Patrick Mahler

Patrick joined the Wildfire Analytics team as a Research Assistant in 2023. He graduated in 2022, with a BA in Computer Science minoring in Geospatial Information Science from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. For the past four summers, Patrick has been part of the Helitack program with Alberta Wildfire. He spent most of his time in the Grande Prairie and Edson Forest Areas, but he has fought fires around the province as well as a tour in the Northwest Territories (2022).
  
Having become passionate about wildfire management, he is now ready to shift into a new role within wildfire. Patrick supports several research projects primarily through GIS mapping activities, land cover classification and spatial data management.