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https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/jaforthofer

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jaforthofer@fs.fed.us

Address:

5775 Highway 10 West
Missoula, MT 59808-9361

Phone:

406-329-4874

Mobile Phone:

406-207-5587

Fax:

406-329-4877

Featured Publications

1. An examination of flame shape related to convection heat transfer in deep-fuel beds
2. Fire behavior sensor package remote trigger design
3. Differences in simulated fire spread over Askervein Hill using two advanced wind models and a traditional uniform wind field
4. WindWizard: A New Tool for Fire Management Decision Support

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/bwbutler

Email:

bwbutler@fs.fed.us

Address:

5775 Hwy 10 W
Missoula, MT 59808

Phone:

406-329-4801

Featured Publications

1. Wildland firefighter safety zones: A review of past science and summary of future needs
2. Measurements of convective and radiative heating in wildland fires
3. Tree injury and mortality in fires: developing process-based models
4. High-resolution observations of the near-surface wind field over an isolated mountain and in a steep river canyon
5. Quantifying the effect of fuel reduction treatments on fire behavior in boreal forests
6. Fire behavior associated with the 1994 South Canyon fire on Storm King Mountain, Colorado
7. WindWizard: A New Tool for Fire Management Decision Support
8. Fine fuel heating by radiant flux
9. Flame interactions and burning characteristics of two live leaf samples
10. The fire environment--innovations, management, and policy; conference proceedings

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/cmchugh

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cmchugh@fs.fed.us

Address:

5775 Highway 10 West
Missoula, MT 59808-9361

Phone:

406-329-4800

Fax:

406-329-4877

Featured Publications

1. Modeling containment of large wildfires using generalized linear mixed-model analysis
2. Simulation of long-term landscape-level fuel treatment effects on large wildfires
3. Incorporating landscape fuel treatment modeling into the Forest Vegetation Simulator
4. Evaluation of a post-fire tree mortality model for western US conifers
5. Simulation of Long-Term Landscape-Level Fuel Treatment Effects on Large Wildfires

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https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/mfinney

Email:

mfinney@fs.fed.us

Address:

5775 Highway 10 West
Missoula, MT 59808

Phone:

406-329-4832

Featured Publications

1. Integrated national-scale assessment of wildfire risk to human and ecological values
2. Use of artificial landscapes to isolate controls on burn probability
3. Critical mass flux for flaming ignition of dead, dry wood as a function of exernal radiant heat flux
4. Carbon benefits from fuel treatments
5. An examination of flame shape related to convection heat transfer in deep-fuel beds

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/lbradshaw

Email:

lbradshaw@fs.fed.us

Address:

5775 US West Highway 10
Missoula, MT 59808

Phone:

406-329-4979

Featured Publications

1. Application of the Nelson model to four timelag fuel classes using Oklahoma field observations: Model evaluation and comparison with national Fire Danger Rating System algorithms
2. WindWizard: A New Tool for Fire Management Decision Support
3. Evaluation of MM5 model resolution when applied to prediction of national fire danger rating indexes
4. The effect of model resolution in predicting meteorological parameters used in fire danger rating.

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/nwagenbrenner

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nwagenbrenner@fs.fed.us

Address:

5775 Highway 10 West
Missoula, MT 59808-9361

Phone:

406-329-4793

Featured Publications