Emily Heyerdahl
Research Forester, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Lab
Adjunct Professor, School of Resource & Environmental Management, SFU
B.Sc. (Geology, OSU)
M.Sc. (Atmospheric Sciences, UW)
Ph.D. (Forest Ecosystems Analysis, UW)

Emily was a post-doctoral fellow (and resident tree-ring nut) in the forest ecology lab (1998-2000). Her research focuses on understanding the climate drivers of historical fire regimes through time and across space, at landscape scales, using tree rings. She has conducted this research in mixed conifer forests in the Pacific Northwest US, the southern interior of British Columbia (in the Stein Valley) and in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico. She is currently exploring the drivers of historical fire regimes in the US Great Basin and Northern Rocky Mountains. For more information see her web page at the Fire Sciences Lab.

Selected Publications

• Lepofsky, D., E. K. Heyerdahl, K. Lertzman, D. Schaepe, and B. Mierendorf. 2003. Historical meadow dynamics in southwest British Columbia: a multidisciplinary analysis. Conservation Ecology 7: 5. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss3/art5
• Heyerdahl, E.K. and E. Alvarado. 2003. Influence of climate and land use on historical surface fires in pine-oak forests, Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. Pages 196-217 in: Fire and climatic change in temperate ecosystems of the western Americas. eds. T.T. Veblen, W.L. Baker, G. Montenegro and T.W. Swetnam. New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Heyerdahl, E.K. and S.J. McKay. 2002. Condition of live, fire-scarred ponderosa pine trees, six years after removing partial cross sections. Tree-Ring Research. 57:131-139.
• Heyerdahl, E.K., L.B. Brubaker and J.K. Agee. 2002. Annual and decadal climate forcing of historical fire regimes in the interior Pacific Northwest, USA. The Holocene. 12:597-604.
• Heyerdahl, E.K., L.B. Brubaker, J.K. Agee. 2001 Spatial controls of historical fire regimes: a multiscale example from the Interior West, USA. Ecology. 83:660-678.