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ABOUT THE ALASKA
SCIENCE CENTER

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Education and/or Training

Ph.D.	In progress	Clark University, Worcester, MA	Geography
M.S.	2005	University of Nevada, Reno	Geography
B.A.	1999	Cornell University, Ithaca, NY	History

Areas of Specialization and/or Research Interests

Understanding and modeling landscape-scale disturbance dynamics, particularly related to wildfires. Fire ecology of boreal systems and the intermountain western US, invasive species, climate change impacts on disturbance dynamics. Remote sensing for large area monitoring.

Professional Experience

2007 - Present	SCEP Landscape Ecologist, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK
2003 - 2008	Research Associate, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV
2003 - 2006	Fire Ecologist, USFS, California
2000 - 2003	Consultant, California/Nevada

Professional Activities and/or Memberships

American Geophysical Union
Association of American Geographers
Association for Fire Ecology
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
International Association for Landscape Ecology
International Association of Wildland Fire
Society for Conservation GIS

Significant Recent Publications

Kolden, C.A., and T.J. Brown. In review. The importance of using climate information for fire and fuels risk management. International Journal of Wildland Fire (submitted).

Rogan J., M. Millones, C.A. Kolden, L. Schneider, X. Rueda, and B.L. Turner II. In review. Characterizing fire dynamics in the Southern Yucatan Region using MODIS Active Fire (MOD-4) Data. Fire Ecology (submitted)

Kolden, C.A. and P.W. Weisberg. 2007. Assessing accuracy of manually-mapped wildfire perimeters in topographically dissected areas. Fire Ecology 3(1): 22-31.

Kolden, C.A. and T.J. Brown. 2007. Using climate information for fuels management. CEFA Report 14-1. 58pp.

Kolden, C.A., T. Weigel. 2007. Fire risk in San Diego County, California: A weighted Bayesian model approach. The California Geographer 47: 1-17.

Brown, T.J. and C.A. Kolden. 2007. The science of fire: new technologies at the Desert Research Institute make a difference in wildland fire management. Wildland Firefighter September 2007.

Websites of Interest

http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/geography/fire.html