News Archive 2017-2023
In recent months we've welcomed a number of new team members: MF student Jaqueline Mersereau, undergraduate research assistant Briana Forner-Walker, and MSc intern Abhilash Dutta Roy
12/15/2023
We're sharing insights about fire risk at AFAC23 in Brisbane next week
08/15/2023
Check out Sonja Leverkus' new publication on vegetation response to a natural gas pipeline rupture in the journal Energy, Ecology and Environment
07/14/2023
We developed a new method to assess directional vulnerability to wildfire, check out our new publication in Natural Hazards
03/22/2023
We're delighted to welcome Nima Karimi (Postdoctoral Fellow), to the Wildfire Analytics team!
12/04/2022
A large contingent of Wildfire Analytics team members attended the recent Wildland Fire Canada 2022 Conference in Edmonton earlier this month - check out team highlights in our most recent field note
11/24/2022
We're pleased to welcome three new MSc candidates to the Wildfire Analytics team: Katia Davi-Digui, Carter Kuiper and Jared Randall
09/16/2022
We constructed fuel classes relevant to crown fire behaviour using inventory data, check out our new publication in
Annals of Forest Science
09/12/2022
Check out our new paper documenting the Alberta Wildland Fuels Inventory Program (AWFIP) database
Annals of Forest Science
06/20/2022
We developed a rapid method for estimating ground fuels using smartphones, check out our new publication in
Ecological Informatics
05/13/2022
We'll be talking about wildland fire risk research at the upcoming FireSmart Canada workshop:
Towards a shared understanding of wildfire risk in Canada
04/27/2022
We're sharing insights about fire risk at the upcoming Forests Ontario Annual Conference
02/10/2022
Congrats to Kiera Macauley for publishing her MSc thesis research in Forest Ecology and Management
01/04/2022
Check-out our 2021 Recap Field Note by Jen Beverly
12/31/2021
Congrats to Hilary Cameron for publishing her MSc thesis research in the International Journal of Wildland Fire!
12/14/2021
Check out our new Field Note by Jared Randall about his experience fighting fire in BC this past summer
12/13/2021
Listen to Sonja Leverkus talk about fighting fire with fire on CBC North by Northwest
10/17/2021
We developed a rapid method for estimating canopy fuels using smartphones, check out our new publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
09/06/2021
We share some insights about wildfire evacuations in this new article
07/20/2021
Interested in doing a PhD in wildfire hazard and exposure assessment? We're looking for an innovative thinker with a passion for spatial analysis - more details here
07/03/2021
We're pleased to welcome MSc candidates Kennedy Korkola and Abdullah AL Zahid to the Wildfire Analytics team, thanks to collaborations with the James Lab (UofT) and the Multimodal Transportation System Research Group
02/18/2021
We developed a simple metric of landscape fire exposure, newly
published in the journal Landscape Ecology - download a copy here
01/18/2021
Sonja Leverkus will be talking about fuel treatments in an upcoming NCS webinar
01/16/2021
Check out our new Field Note by Sonja Leverkus about fire operations during a pandemic.
01/09/2021
We're sharing insights about fire exposure and fire risk assessment at the upcoming CatIQ Connect Quarterly Webinar Series
11/27/2020
Air Forbes, Richard Mo and Brett Stewart have joined our team as new Masters students. We're also please to welcome new Research Associate Nathan Phelps and new undergraduate research assistant Jared Randall!
09/25/2020
We review stand-level fuel reduction treatments and fire behaviour in boreal conifer forests
in our new publication
07/27/2020
Introducing Sidra Ijaz Khan, our new visiting researcher intern
05/15/2020
We're at the IALE-North America 2020 Annual Meeting this week sharing science-policy insights from burn probability simulation modeling
05/11/2020
Congratulations to Kiera Macauley who successfully defended her MSc Thesis on Friday!
04/27/2020
Congratulations to Hilary Cameron who successfully defended her MSc Thesis today!
04/03/2020
We're looking forward to sharing our work at the upcoming IALE-North America 2020 Annual Meeting in Toronto.
03/11/2020
Check out our new Field Note by Jen Beverly about diversity at Wildland Fire Canada 2019.
01/12/2020
Thanks to Fuse Consulting for their excellent infographic of the recent Beverly and McLoughlin (2019) paper.
01/09/2020
Check out articles by Kiera Smith and Kate Bezooyen in the Fire & Smoke Newsletter
11/27/2019
We're looking forward to attending the Wildland Fire Canada 2019 Conference in Ottawa, Ontario in two weeks. Jen is the conference Program Chair and Kiera, Kate, Hilary and Andrew are all presenting their research.
11/03/2019
Check out our new Field Note by Kiera Smith
10/23/2019
Check out our new Field Note by Andrew Stack
09/13/2019
We highlight some important considerations for displaying and interpreting burn probability maps
New publication: Forest Ecology and Management
08/20/2019
Check out our new Field Note by Hilary Cameron
08/02/2019
We recently spent some time observing fire dispatching and suppression operations in the Peace River Forest Area - check out Jen Beverly's Field Note
06/11/2019
Check out part two of Kate Bezooyen's Field Note - FIREFIGHTER IN THE FIELD
05/14/2019
We're sharing our work at the upcoming 6th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
04/27/2019
Sonja Leverkus is helping to organize the upcoming Wildlife Society Conference in Canmore, Alberta and will be presenting in the Women in Wildlife Symposium
02/20/2019
Check out our new Field Note by Kate Bezooyen
02/13/2019
Call for submissions announced for the Wildland Fire Canada 2019 conference
18/01/2019
Check out our new Field Note by Jinhan Xie
11/30/2018
Check out our new Field Note by Kiera Smith
10/04/2018
We presented our Wildfire Exposure Assessment tool at the Community FireSmart Series in Fort McMurray yesterday (view slides)
10/04/2018
We're launching a new assessment tool for community protection planning
9/26/2018
We're helping to plan the Wildland Fire Canada 2019 conference
9/21/2018
Hilary Cameron has joined our team as a new MSc student!
9/14/2018
Sonja Leverkus weighs-in on prescribed burning
9/12/2018
Andrew Stack has joined our team as a new MSc student!
9/7/2018
We had a great time exploring fuel structure in a fuel management area near Conklin, Alberta. Many thanks to Hilary Cameron (Alberta Wildland Fuels Inventory Program Coordinator) and the Mackinnon and Nederend crews!
8/13/2018
Introducing Ashwat Sharma - our new Research Assistant.
7/30/2018
We're pleased to have Dr. Sonja Leverkus on our team for the summer!
Sonja Leverkus
5/28/2018
We're sharing our work at the upcoming AFE and IAWF conference in Missoula, Montana:
Fire Continuum Conference
5/20/2018
We found a relationship between escaped fires in black spruce and time elapsed since the last fire:
New Publication: International Journal of Wildland Fire
10/27/2017
We're helping to organize an upcoming CIF workshop :
Integrating Wildland Fire Risk in Forest Management Planning
9/28/2017
We're sharing our work at Columbia University's upcoming conference:
Fire Prediction Across Scales
9/28/2017
In recent months we've welcomed a number of new team members: MF student Jaqueline Mersereau, undergraduate research assistant Briana Forner-Walker, and MSc intern Abhilash Dutta Roy
12/15/2023
We're sharing insights about fire risk at AFAC23 in Brisbane next week
08/15/2023
Check out Sonja Leverkus' new publication on vegetation response to a natural gas pipeline rupture in the journal Energy, Ecology and Environment
07/14/2023
We developed a new method to assess directional vulnerability to wildfire, check out our new publication in Natural Hazards
03/22/2023
We're delighted to welcome Nima Karimi (Postdoctoral Fellow), to the Wildfire Analytics team!
12/04/2022
A large contingent of Wildfire Analytics team members attended the recent Wildland Fire Canada 2022 Conference in Edmonton earlier this month - check out team highlights in our most recent field note
11/24/2022
We're pleased to welcome three new MSc candidates to the Wildfire Analytics team: Katia Davi-Digui, Carter Kuiper and Jared Randall
09/16/2022
We constructed fuel classes relevant to crown fire behaviour using inventory data, check out our new publication in
Annals of Forest Science
09/12/2022
Check out our new paper documenting the Alberta Wildland Fuels Inventory Program (AWFIP) database
Annals of Forest Science
06/20/2022
We developed a rapid method for estimating ground fuels using smartphones, check out our new publication in
Ecological Informatics
05/13/2022
We'll be talking about wildland fire risk research at the upcoming FireSmart Canada workshop:
Towards a shared understanding of wildfire risk in Canada
04/27/2022
We're sharing insights about fire risk at the upcoming Forests Ontario Annual Conference
02/10/2022
Congrats to Kiera Macauley for publishing her MSc thesis research in Forest Ecology and Management
01/04/2022
Check-out our 2021 Recap Field Note by Jen Beverly
12/31/2021
Congrats to Hilary Cameron for publishing her MSc thesis research in the International Journal of Wildland Fire!
12/14/2021
Check out our new Field Note by Jared Randall about his experience fighting fire in BC this past summer
12/13/2021
Listen to Sonja Leverkus talk about fighting fire with fire on CBC North by Northwest
10/17/2021
We developed a rapid method for estimating canopy fuels using smartphones, check out our new publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
09/06/2021
We share some insights about wildfire evacuations in this new article
07/20/2021
Interested in doing a PhD in wildfire hazard and exposure assessment? We're looking for an innovative thinker with a passion for spatial analysis - more details here
07/03/2021
We're pleased to welcome MSc candidates Kennedy Korkola and Abdullah AL Zahid to the Wildfire Analytics team, thanks to collaborations with the James Lab (UofT) and the Multimodal Transportation System Research Group
02/18/2021
We developed a simple metric of landscape fire exposure, newly
published in the journal Landscape Ecology - download a copy here
01/18/2021
Sonja Leverkus will be talking about fuel treatments in an upcoming NCS webinar
01/16/2021
Check out our new Field Note by Sonja Leverkus about fire operations during a pandemic.
01/09/2021
We're sharing insights about fire exposure and fire risk assessment at the upcoming CatIQ Connect Quarterly Webinar Series
11/27/2020
Air Forbes, Richard Mo and Brett Stewart have joined our team as new Masters students. We're also please to welcome new Research Associate Nathan Phelps and new undergraduate research assistant Jared Randall!
09/25/2020
We review stand-level fuel reduction treatments and fire behaviour in boreal conifer forests
in our new publication
07/27/2020
Introducing Sidra Ijaz Khan, our new visiting researcher intern
05/15/2020
We're at the IALE-North America 2020 Annual Meeting this week sharing science-policy insights from burn probability simulation modeling
05/11/2020
Congratulations to Kiera Macauley who successfully defended her MSc Thesis on Friday!
04/27/2020
Congratulations to Hilary Cameron who successfully defended her MSc Thesis today!
04/03/2020
We're looking forward to sharing our work at the upcoming IALE-North America 2020 Annual Meeting in Toronto.
03/11/2020
Check out our new Field Note by Jen Beverly about diversity at Wildland Fire Canada 2019.
01/12/2020
Thanks to Fuse Consulting for their excellent infographic of the recent Beverly and McLoughlin (2019) paper.
01/09/2020
Check out articles by Kiera Smith and Kate Bezooyen in the Fire & Smoke Newsletter
11/27/2019
We're looking forward to attending the Wildland Fire Canada 2019 Conference in Ottawa, Ontario in two weeks. Jen is the conference Program Chair and Kiera, Kate, Hilary and Andrew are all presenting their research.
11/03/2019
Check out our new Field Note by Kiera Smith
10/23/2019
Check out our new Field Note by Andrew Stack
09/13/2019
We highlight some important considerations for displaying and interpreting burn probability maps
New publication: Forest Ecology and Management
08/20/2019
Check out our new Field Note by Hilary Cameron
08/02/2019
We recently spent some time observing fire dispatching and suppression operations in the Peace River Forest Area - check out Jen Beverly's Field Note
06/11/2019
Check out part two of Kate Bezooyen's Field Note - FIREFIGHTER IN THE FIELD
05/14/2019
We're sharing our work at the upcoming 6th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
04/27/2019
Sonja Leverkus is helping to organize the upcoming Wildlife Society Conference in Canmore, Alberta and will be presenting in the Women in Wildlife Symposium
02/20/2019
Check out our new Field Note by Kate Bezooyen
02/13/2019
Call for submissions announced for the Wildland Fire Canada 2019 conference
18/01/2019
Check out our new Field Note by Jinhan Xie
11/30/2018
Check out our new Field Note by Kiera Smith
10/04/2018
We presented our Wildfire Exposure Assessment tool at the Community FireSmart Series in Fort McMurray yesterday (view slides)
10/04/2018
We're launching a new assessment tool for community protection planning
9/26/2018
We're helping to plan the Wildland Fire Canada 2019 conference
9/21/2018
Hilary Cameron has joined our team as a new MSc student!
9/14/2018
Sonja Leverkus weighs-in on prescribed burning
9/12/2018
Andrew Stack has joined our team as a new MSc student!
9/7/2018
We had a great time exploring fuel structure in a fuel management area near Conklin, Alberta. Many thanks to Hilary Cameron (Alberta Wildland Fuels Inventory Program Coordinator) and the Mackinnon and Nederend crews!
8/13/2018
Introducing Ashwat Sharma - our new Research Assistant.
7/30/2018
We're pleased to have Dr. Sonja Leverkus on our team for the summer!
Sonja Leverkus
5/28/2018
We're sharing our work at the upcoming AFE and IAWF conference in Missoula, Montana:
Fire Continuum Conference
5/20/2018
We found a relationship between escaped fires in black spruce and time elapsed since the last fire:
New Publication: International Journal of Wildland Fire
10/27/2017
We're helping to organize an upcoming CIF workshop :
Integrating Wildland Fire Risk in Forest Management Planning
9/28/2017
We're sharing our work at Columbia University's upcoming conference:
Fire Prediction Across Scales
9/28/2017