Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team

Don McKenzie

• Landscape mapping of wildland fuels at multiple scales
  
  
• Quantifying carbon emissions from wildfire in North America.
  
  
• Spatial pattern and structure in low-severity fire regimes

• Effects of wildfire on regional air quality: modeling the influences of climatic variability, forest succession, fuel loadings, and prescribed burning strategies on anthropogenic and natural emissions, smoke dispersion, and regional haze.
  
  
• Fire and climate in the inland Pacific Northwest: fire frequency and severity at multiple scales, and the effects of climatic variability, topography, and fuels.
  
  
• The effects of climate change on disturbance regimes and mountain forest ecosystems of the American West
  

His favorite places are arid mountain ecosystems, including the eastern Sierra Nevada, the White Mountains of Nevada, and the Rocky Mountain Front Range from Glacier National Park to southern Colorado.

 

Curriculum Vitae [.html][.pdf]

 

If you are interested in employment or graduate research opportunities with the Forest Service Fire Lab or with the UW Fire and Mountain Ecology Lab, please contact Don via email.  At present, he does not expect to accept new graduate students in 2013.  However, prospective students are welcome to inquire about graduate programs and communicate with current graduate students.