IROCE researchers, James Johnston, Jess Downey, and Heidi Huber Stearns, discuss the importance, challenges, and risks of prescribed burns as well as the need for communication with local communities…
From a short-lived federal grant program to an 1,800-member network, the Disaster Resilient Universities® (DRU) Network has spent two decades proving that higher education is stronger when it stands…
Heidi Huber-Stearns, director of the Center for Wildfire Smoke Research and Practice, discusses the challenges of communicating about wildfire smoke risks.
James Johnston, assistant research professor in the Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments, describes research showing less wildfires in roadless areas than more…
James Johnston, a University of Oregon fire scientist who has worked for years on a collaborative forest management program in eastern Oregon’s Malheur National Forest, says he’d like to see the…
Heidi Huber-Stearns, director of the University of Oregon's Center for Wildfire Smoke Research and Practice, is working with University of Michigan researchers on a NASA-funded wildfire smoke project.
Read recent updates from the Ecosystem Workforce Program including summer cultural and ecological fieldwork, stewardship contracting program monitoring, Grow Back Better, and work from the Center for…
A NASA grant will help fund wildfire smoke research in the Pacific Northwest. Heidi Huber-Stearns, director of the University of Oregon's Center for Wildfire Smoke Research and Practice is…
Heidi Huber-Stearns, director of the Center for Wildfire Smoke Research and Practice, reflects on wildfire smoke research conducted during the 2022 World Athletics' senior world championship and…
Extreme fire weather, drought and wind fueled explosive fire growth as several blazes swept through eastern Washington. IROCE assistant research professor James Johnston, talks about fire ecology and…
