Fire Sciences Lab- Missoula

RM-CESU Expertise - Rocky Mountain Research Station
Fire Sciences Lab- Missoula
USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station Fire Sciences Lab 5775 W. Hwy. 10 Missoula MT 59802 Telephone: 406-329-4866
Patricia Andrews Research Physical Scientist Phone: (406) 329-4827 pandrews@fs.fed.us
Stephen Baker Chemist Phone: (406) 329-4865 sbaker03@fs.fed.us
Larry Bradshaw Meteorologist Phone: (406) 329-4979 lbradshaw@fs.fed.us		Fire weather and climatology, fire danger rating, forest meteorology
Bret Bulter Research Mechanical Engineer Phone: (406) 329-4801 bwbutler@fs.fed.us		Fundamental heat and combustion processes in wildland fire
Jack Cohen Research Physical Scientist Phone: (406) 329-4821 jcohen@fs.fed.us		Mechanisms of home ignitions during wildland fires, heat transfer required for ignition and flame zone propagation, fire dynamics of fire spread thresholds, fire spread in live vegetation fuel beds, heat and mass transfer changes for different fuel bed depths
Mark Finney Research Forester Phone: (406) 329-4832 mfinney@fs.fed.us
Wei Min Hao Supervisory Research Chemist Phone: (406) 329-4838 whao@fs.fed.us
Colin Hardy Research Forester Phone: (406) 329-4978 chardy01@fs.fed.us
Michael Harrington Research Forester Ph: (406) 329-4836 mharrington01@fs.fed.us
Faith Ann Heinsch Research Forester Phone: (406) 329-7342 fheinsch@fs.fed.us
Emily Heyerdaha Research Forester Phone: (406) 329-6939 eheyerdahl@fs.fed.us
Sharon Hood Forester Phone: (406) 329-4818 shood@fs.fed.us		Delayed tree mortality after fire, post-fire tree mortality and bark beetle interactions, and the effects of raking before fire in old-growth stands to reduce mortality from smoldering duff.
Dan Jimenez Mechanical Engineer Phone: (406) 329-4724 djimenez@fs.fed.us		Heat transfer and fluid flow model development and validation used to predict incident heat, temperature, wind profiles, and fire effects on forest landscapes, vegetation and soil types.
Matt Jolly Ecologist Phone: (406) 329-9361 mjolly@fs.fed.us		Linking plant physiological process with combustion and fire behavior characteristics of live fuels.
Robert Keane Research Ecologist Phone: (406) 329-4846 rkeane@fs.fed.us		Ecological modeling; first order fire effec; ecosystem restoratoin; fuel mapping and modeling; fuel mapping, sampling, and distributions
Eva Karau Ecologist Phone: (406) 329-6950 ekarua@fs.fed.us
Vladimir Kovalev Atmospheric Physicist Phone: (406) 329-4862 vkovalev@fs.fed.us		Theory, methodology, inversion methods and operative algorithms for lidar data processing. Lidar measurements of atmospheric turbidity in clear and moderately turbid atmospheres. Atmospheric visibility measurements
Elizabeth Reinhardt Research Forester Phone: (406) 329-4760 ereinhardt@fs.fed.us		Fuel consumption, fuel quantification, tree mortality and growth, and prescription development
Kevin C. Ryan Research Forester Phone: (406) 329-4807 kryan@fs.fed.us
Pamela Sikkink Research Ecologist Phone: (406) 329-7343 psikkink@fs.fed.us
Paul Sopko Physical Scientist Phone: (406) 329-4830 psopko@fs.fed.us
Shawn Urbanski Atmospheric Chemist Phone: (406) 329-4829 surbanski@fs.fed.us		Transport and transformation of emissions from biomass burning, measurement of atmospheric aerosol and trace gases, air quality forecasting, aerosol and trace gas emission inventories, terrestrial carbon exchange, impacts of climate change/variability on carbon exchange and fire in terrestrial ecosystems.
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