Research Scientist II. Dept of Geography and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Studies (INSTAAR), University of Colorado-Boulder.

Project title: Wildfire and Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks in Subalpine Forests: Cross-scale Interactions Under Varying Climate.  Examine the climatic drivers of Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) outbreaks and possible feedbacks between wildfires and MPB across different spatial scales and under varying climatic conditions in Colorado lodgepole pine forests.

Research Fellow.  Dept. of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder.

Project title: Fire Risk and Forest Restoration in the Wildland-Urban Interface of the Colorado Front Range. Employ dendrochronology and modeling to explore forest-management and land-use strategies for mitigating fire risk and restoring or maintaining the ecological integrity of forests in the wildland-urban interface of the Colorado Front Range.

Project title:  Spatial assessment of fuel treatments across the western US.
A comprehensive analysis of the location, character and scope of recent fuel reduction management activities by federal agencies under the National Fire Plan across the western US.

Research Associate.
Dept. of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder.

Project title: Climatic variation and disturbance interactions in subalpine Rocky Mountain forests.  Investigated the effect of internnual and multidecadal climate variability on subalpine forest fires in western CO.  Synthesized research relevant to management of recent insect outbreaks and fire risk in CO.

Postdoctoral Fellow. Dept. of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder.

Project title: Regional and local influences on climatically sensitive disturbance in the Rocky Mountains.Evaluated the relative influence of synoptic climate (Pacific Decadal Oscillation and El Nino-Southern Oscillation), fuels and topography on fire regimes across heterogeneous landscapes in the Rockies.

Graduate Research Fellow. Depts. of Botany, Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dissertation title: The influence of fire interval and climate on successional patterns in Yellowstone National Park. Examined the effect of variation in stand-replacing fire intervals on postfire succession of lodgepole pine in Yellowstone National Park.  Created a spatially explicit, probabilistic model to evaluate the effect of altered fire regimes on forest structure across Yellowstone.

Research Ecologist. USDA Rocky Mountain Fire Sciences Research Lab, Fire Effects Program, Missoula, Montana. Evaluated effects of thinning and prescribed fire on forest structure and understory composition.

Research Ecologist. USDA Forest Service, Leavenworth, Washington.
Assessed the effect of post-fire aerial seeding of non-native grasses on native understory communities.