Presentations and publications
Research
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.
VP PBC
Decision Support & Planning
2026
A collaborative, cloud-based decision support system for structured wildfire risk mitigation planning
Ecological Modelling
VP PBC
Decision Support & Planning
2026
Advances in decision support platforms for prioritizing investments in forest and rangeland restoration, risk reduction and biodiversity conservation
Advances in Optimization and Wildfire (Springer, Lecture Notes in Operations Research)
VP PBC
Fire Management & Policy
2026
Wildland fire severity surpluses and deficits across ecosystems of the United States
Ecological Society of America Webinar Series
VP PBC
Decision Support & Planning
2026
UC Davis FFERAL Lecture Series: wildfire impacts and forest resilience
UC Davis FFERAL Lecture Series
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2026
Developing a roadmap for a merchantable timber statistical account
Workshop — Timber Statistical Accounting
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2026
Benchmarking performance of annual burn probability modeling against subsequent wildfire activity in California
Scientific Reports
VP PBC
Fire Management & Policy
2026
Beyond average: a new approach to calculating fire regime departures applied to western United States forests
Ecosphere
VP PBC
Fire Management & Policy
2025
Opportunities for intentional fire use and opportunity costs of no action
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
VP PBC
Fire Management & Policy
2025
Fire severity deficits and surpluses across ecosystems of the United States
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
VP PBC
Hydrology & Water Resources
2025
Continuous monitoring finds enhanced watershed functions coincident with reduced wildfire severity within treated areas
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
VP PBC
Decision Support & Planning
2025
FVS… and what comes next
FVS User Group Meeting
VP PBC
Decision Support & Planning
2025
Applying MicroFVS to calibrate the Forest Vegetation Simulator
FVS User Workshop
VP PBC
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2025
Forest Innovation Platform: mapping forest structure and products
Forest Innovation Platform Webinar
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
North American Carbon World: forest carbon measurement and wildfire
North American Carbon World Conference
VP PBC
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2025
Consortium for environmentally resilient business: wildfire risk and forest management
Consortium for Environmentally Resilient Business Webinar
VP PBC
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2025
University of Pennsylvania: designing for fire
University of Pennsylvania Guest Lecture
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
American Geophysical Union: accounting for carbon in forests where disturbance is the rule, not the exception
AGU Fall Meeting 2025
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Ponderosa Pine Wood Utilization Workshop
Ponderosa Pine Wood Utilization Workshop
VP PBC
Decision Support & Planning
2025
Association for Fire Ecology Special Session: From chronic costs to lasting benefits: Reorienting fire management through impact assessment
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
VP PBC
Hydrology & Water Resources
2025
Continuous monitoring through remote sensing finds enhanced watershed functions coincident with reduced wildfire severity within treated areas
AGU Fall Meeting 2025 (Poster)
Pyrologix
Fire Management & Policy
2025
Quality assured spatial dataset of wildfire containment firelines and engagement outcomes 2017 to 2024
Earth System Science Data
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2025
Wildfires have created instability within risk transfer markets: here's a path forward
WIREs Climate Change
VP PBC
Decision Support & Planning
2025
Ecological scenarios: embracing ecological uncertainty in an era of global change
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Challenges and strategic recommendations for enhancing quantification and projection of forest carbon dynamics
Environmental Research Letters
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2025
Modeling neighborhoods as fuel for wildfire: a review
International Journal of Wildland Fire
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Changing climate may drive large shifts in vegetation zones of Oregon, USA
Global Change Biology
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Limited directional change in mountaintop plant communities over 19 years in western North America
Global Ecology and Biogeography
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Restoring credibility in carbon offsets through systematic ex post evaluation
Nature Climate Change
Blue Forest, Vibrant Planet
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Carbon finance for forest resilience in California
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
VP PBC
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2025
VibrantVS: A high-resolution multi-task transformer for forest canopy height estimation
Remote Sensing
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2025
Rising from the ashes: treatments stabilize carbon storage in California's frequent-fire forests
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
VP PBC
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2025
VibrantSR: Sub-meter canopy height models from Sentinel-2 using generative flow matching
arXiv preprint (arXiv:2501.09866)
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2024
Forest MMRV in a Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities
USDA Climate Smart Commodities Partnership Meeting
VP PBC
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
AGU Fall Meeting 2024
VP PBC
Decision Support & Planning
2024
Simplifying, consolidating, and refitting FVS equations simultaneously across multiple ecoregions
FVS User Group Meeting
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2024
Wildfire ignition probabilities by cause for the western and southeastern United States
Proceedings of the 7th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2024
Simulating daily large fire spread events in the Northern Front Range, Colorado, USA
Fire
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2024
Methods and outputs of the Wildfire Exposure Simulation Tool (WildEST)
Pyrologix Technical Report
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2024
Pixels to pyrometrics: UAS-derived infrared imagery to evaluate and monitor prescribed fire behavior and effects
Fire Ecology
Pyrologix
Forest Health & Restoration
2024
Impact and recovery of forest cover following wildfire in the Northern Rocky Mountains of the United States
Fire Ecology
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2024
Mind the Gap' — reforestation needs vs. reforestation capacity in the western United States
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
VP PBC
Fire Management & Policy
2024
A fire-use decision model to improve the United States' wildfire management and support climate change adaptation
Cell Reports Sustainability
VP PBC
Forest Health & Restoration
2023
Parameters of 150 temperate and boreal tree species and provenances for an individual-based forest landscape and disturbance model
Data in Brief
Pyrologix
Hydrology & Water Resources
2022
System analysis of wildfire-water supply risk in Colorado, USA with Monte Carlo wildfire and rainfall simulation
USFS Research Paper RMRS-RP-112
Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2022
Mapping fine-scale crown scorch in 3D with remotely piloted aircraft systems
Fire
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2022
Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives
Fire Ecology
Pyrologix
Decision Support & Planning
2021
Integrating forest restoration, adaptation, and proactive fire management: Rogue River Basin case study
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2020
Wildfire Risk to Communities: Spatial datasets of wildfire risk for populated areas in the United States
USFS Research Data Archive (RDS-2020-0060)
Pyrologix
Fire Management & Policy
2020
Wildfire risk science facilitates adaptation of fire-prone social-ecological systems to the new fire reality
Environmental Research Letters
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2020
Wildfire Risk to Communities: Spatial datasets of landscape-wide wildfire risk components for the United States
USFS Research Data Archive (RDS-2020-0016)
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2020
Spatial datasets of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the United States (v2)
USFS Research Data Archive (RDS-2016-0034-2)
Pyrologix
Decision Support & Planning
2020
Prototyping a geospatial atlas for wildfire planning and management
Forests
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2020
Pyromes of the conterminous United States
USFS Research Data Archive (RDS-2020-0020)
Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2020
Mapping forest canopy fuels in the western United States with LiDAR-Landsat covariance
Remote Sensing
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2020
A deterministic method for generating flame-length probabilities
Pyrologix Technical Report
Pyrologix
Decision Support & Planning
2019
Uncertainty and probability in wildfire management decision support, an example from the United States
Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (Springer, Book Chapter)
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2019
Deriving fire behavior metrics from UAS imagery
Fire
Pyrologix
Fire Management & Policy
2019
Designing operationally relevant daily large fire containment strategies
Forests
Pyrologix
Fire Management & Policy
2018
A model-based framework to evaluate alternative wildfire suppression strategies
Resources
Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2018
A data-driven framework to identify and compare forest structure classes using LiDAR
Remote Sensing of Environment
Pyrologix
Hydrology & Water Resources
2017
Capturing spatiotemporal variation in wildfires for improving postwildfire debris-flow hazard assessments
USGS / Springer Book Chapter
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2016
Spatial dataset of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the conterminous United States (v1)
USFS Research Data Archive (RDS-2016-0034)
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2016
Quantifying the influence of previously burned areas on suppression effectiveness and avoided exposure: Las Conchas Fire
International Journal of Wildland Fire
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
Environmental Management
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
Forest Ecology and Management
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2016
Application of wildfire risk assessment results to wildfire response planning in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Forests
Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2015
The AmericaView classification methods accuracy comparison project: a rigorous approach for model selection
Remote Sensing of Environment
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2015
Exploring how alternative mapping approaches influence fireshed assessment and human community exposure to wildfire
USFS Treesearch
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2015
Development and application of a geospatial wildfire exposure and risk calculation tool
Environmental Modelling & Software
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2015
Emerging concepts in wildfire risk assessment and management
USFS Treesearch
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2014
Wildfire exposure and fuel management on western US national forests
Journal of Environmental Management
Pyrologix
Hydrology & Water Resources
2014
Potential postwildfire debris-flow hazards: a prewildfire evaluation for the Sandia and Manzano Mountains, New Mexico
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2014-5161
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2014
Assessing the expected effects of wildfire on vegetation condition on the Bridger-Teton NF, Wyoming
USFS Treesearch
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2013
Research and development supporting risk-based wildfire effects prediction for fuels and fire management: status and needs
International Journal of Wildland Fire
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2013
Hazardous fuel treatments, suppression cost impacts, and risk mitigation
Forest Policy and Economics
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2013
Integrated wildfire risk assessment: framework development and application on the Lewis and Clark NF, Montana
Ecology and Society
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2013
A wildfire risk assessment framework for land and resource management (GTR-315)
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-315
Pyrologix
Hydrology & Water Resources
2013
Assessing watershed-wildfire risks on National Forest System lands in the Rocky Mountain Region
Water
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2013
A polygon-based modeling approach to assess exposure of resources and assets to wildfire
Natural Hazards
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2012
Quantifying the threat of unsuppressed wildfires reaching adjacent wildland-urban interface on the Bridger-Teton NF, Wyoming
Natural Hazards
Pyrologix
Hydrology & Water Resources
2012
Probabilistic assessment of wildfire hazard and municipal watershed exposure
Natural Hazards
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2012
Developing custom fire behavior fuel models from ecologically complex fuel structures for upper Atlantic Coastal Plain forests
Forest Ecology and Management
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2012
Estimation of wildfire size and risk changes due to fuels treatments
Forest Ecology and Management
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2011
Integrated national-scale assessment of wildfire risk to human and ecological values
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2011
Do mountain pine beetle outbreaks change the probability of active crown fire in lodgepole pine forests? (Comments)
Ecology
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2011
Advancing effects analysis for integrated, large-scale wildfire risk assessment
Environmental Modelling & Software
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2011
A comparative risk assessment framework for wildland fire management: the 2010 cohesive strategy science report
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-262
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2010
Wildfire risk and hazard: procedures for the first approximation
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-235
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2007
Nomographs for estimating surface fire behavior characteristics without a computer
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-192
Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2007
Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands
USFS Treesearch
Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2006
Estimating canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands in the western United States using tree and stand measurements
USFS Treesearch
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2006
Comparison of crown fire modeling systems used in three fire management applications
USFS Treesearch
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2006
An analytical framework for quantifying wildland fire risk and fuel treatment benefit
USFS Treesearch
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2006
Off the Richter: magnitude and intensity scales for wildland fire
Pyrologix Publication
Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2005
Stereo photo guide for estimating canopy fuel characteristics in conifer stands
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-145
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2005
Standard fire behavior fuel models: a comprehensive set for use with Rothermel's surface fire spread model
USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-153
Pyrologix
Forest Structure & Remote Sensing
2005
Estimating forest canopy bulk density using six indirect methods
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Pyrologix
Risk Assessment & Prioritization
2003
Canopy fuel treatment standards for the wildland-urban interface
Pyrologix Publication
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
2001
Assessing crown fire potential by linking models of surface and crown fire behavior
USFS Research Paper RMRS-RP-29
Pyrologix
Fire Behavior & Hazard Modeling
1998
Sensitivity analysis of a method for assessing crown fire hazard in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA
Pyrologix Publication