Teaching:
FOR 426: Fire Ecology and Management (3cr. online
version): Integrated fire-related biological, ecological,
physical, and economic information for land managers; autecology and
synecology of plant and animal species in wildlands; natural role of fire;
fire as a management tool; application to current issues.
FOR 433 Science-Based Fuels Management Planning (2
cr). Potential, limitations, and application of recently developed tools for
assessing fuels and ecological consequences of alternative approaches to
fuels management.
FOR 434: Assessing Fire Effects and Burn Severity
(2cr). Terminology and methods for assessing fire effects and burn severity
in the field and from airborne and satellite remote sensing. Quantitative
analysis and interpretation of the ecological impacts of fires on plants and
soils. Critically review and synthesize relevant scientific literature.
FOR 451: Fuels Inventory and Mapping (3cr).
In-depth analysis of recent developments in remote sensing, as well as tools
to support fuels planning, including potential and limitations of mapping
fuels with Lidar and from satellite imagery such as Landsat and ASTER (with
and without gradient modeling). Application of tools for characterizing
fuels over large, diverse areas. Quantitative analysis and interpretation of
the ecological impacts of fires on plants and soils. |