Kiera Macauley

Kiera Macauley was a member of the Wildfire Analytics team from 2017 to 2020 while completing an MSc in Forest Biology and Management at the Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. She also holds a BSc in Geography (Dean's List, Honours, Co‐op) with a Resource Management focus from the University of Victoria.

Kiera's MSc thesis, Modelling Fire Cessation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, investigated how fire environment factors influenced fire cessation on the 2017 Verdant Creek Fire in Kootenay National Park using matched case-control conditional logistic regression. Results indicated that fire boundary formation was strongly influenced by fuel composition, arrangement, and to a limited extent, topography. Weather influenced fire boundary formation, but mainly in areas where suppression occurred.

Kiera's thesis research is documented in the following journal paper:

​Macauley K, McLoughlin N, Beverly JL (2022) Modelling fire perimeter formation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management 506: 119958.