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Wildfire Management

  1. With funding from the BETHA grant competition a team of scientists will evaluate perceptions and use of technological solutions for mitigating arctic wildfire risk. 

    Faculty awarded BETHA funding

    Oct 12, 2020

    With funding from the Battelle Engineering, Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) grant competition a team of scientists, including School of Environment and Natural Resources faculty Matt Davies and Matt Hamilton will evaluate perceptions and use of technological solutions for mitigating arctic wildfire risk. 

  2. Faculty receive NSF funding to understand how local communities address the threats associated with wildfire.

    How communities work across boundaries to address wildfire

    Oct 6, 2020

    To understand how local communities address the threats associated with wildfire, faculty in the School of Environment and Natural Resources will evaluate how wildfire planning processes shape social interaction and the implementation of risk management measures thanks to new funding from the National Science Foundation.

  3. Ohio State Insights interview "Mega-fires: Managing the complexities of climate change and many stakeholders" with faculty member Matt Hamilton

    Faculty member interviewed on complexities of managing fire

    Sep 30, 2020

    School of Environment and Natural Resources faculty member Matt Hamilton was interviewed for Ohio State Insights on his research focusing on wildfires and land management — specifically, how people make decisions and what factors are important.

    Read the full interview (a 5-minute read) and learn about some of the broader societal and ecological systems issues playing out in the more than 90 fires raging in the West and what they may mean for the future.