Bio:
Dr. Ronald H. Wakimoto is Professor of Forestry at The University
of Montana, Missoula. He received his B.S. in Forestry and M.S.
and Ph.D. in Wildland Resource Science from the University of
California at Berkeley. He began his faculty career at the University
of California, Berkeley in 1976 and has been at The University
of Montana since 1982 teaching and conducting research in wildland
fire management. He teaches academic courses in wildland fire
management, fuel management and fire ecology. Dr. Wakimoto currently
conducts research on the social acceptability of fuel management
treatments, smoke quality and quantity from smoldering combustion,
fire fighter safety, crown fire spread and the fire ecology of
the Northern Mixed Prairie. In 1986 he served on a Committee of
Scientists in a National Park Service review of the prescribed
burning programs at Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park and Yosemite
National Park. In 1988 and 1989 Dr. Wakimoto was one of two academics
to serve as technical advisors to the National Fire Policy Review
Team following the Yellowstone events. In 1997 he gave testimony
on Wildfire Policy to the U.S. House Agriculture Committee. In
2000 he gave testimony on the Montana fire-fuel situation to the
U.S. House Natural Resources Sub-Committee on Forests and Forest
Health. In 2001 he gave testimony to the same committee concerning
the implementation of the National Fire Plan.
Education:
B.S. Forestry, Univ. of California, Berkeley 1970
M.S. Wildland Resource Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley 1971
Ph.D. Wildland Resource Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley 1978
Recent Research:
- Validation and Calibration of FARSITE Fire Area Simulator for
Yellowstone National Park
- Temporal distribution of biomass burning in Central Africa
- Content analysis of wildland firefighter fatalities and entrapments
- Evaluation of fuel management treatments following the 1994
wildfire season on the Kootenai National Forest.
- Historic Fire Regimes and Change Since European Settlement on
the Northern Mixed Prairie
- Social Acceptability of Fuel Management Treatments
- Smoke Production and Quality from Smoldering Combustion in Forest
Fires
- Modeling the Initiation of Crown Fires
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