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Current Projects

Pyrogeography across cultural and climatic gradients. NSF-SBE Postdoctoral Fellowship. $138K. Co-PI. Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Buzz Nanavati; Co-PIs: Jed Kaplan [U Honk Kong], Cathy Whitlock [Montana State U].

Fire History, Disturbance Patterns and Stand Structure in Northeastern Oregon Blue Mountains Forests. ODF/ TNC/NCASI. $161K. Co-PI. 2018-2020. Co-PIs: Kerry Kemp [TNC, Oregon], Cameron Naficy [UBC].

Predicting fire-mediated forest structure over biophysical gradients in moist mixed-conifer forests. $24K. JFSP-GRIN (US Dept of Interior and USFS). PI. 2019-2020. Student-PI: Laura Platt; Co-PIs: Kerry Kemp [TNC, Oregon], Cameron Naficy [UBC].

Natural Climate Solutions. TNC/PSU. Postdoctoral research associate: Dr. Rose Graves. 2018-2020. Co-PIs: Ryan Haugo [TNC, Oregon], Max Nielsen-Pincus [PSU-ESM]).

Fire-Driven Forest Transitions in Response to Land-Use Impacts and Moisture Availability. $350K. NSF-GSS. PI; 2018-2020. Co-PIs: Juan Paritsis [INIBIOMA-Ecotono, Argentina], Ignacio Mundo [IANIGLA, Argentina], Mauro González [UACH, Chile], Tom Veblen [CU Boulder].

Documenting and monitoring climate change effects at the edge of the world: Isla Hornos and the world's southernmost tree. $50K. NGS. Co-PI. PI: Brian Buma [CU Denver]; 2018-2020.

Modeling forest resilience, biomass and carbon management potential. USFS $121K. Co-PI. (PI: Melissa Lucash [PSU-GEOG]). 2018-2020.

Recovery trajectories of the hillslope green water cycle after rapidly repeated wildfires. $490K. NSF-HS. Co-PI. PI: Kevan Moffett [WSU-Vancouver]. 2017-2020.

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Altered Disturbance Regimes and Novel Ecosystems: Understanding and Managing Ecosystem State Change at the Forest-Peatland EcotoneEcotone. NSF-GSS-DDRI. $17K. (PI: K. Zaret, PhD student). 2017-2019

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Past Projects

Clackamas River Basin resilience study. ISS-PSU. $100K. Co-PI: Holz; 2017-2018.

What are the spatio-temporal patterns in the vegetation recovery at Mt St Helen after its 1980's eruption? ISS-PSU. $15K. PI: Holz; 2015-2016.

Lake Tahoe West Expanded LANDIS Modeling. 2017-2018 (USDA Forest Service. $72,115. Co-PI)—This project was led by Rob Scheller, who left PSU and invited me to continue as PI at PSU.

Modeling Forest Resilience, Biomass and Carbon Management Potential. 2017-2018 (USDA Forest Service. $152,475. Co-PI)—This project was led by Rob Scheller, who left PSU and invited me to continue as PI at PSU.

How has bushfire activity varied around the Southern Hemisphere over the last 10,000 years? ARC Discovery, Australia; Univ. of Tasmania; PI David Bowman; 2011-2015

WildFIRE PIRE: Fire, climate, and land-use interactions in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. NSF USA. Montana State University; PI Cathy Whitloc, 2010-2015

Wildfire Regime Shifts in Southern South America from Tree-Ring Reconstructed Fire History Networks: Climatic Controls, Land Use, and Ecological Feedbacks (NSF USA; PI Thomas Veblen; $300,000). 2010-2013

Tree regeneration responses to Chusquea montana bamboo die-off in a subalpine Nothofagus forest in the southern Andes.

Climatic and Human Influences on Fire Regimes and Forest Dynamics in Temperate Rainforests in southern Chile (National Geographic Society—Research Grant ($25,000); National Science Foundation—PhD Dissertation Improvement Award ($12,000).

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Habitat distribution modeling of fire-vegetation flammability and land use in Patagonia (Paritsis et al. 2013).

Fire boundary in Nothofagus forest-shrubland ecotone in Patagonia.

Tehuelche people using fire to hunt guanaco in Patagonia.