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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief:
Robert E. Keane
, PhD, USDA Forest Service Missoula, USA

 

Technical and Language Editor:
Laurie Burk
, Association for Fire Ecology, Eugene, OR, USA

Fire Social Science
Section Editors


Christine Eriksen (PhD), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Maria Cifre-Sabater (PhD), Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Catrin M. Edgeley (PhD), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Alexandra Paige Fischer (PhD), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MD, USA
Katharine Haynes (PhD), New South Wales Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Judith A. Kirschner (PhD), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Christian A. Kull (PhD), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Shefali Juneja Lakhina (PhD), Wonder Labs, San Jose, CA, USA
Travis B. Paveglio (PhD), University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
Iokiñe Rodríguez Fernandez (PhD), University of East Anglia, Research Park, Norwich, UK

Associate Editors:

Heather D. Alexander (PhD), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA
Sofia Bajocco (PhD), Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Rome, Italy
Jennifer N. Baron (PhD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mohammed Bataineh (PhD), Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, AR, USA
Erin J. Belval (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Laurence E. Berry (PhD), Forest Fire Management Victoria, VIC, Australia
Manuel Esteban Lucas Borja (PhD), University of Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
Matthew L. Brooks (PhD), USGS, Western Ecological Research Center (WERC), Fresno, CA, USA
​​​C. Alina Cansler (PhD), University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
Eugenia Chaideftou (PhD), Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
G. Matt Davies (PhD), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Kimberley T. Davis (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, USA
Guillermo E. Defossé (PhD), National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina
Stacy A. Drury (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA
Alex W. Dye (PhD), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Todd C. Esque (PhD), USGS, Western Ecological Research Center (WERC), Fresno, CA, USA
Paulo M. Fernandes (PhD), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Michael Flannigan (PhD), University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Samuel D. Fuhlendorf (PhD), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
Peng Gao (PhD), University of North Carolina Wilmington, NC, USA
Pankaj Kumar Gupta (PhD), University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
Brice B. Hanberry (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Justin L. Hart (PhD), University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
J. Kevin Hiers (PhD), The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), Washington, DC, USA
Andrés Holz (PhD), Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA
Sharon M. Hood (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, USA
Paul F. Hessburg (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA
Andrew T. Hudak (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID, USA
Gavin M. Jones (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Jeffrey M. Kane (PhD), California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcata, CA, USA
Luke T. Kelly (PhD), University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC, Australia
Becky K. Kerns (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA
Eric Kilburg, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, Topeka, KS, USA
John B. Kim (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA
Eric E. Knapp (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA
Lauren S. Pile Knapp (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Madison, WI, USA
Anu Kramer (PhD), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Meg A. Krawchuk (PhD), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Jesse K. Kreye (PhD), PennState, University Park, PA, USA
Leda N. Kobziar (PhD), University of Idaho, Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA
Andrew J. Larson (PhD), University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
Rachel A. Loehman (PhD), USGS, Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, USA
James A. Lutz (PhD), Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
David B. McWethy (PhD), Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
Cara R. Nelson (PhD), University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
Katherine M. O'Donnell (PhD), USGS, California Water Science Center, Sacramento, CA. USA
Padam Jee Omar (PhD), Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Ganesh Ji Omar (PhD), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Russell A. Parsons (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, USA
David L. Peterson (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA
Diego R. Pérez-Salicrup (PhD), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
Susan J. Prichard (PhD), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Adrián Regos (PhD), Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), Solsona, Spain
Karin L. Riley (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, USA
Kevin M. Robertson (PhD), Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Monique E. Rocca (PhD), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Courtney A. Schultz (PhD), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Callie Schweitzer (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Asheville, NC, USA
Karen C. Short (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, USA
Kimberley J. Simpson (PhD), University of Sheffield, UK
Michael C. Stambaugh (PhD), University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Scott L. Stephens (PhD), University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Thomas W. Swetnam (PhD), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Aqil Tariq (PhD), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA
Andrea E. Thode (PhD), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Matthew P. Thompson (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, USA
J. Morgan Varner (PhD), Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Brian W. van Wilgen (PhD), Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa
Zhiwei Wu (PhD), Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
Larissa L. Yocom (PhD), Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
Jesse D. Young (PhD), USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, USA
 

2024 Outstanding Associate Editor

2023 Associate Editor DLP2

Dr. David L. Peterson, Professor of Forest Biology at the University of Washington, and Emeritus Senior Research Scientist with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station in Corvallis, Oregon, has conducted research on fire science and climate change throughout the western United States; and has published 280 scientific articles and 5 books on these topics. He was a contributing author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was co-lead for the Forests chapter of the Fourth National Climate Assessment. Prof. Peterson was formerly Editor-in-Chief for Northwest Science (Northwest Scientific Association), and served as Associate Editor for Ecological Applications (Wiley), Canadian Journal of Forest Science (Canadian Science Publishing), and Environmental Science and Policy (Elsevier). He currently works on climate change vulnerability assessments and adaptation on federal lands in the western United States in association with the USDA Northwest Climate Hub and the Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center. Prof. Peterson lives on Mountain Heart Tree Farm in northwest Washington, where he has planted 3000 native trees and cultivates bonsai, epiphyllums, and a variety of vegetables, fruits, and flowers.

Editor's Note: Dave has been a major rock on our editorial mountain since Fire Ecology's inception. He has taken the most contentious and ground-breaking papers and lead the review of these papers with objectivity and professionalism. Dave has also stepped in and taken over the AE role on nearly all our major emergencies. His reviews are of the highest quality, they are done quickly and without snags.  Thank you, Dave, for all the work you have done for Fire Ecology throughout your career.

2024 Journal Service Award

2023 Associate Editor KShort

Dr. Karen C. Short, Research Ecologist at the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station located at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Montana, began her career in wildland fire science studying the effects of prescribed burns in southwestern national parks. Her current research is focused on wildfire risk assessment and mitigation efforts at national and regional scales. To support that work, Dr. Short has developed and maintains several fundamental wildfire activity datasets and is a member of an informal confederation of interagency teams working to improve the availability and quality of wildland fire data for research and fire management applications. 

Editor's Note: Karen volunteered to be an editor for a special collection in Fire Ecology. Unbeknownst to her, most of the papers in that collection were written by authors who were also editors of the collection. As a result, Karen was assigned eight articles over the last two years and, at one time, she was working on five articles simultaneously–a new record for Fire Ecology. We thank her for the service above and beyond the call.

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