Landscape Fire and Conservation Science Research Group

Lab News

Congratulations Claire Tortorelli! NSF GRFP recipient for 2019. Super star.

New paper in Landscape Ecology from Will Downing showing influence of fire refugia on post-fire forest recovery in Oregon's Blue Mountains

New paper: Influence of fire refugia spatial pattern on post-fire forest recovery in Oregon's Blue Mountains

Our Early Seral Biodiversity project in SW Oregon is up and running: looking forward to terrific 2019 field season led by PhD student Graham Frank

Fire Refugia in the NYT: Carl Zimmer "Lifeboats amid the world's wildfires" covers our research and recent pub on fire refugia

Yeah fire refugia. August 2018 | NWCASC funding for our PNW fire refugia work. Nicely done Garrett Meigs, leading the charge on this proposal!

Congratulations Kurt Frei! August 2018 | Kurt defended his MSc at SFU on streamwood recruitment after wildfire in beetle-affected forests of central BC.

Congratulations Will Downing! June 2018 | Will defended his MS thesis on fire refugia in Oregon's Blue Mountains.

New PhD position open in the lab June/Fall 2018: Early seral forest biodiversity

Join our Landscape Fire and Conservation Science Research Group!

PhD opportunity in fire and landscape ecology: Biodiversity in natural and managed early seral forests of southwestern Oregon

We've posted our new Ventenata research program website. Come take a look.

Our paper, Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes, published in PNAS

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes.

See the infographic here: ADAPT TO MORE WILDFIRE