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4862
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1674

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Carol Miller is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Sociology and Political Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including Fire effects on ecosystems, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Fire dynamics and safety research, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Disaster Management and Resilience, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Carol Miller has published regularly in venues such as Forest Service Research Data Archive, Fire Ecology, Forest Ecology and Management, and Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation. Their recent papers include:

  • Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives (2022, Fire Ecology)
  • Commentary on the article "Burn probability simulation and subsequent wildland fire activity in Alberta, Canada - Implications for risk assessment and strategic planning" by J.L. Beverly and N. McLoughlin (2020, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Wildfire risk under alternative fuel management strategies: spatial datasets of in situ and transmitted risk for populated areas in north-central New Mexico and Sierra Mountain Range within California (2022, Forest Service Research Data Archive)
  • Field and spatial data for: Understanding the role of fire refugia in promoting ecosystem resilience of dry forests in the western United States (2021, Forest Service Research Data Archive)
  • Investigating the persistence of a disjunct population of Alaska yellow-cedar in a historically frequent-fire landscape (2021, Forest Service Research Data Archive)

Throughout their career, Carol Miller frequently collaborated with other researchers including Matthew P. Thompson, Kevin C. Vogler, Joe H. Scott, Marc-André Parisien, and Ellen Whitman.

Best Publications

  • The re-eutrophication of Lake Erie: Harmful algal blooms and hypoxia.

    Susan B. Watson;Carol Miller;George Arhonditsis;Gregory L. Boyer

  • A New Metric for Quantifying Burn Severity: The Relativized Burn Ratio

    Sean A. Parks;Gregory K. Dillon;Carol Miller

  • A review of recent advances in risk analysis for wildfire management

    Carol Miller;Alan A. Ager

  • Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles

    Paul F. Hessburg;Derek J. Churchill;Andrew J. Larson;Ryan D. Haugo

  • Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of Western North American forests

    Paul F. Hessburg;Paul F. Hessburg;Carol L. Miller;Sean A. Parks;Nicholas A. Povak

  • Rethinking resilience to wildfire

    David B. McWethy;Tania Schoennagel;Philip E. Higuera;Meg Krawchuk

  • Cross-scale analysis of fire regimes

    Donald A. Falk;Carol Miller;Donald McKenzie;Anne E. Black

  • Wildland fire as a self-regulating mechanism: the role of previous burns and weather in limiting fire progression

    Sean A. Parks;Sean A. Parks;Lisa M. Holsinger;Carol Miller;Cara R. Nelson

  • Connectivity of forest fuels and surface fire regimes

    Carol Miller;Dean L. Urban

  • Previous Fires Moderate Burn Severity of Subsequent Wildland Fires in Two Large Western US Wilderness Areas

    Sean A. Parks;Sean A. Parks;Carol Miller;Cara R. Nelson;Zachary A. Holden

  • Forest gradient response in Sierran landscapes: the physical template

    Dean L. Urban;Carol Miller;Patrick N. Halpin;Nathan L. Stephenson

  • Wildland fire deficit and surplus in the western United States, 1984–2012

    Sean A. Parks;Carol Miller;Marc-André Parisien;Lisa M. Holsinger

  • How will climate change affect wildland fire severity in the western US

    Sean A Parks;Carol Miller;John T Abatzoglou;Lisa M Holsinger

  • The spatially varying influence of humans on fire probability in North America

    Marc-Andre Parisien;Carol Miller;Sean A. Parks;Evan R. DeLancey;Evan R. DeLancey

  • Topographic and fire weather controls of fire refugia in forested ecosystems of northwestern North America

    Meg A. Krawchuk;Sandra L. Haire;Jonathan D. Coop;Marc-Andre Parisien

  • The Landscape Ecology of Fire

    Donald McKenzie;Carol Miller;Donald A. Falk

  • MODELING THE EFFECTS OF FIRE MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES ON SIERRA NEVADA MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS

    Carol Miller;Dean L. Urban

  • A model of surface fire, climate and forest pattern in the Sierra Nevada, California

    Carol Miller;Dean L Urban

  • Weather, fuels, and topography impede wildland fire spread in western US landscapes

    Lisa Holsinger;Sean A. Parks;Carol Miller

  • Forest Pattern, Fire, and Climatic Change in the Sierra Nevada

    Carol Miller;Dean L. Urban

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc-André Parisien
Marc-André Parisien Natural Resources Canada
Sean A. Parks
Sean A. Parks US Forest Service
Meg A. Krawchuk
Meg A. Krawchuk Oregon State University
Donald A. Falk
Donald A. Falk University of Arizona
Robert E. Keane
Robert E. Keane US Forest Service
Alan A. Ager
Alan A. Ager US Forest Service
Max A. Moritz
Max A. Moritz University of California, Santa Barbara
Dean L. Urban
Dean L. Urban Duke University
Mike D. Flannigan
Mike D. Flannigan University of Alberta
Mark A. Finney
Mark A. Finney US Forest Service

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