The Predictable, and not so Predictable, Spatial Distribution of Short Interval Fires Across the US West. Brian Buma, Melissa Lucash, Katherine Hayes and Shelby Weiss.
Landscape Context Mediates the effect of Shortening Fire Intervals in Boreal systems. Katherine Hayes and Brian Buma.
Using habitat suitability modeling to evaluate potential moose habitat and patterns of wildfire in interior Alaska. Shelby Weiss and Melissa Lucash
Drs. Lucash, Vogel and Scheller are in the process of integrating DAMM-MCNiP (Abramoff et al) into the Net Ecosystem Carbon and Nitrogen (NECN) extension of LANDIS-II to improve our representation of soil carbon stocks and fluxes. Planning to start testing it soon!
Fieldwork began in June for our project. Dr. Brian Buma (Univ. Colorado-Denver), Katherine Hayes (Univ. Colorado-Denver) and Shelby Weiss (Portland State Univ) collected vegetation data for 4-6 weeks in interior Alaska, sampling unburned and burned sites of varying frequencies.
Photo of Shelby, Kate and Kyle north of the arctic circle. Check out the 360!
Post from RICOH THETA. - Spherical Image - RICOH THETA
Adrienne (post-doc at U of Idaho) and Melissa attended the LANDIS-II training and conference at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Adrienne's talk focused on the integration of SHAW and LANDIS-II as part of this project.
We had a great PI meeting in Fairbanks in early June 2018. We discussed model development and spent a lot of time in the field.
