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Overview

David E. Calkin is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions related to wildfire dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, and risk management.

They have published extensively in multiple scientific journals, often collaborating with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval, Christopher D. O'Connor, Yu Wei, and Jesse D. Young.

David E. Calkin's work appears regularly in these publication venues: International Journal of Wildland Fire, Forests, Fire Ecology, Fire, and the Forest Service Research Data Archive.

Their main fields of study cover Environmental Science and Engineering. Key subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, and Mechanics of Materials.

The primary topics of Calkin's research are:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Fire Detection and Safety Systems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by David E. Calkin include:

  • "Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "The Economics of Wildfire in the United States," 2022, Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • "Wildland-urban fire disasters aren't actually a wildfire problem," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Modelling suppression difficulty: current and future applications," 2020, International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • "Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management," 2022, Fire Ecology

Best Publications

  • How risk management can prevent future wildfire disasters in the wildland-urban interface

    David E. Calkin;Jack D. Cohen;Mark A. Finney;Matthew P. Thompson

  • Objectives and considerations for wildland fuel treatment in forested ecosystems of the interior western United States

    Elizabeth D. Reinhardt;Robert E. Keane;David E. Calkin;Jack D. Cohen

  • Forest service large fire area burned and suppression expenditure trends, 1970-2002

    David E. Calkin;Krista M. Gebert;J. Greg Jones;Ronald P. Neilson

  • Negative consequences of positive feedbacks in US wildfire management

    David E Calkin;Matthew P Thompson;Mark A Finney

  • Developing the US Wildland Fire Decision Support System

    Erin K. Noonan-Wright;Tonja S. Opperman;Mark A. Finney;G. Thomas Zimmerman

  • Integrated national-scale assessment of wildfire risk to human and ecological values

    Matthew P. Thompson;David E. Calkin;Mark A. Finney;Alan A. Ager

  • The effects of wildfire and environmental amenities on property values in northwest Montana, USA

    Kyle M. Stetler;Tyron J. Venn;David E. Calkin

  • Estimating Suppression Expenditures for Individual Large Wildland Fires

    Krista M. Gebert;David E. Calkin;Jonathan Yoder

  • A real-time risk assessment tool supporting wildland fire decisionmaking

    David E. Calkin;Matthew P. Thompson;Mark A. Finney;Kevin D. Hyde

  • A Wildfire Risk Assessment Framework for Land and Resource Management

    Joe H. Scott;Matthew P. Thompson;David E. Calkin

  • Wildfire Risk Assessment Framework for Land and Resource Management

    Joe H. Scott;Matthew P. Thompson;David E. Calkin

  • An empirical machine learning method for predicting potential fire control locations for pre-fire planning and operational fire management

    Christopher D. O'Connor;David E. Calkin;Matthew P. Thompson

  • Developing a production possibility set of wildlife species persistence and timber harvest value

    David E Calkin;Claire A Montgomery;Nathan H Schumaker;Stephen Polasky

  • Progress towards and barriers to implementation of a risk framework for US federal wildland fire policy and decision making

    David C. Calkin;Mark A. Finney;Alan A. Ager;Matthew P. Thompson

  • A national approach for integrating wildfire simulation modeling into Wildland Urban Interface risk assessments within the United States

    Jessica R. Haas;David E. Calkin;Matthew P. Thompson

  • Rethinking the wildland fire management system

    Matthew P Thompson;Donald G MacGregor;Christopher J Dunn;David E Calkin

  • Allowing a wildfire to burn: estimating the effect on future fire suppression costs

    Rachel M. Houtman;Claire A. Montgomery;Aaron R. Gagnon;David E. Calkin

  • Resilient landscapes to prevent catastrophic forest fires: Socioeconomic insights towards a new paradigm

    Sven Wunder;Dave E. Calkin;Val Charlton;Sarah Feder

  • Forest treatment residues for thermal energy compared with disposal by onsite burning: Emissions and energy return

    Greg Jones;Dan Loeffler;David Calkin;Woodam Chung

  • Accommodating non-market values in evaluation of wildfire management in the United States: challenges and opportunities

    Tyron J. Venn;David E. Calkin

  • Wildfire exposure and fuel management on western US national forests.

    Alan A. Ager;Michelle A. Day;Charles W. McHugh;Karen Short

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Finney
Mark A. Finney US Forest Service
Alan A. Ager
Alan A. Ager US Forest Service
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
A. Park Williams
A. Park Williams Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Christina L. Tague
Christina L. Tague University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter R. Robichaud
Peter R. Robichaud United States Department of Agriculture
Bryan C. Pijanowski
Bryan C. Pijanowski Purdue University West Lafayette
Thomas P. Holmes
Thomas P. Holmes United States Department of Agriculture

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