GRADUATE STUDENTS WITH FIRE SCIENCE STUDY EMPHASIS

Name	Dept	Degree	Yr	Study Area	Status/Empl
Acton, S.	FS	MS	02	Invasive plants, salvage logging	USFS R4, Payette NF
Adegbola, P.	FS	MS	79	Fire ecology & mgmt	Nigerian FS
Alexander, Martin	FS	MS	78	Lodgepole pine fuels & fire potential	Canadian FS-Rsrch
Alexander, Mike	FS	MS	04	Firefighter safety	USFS R2/Pike San Isabel NF
Anderson, E.	FS	MS	92	Big sagebrush live fuel moisture	Private Consultant
Atsmon, G.	FS	MF	98	Israel Fire Management	Israel FS
Baker, J.O.	FS	MS	78	Wilderness fire management	USFS-WO Fire Mgmt(ret)
Balick, L.	FS	Ph.D	78	Forest fire meteorology	U.S. Army
Beavers, A.	FS	MS	01	Fire Effects/Rehabilitation	CEMML-CSU
Beebe, G.	FS	MS	95	Fire risk assessment	BLM-Smokejumpers
Blonski, K.	FS	MS	78	Fire training systems	UC Berkeley
Bosworth, N.	FS	MS	99	Ponderosa pine fuels	USFS R2, Black Hills NF
Boyum, M.	FS	MS	XX	Fire and lynx habitat	USFS R2, White River NF SCEP
Brandel, K.	FS	MS	84	Prescribed fire monitoring/evaluation	USFS R4, Payette NF
Brown, A.	FS	MS	06	Live Fuel Moisture	Grad Student/BLM Fuels SCEP student
Butler, G.	FS	MS	01	Urban Interface	Poudre Fire Authority
Butts, D.	RR	MS	78	Fire management/national parks	USNPS-NIFC (ret)
Chapin, G.	FS	MS	04	Forest restoration using prescribed fire	Land Steward/ Eastern New York Chapter of The Nature Conservancy
Cheong, Y.H.	FS	MS	85	Fire training system for Korea	Korea Forestry Agency
Clagg, H.	FS	MS	75	Fire ecology in high elevation forests	USFS R6
Cohen, J.	ER	MS	76	Colorado mountain fire weather	USFS-RMRS
Cohen, W.	FS	Ph.D	89	Crown fire ignition	USFS-PNW Station
Collins, B	FS	MS	04	Drought and fuel treatment	Ph.D student - Berkley
Cook, J.	FS	MS	95	Phytoliths and fire history	Georgia-Pacific Corp.
Dimitrakopoulos,A.	FS	MS	85	Initial attack analysis	Faculty Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Flores, J.	FS	Ph.D	00	Fire and spatial statistics	INIFAP, Mexico
Forthofer, J.	FS	MS	XX		Grad Student
Freeman, J.	NREL	MS	06	Fire and Fuel Treatment effects on Invasive Plants	Graduate Student
Fuquay, D.	ER	Ph.D	75	Lightning fires and weather modification	USFS-NFFL Meteorology in Fire Mgmt. (ret)
Gallup, S.	FS	MS	98	Prescribed Fire, ponderosa pine	USFS R2, Arapaho Roosevelt NF
Gardiner, T.	FS	MS	XX	Gambel oak and fire	USFS R2 San Juan NF
Gibson, J.	FS	MS	77	Prescribed fire in Black Hills forests	Ministry
Gleason, P.	FS	MS	XX	Prescribed Fire/Fuels Mgmt.	CSU Instructor
Gochnour, D.	FS	MS	78	Fire mgmt in Mesa Verde Nat'l Park	USFS R6
Goodell, C.	FS	MS	XX	Historic fire severity in mixed conifer	USFS R2 San Juan NF
Guertin, P.	ER	MS	81	Fire effects modeling for watersheds	Faculty, Univ of AZ
Haven, L.	FS	MS	81	Fire economics	Private consultant
Hilbruner, M.	FS	MS	88	Prescription fire modeling	USFS WO
Huckaby, L.	FS	MS	91	Fire and tree dynamics	USDA-FS RMRS
Huffman, M.	FS	Ph.D	XX	Community-based fire management and fire behavior in the tropical pine-oak forest of southern Mexico	Research Assistant
Hunter, M.	FS	Ph.D	04	Invasive plants	Post-doc CSU
Ipswitch, S.	FS	MS	XX		Grad Student
Kalabokidis, K.	FS	Ph.D	92	Fire and GIS	Faculty, Univ. of the Aegean, Greece
Liang, Li-Ming	FS	Ph.D	XX	The role and response of shrub sprouting in sustaining mixed severity ponderosa pine fire regimes	Grad Student
Manier, D.	FS	PhD	00	Aspen dynamics	CSU NREL
Martinson, E.	FS	MS	98	Fire history meta- analysis	CSU WESTFIRE Research Associate
McRae, D.	FS	MS	77	Fire/jack pine forests	Canadian FS-Research (ret.)
Nichols, F.	FS	MS	83	Fire effects/measurements	Private Consultant
Ogle, K.	FS	MS	89	Prescr.fire/Gambel oak	USFS R4, Regional Fire Ecologist
Page, B.	FS	MS	78	Fire aspects of multiple resources planning	USFS-WO (ret)
Paustian, K.	FS	MS	79	Fire effects modeling for forest ecosystems	CSU NREL
Pierce, T.	FS	MS	78	National fuels data bank system	Wilderness guide svc
Pollet, J.	FS	MS	99	Fuel Treatment	BLM, Utah State Office
Qu, J.	FS	Ph.D	97	Fire and Climate Change	NASA
Rayburn, L.	FWB	MS	79	Fire effects modeling for wildlife habitat	USFWS-Wyoming
Rohman, L.	FS	MS	85	Fire and GIS	USFS R6
Romero, F.	FS	MS	97	Fire and GIS	USFS R2
Rothermel, R.C.	ME	MS	65	Fire behavior modeling	USFS-IFSL (ret.)
Rowdabaugh, K.	FS	MS	78	Role of fire - PP	BLM-Arizona St. Office
Ryan, K.	FS	MS	76	Fire hazards & risks in Colorado Forests	USFS-RMRS
Schramel, J.	FS	MS	77	Fire education program for H.S. students	Greenville, CA H.S. and USFS R5 (ret.)
Schnur, E.	FS	MS	06	Post fire erosion	Grad Student
Senra-Rivero, F.	FS	MS	03	Rx fire in Andalucia	Andalucia Spain Fire Service
Sieg, M.	RR	MS	79	Fire effects modeling for recreation	USFS R2
Skinner, T.	FS	MS	87	Fire ecology in RMNP	USFWS WA.
Smith, D.	FS	MS	85	Fire economics	Puget Power Authority
Smith, J.	FS	MS	81	Veg. changes in aspen stand from pres. burn.	USFS RMRS
Spowart, R.	FWB	PhD	83	Fire and wldlf habitat	CDOW
Steele, R.	FS	PhD	75	Prescribed fire in dense conifer stands	Faculty, Univ. of Montana (ret)
Stubbs, G.	FS	MS	78	Fire mgmt. planning, White River NF	USFS R-4
Sullivan, J.	FS	MS1	84	Wildfire rehab. econ.anal.	Faculty V.P.I. Univ.
Teeter, L.	FS	PhD	83	FEES optimization algorithm	Faculty Auburn Univ.
Tu, B.	FS	MS	00	Urban Interface Fire	Wake Forest Medical School
Vaughan, R.	FS	MF	85	Legal aspects-fire mgmt	Private consultant
Washa, B.	FS	MS	01	Fuels Specialist	BLM/Utah State Office
Wetzel, M.	FS	MF	83	Fire/tropical ecosystems	Private consultant
Wheeler, D.	FS	MS	85	Fire behavior linkage to fire effects models	USFS R2
White, C.	FS	MS1	85	Fuel appraisal-Banff NP	Parks Canada
Williams, V.	FS	Ph.D	XX	Burn Severity Classification	Grad Student
Wooley, R.	FS	MF	77	Fire history in ponderosa pine
Wu, R.	FS	MS	99	Fire history in mixed conifer	USFS R 2 San Juan NF
Wyant, J.	FS	MS1	83	Fire effects on tree photosynthetic area	Private research contractor, Corvallis
Yancik, R.	FS	MS	86	Stochastic prescribed fire scheduling	USFS R2
Zimmerman, T.	FS	PhD	90	Fire/dwarf mistletoe	NIFC-NPS

Notes:

FS - Forest Sciences
FWB - Fishery and Wildlife Biology
ER - Earth Resources
RR - Recreation Resources
XX - In progress
1 - Earned PhD/MS in another discipline

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