PUBLICATIONS
2024
Jain, P., Sharma, A., Acuna, D.C., Abatzoglou, J. and Flannigan, M. 2024. Record-breaking fire weather and impacts initiated by the 2021 Pacific northwest heat dome. Nature Communications. Accepted
Copes-Gerbitz, K., Sutherland, I. J., Dickson-Hoyle, S., Baron, J. N., Gonzalez-Moctezuma, P., Crowley, M. A., Kitchens, K. A., Devisscher, T., & Burr, J. (2024). Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research. Fire Ecology, 20(1), 12. link
Luo, k., Wang, X., de Jong, M., Flannigan, M. 2024. Drought triggers and sustains overnight fires in North America. Nature. Accepted.
Little, K., Graham, L., Flannigan, M., Belcher, C., Kettridge, N. 2024. Spatial variability of fuel moisture content in fire prone heathland and peatland landscapes. Fire Ecology. Accepted.
Erni, S., Wang, X., Swystun, T., Taylor, S. W., Parisien, M-A., Robinne, F-N., Eddy, B., Oliver, J., Armitage, B., Flannigan, M. 2024. Mapping wildfire hazard, vulnerability, and risk to Canadian communities. Journal International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. link
2023
Flannigan, M., Viegas, D.X., Ribeiro, L.M. 2023. IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: special issue introduction (Part 4). International Journal of Wildland Fire 32. link
Hanes, C., Wotton, M., Bourgeau-Chavez, L., Woolford, D.G., Belair, S., Martell, D. and Flannigan, M. 2023. Evaluation of new methods for drought estimation in the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. IJWF. link
Parisien, M-A., Barber, Q., Bourbonnais, M., Daniels, L., Hoffman, K., Gray, R., Jain, J., Taylor, S., Whitman, E. and Flannigan, M. 2023. Abrupt, climate-induced increase in wildfires in British Columbia since the mid-2000s. Communications Earth & Environment 4, 309 (2023). link
Parisien, M-A., Quinn, B., Piyush, J., Flannigan, M. 2023. Broadleaf-tree phenology and springtime wildfire occurrence in boreal Canada. Global Change Biology. link
Wang, X., Oliver, J., Swystun, T., Hanes, C., Erni, S. and Flannigan, M. 2023. Critical fire weather conditions during active fire spread days in Canada. Science of The Total Environment Volume 869, 15 April 2023, 161831. link
2022
Campos-Ruiz, R., Parisien, M.-A., & Flannigan, M. D. (2022). Physicochemical characteristics controlling the flammability of live Pinus banksiana needles in central Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 31(9), 857–870. link
Chan, X. Y., Robinne, F.-N., Parisien, M.-A., Wang, X., Fleming, T., & Flannigan, M. D. (2022). Assessment of lake-level fluctuation as an indicator of fire activity in Boreal Canada. Ecological Indicators, 145, 109611. link
Hanes, C. C., Wotton, M., Woolford, D. G., Martell, D. L., & Flannigan, M. (2022). Mapping organic layer thickness and fuel load of the Boreal Forest in Alberta, Canada. Geoderma, 417, 115827. link
Nelson, K., Chasmer, L., & Hopkinson, C. (2022). Quantifying lidar elevation accuracy: Parameterization and wavelength selection for optimal ground classifications based on time since fire/disturbance. Remote Sensing, 14(20), 5080. link
Sharma, A. R., Jain, P., Abatzoglou, J. T., & Flannigan, M. (2022). Persistent positive anomalies in Geopotential Heights promote wildfires in western North America. Journal of Climate, 35(19), 2867–2884. link
Woolet, J., Whitman, E., Parisien, M.-A., Thompson, D. K., Flannigan, M. D., & Whitman, T. (2022). Effects of short-interval reburns in the boreal forest on soil bacterial communities compared to long-interval reburns. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 98(8). link
Copes‐Gerbitz, K., Daniels, L. D., & Hagerman, S. M. (2022). The contribution of Indigenous Stewardship to an historical mixed‐severity fire regime in British Columbia, Canada. Ecological Applications. link
Granville, K., Woolford, D. G., Dean, C. B., Boychuk, D., & McFayden, C. B. (2022). On the selection of an interpolation method with an application to the fire weather index in Ontario, Canada. Environmetrics. link
Granville, K., Woolford, D. G., Dean, C. B., & McFayden, C. B. (2022). Wildland fire prevention: The impact of the modifying industrial operations protocol on the growth of industrial forestry-caused wildland fires in Ontario, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire. link
Aftergood, O. S., & Flannigan, M. D. (2022). Identifying and analyzing spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981-2018. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. link
Copes‐Gerbitz, K., Daniels, L. D., & Hagerman, S. M. (2022). The contribution of Indigenous Stewardship to an historical mixed‐severity fire regime in British Columbia, Canada. Ecological Applications. link
Granville, K., Woolford, D. G., Dean, C. B., Boychuk, D., & McFayden, C. B. (2022). On the selection of an interpolation method with an application to the fire weather index in Ontario, Canada. Environmetrics. link
Granville, K., Woolford, D. G., Dean, C. B., & McFayden, C. B. (2022). Wildland fire prevention: The impact of the modifying industrial operations protocol on the growth of industrial forestry-caused wildland fires in Ontario, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire. link
Hoffman, K. M., Christianson, A. C., Dickson-Hoyle, S., Copes-Gerbitz, K., Nikolakis, W., Diabo, D. A., McLeod, R., Michell, H. J., Mamun, A. A., Zahara, A., Mauro, N., Gilchrist, J., Ross, R. M., & Daniels, L. D. (2022). The right to burn: Barriers and opportunities for Indigenous-led fire stewardship in Canada. FACETS, 7, 464–481. link
Kitchens, K. A., Peng, L., Daniels, L. D., & Carroll, A. L. (2022). Patterns of infestation by subcortical insects (Coleoptera: Buprestidae, Cerambycidae) after widespread wildfires in mature Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 513, 120203. link
Granville, K., Woolford, D. G., Dean, C. B., & McFayden, C. B. (2022). A case-crossover study of the impact of the modifying industrial operations protocol on the frequency of industrial forestry-caused wildland fires in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics. link
Risk, C., & James, P. M. (2022). Optimal cross‐validation strategies for selection of spatial interpolation models for the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. Earth and Space Science, 9(2). link
Baron, J. N., Gergel, S. E., Hessburg, P. F., & Daniels, L. D. (2022). A century of transformation: Fire regime transitions from 1919 to 2019 in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Landscape Ecology. link
Copes-Gerbitz, K., Dickson-Hoyle, S., Ravensbergen, S. L., Hagerman, S. M., Daniels, L. D., & Coutu, J. (2022). Community engagement with proactive wildfire management in British Columbia, Canada: Perceptions, preferences, and barriers to action. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5. link
Copes-Gerbitz, K., Hagerman, S. M., & Daniels, L. D. (2022). Transforming fire governance in British Columbia, Canada: An emerging vision for coexisting with fire. Regional Environmental Change, 22(2). link
Copes-Gerbitz, K., & Daniels, L. D. (2022). Transforming tree-ring research through collaborations with Indigenous Peoples. Past Global Changes Magazine, 30(1), 48–49. link
Hoffman, K. M., Christianson, A. C., Gray, R. W., & Daniels, L. (2022). Western Canada's new wildfire reality needs a new approach to fire management. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac7345
Jones, E., Chasmer, L., Devito, K., Rood, S., & Hopkinson, C. (2022). Ecological impacts of shortening fire return intervals on boreal peatlands and transition zones using integrated in situ field sampling and Lidar approaches. Ecohydrology. link
Enayetullah, H., Chasmer, L., Hopkinson, C., Thompson, D., & Cobbaert, D. (2022). Identifying conifer tree vs. deciduous shrub and tree regeneration trajectories in a space-for-time boreal peatland fire chronosequence using Multispectral Lidar. Atmosphere, 13(1), 112. link
2021
Chasmer, L., Lima-Moura, E., Mahoney, C., Hopkinson, C., J. Montgomery, and Cobbaert, D. 2021. Shrub changes with proximity to anthropogenic disturbance in boreal wetlands determined using bi-temporal airborne lidar in the Oil Sands Region, Alberta Canada 780: 146638. link
Copes-Gerbitz, K., Hagerman, S. M., & Daniels, L. D. (2021). Situating indigenous knowledge for resilience in fire-dependent social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society, 26(4). link
Deane, P. J., Wilkinson, S. L., Verkaik, G., Moore, P., Schroeder, D., & Waddington, J. M. (2021). Peat surface compression reduces smouldering fire potential as a novel fuel treatment for boreal peatlands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. link
Dickson‐Hoyle, S., Ignace, R. E., Ignace, M. B., Hagerman, S. M., Daniels, L. D., & Copes‐Gerbitz, K. (2021). Walking on two legs: A pathway of indigenous restoration and reconciliation in fire‐adapted landscapes. Restoration Ecology. link
Hoffman, K. M., Davis, E. L., Wickham, S. B., Schang, K., Johnson, A., Larking, T., Lauriault, P. N., Quynh Le, N., Swerdfager, E., & Trant, A. J. (2021). Global biodiversity is embedded in indigenous fire stewardship. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(32). link
Hoffman, K. M., Starzomski, B. M., Lertzman, K. P., Giesbrecht, I. J., & Trant, A. J. (2021). Old‐growth forest structure in a low‐productivity hypermaritime rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Ecosphere, 12(5). link
McCarter, C. P. R., Wilkinson, S. L., Moore, P. A., & Waddington, J. M. (2021). Ecohydrological trade-offs from multiple peatland disturbances: The interactive effects of drainage, harvesting, restoration and wildfire in a Southern Ontario Bog. Journal of Hydrology, 601, 126793. link
Moore, P. A., Didemus, B. D., Furukawa, A. K., & Waddington, J. M. (2021). Peat depth as a control on sphagnum moisture stress during seasonal drought. Hydrological Processes, 35(4). link
Wilkinson, S. L., Furukawa, A. K., Wotton, B. M., & Waddington, J. M. (2021). Mapping smouldering fire potential in boreal peatlands and assessing interactions with the wildland–human interface in Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 30(7), 552. link
Wilkinson, S. L., Tekatch, A. M., Markle, C. E., Moore, P. A., & Waddington, J. M. (2020). Shallow peat is most vulnerable to high peat burn severity during wildfire. Environmental Research Letters, 15(10), 104032. link
Ganapathi Subramanian, S., Taylor M., Crowley M., & Poupart P. (2021). Partially observable mean field reinforcement learning. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) (F. D. U. Endriss, A. Now ́e and A. Lomuscio, eds.), AAMAS ’21, (London, United Kingdom), pp. 537–545, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 3–7. link
Brookes, W., Daniels, L. D., Copes-Gerbitz, K., Baron, J. N., & Carroll, A. L. (2021). A disrupted historical fire regime in central British Columbia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9. link
Greene, G.A. 2021. Fire Resilient Ecosystems: Fire Exclusion and Selective Harvesting Degrade Dry Forests in British Columbia. University of British Columbia link
Brookes, W., Daniels, L. D., Copes-Gerbitz, K., Baron, J. N., & Carroll, A. L. (2021). A disrupted historical fire regime in central British Columbia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9. link
Ellis, T. M., Bowman, D. M., Jain, P., Flannigan, M. D., & Williamson, G. J. (2021). Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate‐driven declines in fuel moisture. Global Change Biology. link
Dickson-Hoyle, S. and John, C. (2021). Elephant Hill: Secwépemc leadership and lessons learned from the collective story of wildfire recovery. Secwepemcúl ̓ecw Restoration and Stewardship Society. link
Jain, P., Castellanos-Acuna, D., Coogan, S.C.P. et al (2021). Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature. Nat. Clim. Chang. link
Flade, L., Hopkinson, C., and Chasmer, L. (2021) Plant component aboveground biomass of Boreal shrubs and short stature trees in northwestern Canada” Forests. 12(2), 234; link
Nelson, K., D. Thompson, C. Hopkinson, R. Petrone, L. Chasmer. (2021). Peatland-wildfire interactions: A review of wildfire feedbacks in Canadian boreal peatlands Science of the Total Environment. 769: 145212
Gerrand, S., Aspinall, J., Jensen, T., Hopkinson, C., A. Collingwood and Chasmer, L. Partitioning carbon losses from fire combustion in a montane valley, Alberta Canada. Submitted to Forest Ecology and Management.
Jones. E., Chasmer, L., Devito, K., Rood, S., Hopkinson, C., Hydro-ecological impacts of shortening fire return intervals on regenerating Boreal peatlands and transition zones using integrated in situ sampling and lidar approaches. Submitted to Ecohydrology.
Sarah Dickson-Hoyle and Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz (PhD candidates co-supervised by Dr. Shannon Hagerman, UBC) prepared a report and two articles published in Branchlines and the BC Forest Professional magazines on “Community Forest Perspectives and Engagement on Wildfire Management”
Jain, P. and Flannigan. M. 2021. The relationship between the polar jet stream and extreme wildfire events in North America: jet stream climatology and variability. Journal of Climate. link
Keeley, J.E., Guzman-Morales, J., Gershunov, A., Syphard, A., Cayan, D., Pierce, D.W., Flannigan, M. and Brown, T. J. 2021. Evaluating climate, weather and ignitions in driving Santa Ana Wind fires. Science Advances. Accepted.
Robinne, F-N., Hallema, D.W., Bladon, K. D., Flannigan, M.D., Boisramé, G., Bréthaut, C.M., Gallagher, L., Doerr, S.H., Baldassarre, GD., Hohner, A., Khan, S. J., Kinoshita, A.M., Martin, D., Mordecai, R., Nunes, J.P., Nyman, P., Santín, C., Sheridan, G., Stoof, C., Thompson, M.P., Waddington, J. M. and Wei, Y .2021. Scientists' warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply. Hydrological Processes. link
Kharuk, V.I., Ponomarev, E.I., Ivanova, G.I., Dvinskaya, M.L., Coogan, S. and Flannigan, M. 2021. Wildfires in the Siberian Taiga. Ambio. link
Coogan, S.C. P., Daniels, L.D., Burton, P.J. Flannigan, M.D., Gauthier, S., Kafka, V., Park, J.S. and Wotton, B. M. 2021. Fifty years of wildland fire science in Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. link
2020
Coogan, S.C. P., Daniels, L.D., Burton, P.J. Flannigan, M.D., Gauthier, S., Kafka, V., Park, J.S. and Wotton, B. M.2020. Fifty years of wildland fire science in Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. link
Flade, L., C. Hopkinson, Chasmer, L. (2020). Biomass allometric equations for small stature shrub and tree species in boreal ecosystems of northwestern Canada. Forests 11, 1207; doi:10.3390/f11111207. link
Jain, P., Tye, M.R., Paimazumder, D and Flannigan, M. 2020. Downscaling fire weather extremes from historical and projected climate models. Climatic Change. link
Jain, P., Coogan, SC P., Subramanian, SG., Crowley, M.., Taylor, S., and Flannigan, MD. 2020. A review of machine learning applications in wildfire science and management. Environmental Reviews. link
Wang, X., Studens, K., Parisien, M-A., Taylor, S., Candau, J., Boulanger, Y. and Flannigan, M.2020. Projected changes in fire size from daily spread potential in Canada over the 21st century. Journal Environmental Research Letters. Accepted
Bowman, D.M.J.S., Kolden, C. A., Abatzoglou, J.T., Johnston, F.H., van der Werf, G.R., Flannigan, M.2020. Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. link
McElhinny, M., Beckers, J. F., Hanes, C., Flannigan, M. and Jain, P. 2020. A high-resolution reanalysis of global fire weather from 1979 to 2018 – Overwintering the Drought Code, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1823–1833. link
Hanes, C., Wotton, M., Woolford, D.G., Martell, D.L and Flannigan, M.2020. Preceding Fall Drought Conditions and Overwinter Precipitation Effects on Spring Wildland Fire Activity in Canada. Fire 2020, 3, 24 link
Sakellariou, S., Parisien, M.-A., Flannigan, M., Wang, X., de Groot, W., Tampekis, S., Samara, F., Sfougaris, A. and Christopoulou, O. 2020. Spatial planning of fire-agency stations as a function of wildfire likelihood in Thasos, Greece. Science of the Total Environment. link
Coogan, S. C. P., Cai, X., Jain, P., Flannigan, M. D. (2020) Seasonality and trends in human- and lightning-caused wildfires ≥ 2 ha in Canada,959–2018. International Journal of Wildland Fire. link
2019
Erni, S., Wang, X., Taylor, S., Boulanger, Y., Swystun, T., Flannigan, M., Parisien, M-A. 2019. Developing a two-level fire regime zonation system for Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. link
Johnston, L., Wang, X., Erni, S., Taylor, S., McFayden, C., Oliver, J., Stockdale, C., Christianson, A., Boulanger, Y., Gauthier, S., Arseneault, Wotton, M., Parisien, M-A., Flannigan, M. 2019. Wildland fire risk research in Canada. Environmental Reviews. link
D.W. Hallema, G. Sun, P. V. Caldwell, F. Robinne, K.D. Bladon, S.P. Norman, Y. Liu, E.C. Cohen, S.G. McNulty, Wildland fire impacts on water yield across the contiguous United States, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Asheville, North Carolina, 2019. link
Dawe, D., Peters, V., Flannigan, M. 2019. Post-fire regeneration of endangered limber pine (Pinus flexilis) at the northern extent of its range. Forest Ecology and Management. link
Whitman, E., Parisien, M., Thompson, D.K., Flannigan, M. 2019. Short-interval wildfire and drought overwhelm boreal forest resilience. Scientific Reports volume 9, 18796(2019) link
Gibson, C., Estop-Aragonés, C., Flannigan, M., Thompson, D., and Olefeldt, D. 2019. Increased deep soil respiration detected despite reduced overall respiration in permafrost peat plateaus following wildfire. Environmental Research Letters, Volume 14, (2019) 125001Number 12 link
Tymstra, C., Stocks, B.J., Cai, X., Morrison, K., and Flannigan, M. 2019. Wildfire Management in Canada: Review, challenges and opportunities. Progress in Disaster Science. Volume 5, January 2020, 100045 link
Tymstra, C., Woolford, D.G., and Flannigan, M.D. 2019. Statistical Surveillance Thresholds for Enhanced Situational Awareness of Spring Wildland Fire Activity in Alberta, Canada. Journal of Environmental Statistics. 9(4) link
Whitman, T., Whitman, E., Woolet, J., Flannigan, M., Thompson, D.K., and Parisien, M-A. 2019. Soil Bacterial and Fungal Response to Wildfires in the Canadian Boreal Forest Across a Burn Severity Gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.138. link
Coogan, S. C. P., Robinne, François-Nicolas., Jain, P., and Flannigan, M.D .2019. Scientists’ warning on wildfire — a Canadian perspective. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 49: 1015–1023. link
Robinne, François-Nicolas., Bladon, K.D., Silins, U., Emelko, M.B., Flannigan, M.D., Parisien, M-A., Wang, X., Kienzle, S. W., and Dupont, D.P. 2019.A regional-scale index for assessing the exposure of 2 drinking-water sources to wildfires. Forests. 10, 384 link
Hanes, C., Wang, X., Jain, P., Parisien, M-A., Little, J. and Flannigan, M. 2019. Fire-regime changes in Canada over the last half century. Can. J. For. Res. 49: 256–269. link
Stockdale, C. A., Mcloughlin, N., Flannigan, M., Macdonald, S.E. 2019. Could restoration of a landscape to a pre-European historical vegetation condition reduce burn probability? Ecosphere 10(2):e02584. link
Cai, X., Wang, X., Jain, P., & Flannigan, M. D. 2019. Evaluation of gridded precipitation data and interpolation methods for forest fire danger rating in Alberta, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124,3–17. link
2018
Hanes, C., Wang, X., Jain, P., Parisien, M-A., Little, J. and Flannigan, M. 2018. Fire-regime changes in Canada over the last half century. Can. J. For. Res. 49: 256–269 (2019) link
Stockdale, C. A., Mcloughlin, N., Flannigan, M., Macdonald, S.E. 2019. Could restoration of a landscape to a pre-European historical vegetation condition reduce burn probability? Ecosphere 10(2) link
Cai, X., Wang, X., Jain, P., & Flannigan, M. D. 2019. Evaluation of gridded precipitation data and interpolation methods for forest fire danger rating in Alberta, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124,3–17. link
Whitman, T., Whitman, E., Woolet, J., Flannigan, M., Thompson, D.K., Parisien, M-A. 2018. Soil Bacterial and Fungal Response to Wildfires in the Canadian Boreal Forest Across a Burn Severity Gradient. bioRxiv. link
Kochtubajda, B., Stewart, R.E., Flannigan, M.D., Bonsal, B.R., Cuell, C. and Mooney, C.J. 2018. An assessment of surface and atmospheric conditions associated with the extreme 2014 wildfire season in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Atmosphere-Ocean. link
Barber, Q.E., Parisien, M-A., Whitman, E., Stralberg, D., Johnson, Chris J., St-Laurent, M-H., DeLancey, Evan R., Price, D.T., Arseneault, D., Wang, X., Flannigan, M.D. 2018. Potential impacts of climate change on the habitat of boreal woodland caribou. Ecosphere 9(10) link
Gibson, C., Chasmer, L.E., Thompson, D.K., Quinton, W., Flannigan, MD. and Olefeldt, D. 2018. Wildfire as a major driver of recent permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands. Nature Communications. 9:3041 | link
Sakellariou, S., Tampekis, S., Samara, F., Flannigan, M., Jaeger, D., Christopoulou, O.& Sfougaris, A..2018. Determination of fire risk to assist fire management for insular areas: the case of a small Greek island. Journal of Forestry Research. link
Campos-Ruiz, R., Parisien, M-A., and Flannigan, M.D. 2018. Temporal patterns of wildfire activity in areas of contrasting human influence in the Canadian boreal forest. Forests. 9(4), 159; link
Whitman, E., Parisien, M-A., Thompson, D. K., and Flannigan, M. D. 2018. Topoedaphic and forest controls on post-fire vegetation assemblies are modified by fire history and burn severity in the northwestern Canadian boreal forest. Forests. 9(3), 151; link
Whitman, E., Parisien, M-A., Thompson, D. K., Hall, R.J., Skakun, R. S. and Flannigan, M. D. 2018.Variability and drivers of burn severity in the northwestern Canadian boreal forest. Ecosphere. 9(2) link
Wilkinson, S., Moore, P., Flannigan, M., Wotton, M. and Waddington, J. 2018. Did enhanced afforestation cause high severity peat burn in the Fort McMurray Horse River wildfire? Environmental Research Letters. 13 (2018) 014018. link
Johnston, L. and Flannigan, M.D. 2018. Mapping Canadian wildland fire interface areas. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 27:1-14. link
Robinne, F.-N., Bladon, K.D., Miller, C., Parisien, M.A., Mathieu, J. and Flannigan M.D. 2018. A spatial evaluation of global wildfire-water risks to human and natural systems. State of the Total Environment. 610:1193-1206. link
2017
Pickell, P.D., Coops, N.C., Ferster, C.J., Bater, C.W., Blouin, K.D., Flannigan, M.D., and Zhang, J. 2017. An early warning system to forecast the close of the spring burning window from satellite-observed greenness. Scientific Reports. 7:14190. link
Sakellariou, S. Tampekis, S. Samara, F. Flannigan, M. Jaeger, D. Christopoulou, O. and Sfougaris, A. 2017. Determination of fire risk to assist fire management for insular areas. The case of a small Greek island. Journal of Forestry Research. link
Robinne, F-N., Bladon, K.D., Miller, C., Parisien, M.A., Mathieu, J., and Flannigan M.D. 2017. A spatial evaluation of global wildfire-water risks to human and natural systems. Science of the Total Environment. 610-611:1193-1206. pdf
Shan, Y. Wang, Y. Flannigan, M. Tang, S. Sun, P. and Du, F. 2017. Spatiotemporal variations in forest fire danger from 1996 to 2010 in Jilin Province, China. Journal of Forestry Research. 25(5):983-996. pdf
Kochtubajda, B., Brimelow, J., Flannigan, M., Morrow, B. and Greenhough, M.D. 2017. The Extreme 2016 Wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. State of the Climate in 2016. pp.176-177. pdf
Whitman, E., Parisien, M.A., Price, D.T., St-Laurent, M-H., Johnson, C.J., DeLancey, E.R., Arseneault, D., and Flannigan M.D. 2017. A framework for modeling habitat quality in disturbance‐prone areas demonstrated with woodland caribou and wildfire. Ecosphere. 8(4). DOI:10.1002/ecs2.1787. pdf
Hanes, C.C., Jain, P., Flannigan, M.D., Fortin, and V., Roy, G. 2017. Evaluation of the Canadian Precipitation Analysis (CaPA) to improve forest fire danger rating. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 26(6):509-522. DOI: 10.1071/WF16170. pdf
Carry, G.J., Davies, I.D., Bradstock, R.A., Keane, R.E., and Flannigan, M.D. 2017. Importance of fuel treatment for limiting moderate-to-high intensity fire: findings from comparative fire modelling. Landscape Ecology. 32(7):1473-1483. link
Wotton, M., Flannigan, M.D., and Marshall, G.A. 2017. Potential climate change impacts on fire intensity and key wildfire suppression thresholds in Canada. Environmental Research Letters. link
Lagerquist, R., Flannigan, M.D., Wang, X., and Marshall, G.A. 2017. Automated prediction of extreme fire weather from synoptic patterns in northern Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 47:1175-1183. link
Wang, X., Parisien, M-A, Taylor, S., Candau, J-N., Stralberg, D., Marshall, G., Little, J., and Flannigan, M.D. 2017. Projected changes in daily fire spread across Canada over the next century. Environmental Research Letters. 12(2017) 025005. pdf
Wang, X., Wotton, M., Cantin, A., Parisien, M-A, Anderson, K., Moore, B., and Flannigan, M.D. 2017. An R package for the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. Ecological Processes. link
2016
Robinne, F-N., Parisien, M.A., and Flannigan M.D. 2016. Anthropogenic influence on wildfire activity in Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25:1131-1143. pdf
Parisien, M-A., Miller, C., Parks, S.A., DeLancey, E. and Flannigan, M.D. 2016.The spatially varying influence of humans on fire probability in North America. Environmental Research Letters. link
Rogeau, M-P., Flannigan, M.D., and Parisien M-A. 2016. Fire history sampling strategy of fire intervals associated with mixed- to full-severity fires in Southern Alberta, Canada. Forest Science.
Legrand, M., McConnell, J., Fischer, H., Wolff, E.W., Preunkert, S., Chellman, N. Leuenberger, D, Maselli, O., Sigl, M., Schupbach, S. and Flannigan, M. 2016. Boreal fire records in Northern Hemisphere ice cores: a review. Climate of the Past. 12:2033-2059. link
Rogeau, M-P. Flannigan, M.D. Hawkes, B.C. and Arthur, R.J. 2016. Fire regime departure in southern Alberta, Canada: implications for forest and wildfire management. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25:1117-1130. pdf
Stockdale, C., Flannigan, M., and Macdonald, E. 2016. Is the END (emulation of natural disturbance) a new beginning? A critical analysis of the use of fire regimes as the basis of forest ecosystem management with examples from the Canadian western Cordillera. Environmental Reviews. 24:233-243. link
Abbott, B.W., Jones, J.B., Schuur, E.A.G., Chapin III, F.S., Bowden, W.B., Bret-Harte, M.S., Epstein, H.E., Flannigan, M.D., and others. 2016. Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire. An expert assessment. Environmental Research Letters 11, 034014. pdf
Robinne, F-N., Emelko, M., Miller, C., Bladon, K., Parisien, M-A., and Flannigan M.D. 2016. A global index for mapping the exposure of water resources to wildfire. Forests 7,22. link
Smith, A.M., Kolden, C.A., Paveglio, T.B., Cochrane, M.A., Bowman, D.M., Moritz, M.A., Klisley, A.D., Alessa, L., Hudak, A.T., Hoffman, C.M., Lutz, J.A., Queen, L.P., Goetz, S.J., Higuera, P.E., Boschetti, L., Flannigan. M.D., Yedinak, K.M., Watts, A.C., Strand, E.K., van Wagtendonk, J.W., Anderson, J.W., Stocks, B.J., and Abatzoglou, J.T. 2016. The science of firescapes: achieving fire resilient communities. Bioscience 66:130-146. link
Wang, X., Parisien, M-A., Taylor, S.W., Perrakis, D.D.B., Little, J.M., and Flannigan, M.D. 2016. Future burn probability in south-central British Columbia. International Journal of Wildland Fire25:200-212. pdf
Blouin, K.D. Flannigan, M.D. Wang, X., and Kochtubajda, B. 2016. Ensemble lightning prediction models for the province of Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire 25:421-432. pdf
2015
French, N.H., Jenkins, L.K., Loboda, T.V., Flannigan, M.D., Jandt, R., Bourgeau-Chavez, L.L., and Whitley, M. 2015. Fire in arctic tundra of Alaska: past fire activity, future fire potential, and significance for land management and ecology. International Journal of Wildland Fire 24:1045-1061. pdf
Reisen, F., Duran, S.M., Flannigan, M.D., Elliott, C., and Rideout, K. 2015. Wildfire smoke and public health risk. International Journal of Wildland Fire 24:1029-1044. pdf
Flannigan, M.D., Wotton, B.M., Marshall, G.A., de Groot, W.J., Johnston, J., Jurko, N., and Cantin, A.S. 2015. Fuel moisture sensitivity to temperature and precipitation: climate change implications. Climatic Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1521-0. pdf
Flannigan, M.D. 2015. Fire evolution split by continent. News and Views. Nature Geoscience 8:167-168. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2360. pdf
Kettridge, N., Turetsky, M.R., Sherwood, J.H., Thompson, D.K., Miller, C.A., Benscoter, B.W., Flannigan, M.D., Wotton, B.M., and Waddington, J.M. 2015. Moderate drop in water table increases peatland vulnerability to post-fire regime shift. (Nature) Scientific Reports 5:8063. DOI: 10.1038/srep08063. link
Price, O.F., Pausas, J.G., Govender, N., Flannigan, M.D., Fernandes, P.M., Brooks, M.L., and Bird, R.B. 2015. Global patterns in fire leverage: the response of annual area burnt to previous fire. International Journal of Wildland Fire 24:297-306. pdf
Wang, X., Thompson, D.K., Marshall, G.A., Tymstra, C., Carr, R., and Flannigan, M.D. 2015. Increasing frequency of extreme fire weather in Canada with climate change. Climatic Change 130:573-586. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1375-5. link
Field, R.D., Spessa, A.C., Aziz, N.A., Camai, A., Cantin, A., Carr, R., de Groot, W.J., Dowdy, A.J. Flannigan, M.D., Manomaiphiboon, K., Pappenberger, F., Tanpipat, V., and Wang, X. 2015. Development of a global fire weather database. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15:1407-1423. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-15-1407-2015. link
2014
Lehsten, V., de Groot, W.J., Flannigan, M.D., George, C., Harmand, P., and Balzter H. 2014. Wildfires in boreal ecoregions: evaluating the power law assumption and intra-annual and inter-annual variations. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 119:14-23. DOI: 10.1002/ 2012JG002252. pdf
Parisien, M-A., Parks, S.A., Krawchuk, M.A., Little, J.M., Flannigan, M.D., Gowman, L.M., and Moritz, M.A. 2014. An analysis of controls on fire activity in boreal Canada: comparing models built with different temporal resolutions. Ecological Applications 24:1341-1356. DOI: 10.1890/ 13- 1477.1. pdf
Scotto, M.G., Gouveia, S., Carvalho, A., Monteiro, A., Martins, V., Flannigan, M.D., San Miguel- Ayanz, J., Miranda, A.I., and Borrego, C. 2014. Area burned in Portugal over the last decades: an extreme value analysis. International Journal of Wildland Fire 23:812-824. DOI: 10.1071/ WF13104. pdf
Wang, X., Parisien, M-A., Flannigan, M.D., Parks, S.A., Anderson, K.R., Little, J.M., and Taylor, S.W. 2014. The potential and realized spread of wildfires across Canada. Global Change Biology 20:2518-2530. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12590. pdf
2013
Brandt, J.P., Flannigan, M.D., Maynard, D., Thompson, I., and Volney, W.J.A. 2013. An introduction to Canada’s boreal zone: ecosystem processes, health, sustainability and environmental issues. Environmental Reviews 21:207-226. pdf
de Groot, W.J., Flannigan, M.D., and Cantin, A.S. 2013. Climate change impacts on future boreal fire regimes. Forest Ecology and Management 294:35-44. pdf
de Groot, W.J., Cantin, A.S., Flannigan, M.D., Soja, A.J., Gowman, L.M., and Newbery, A. 2013. A comparison of Canadian and Russian boreal forest fire regimes. Forest Ecology and Management 294:23-34. pdf
Flannigan, M.D., Cantin, A.S., de Groot, W.J., Wotton, M., Newbery, A., and Gowman, L.M. 2013. Global wildland fire season severity in the 21st.century. Forest Ecology and Management 294:54-61.pdf
Keane, R., Cary, G., Flannigan, M.D., Parsons, R., Davies, I., King, K., Li, C., Bradstock, R., and Gill, A.M. 2013. Exploring the role of fire, succession, climate, and weather on landscape dynamics using comparative modeling. Ecological Modelling 266:172-186. pdf
Price, D.T., Alfaro, R.I., Brown, K.J., Flannigan, M.D., Fleming, R.A., Hogg, E.H., Girardin, M-P., Lakusta, T., Johnston, M., McKenney, D.W., Pedlar, J., Stratton, T., Sturrock, R., Thompson, I., Trofymow, J.A., and Venier, L.A. 2013. Anticipating the consequences of climate change for Canada’s boreal forest ecosystems. Environmental Reviews 21:322-365. link
2012
Waddington, J.M., Thompson, D.K., Wotton, M., Quinton, W.L., Flannigan, M.D., Benscoter, B.W., Baisley, S.A., and Turetsky, M.R. 2012. Examining the utility of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in boreal peatlands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 42:47-58. pdf
2011
Benscoter, B.W., Thompson, D.K., Waddington, J.M., Flannigan, M.D., Wotton, B.M., de Groot, W.J., and Turetsky, M.R. 2011. Interactive effects of vegetation, soil moisture and bulk density on depth of burning of thick organic soils. International Journal of Wildland Fire 20:418-429. pdf
Beverly, J.L., Flannigan, M.D., Stocks, B.J., and Bothwell, P. 2011. The association between Northern Hemisphere climate patterns and interannual variability in Canadian wildfire activity. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41:2193-2201. pdf
Carvalho, A., Monteiro, A., Flannigan, M.D., Solman, S., Miranda, A.I., and Borrego, C. 2011. Forest fires in a changing climate and their impacts on air quality. Atmosphere Environment 45:5545-5553. pdf
Parisien, M-A., Parks, S.A., Krawchuk, M.A., Flannigan, M.D., Bowman, L.M., and Moritz, M.A. 2011. Scale-dependent controls on the area burned in the boreal forest of Canada, 1980-2005. Ecological Applications 21:789-805. pdf
Shabbar, A., Skinner, W., and Flannigan, M.D. 2011. Prediction of seasonal forest fire severity in Canada from large-scale climate patterns. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 50:785-799. pdf
2010
Drobyshev, I., Flannigan, M.D., Bergeron Y., Girardin, M-P., and Suran, B. 2010. Variation in local weather explains differences in fire regimes within a Quebec south-eastern boreal forest landscape. International Journal of Wildland Fire 19:1073-1082. pdf
Meyn, A., Taylor, S.W., Flannigan, M.D., Thonicke, K., and Cramer, W. 2010. Relationship between fire, climate oscillations, and drought in British Columbia, Canada, 1920-2000. Global Change Biology 16:977-989. Doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02061.x. pdf
Wang, Y., Flannigan, M.D., and Anderson, K. 2010. Correlations between forest fires in British Columbia, Canada, and sea surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean. Ecological Modelling. 221:112-129. pdf
Wotton, B.M., Nock, C.A., and Flannigan, M.D. 2010. Forest fire occurrence and climate change in Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire 19:253-271. pdf
Carvalho, A., Flannigan, M.D., Logan, K.A., Gowman, L.M., Miranda, A.I. and C. Borrego. (2010). The impact of spatial resolution on area burned and fire occurrence projections in Portugal under climate change. Climatic Change, 98, 177-197. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9667-2. pdf
2009
Le Goff, H., Flannigan, M., and Bergeron, Y. (2009). Potential changes in monthly fire risk in the eastern Canadian boreal forest under future climate change. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 39, 2369-2380. DOI: 10.1139/X09-153. pdf
Flannigan, M.D., Krawchuk, M.A., de Groot, W.J., Wotton, B.M. and Gowman, L.M. (2009). Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire. International Journal of Wildland Fire,18, 483-507. pdf
Jiang, Y., Zhuang, Q., Flannigan, M. and J. Little (2009). Characterization of wildfire regimes in Canadian boreal terrestrial ecosystems. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 18, 992-1002. DOI: 10.1079/WF08096. pdf
Spracklen, D.V., Mickley, L.J., Logan, J.A., Hudman, R.C., Yevich, R., Flannigan, M.D. and Westerling, A.L. (2009). Impacts of climate change from 2000 to 2050 on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in the western United States. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D20301, DOI:10.1029/2008JD010966. pdf
Flannigan, M.D., Stocks, B.J., Turetsky, M.R. and Wotton, B.M. (2009). Impact of climate change on fire activity and fire management in the circumboreal forest. Global Change Biology, 15: 549-560. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01660.x. pdf
Balshi, M.S., McGuire, A.D., Duffy, P., Flannigan, M., Kicklighter, D.W., and Melillo, J. (2009). Vulnerability of carbon storage in North American boreal forests to wildfires during the 21st Century. Global Change Biology. 15, 1491-1510. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01877.x. pdf
Amiro, B.D., Cantin, A., Flannigan, M.D. and de Groot, W. (2009). Future Emissions from Canadian Boreal Forest Fires. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 39, 383-395. DOI: 10.1139/X08-154. pdf
Drever, C.R., Bergeron Y., Drever, M.C., Flannigan, M., Logan,T. and Messier, C. (2009). Effects of climate on occurrence and size of large fires in a northern hardwood landscape: historical trends, future predictions, and implications for climate change in Témiscamingue, Québec. Applied Vegetation Science,12, 261-272. DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2009.01035.x. pdf
Cary, G., Flannigan, M., Keane, R., Bradstock, R., Davies, I., Li, C., Lenihan, J., Logan, K., and Parsons, R. (2009). Relative importance of fuel management, ignition management and weather for area burned: Evidence from five landscape-fire-succession models. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 18,147-156,DOI: 10.1071/WF07085. pdf
Book Chapters
2014
de Groot, W.J., Wotton, B.M. and Flannigan, M.D. 2014. Wildland Fire Danger Rating and Early Warning Systems. Wildfire, Hazards, Risks, and Disasters. D. Paton. Elsevier. pp. 207-228.
Paton, D., Buergelt, P.T., and Flannigan, M.D. 2014. Ensuring that we can see the wood and the Trees: Growing the Capacity for Ecological Wildfire Risk Management. Wildfire, Hazards, Risks, and Disasters. D. Paton. Elsevier. pp. 247-262.
de Groot, W.J. and Flannigan, M.D. 2014. Climate change and early warning systems for wildland fire. Chapter 7. Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems and Climate Change. Edited by Z. Zommers and A. Singh. Springer. pp. 127-151.
2013
Stocks, B.J. and Flannigan, M.D. 2013. Current fire regimes, impacts and likely changes: Past, Current and Future Boreal Fire Activity in Canada. Chapter 4. Vegetation Fires and Climate Change. Edited By J.G. Goldammer. Kessel Publishing House pp. 39-50.
Flannigan, M.D., Gowman, L.M., Wotton, B.M. Krawchuk, M.A., de Groot, W.J. and Stocks, B.J. 2013. Modelling future wildland fire in the Circumboreal. Chapter 15. Vegetation Fires and Climate Change. Edited By J.G. Goldammer. Kessel Publishing House pp. 209-224.
2011
Keane, R.E., G. Cary, and M. Flannigan. 2011. Challenges and needs in fire management: A landscape simulation modeling perspective. Book Chapter. Pages 77-89 In: Li, Chao, R Lafortezza, and J. Chen (editors) Landscape ecology in forest management and conservation: Challenges and solutions for global change. Springer, Higher Education Press, Beijing, China ISBN: 978-7-04-029136-0
2009
Le Goff, H., Flannigan, M., Bergeron, Y., Leduc, A., Gauthier. S. and K. Logan. 2009. Management solutions to face climate change, the example of forest fires. In Ecosystem Management in the boreal forest, S. Gauthier, M-A Vaillancourt, A. Leduc, L. De Grandpré, D. Kneeshaw, H. Morin, P. Drapeau and Y. Bergeron (Eds). Presses de l'Université du Québec, pp.103-127.
Girardin, M., Flannigan, M., Tardif, J. and Y. Bergeron. 2009. Climate, weather and forest fire. In, Ecosystem Management in the boreal forest, S. Gauthier, M-A Vaillancourt, A. Leduc, L. De Grandpré, D. Kneeshaw, H. Morin, P. Drapeau and Y. Bergeron (Eds). Presses de l'Université du Québec, pp. 79-102.
Reports
2021
FUELS FRIDAY - Synthesis Report of the Canadian Wildfire Management and Science Workshop held in February 2021 link
Dickson-Hoyle, S. and John, C. 2021. Elephant Hill: Secwépemc leadership and lessons learned from the collective story of wildfire recovery. Secwepemcúl’ecw Restoration and Stewardship Society. link
Kitasoo/Xai’xais Stewardship Authority (with contributions from Dickson-Hoyle, S.). 2021. Informing First Nations stewardship with applied research: key questions to inform an equitably beneficial and engaged research process. Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation. link
Dickson-Hoyle, S. and John, C. 2021. ‘Healing the land and bringing our people together’: Joint leadership for wildfire recovery in Secwepemcúl’ecw’. Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium Journal. Special Issue: Collective Response-Abilities: Intervention for Indigenous Wellbeing. link
2010
Krezek-Hanes, C.C., Flannigan, M.D. and Cantin A. 2010. Trends in large fires in Canada, 1959-2007. Canadian biodiversity: ecosystem status and trends 2010. Technical Thematic Report. No. 6. pdf
Theses
2024
Zerb, J. 2024. Subseasonal Forecasting of Fire Weather Using Recurrent Neural Networks. University of Alberta. link
2023
Naeimi Nezamabad, A. 2023. Spatiotemporal Variability of Trends and Anomaly Patterns in the Surface Albedo and Temperature of Glaciers in the Canadian Cordillera and Alaska. University of Alberta. link
Aspinall, J. 2023. Assessing the State of Initial Post-Fire Vegetation Regeneration Following a Severe Montane Wildland Fire. University of Lethbridge. link
Campos-Ruiz. 2023. Bottom-up controls of flammability in the Canadian boreal forest at multiple temporal and spatial scales. University of Alberta. link
Manwaring, D. 2023. B.C. CanFIRE: Examining Current and Future Effects of Climate and Forest Changes on Fuel Management Treatments for the Wildland Urban Interface in the South Cariboo, British Columbia. Thompson Rivers University. link
Elliot, K. 2023. Enhanced prediction of extreme fire weather conditions in spring using the Hot-Dry-Windy Index in Alberta, Canada. Univeristy of Alberta. link
2022
Stasuik, M. 2022. Review of Wildfire Growth Prediction Methods and Vegetation Cover Model Inputs for the 2019 Chuckegg Creek Wildfire in Alberta. University of Alberta. link
Merlonghi, M. 2022. Quantifying Fuel for Fire in Waterton National Park. University of Lethbridge. link
2021
Jones, E. 2021. Wildfire Return Intervals: Impacts of Diminishing Fire Return Intervals on Boreal Peatlands Using Combined Field/Lidar Approaches. University of Lethbridge. link
Herlein, K. 2021. The Technical Efficiency of Wildfire Suppression in Alberta, Canada: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis. University of Alberta. link
Enayetullah, H. 2021. Assessing the Cumulative Impact of Wildland Fires and Seismic Line Disturbance on Peatlands in Northern Alberta University of Lethbridge. link
Gerrand, S. 2021. Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Lidar-based Estimates of Wildfire Fuel Loads in Boreal Peatlands, Alberta Canada. University of Lethbridge. link
Tymstra, C. 2021. Spring wildfires in Alberta and opportunities for enhanced wildfire preparedness. University of Alberta. link
Aftergood, O. 2021. Identifying and analyzing spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981-2018. University of Alberta. link
2019
Whitman, E. 2019. Burn severity and fire history in the northwestern Canadian boreal forest: drivers and ecological outcomes. University of Alberta. link
Koroscil, S. 2019. The influences of fuel moisture and diameter on pyrogenic carbon production in fine woody debris from three boreal tree species under simulated surface fire conditions. University of Alberta. link
Dawe, D. 2019. Post-fire regeneration of endangered limber pine (Pinus flexilis) at the northern extent of its range. University of Alberta. link
2018
Drummond Salvador, L. 2018. Fire and whitebark pine recovery strategies: drivers of post-fire natural regeneration. University of Alberta. link
2017
Robinne, F-N. 2017. More people, more fire, less water: exploring wildfire risks to water security in a changing world. University of Alberta. pdf
Gibson, C. 2017. Long term effects of wildfire on permafrost stability and carbon cycling in northern peatlands. University of Alberta. pdf
Cai, X. 2017. Improved forest fire danger rating using regression kriging with the Canadian Precipitation (CaPA) system in Alberta. University of Alberta. pdf
Barnes, D. 2017. Fuel moisture changes from sprinkler-watering treatments in interior Alaska boreal forests. University of Alberta. pdf
Stockdale, C. 2017. A century of landscape change in the southern Rocky Mountains and Foothills of Alberta: Using historical photography to quantify ecological change. University of Alberta. pdf
2016
Johnston, L. 2016. Mapping Canadian wildland fire interface area. University of Alberta. pdf
Morrison, K. 2016. Factors that influence daily human-caused forest fires in Alberta. University of Alberta. pdf
Melnik, O. 2016. A proposed experimental methodology for assessing the effects of biophysical properties and energy content on live fuel flammability. University of Alberta. pdf
Rogeau M-P. 2016. Fire regimes of Southern Alberta, Canada. University of Alberta. pdf
Fleming, T. 2016. Water-level change in boreal lakes as an indicator of area burned and number of ignitions in the Canadian prairie provinces. University of Alberta. pdf
Sharpe, M. 2016. Investigating fire as a silvicultural tool for regeneration of mountain pine beetle-killed serotinous pine of northern Alberta. University of Alberta. pdf
2015
Moore, B. 2015. Increasing wildfire growth modelling decision support using ensemble weather forecasts over the province of Alberta, Canada. University of Alberta. pdf
2014
Schiks, T. 2014. Fuel moisture and sustained flaming in masticated fuelbeds. University of Toronto. pdf
Blouin, K. 2014. Lightning prediction models for the province of Alberta, Canada. University of Alberta. pdf
2013
Chen, Y. 2013. Retrieving surface peat moisture in an Albertan bog with Radarsat-2. University of Alberta. pdf
Hwang, H. 2013. Using fire to trigger cone opening in aerial seedbanks in healthy or recently dead jack pine stands. University of Alberta. pdf