Seminar Series Archive

The Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory has been hosting an annual seminar series since 1998. Learn more about the series and see the schedule for the upcoming season on the Seminar Series overview page.

On this page, search and browse recordings of previous seminars.

Engineering fire-resilient forests: Understanding the potential for aspen to reduce wildfire hazard
Maxwell Cook, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
A New Foundation for LANDFIRE
Inga La Puma, LANDFIRE Program Lead, Fire Modeling Institute
The Meteorology of the 2023 Maui Wildfire
Clifford Mass, Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
Keep CALM and carry on: Changing conditions on Alaska's North Slope
Anna Klene, Professor, Department of Ecosystem & Conservation Services, Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, University of Montana
Words matter: The 'let burn' dialogue and reality
Brad Pietruszka, USDA FS Fire Management Specialist
Low seed viability and other obstacles to post-fire tree regeneration
Chuck Rhoades, Research Biogeochemist, RMRS Air and Water
Fire impacts on the physiology of western U.S. conifers and implications for drought vulnerability
Charlotte Reed, RMRS Ecologist
The scientific value of fire in wilderness
Mark Kreider, PhD candidate, University of Montana
Reducing the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss at multiple scales
Jamie Peeler, Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, University of Montana
The economics of using forest biomass from fuel treatments to produce biochar for agriculture
Nate Anderson, RMRS Research Forester
Wildfire risk and mitigation opportunities in the US sagebrush biome
Karen Short, RMRS Research Ecologist
Behave7 Fire Modeling System: A Long Time Coming
Faith Ann Heinsch, Physical Scientist; LaWen Hollingsworth, Fire Behavior Specialist; Greg Dillon, Director, Fire Modeling Institute
Estimating forest characteristics such as carbon and tree growth over space and time using TreeMap, FIADB, and FVS
Karin Riley, Research Ecologist and John Shaw, Forest Inventory and Analysis
The Fire Weather Alert System
Jason Forthofer, Research Mechanical Engineer; Natalie Wagenbrenner, Research Meteorologist
FastFuels and QUIC-Fire: 3D fuel and fire modeling systems supporting prescribed fire
Russell Parsons, RMRS Research Ecologist
Linking Heterogeneity at the Wildland Urban Interface to Wildfire Dynamics
Matt Moody, RMRS Researcher
Applications of hydrologic modeling in fire management
Zachary Holden, RMRS Research Ecologist
Developing a next-generation wildland fire intelligence platform
Karen Short, RMRS Research Ecologist; Andrew Dixon and Cody Casperson, Ignis Technologies; Emmy Harbo, Darkhorse Geospatial
FFS: Recent Fire-Ecophysiology Research
Sharon Hood, PhD, Research Ecologist
3DFin: a software for 3D Forest Inventory in Terrestrial Point Clouds
Diego Laino Rebollido, Ass’t Researcher Geography Dept., Swansea University, UK
Fuel Break Effectiveness
Dan Jimenez, RMRS Research Engineer
Quantifying the physical and chemical drivers of seasonal variability in live fuel moisture content
Tegan Brown, ORISE Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Matt Jolly, Research Ecologist
Fueling international collaboration
Sam Hillman, Fulbright Scholar
Balancing the triple bottom line-Results from the 4th National Assessment of Tribal Forests and Forest Management
Serra Hoagland, RMRS Tribal Relations Specialist