Research Team

Coordination
Researchers
Seasonal Employees
Other studies being conducted in FFS-Sequoia plots

If you are interested in research being conducted in these plots or would like to be part of our research team, please contact Dylan Schwilk, Sequoia FFS study site manager.

Coordination

Jon Keeley
(Principal Investigator, FFS Vegetation Discipline Leader)
Research Ecologist
U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center
Sequoia and Kings Canyon Field Station
HCR 89, Box 4, Three Rivers, CA 93271
(559) 565-3170
jon_keeley@usgs.gov

Dylan Schwilk
(FFS Sequoia Site Manager)
Ecologist
U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center
Sequoia and Kings Canyon Field Station
HCR 89, Box 4, Three Rivers, CA 93271
(559) 565-3175
dschwilk@usgs.gov

The FFS Science and Management Integration
Committee meeting at the Sequoia site, Oct. 22, 2003
(USGS Photo)

Researchers

Former site manager, current collaborator
Eric E. Knapp, Research Ecologist
U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station
3644 Avtech Parkway
Redding, CA 96002-9241
Phone: (530) 226-2555; FAX (530) 226-5091
eknapp@fs.fed.us

Vegetation
Dylan Schwilk, Ecologist
U. S. Geological Survey
(559) 565-3175
dschwilk@usgs.gov

Fuels and Fire
Dylan Schwilk, Ecologist
U. S. Geological Survey
(559) 565-3175
dschwilk@usgs.gov

Wildlife
Steve Zack, Wildlife Ecologist
Wildlife Conservation Society
(503) 644-8727
szack@wcs.org

Kerry L. Farris, Associate Conservation Scientist
Wildlife Conservation Society
North America -- Pacifc West Program
(520) 881-9986
kfarris@wcs.org

Michelle Monroe, graduate student
University of California Davis
memonroe@gmail.com

Soils and Forest Floor
Ingrid Burke, Professor
Department of Forest Science
Colorado State University
(970) 491-1620
indy@cnr.colostate.edu

Sarah Hamman, Graduate Student
Colorado State University
(970) 491-2746
sthamman@cnr.colostate.edu

Phil Rundel, Professor
Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
University of California at Los Angeles
(310) 825-4072
rundel@biology.ucla.edu

Entomology
Scott Ferrenberg, Ecologist/ Entomologist
U. S. Geological Survey
Sequoia and Kings Canyon Field Station
(559) 565-4264
sferrenberg@usgs.gov

Pathology
Patricia Maloney, Post-doctoral researcher
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California Davis
(530) 546-3014
tbntm@telis.org

Economics
Jamie Barbour, Wood Scientist
Portland Forestry Sciences Lab
(503) 808-2074
jbarbour01@fs.fed.us

National Park Service Resource & Fire Management
Tony Caprio, Fire Ecologist
Sequoia National Park, Resource Management
(559) 565-3126
caprio_tony@nps.gov

Bill Kaage, Fire Management Officer
Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks
(559) 565-3160
kaage_william@nps.gov

Briefing prior to ignition of prescribed fire (unit 9),
June 20, 2002.
(Photo by Eric Knapp)

Seasonal employees

2001:
Anni Ala
Liz Ballenger (field crew leader)
Todd Erdody
Eric Groth (entomology)
Shauna Hee
Jeffrey Kane
Dan Lieberman
Hanna Mershman
Dorothy Wallace-Senft
Kelly Wengronowitz
Michelle Gagnon (Wildlife Conservation Society – Small mammals)
Chris Rothenbach (Wildlife Conservation Society – Small mammals)
Ty Donnelly (Wildlife Conservation Society – Birds)
Adam Patterson (Wildlife Conservation Society – Birds)
Kathy Gerst (UCLA – Soils)

USGS Fire and Fire Surrogate Study crew, summer
of 2001.
(Photo by Eric Knapp)

2002:
Liz Ballenger (field crew leader)
Tess Brennan
Eric Fabio
Jeffrey Kane
Hanna Mershman
Katie Panichelle
Michelle Gagnon (Wildlife Conservation Society – Small mammals)
Alisha Bacci (Wildlife Conservation Society – Small mammals)

USGS Fire and Fire Surrogate Study crew, summer
of 2002.
(Photo by Tony Caprio)

2003:
Clara Arndt
Tess Brennan (field crew leader)
Lea Condon
Upekala Wijayratne
Michelle Gagnon (Wildlife Conservation Society – Small mammals)
Natasha Essar (Wildlife Conservation Society – Small mammals)
Kevin Pietrzak (Wildlife Conservation Society – Birds)
Bobby Hsu (Wildlife Conservation Society – Birds)

2004:
Vegetation Crew:
Jeffrey Kane (field crew leader)
Emily Orling
Gina Radieve
Amanda Young

Bird Crew:
Jennifer DuPree
Jason Liddle

Mammal Crew:
Michelle Monroe
Anna Knipps
Max Kaufman

Other studies being conducted in FFS study plots

A growing number of studies, funded separately from the main FFS study, are being conducted within the FFS plots at Sequoia National Park. By utilizing the existing replicated experimental design, considerable cost savings are achieved.

These studies include:

1. Incorporating spatial variability into fire restoration plans. Funding provided by the Joint Fire Science Program: $155,518 for 2002-2004

	Dean Urban (Duke University)
		deanu@pinus.env.duke.edu; (919) 613-8076

	Jon Keeley (USGS)
		jon_keeley@usgs.gov; (559) 565-3170

	Monique Rocca (Duke University)
		mer3@duke.edu; (919) 613-8124

2. Landscape implications of fire and fire-surrogate treatments on fisher habitat in the Sierra Nevada. Funding: $23,000 for 2003-2004

	Richard Truex, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station – Placerville
		rtruex@fs.fed.us; (530) 409-1282

	Bill Zielinski, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station – Arcata
		bzielinski@fs.fed.us; (707) 825-2943

3. Obtaining indirect measures of canopy fuels at the Fire and Fire Surrogate Study sites. Funding by the Joint Fire Sciences Program: $89,641 for 2003-2004

	Elizabeth Reinhardt, U.S.F.S. Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Lab
		ereinhardt@fs.fed.us; (406) 329-4760
		http://www.firelab.org/fep/fepstaff/ereinhardt.htm

	Joe Scott, Systems for Environmental Management
		joescott@montana.edu

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