WWETAC Projects
The Western Threat center has collaborative projects in progress with over 50 scientists throughout North America. These projects address a wide array of research questions pertaining to the detection and assessment of wildland threats and threat interactions. Project abstracts and extended summaries are available below. Summary documents that describe projects addressing specific threats are also available.
Project Summary Categories:
- Data Collection
- Threat Assessment for Decision Support
- Threat Assessment Tools
- Threat Detection
- Threat Interaction Models
- Threat Mapping
- Threat Synthesis
Data Collection
Mapping forest composition and structure in the Pacific Coast States with gradient nearest neighbor imputation (GNN)
Janet L. OhmannNationwide Forest Imputation Study (NaFIS)
Ken Brewer, Andy Finley, Ron McRoberts and Janet Ohmann
Threat Assessment for Decision Support
Wildfire risk framework for strategic planning
Alan AgerRapid threat assessment of climate change effects on western bark beetles
Barbara BentzRapid threat assessment: genetically modified plants in wildland ecosystems
David Harry, Steven Strauss and Richard CronnSpatial modeling of invasive plant spread on roads and river networks in Alaska
Tricia L. WurtzClimate change and forest diseases in the West—an information synthesis
Susan FrankelRegional variation in North American fungal associates of Dendroctonus valens: what goes ‘round comes ‘round?
Nancy E. Gillette and Donald R. OwenModeling wildfire risk to spotted owl habitat in central Oregon, USA
Alan A. AgerRisk science plan for the Joint Fire Science Program
Charles G. "Terry" ShawFire, bark beetles and salvage logging in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem
Monica G. TurnerPathways and risk assessment of emerald ash borer movement into and within the Western United States
William R. Jacobi
Threat Assessment Tools
ArcFuels
Alan AgerWestern riparian threats assessment
David M. Theobald and John NormanA pilot application of ecological risk assessment to the Management of Landscape change in the Interior Landscape Analysis System (INLAS) Project area site, upper Grande Ronde River watershed
Wayne G. Landis, April J. Markiewicz and Suzanne AndersonInteraction of private and public forest fire risk management decisions
Gwenlyn M. Busby, Heidi J. Albers and Claire A. MontgomeryEvaluating soil risks associated with severe wildfire and ground-based logging
Keith M. Reynolds, Paul F. Hessburg, Bob Meurisse, and Dick MillerGMWest: A risk assessment system for gypsy moth introductions in the Pacific Northwest
Jesse A. Logan, Wally Macfarlane, and Steve MunsonICWater sediment transport module
Douglas Ryan, William B. Samuels, William J. Elliot, Deborah Martin, and Kevin Hyde
Threat Detection
Estimating insect distributions in Alaskan landscapes not covered in aerial surveys
John E. LundquistImproved Early Detection for the Mediterranean Pine Engraver, Orthotomicus erosus, an Invasive Bark Beetle
Steven J. SeyboldDetection, monitoring, and mapping of sudden oak death using hyperspectral imagery
Jon Fridgen
Threat Interaction Models
Prescribed fire regime and grazing effects on understory vegetation and exotic invasive plants
Becky K. KernsFuel reduction and weed management
Becky K. KernsProbabilistic risk models for multiple disturbances: an example of forest insects and wildfires
Haiganoush K. PreislerEvaluation of models used to predict postfire tree mortality
David Shaw, Stephen Fitzgerald and Lisa Ganio
Threat Mapping
Tamarisk in the Pacific Northwest: current distribution, species-environment relationships, and threat assessment
Becky K. KernsEvaluation of models for assessment of threats to wildlands in the Western United States from displacement by cheatgrass and pinyon-juniper woodlands
Mary M. Rowland, Michael J. Wisdom, Lowell H. Suring and Robin J. TauschNational environmental threat assessment maps
Ken Brewer, Terry Shaw, Bill Hargrove, Eric Smith and Ron NeilsonDevelopment of GIS-based maps for the “top 10” invasive weeds in Crook County, Oregon
Sim Ogle and Steve Dougill
Threat Synthesis
Westwide climate change initiative
Connie MillarEvaluating forest and range land development in the Western United States
Jeffrey D. KlineConservation markets roundtable: frameworks for bundling ecological services
Gina LaRocco, Sara Vickerman, and Robert DealApplying population ecology to strategies for eradicating invasive forest insects
Andrew Liebhold and Deborah McCullough
