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The scientific foundation behind Vibrant Planet's work — peer-reviewed papers, technical reports, preprints, and presentations spanning wildfire risk, forest structure, fire behavior, and landscape restoration.

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Decision Support & Planning
2026
A collaborative, cloud-based decision support system for structured wildfire risk mitigation planning
Safford, H.; Miller, C.; Perrot, D.; Gilbert, S.; Hoecker, T.; Koontz, M.; Kornhauser, K.; Thompson, M.; Shannon, J.; Rutenbeck, N.; Scott, J.; Conway, S.; Duffy, K.
Ecological Modelling
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Decision Support & Planning
2026
Advances in decision support platforms for prioritizing investments in forest and rangeland restoration, risk reduction and biodiversity conservation
Ager, A.; Safford, H.
Advances in Optimization and Wildfire (Springer, Lecture Notes in Operations Research)
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Fire Management & Policy
2026
Wildland fire severity surpluses and deficits across ecosystems of the United States
Koontz, M.J.; Hoecker, T.J.
Ecological Society of America Webinar Series
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Decision Support & Planning
2026
UC Davis FFERAL Lecture Series: wildfire impacts and forest resilience
Duffy, K.
UC Davis FFERAL Lecture Series
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Forest Health & Restoration
2026
Developing a roadmap for a merchantable timber statistical account
Rutenbeck, N.
Workshop — Timber Statistical Accounting
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2026
Benchmarking performance of annual burn probability modeling against subsequent wildfire activity in California
Moran, C.J.; Scott, J.H.; Thompson, M.P.; Vogler, K.C.
Scientific Reports
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Fire Management & Policy
2026
Beyond average: a new approach to calculating fire regime departures applied to western United States forests
Chandler, J. R.; Parks, S. A.; Hoecker, T. J.; Cansler, C. A.; Dobrowski, S. Z.
Ecosphere
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Fire Management & Policy
2025
Opportunities for intentional fire use and opportunity costs of no action
Hoecker, T.J.; Harvey, B.J.
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
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Fire Management & Policy
2025
Fire severity deficits and surpluses across ecosystems of the United States
Koontz, M.J.; Hoecker, T.J.
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
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Hydrology & Water Resources
2025
Continuous monitoring finds enhanced watershed functions coincident with reduced wildfire severity within treated areas
Shannon, J.; Thompson, M.P.; Gannon, B.M.
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
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Decision Support & Planning
2025
FVS… and what comes next
Diaz, D.
FVS User Group Meeting
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Decision Support & Planning
2025
Applying MicroFVS to calibrate the Forest Vegetation Simulator
Diaz, D.
FVS User Workshop
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Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2025
Forest Innovation Platform: mapping forest structure and products
Diaz, D.; Ndegwa, K.
Forest Innovation Platform Webinar
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Forest Health & Restoration
2025
North American Carbon World: forest carbon measurement and wildfire
Duffy, K.; Koontz, M.J.
North American Carbon World Conference
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Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2025
Consortium for environmentally resilient business: wildfire risk and forest management
Duffy, K.
Consortium for Environmentally Resilient Business Webinar
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Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2025
University of Pennsylvania: designing for fire
Duffy, K.
University of Pennsylvania Guest Lecture
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Forest Health & Restoration
2025
American Geophysical Union: accounting for carbon in forests where disturbance is the rule, not the exception
Duffy, K.; Koontz, M.J.
AGU Fall Meeting 2025
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Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Ponderosa Pine Wood Utilization Workshop
Duffy, K.
Ponderosa Pine Wood Utilization Workshop
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Decision Support & Planning
2025
Association for Fire Ecology Special Session: From chronic costs to lasting benefits: Reorienting fire management through impact assessment
Duffy, K.; Koontz, M.J.; Shannon, J.
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
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Hydrology & Water Resources
2025
Continuous monitoring through remote sensing finds enhanced watershed functions coincident with reduced wildfire severity within treated areas
Shannon, J.; Thompson, M.P.; Gannon, B.M.
AGU Fall Meeting 2025 (Poster)
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Pyrologix
Fire Management & Policy
2025
Quality assured spatial dataset of wildfire containment firelines and engagement outcomes 2017 to 2024
Arkowitz, A.; Ritter, S. M.; Thompson, M. P.; Young, J. D.; Pietruszka, B.; Calkin, D. E.
Earth System Science Data
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2025
Wildfires have created instability within risk transfer markets: here's a path forward
Thompson, M. P.; Calkin, D. E.; MacGregor, D. M.; Young, B. A.; Barrett, K.; Fischer, E. C.; Johnson, J. V.
WIREs Climate Change
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VP PBC
Decision Support & Planning
2025
Ecological scenarios: embracing ecological uncertainty in an era of global change
Clark‐Wolf, K.; Moss, W. E.; Miller, B. W.; Rangwala, I.; Sofaer, H. R.; Schuurman, G. W.; Magness, D.; Symstad, A. J.; Coop, J. D.; Bachelet, D. B.; Barsugli, J. J.; Ciocco, A.; Crausbay, S. D.; Hoecker, T.; Lewinsohn, J. S.; Oldfather, M. F.; Richmond, O. M. W.; Rondeau, R.; Runyon, A.; Russell, R. E.; Wilkening, J. L.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
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Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Challenges and strategic recommendations for enhancing quantification and projection of forest carbon dynamics
Munro, H. L.; Woodall, C. W.; Anderegg, W. R. L.; Atkins, J. W.; Beier, C. M.; Bullock, B. P.; DeLyser, K.; Diaz, D. D.; Eskelson, B. N.; Evans, M. E. K.; Foppert, J. D.; Foster, B. C.; Fox, T. R.; Frank, J. M.; Froese, R. E.; Gaines, G. C.; Gould, P.; Hailemariam, T.; Hall, E. S.; Heckman, K. A.; Helmer, E. H.; Hogan, J. A.; Hoover, C. M.; Kinane, S. M.; MacFarlane, D. W.; Murray, L. T.; Paradis, G.; Poudel, K. P.; Prisley, S. P.; Rakestraw, J. L.; Restrepo, H.; Sharma, A.; Shaw, J. D.; Smith-Mateja, E.; VanderSchaaf, C. L.; Vatandaslar, C.; Weiskittel, A. R.; Yang, S. I.
Environmental Research Letters
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2025
Modeling neighborhoods as fuel for wildfire: a review
Young, B. A.; Thompson, M. P.; Moran, C. J.; Seielstad, C. A.
International Journal of Wildland Fire
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VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Changing climate may drive large shifts in vegetation zones of Oregon, USA
Yegorova, S. V.; Dobrowski, S. Z.; Parks, S. A.; Davis, K. T.; Metlen, K. L.; Haugo, R. D.; Timberlake, T. J.; Hoecker, T. J.; Kemp, K. B.; Wahlberg, M.; Naficy, C. E.; Jeronimo, S. M. A.; Fitzgerald, K.; Wijayratne, U.
Global Change Biology
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Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Limited directional change in mountaintop plant communities over 19 years in western North America
Goff, K. A.; Oldfather, M. F.; Nachlinger, J.; Smithers, B. V.; Koontz, M. J.; Bishop, C.; Bishop, J.; Burke, M. T.; Sheth, S. N.
Global Ecology and Biogeography
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Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Restoring credibility in carbon offsets through systematic ex post evaluation
Delacote, P.; Chabé-Ferret, S.; Creti, A.; Duffy, K.; Elias, M.; Guizar-Coutiño, A.; Filewod, B.; Groom, B.; Kontoleon, A.; LeVelly, G.; L’Horty, T.; Missirian, A.; West, T. A. P.
Nature Climate Change
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Blue Forest, Vibrant Planet
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Carbon finance for forest resilience in California
Elias, M.; Yackulic, E.; Duffy, K.; Saksa, P.; Sanchez, D. L.; Pevzner, N.; Plumb, S.; Dyszynski, J.; Bracer, C.
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
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Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2025
VibrantVS: A high-resolution multi-task transformer for forest canopy height estimation
Chang, T.; Ndegwa, K.; Gros, A.; Landau, V. A.; Zachmann, L. J.; State, B.; Gritts, M. A.; Miller, C. W.; Rutenbeck, N. E.; Conway, S.; Bayes, G.
Remote Sensing
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Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Rising from the ashes: treatments stabilize carbon storage in California's frequent-fire forests
Yackulic, E.; Elias, M.; Shannon, J.; Gilbert, S.; Koontz, M.; Plumb, S.; Sloggy, M.; Duffy, K.
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
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Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2025
VibrantSR: Sub-meter canopy height models from Sentinel-2 using generative flow matching
Ndegwa, K.; Gros, A.; Chang, T.; Diaz, D.; Landau, V.A.; Rutenbeck, N.E.; Zachmann, L.J.; Bayes, G.; Conway, S.
arXiv preprint (arXiv:2501.09866)
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Forest Health & Restoration
2024
Forest MMRV in a Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities
Diaz, D.; Rutenbeck, N.; Chang, T.
USDA Climate Smart Commodities Partnership Meeting
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Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2024
Generating a time series of forest change to enable supply chain monitoring and reporting for Climate Smart Commodities in the USA
Diaz, D.; Rutenbeck, N.; Chang, T.; Ndegwa, K.
AGU Fall Meeting 2024
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Decision Support & Planning
2024
Simplifying, consolidating, and refitting FVS equations simultaneously across multiple ecoregions
Diaz, D.; Shannon, J.
FVS User Group Meeting
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2024
Wildfire ignition probabilities by cause for the western and southeastern United States
Moran, C.J.; Scott, J.H.; Thompson, M.P.
Proceedings of the 7th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2024
Simulating daily large fire spread events in the Northern Front Range, Colorado, USA
Thompson, M.P.; Nguyen, D.; Moran, C.J.; Scott, J.H.; Wei, Y.; Young, B.
Fire
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2024
Methods and outputs of the Wildfire Exposure Simulation Tool (WildEST)
Pyrologix
Pyrologix Technical Report
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2024
Pixels to pyrometrics: UAS-derived infrared imagery to evaluate and monitor prescribed fire behavior and effects
O'Neill, L.; Fule, P.; Watts, A.; Moran, C.J.; Hopkins, B.; Rowell, E.; Thode, A.; Afghan, F.
Fire Ecology
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Pyrologix
Forest Health & Restoration
2024
Impact and recovery of forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States
Epstein, M.; Seielstad, C.; Moran, C.J.
Fire Ecology
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Forest Health & Restoration
2024
Mind the Gap' — reforestation needs vs. reforestation capacity in the western United States
Dobrowski, S. Z.; Aghai, M. M.; Chichilnisky du Lac, A.; Downer, R.; Fargione, J.; Haase, D. L.; Hoecker, T.; Kildisheva, O. A.; Murdoch, A.; Newman, S.; North, M.; Saksa, P.; Sjoholm, M.; Baribault, T.; Buonanduci, M. S.; Chambers, M. E.; Gonzales-Kramer, L.; Harvey, B. J.; Hurteau, M. D.; Loevner, J.; Safford, H. D.; Sloan, J.
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
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Fire Management & Policy
2024
A fire-use decision model to improve the United States' wildfire management and support climate change adaptation
Hoecker, T.; Harvey, B.J.; Hessburg, P.F.; Prichard, S.J.; Veblen, T.T.; Mietkiewicz, N.
Cell Reports Sustainability
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Forest Health & Restoration
2023
Parameters of 150 temperate and boreal tree species and provenances for an individual-based forest landscape and disturbance model
Hoecker, T.J.; Braziunas, K.H.; Turner, M.G.; Rammer, W.; Seidl, R.
Data in Brief
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Pyrologix
Hydrology & Water Resources
2022
System analysis of wildfire-water supply risk in Colorado, USA with Monte Carlo wildfire and rainfall simulation
Gannon, B.M.; Wei, Y.; Thompson, M.P.; Scott, J.H.; Short, K.C.
USFS Research Paper RMRS-RP-112
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Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2022
Mapping fine-scale crown scorch in 3D with remotely piloted aircraft systems
Moran, C. J.; Hoff, V.; Parsons, R. A.; Queen, L. P.; Seielstad, C. A.
Fire
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2022
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives
Thompson, M. P.; Vogler, K. C.; Scott, J. H.; Miller, C.
Fire Ecology
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Pyrologix
Decision Support & Planning
2021
Integrating forest restoration, adaptation, and proactive fire management: Rogue River Basin case study
Metlen, K.L.; Fairbanks, T.; Bennett, M.; Volpe, J.; Kuhn, B.; Thompson, M.P.; Thrailkill, J.; Schindel, M.; Helmbrecht, D.; Scott, J.H.; Borgias, D.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2020
Wildfire Risk to Communities: Spatial datasets of wildfire risk for populated areas in the United States
Scott, J. H.; Brough, A. M.; Gilbertson-Day, J. W.; Dillon, G. K.; Moran, C.
USFS Research Data Archive (RDS-2020-0060)
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Pyrologix
Fire Management & Policy
2020
Wildfire risk science facilitates adaptation of fire-prone social-ecological systems to the new fire reality
Dunn, C. J.; O’Connor, C. D.; Abrams, J.; Thompson, M. P.; Calkin, D. E.; Johnston, J. D.; Stratton, R.; Gilbertson-Day, J.
Environmental Research Letters
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2020
Wildfire Risk to Communities: Spatial datasets of landscape-wide wildfire risk components for the United States
Scott, J. H.; Gilbertson-Day, J. W.; Moran, C.; Dillon, G. K.; Short, K. C.; Vogler, K. C.
USFS Research Data Archive (RDS-2020-0016)
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2020
Spatial datasets of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the United States (v2)
Short, K. C.; Finney, M. A.; Vogler, K. C.; Scott, J. H.; Gilbertson-Day, J. W.; Grenfell, I. C.
USFS Research Data Archive (RDS-2016-0034-2)
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Pyrologix
Decision Support & Planning
2020
Prototyping a geospatial atlas for wildfire planning and management
Thompson, M. P.; Gannon, B. M.; Caggiano, M. D.; O’Connor, C. D.; Brough, A.; Gilbertson-Day, J. W.; Scott, J. H.
Forests
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2020
Pyromes of the conterminous United States
Short, K. C.; Grenfell, I. C.; Riley, K. L.; Vogler, K. C.
USFS Research Data Archive (RDS-2020-0020)
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Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2020
Mapping forest canopy fuels in the western United States with LiDAR-Landsat covariance
Moran, C. J.; Kane, V. R.; Seielstad, C. A.
Remote Sensing
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2020
A deterministic method for generating flame-length probabilities
Scott, J.H.
Pyrologix Technical Report
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Pyrologix
Decision Support & Planning
2019
Uncertainty and probability in wildfire management decision support, an example from the United States
Thompson, M.P.; Calkin, D.; Scott, J.H.; Hand, M.
Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (Springer, Book Chapter)
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2019
Deriving fire behavior metrics from UAS imagery
Moran, C. J.; Seielstad, C. A.; Cunningham, M. R.; Hoff, V.; Parsons, R. A.; Queen, L.; Sauerbrey, K.; Wallace, T.
Fire
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Pyrologix
Fire Management & Policy
2019
Designing operationally relevant daily large fire containment strategies
Wei, Y.; Thompson, M. P.; Scott, J. H.; O’Connor, C. D.; Dunn, C. J.
Forests
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Pyrologix
Fire Management & Policy
2018
A model-based framework to evaluate alternative wildfire suppression strategies
Riley, K.L.; Thompson, M.P.; Scott, J.H.; Gilbertson-Day, J.
Resources
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Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2018
A data-driven framework to identify and compare forest structure classes using LiDAR
Ayoub, F.; Jones, C.; Lamb, M.; Holt, B.; Shaw, J.; Mohrig, D.; Wagner, W.
Remote Sensing of Environment
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Pyrologix
Hydrology & Water Resources
2017
Capturing spatiotemporal variation in wildfires for improving postwildfire debris-flow hazard assessments
Haas, J.R.; Thompson, M.P.; Tillery, A.; Scott, J.H.
USGS / Springer Book Chapter
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2016
Spatial dataset of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the conterminous United States (v1)
Short, K. C.; Finney, M. A.; Scott, J. H.; Gilbertson-Day, J. W.; Grenfell, I. C.
USFS Research Data Archive (RDS-2016-0034)
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2016
Quantifying the influence of previously burned areas on suppression effectiveness and avoided exposure: Las Conchas Fire
Thompson, M.P.; Freeborn, P.; Rieck, J.D.; Calkin, D.E.; Gilbertson-Day, J.; Cochrane, M.A.; Hand, M.S.
International Journal of Wildland Fire
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2016
Integrating pixel- and polygon-based approaches to wildfire risk assessment: application to a high-value watershed on the Pike and San Isabel NFs, Colorado
Thompson, M.P.; Gilbertson-Day, J.; Scott, J.H.
Environmental Management
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2016
Examining alternative fuel management strategies and the relative contribution of National Forest System land to wildfire risk to adjacent homes
Scott, J.H.; Thompson, M.P.; Gilbertson-Day, J.
Forest Ecology and Management
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2016
Application of wildfire risk assessment results to wildfire response planning in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Thompson, M.P.; Bowden, P.; Brough, A.; Scott, J.H.; Gilbertson-Day, J.; Taylor, A.H.; Anderson, J.; Haas, J.
Forests
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Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2015
The AmericaView classification methods accuracy comparison project: a rigorous approach for model selection
Alexandrov, M. D.; Cairns, B.; Wasilewski, A. P.; Ackerman, A. S.; McGill, M. J.; Yorks, J. E.; Hlavka, D. L.; Platnick, S. E.; Thomas Arnold, G.; van Diedenhoven, B.; Chowdhary, J.; Ottaviani, M.; Knobelspiesse, K. D.
Remote Sensing of Environment
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2015
Exploring how alternative mapping approaches influence fireshed assessment and human community exposure to wildfire
Scott, J.H.; Thompson, M.P.; Gilbertson-Day, J.
USFS Treesearch
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2015
Development and application of a geospatial wildfire exposure and risk calculation tool
Thompson, M.P.; Haas, J.R.; Gilbertson-Day, J.; Scott, J.H.; Langowski, P.; Bowne, E.; Calkin, D.E.
Environmental Modelling & Software
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2015
Emerging concepts in wildfire risk assessment and management
Scott, J.H.; Thompson, M.P.
USFS Treesearch
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2014
Wildfire exposure and fuel management on western US national forests
Ager, A.A.; Day, M.A.; McHugh, C.W.; Short, K.; Gilbertson-Day, J.; Finney, M.A.; Calkin, D.E.
Journal of Environmental Management
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Pyrologix
Hydrology & Water Resources
2014
Potential postwildfire debris-flow hazards: a prewildfire evaluation for the Sandia and Manzano Mountains, New Mexico
Tillery, A.C.; Haas, J.R.; Miller, L.W.; Scott, J.H.; Thompson, M.P.
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5161
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2014
Assessing the expected effects of wildfire on vegetation condition on the Bridger-Teton NF, Wyoming
Scott, J.H.; Helmbrecht, D.J.; Thompson, M.P.
USFS Treesearch
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2013
Research and development supporting risk-based wildfire effects prediction for fuels and fire management: status and needs
Hyde, K.; Dickinson, M.B.; Bohrer, G.; Calkin, D.; Evers, L.; Gilbertson-Day, J.; Nicolet, T.; Ryan, K.; Tague, C.
International Journal of Wildland Fire
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2013
Hazardous fuel treatments, suppression cost impacts, and risk mitigation
Thompson, M.P.; Hand, M.S.; Gilbertson-Day, J.; Vaillant, N.M.; Nalle, D.J.
Forest Policy and Economics
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2013
Integrated wildfire risk assessment: framework development and application on the Lewis and Clark NF, Montana
Thompson, M.P.; Scott, J.H.; Helmbrecht, D.; Calkin, D.
Ecology and Society
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2013
A wildfire risk assessment framework for land and resource management (GTR-315)
Scott, J.H.; Thompson, M.P.; Calkin, D.
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-315
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Pyrologix
Hydrology & Water Resources
2013
Assessing watershed-wildfire risks on National Forest System lands in the Rocky Mountain Region
Thompson, M.P.; Scott, J.H.; Langowski, P.G.; Gilbertson-Day, J.; Haas, J.R.; Bowne, E.M.
Water
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2013
A polygon-based modeling approach to assess exposure of resources and assets to wildfire
Thompson, M.P.; Scott, J.H.; Kaiden, J.D.; Gilbertson-Day, J.
Natural Hazards
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2012
Quantifying the threat of unsuppressed wildfires reaching adjacent wildland-urban interface on the Bridger-Teton NF, Wyoming
Scott, J.H.; Helmbrecht, D.J.; Parks, S.A.; Miller, C.
Natural Hazards
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Pyrologix
Hydrology & Water Resources
2012
Probabilistic assessment of wildfire hazard and municipal watershed exposure
Scott, J.H.; Helmbrecht, D.; Thompson, M.P.; Calkin, D.E.; Marcille, K.
Natural Hazards
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2012
Developing custom fire behavior fuel models from ecologically complex fuel structures for upper Atlantic Coastal Plain forests
Parresol, B.R.; Scott, J.H.; Andreu, A.; Prichard, S.; Kurth, L.
Forest Ecology and Management
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2012
Estimation of wildfire size and risk changes due to fuels treatments
Cochrane, M.A.; Moran, C.J.; Wimberly, M.C.; Baer, A.D.; Finney, M.A.; Beckendorf, K.L.; Eidenshink, J.; Zhu, Z.
Forest Ecology and Management
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2011
Integrated national-scale assessment of wildfire risk to human and ecological values
Thompson, M.P.; Calkin, D.E.; Finney, M.A.; Ager, A.A.; Gilbertson-Day, J.
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
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Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2011
Do mountain pine beetle outbreaks change the probability of active crown fire in lodgepole pine forests? (Comments)
Simard, M.; Romme, W. H.; Griffin, J. M.; Turner, M. G.
Ecology
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2011
Advancing effects analysis for integrated, large-scale wildfire risk assessment
Thompson, M.P.; Calkin, D.E.; Gilbertson-Day, J.; Ager, A.A.
Environmental Modelling & Software
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Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2011
A comparative risk assessment framework for wildland fire management: the 2010 cohesive strategy science report
Calkin, D.E.; Ager, A.A.; Thompson, M.P.; Finney, M.A.; Lee, D.C.; Quigley, T.M.; McHugh, C.W.; Riley, K.L.; Gilbertson-Day, J.
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-262
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Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2010
Wildfire risk and hazard: procedures for the first approximation
Calkin, D.E.; Ager, A.A.; Gilbertson-Day, J.; Scott, J.H. et al.
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-235
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Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2007
Nomographs for estimating surface fire behavior characteristics without a computer
Scott, J.H.
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-192
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Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2007
Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands
Scott, J.H.; Reinhardt, E.D.
USFS Treesearch
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Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2006
Estimating canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands in the western United States using tree and stand measurements
Reinhardt, E.D.; Scott, J.H.; Gray, K.; Keane, R.E.
USFS Treesearch
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Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2006
Comparison of crown fire modeling systems used in three fire management applications
Scott, J.H.
USFS Treesearch
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Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2006
An analytical framework for quantifying wildland fire risk and fuel treatment benefit
Scott, J.H.
USFS Treesearch
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Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2006
Off the Richter: magnitude and intensity scales for wildland fire
Scott, J.H.
Pyrologix Publication
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Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2005
Stereo photo guide for estimating canopy fuel characteristics in conifer stands
Scott, J.H.; Reinhardt, E.D.
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-145
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Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2005
Standard fire behavior fuel models: a comprehensive set for use with Rothermel's surface fire spread model
Scott, J.H.; Burgan, R.E.
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-153
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Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2005
Estimating forest canopy bulk density using six indirect methods
Keane, R.E.; Reinhardt, E.D.; Scott, J.H.; Gray, K.; Reardon, J.A.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
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Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2003
Canopy fuel treatment standards for the wildland-urban interface
Scott, J.H.
Pyrologix Publication
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Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2001
Assessing crown fire potential by linking models of surface and crown fire behavior
Scott, J.H.; Reinhardt, E.D.
USFS Research Paper RMRS-RP-29
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Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
1998
Sensitivity analysis of a method for assessing crown fire hazard in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA
Scott, J.H.
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