Investigators Christine Vogt, Ph.D. Christine Vogt is Associate Professor, Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resources Studies at Michigan State University. Her research area is tourism communications and the study of people collecting and using information to plan and take vacations. She also studies resident attitudes on tourism and natural resource issues, and survey and evaluation research techniques. Her work appears in Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Leisure Sciences, Journal of Leisure Research, and Journal of Park and Recreation Administration. She has many research studies and reports with Offices of Tourism and Convention and Visitor Bureaus. Greg Winter Greg Winter is Research Director at Paul Schissler Associates, a research and planning firm in Bellingham, Washington. His research interests include public participation in natural resource management and risk management. Other interests include rural sociology with a focus on community needs and government and nonprofit services. He graduated from Huxley College at Western Washington University with a B.S. in Environmental Policy and from Michigan State University, Department of Forestry with a M.S. in Natural Resource Economics. His publications have appeared in Society and Natural Resources, Journal of Forestry, Forest Science, and the International Journal of Wildland Fire. Sarah McCaffrey, PhD Sarah M. McCaffrey is a Research Social Scientist for the U.S. Forest Service, North Central Research Station in Evanston, Illinois. She currently oversees a National Fire Plan project examining the social acceptability of fuels treatments and is co-leader of a national effort to synthesize scientific knowledge related to fuels treatments and make the information accessible to fuels managers. She received her PhD in Wildland Resource Science from the University of California at Berkeley where her research examined Incline Village, Nevada homeowner views and actions in relation to defensible space and fuels management. Beyond better understanding the public-wildfire interaction, Dr. McCaffrey has an interest in the interaction of culture and resource management. Jeremy S. Fried, PhD Jeremy Fried is a Team Leader and Research Forester with the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, based in Portland Oregon. As author of over 50 publications addressing topics in fire management, ecology, economics, natural resource policy, climate change impact assessment, social science, forest inventory, and geographic information science, Jeremy's research agenda is broadly based, but focused on applying systems analysis techniques to contemporary natural resource management issues. Jeremy completed a Ph.D. in forest management and economics at the University of California (1992), served as Assistant (1992-1998) and Associate (1998-1999) Professor at Michigan State University, and as Visiting Full Professor of Geoinformatics (1998-1999) at the University of Helsinki. Jeremy's other fire-related projects include a Joint Fire Sciences Program funded effort to impute FIA plot-based fuel characterizations to the larger landscape, development of the FIA BioSum model to characterize potential forest products which may be generated by fuel treatments and the economic and logistical feasibility of applying fire risk reduction-inspired silvicultural prescriptions at a landscape scale, characterizing the extent and potential of sudden oak death impacts on California forests, and status and trends in southern California's chaparral lands. Keith Gilless Keith Gilless is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California Berkeley. His research interests are in the application of economics and systems analysis to forest resource management problems. A major portion of his research effort over the last decade has been directed towards building simulation models of initial attack on wildland fires for use by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and other agencies in wildland fire protection planning. He has also conducted several studies of large urban-wildland fires, including the Oakland-Berkeley and Santa Barbara fires. These studies were designed to evaluate the probability of a house within the fire perimeter surviving as a function of the house's structural characteristics, its surrounding vegetation, and the defensive actions taken to protect it. The results of these studies highlighted the importance of nonflammable roofs and vegetation management programs to reduce fire losses in interface areas. Armando González-Cabán, Ph.D. Armando holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Puerto Rico and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in New York. Before joining the United States Depart. of Agriculture Forest Service in 1980 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico. Since 1980 he has been working as a Research Economist at the Forest Service, Pacific Southwest (PSW) Research Station, Forest Fire Laboratory in Riverside, CA. He has been conducting research on the economic effects of wildland fires on natural resources. The areas covered range from the economic effect of fire on threatened and endangered species habitat to the economics of maintaining the ecological integrity of rivers, to the attitudes and values of individuals towards Forest Service fire management policies. Internationally, Armando has served as consultant on Forest Service and the Agency for International Development (AID) sponsored missions to Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, and Spain. Home -- Study Sites -- Investigators Research Projects -- Publications -- Presentations -- Tool kit -- Related Links