Richard (Siqi) Mo

Richard (Siqi) Mo was a member of the Wildfire Analytics team 2020-2024 while completing an MSc in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta. Richard also holds an Honors Bachelor of Science degree (2020) in the Co-op Specialist Program in Environmental Biology and Minor (Science) Program in Applied Statistics from the University of Toronto Scarborough.  

Richard's MSc Thesis, Modeling Wildfire Perimeter Formation for Strategic Containment Line Planning in the Boreal Forest Region of Alberta, Canada,  applied matched case-control conditional logistic regression and Random Forest classification to identify the influence of key landscape variables on fire cessation and to predict the probability of fire cessation at a given location.

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