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Pyregence Consortium

The Pyregence Consortium is advancing scientific knowledge of wildfires and building next-generation forecasting tools. Guided by an open-source philosophy, the Consortium is making the tools free and available to all, while also providing access to all underlying model inputs and datasets.

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Institutions

Largely funded by a grant from the California Energy Commission, the Consortium is composed of leading researchers from 18 institutions across industry, academia, and government, as well as software developers and designers.

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Teams

Within the Consortium are four interconnected teams. Our two research teams, the Extreme Weather and Wildfire Team and the Fuel Mapping and Fire Physics Team, are fundamentally advancing our understanding of fire weather and forest fuels. Data inputs from this body of research will be fed into Pyregence’s new set of accurate, fast, and simple models, which are being developed by the Wildfire Forecasting Team and the Climate Change & Fire Projections Team. These two teams are developing tools that will generate accurate wildfire forecasts for the next week—and the rest of the century.

Using Pyregrence’s free, web-based tools, government officials, electrical utilities, and other users can access the information they need to safeguard people and property and strengthen the resilience of infrastructure and ecosystems.

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David Saah, PhD

David Saah, PhD

Principal Investigator

Janice Coen, PhD

Janice Coen, PhD

Co-lead, Extreme Weather & Wildfire Team

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Owen Doherty, PhD

Lead, Fuel Mapping & Fire Physics Team

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Scott Stephens, PhD

Lead, Fuel Mapping & Fire Physics Team

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Chris Lautenberger, PhD, PE

Lead, Wildfire Forecasting Team

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Leroy Westerling, PhD

Lead, Climate Change & Fire Projections Team

Shane Romsos, MS

Shane Romsos, MS

Project Manager

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Alexis Bernal, MS

Fuels Measurement Analyst

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Andrea Drew, CPA

Project Accountant

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Andreas Prein, PhD

Atmospheric Scientist

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Andrew Notohamiprodjo, MS

Machine Learning Analyst

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Ashley Conrad-Saydah, MS

Policy Analyst

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Benjamin Sleeter, MA

LUCAS Model Lead, Climate Change & Fire Projections Team

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Brandon Collins, PhD

Co-lead, Fuels Measurement and Analysis

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Bryan Penfold, MBA

Upper-Air Profiler Manager

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Carlos Fernandez-Pello, PhD

Fire Science Advisor; Lead, Small-Scale Fire Experiments

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Carrie Levine, PhD

Fuels Modeler

Charles Maxwell, PhD

Charles Maxwell, PhD

Landis-II Vegetation Modeler

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Christopher Anderson, PhD

Geospatial Analyst, Tree Mortality and Fuels Mapping

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Daniel Foster, MS

Co-lead, Fuels Measurement and Analysis

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David Marvin, PhD

Tree and Fuel Mapping; LUCAS Modeler

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Franz Richter, PhD

Fire Scientist

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Gary Johnson, PhD

Lead Software Developer

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Ian Moore, MS

Field Forest Ecologist and Data Management

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Jason Moghaddas, MS, RPF

Fire Science Advisor: Administrative Support

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Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez, PhD

Project Fire Scientist

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Jean-Pierre Wack, MBA, ME

Project Management; Administrative Support

Jeff Knickerbocker

Jeff Knickerbocker

Computer Technology Manager

Joe Scott, MS

Joe Scott, MS

Fire Science Advisor, Fuel Modeler

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John Battles, PhD

Fire Science Advisor; Lead, Tree Mortality Projections

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Jonathan Baldwin, PhD

Data Analyst

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Jonathan Sam

Fire Scientist

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Justine Bui, MBA

Administration and Knowledge Transfer Support

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Kenneth Craig, MS

Upper-Air Profiler Analyst

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Kenneth Cheung

Full Stack Software Developer

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Kim Carr, MA

User Engagement Specialist

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Luca Camignani, PhD

Fire Scientist

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Maria Theodori, MS, PE

Fire Scientist

Mariko Geronimo Aydin, MA

Mariko Geronimo Aydin, MA

Cost-Benefit Analysis Lead

Mark Essig, PhD

Mark Essig, PhD

Project Science Writer

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Mark Finney, PhD

Fire Science Advisor; Lead, Large-Scale Fire Experiments

Matthew Hurteau, PhD

Matthew Hurteau, PhD

Fire Science Advisor; Lead Landis-II Modeler

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Matthew Spencer, PE

Full Stack Developer

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Max Moritz, PhD

Fire Science Advisor

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Michael Gollner, PhD

Fire Science Advisor

Oliver Baldwin Edwards

Oliver Baldwin Edwards

Software Developer

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Paul Lackovic

Geospatial Analyst

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Phil Dye, MS

Fire Science Advisor

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Qingqing Xu, MBA

Fire Scientist

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ShihMing Huang, MS

Upper-Air Profiler Analyst

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Steve Irwin

Upper-Air Profiler Analyst

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Tami Lavezzo, MBA

Upper-Air Profiler Analyst

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Zeke Lunder

Fire Science Advisor

Taro Pusina

Taro Pusina

Wildfire Behavior Analyst and Advisor

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Richard (RJ) Sheperd

Full Stack Software Developer

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Todd Hawbaker, PhD

Long-Term Risk Projection Modeler

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Todd Hawbaker, PhD

Long-Term Risk Projection Modeler

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Samrajya Thapa

Fire Scientist

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