows rapid assessment of fuels and potential fire hazard in forests impacted by the non-native balsam woolly adelgid (BWA) to better protect and improve the health of western America’s high-… more