WFFRC
WEBINARS
Creating a burn severity atlas across Western US forests
Burn severity is key to understanding the environmental impacts of wildfires. The Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative’s Co-Principal Investigator, Dr. Brian Harvey of the University of Washington, and his lab group are developing an atlas of multiple on-the-ground burn severity metrics across forests of the western United States. This atlas is calibrated using a network of more than 1,000 field plots with quantitative burn severity measurements. In this webinar, Dr. Michele S. Buonanduci and Dr. Harvey present new results from this atlas with a focus on applications in the Western US.
The webinar was co-hosted by the Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative, the Northwest Fire Science Consortium and
the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network.