Task Force members

Task Force Members

NameOrganizationIUFRO Team MemberExpertise

François-Nicolas Robinne

Canada Widlfire - University of Alberta, Canada

 

Wildfire science

Peter Moore

FAO, Rome

 

Wildfire science

Yeon-Su Kim

Northern Arizona University, USA

 

Ecological Economics

Herry Purnomo

CIFOR, Indonesia

 

Forest management

Lucy Amissah

CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Ghana

 

Forest ecology,fire management(social aspects)

Janice Burns

IUFRO, Austria

 

Forest management

David Ellison

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

 

Forest hydrology

Mike Flannigan

Canada Wildfire - University of Alberta, Canada

 

Wildfire science

Harry Nelson

University of British Columbia, Canada

 

Forest economics

Matthew Hansen

University of Maryland, USA

 

Forest remote-sensing

Sven Wunder

European Forest Institute, Spain

  

Frank Lake

USDA Forest Service, USA

 

Wildfire science (social aspects)

Jose Sanchez

USDA Forest Service, USA

Deputy Coordinator 9.04.03 - Ecological Economics

Forest economics

Helena Varkkey

University of Malaya, Malaysia

 

Land use politics and policy

Jessica L. McCarty

Miami University, USA

 

Geospatial analysis, Wildfire & Prescribed Fire, Fuels, Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Analysis

Tara McGee

University of Alberta, Canada

 

Wildfire science (social aspects)

Johann Georg Goldammer

Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), Germany

 

Wildfire science

A. Ainuddin Nuruddin

Universiti Putra Malaysia

 

Wildfire science

Natasha Ribeiro

Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique

 

Wildfire science

Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz

Join Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy

 

Wildfire science

David Bowman

University of Tasmania, Australia

 

Wildfire science

William Sommers

George Mason University, USA

 

Wildfire science, Atmospheric science

Cristina Vega-Garcia

Universitat de Lleida, Spain

 

Wildfire science, Human-caused fire occurrence

Mark Cochrane

University of Maryland, USA

 

Tropical fire science

Michael Kleine

IUFRO, Austria

 

Forest management

Mike Wotton

Canadian Forest Service, Canada

 

Wildfire risks

Sarah McCaffrey

USDA Forest Service, USA

 

Wildfire science (social aspects)

Armando Gonzalez-Caban

USDA Forest Service, USA

Deputy Coordinator 9.04.03 - Ecological Economics

Forest economics

Tom Smith

London School of Economics & Political Science, UK

 

Environmental geography

Ross Smith

World Bank, USA

 

Fire management

Stjepan Posavec

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry, Croatia

Deputy IUFRO 4.05.02.

Forest economics

Mario Jorge Modesto Gonzalez Pereira

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

 

Wildfire science/Fire weather/Climate variability and change

Oriol Vilalta

Pau Costa Foundation, Spain

 

Fire management

Nuria Prat Guitart

Pau Costa Foundation, Spain

 

Fire science

Jonah Bush

Earth Innovation Institute, USA

 

Forest economics

José Aylwin

Observatorio Ciudadano - Director - Coordinator of the Globalization and Human Rights Program, Chile

 

Human rights

Alexander Held

European Forest Institute, Germany

 

Forest economics

Timothy Neale

Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Australia

 

Wildfire science (social aspects)

Marcos Rodrigues

Universitat de Lleida, Spain

 

Geospatial modeling, risk assessment, geography

Erin Sills

North Carolina State University, USA

 

Forest economics

Michele Salis

National Research Council, Institute of Biometeorology, Italy

 

Wildfire spread modeling, risk assessment

George Mitri

Institute of the Environment, University of Balamand, Lebanon

 

Wildfire science and Earth Observation

Fantina Tedim

University of Porto, Faculty of Arts and humanities, Geography Department, Portugal

 

Wildfire social dimensions/Extreme wildfires/wildfire disasters

Thomas Curt

IRSTEA, France

 

Wildfire science

Allan Spessa

Dept of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR), Canberra, Australia

 

Data analysis

Laura Graham

Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, Indonesia

 

Forest ecology (social aspects)

Brett Murphy

Charles Darwin University, Canberra, Australia

 

Tropical Savanna Ecology

Martin Luckert

University of Alberta, Canada

 

Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology

Bachisio Arca

National Research Council, Institute of Biometeorology, Italy

 

Wildfire spread modeling, risk assessment

Andrey Krasovskii

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

 

Wildfire modeling

Dmitry Schepaschenko

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

 

Forest remote sensing, forest modeling