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Overview

Crystal A. Kolden is affiliated with the University of California, Merced in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science, and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

Their research covers a range of topics, with notable emphasis on fire-related phenomena and ecosystem interactions. Major themes in their work include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Recent publications by Crystal A. Kolden reflect their broader interests in fire science and climate change impacts. Selected papers include:

  • Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change, 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions, 2021, Ecological Applications
  • Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment

They have collaborated frequently with researchers including John T. Abatzoglou, Matthew W. Jones, Nicole Lambrou, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Daniel L. Swain.

Crystal A. Kolden's work has appeared predominantly in several academic journals, with the most frequent publication venues comprising:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Science
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Earth's Future

Best Publications

  • Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

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  • Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Crystal A. Kolden;John T. Abatzoglou;Fay H. Johnston

  • Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events.

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Grant J. Williamson;John T. Abatzoglou;Crystal A. Kolden

  • Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

    Michael Goss;Daniel L Swain;Daniel L Swain;Daniel L Swain;John T Abatzoglou;John T Abatzoglou;Ali Sarhadi

  • Climate change presents increased potential for very large fires in the contiguous United States

    R. Barbero;J. T. Abatzoglou;N. K. Larkin;C. A. Kolden

  • Relationships between climate and macroscale area burned in the western United States

    John T. Abatzoglou;Crystal A. Kolden

  • Global patterns of interannual climate-fire relationships.

    John T. Abatzoglou;A. Park Williams;Luigi Boschetti;Maria Zubkova

  • Climate Change in Western US Deserts: Potential for Increased Wildfire and Invasive Annual Grasses

    John T. Abatzoglou;Crystal A. Kolden;Crystal A. Kolden

  • Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions.

    Susan J. Prichard;Paul F. Hessburg;Paul F. Hessburg;R. Keala Hagmann;Nicholas A. Povak

  • Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

    John T. Abatzoglou;David S. Battisti;A. Park Williams;A. Park Williams;Winslow D. Hansen

  • Rethinking resilience to wildfire

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

  • We’re Not Doing Enough Prescribed Fire in the Western United States to Mitigate Wildfire Risk

    Crystal A. Kolden

  • The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities.

    Alistair M. S. Smith;Crystal A. Kolden;Travis B. Paveglio;Mark A. Cochrane

  • Mapped versus actual burned area within wildfire perimeters: Characterizing the unburned

    Crystal A. Kolden;James A. Lutz;Carl H. Key;Jonathan T. Kane

  • Human-environmental drivers and impacts of the globally extreme 2017 Chilean fires.

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Andrés Moreira-Muñoz;Crystal A. Kolden;Roberto O. Chávez

  • Recent Tree Mortality in the Western United States from Bark Beetles and Forest Fires

    Jeffrey A. Hicke;Arjan J. H. Meddens;Crystal A. Kolden

  • Fire Refugia: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter for Global Change?

    Arjan J H Meddens;Crystal A Kolden;James A Lutz;Alistair M S Smith

  • Fire Behavior, Weather, and Burn Severity of the 2007 Anaktuvuk River Tundra Fire, North Slope, Alaska

    Benjamin M. Jones;Benjamin M. Jones;Crystal A. Kolden;Randi Jandt;John T. Abatzoglou

  • Limitations and utilisation of Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity products for assessing wildfire severity in the USA

    Crystal A. Kolden;Alistair M. S. Smith;John T. Abatzoglou

  • Remote sensing the vulnerability of vegetation in natural terrestrial ecosystems

    Alistair M.S. Smith;Crystal A. Kolden;Wade T. Tinkham;Alan F. Talhelm

  • Vegetation, topography and daily weather influenced burn severity in central Idaho and western Montana forests

    Donovan S. Birch;Penelope Morgan;Crystal A. Kolden;John T. Abatzoglou

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced
Alistair M. S. Smith
Alistair M. S. Smith University of Idaho
James A. Lutz
James A. Lutz Utah State University
Andrew T. Hudak
Andrew T. Hudak US Forest Service
Arjan J. H. Meddens
Arjan J. H. Meddens Washington State University
Daniel M. Johnson
Daniel M. Johnson University of Georgia
Luigi Boschetti
Luigi Boschetti University of Idaho
Mingliang Liu
Mingliang Liu Washington State University
A. Park Williams
A. Park Williams Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman University of Tasmania

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