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Matthew Dickinson
Current Research
Dickinson's current research is focused on the links and feedbacks between fuels, fire behavior, and fire effects. Fire effects of interest include relatively direct effects, such as soil heating and tree injury and mortality, and longer-term effects on vegetation development and wildlife habitat. "Fuel ecology", the feedbacks among fuels, fire behavior, and vegetation, is being examined in the Ohio Hills and Wisconsin. Work on the effects of prescribed fire regimes on reptile and amphibian communities and their habitat at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is coming to completion as is research on the interactions among White Nose Syndrome, prescribed fire, and populations of bats and their insect prey at Mammoth Cave National Park. Accurate measurement of active fire continues to be a key component of Dickinson's fire behavior and effects work, requiring development of ground and airborne measurement methods. A reliable, well understood, and easily used radiation sensor is under development and a complete set of airborne measurements is being analyzed. As in the past, collaboration with colleagues with complementary skills (e.g., physics, engineering, tree physiology, wildlife ecology) is central to Dickinson's research approach.
Dickinson, Matthew B.; Hutchinson, Todd F.; Dietenberger, Mark; Matt, Frederick; Peters, Matthew P. 2016. Litter species composition and topographic effects on fuels and modeled fire behavior in an Oak-Hickory Forest in the Eastern USA. PLOS ONE. 11(8). 30 pp. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159997.Mathews, Bill J.; Strand, Eva K.; Smith, Alistair M. S.; Hudak, Andrew T.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Kremens, Robert L. 2016. Laboratory experiments to estimate interception of infrared radiation by tree canopies. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25: 1009-1014.
Effects of a landscape disturbance on the habitat use and behavior of the black racer. Copeia. 104(4): 853-863.
Kremens, Robert L.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2015. Estimating radiated flux density from wildland fires using the raw output of limited bandpass detectors. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 24(4): 461-469.
Research Interests
Predicting fire effects with mechanistic modelsUnderstanding wildland fire combustion and heat dissipation and transport processes and their links with fire effects
Measurement development for wildland fire monitoring
Past Research
Past research is prelude to Dickinson's current research, having focused on predicting the relatively direct effects of fires on trees and wildlife using models and measurement. Understanding the direct effects of fire requires FireStem and FireStem 2D were developed to allow prediction of tree stem heating in fires while physiological effects of crown heating were also considered. In analogy to fire effects on trees, the risk associated with forest bats roosting in prescribed fire areas was examined. Roosting bats enter torpor (a daily hibernation-like state), increasing their vulnerability to heat and gases from fires. Active-fire measurement development began with an examination of the use of thermocouples in fires and culminated with the application of new ground and airborne measurement methods in the Prescribed Fire Combustion and Atmospheric Dynamics Research (RxCADRE) project.
Dickinson, Matthew B.; Hudak, Andrew T.; Zajkowski, Thomas; Loudermilk, E. Louise; Schroeder, Wilfrid; Ellison, Luke; Kremens, Robert L.; Holley, William; Martinez, Otto; Paxton, Alexander; Bright, Benjamin C.; O'Brien, Joseph J.; Hornsby, Benjamin; Ichoku, Charles; Faulring, Jason; Gerace, Aaron; Peterson, David; Mauceri, Joseph. 2016. Measuring radiant emissions from entire prescribed fires with ground, airborne and satellite sensors - RxCADRE 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25: 48-61.
Dickinson, M.B.; Norris, J.C.; Bova, A.S.; Kremens, R.L.; Young, V.; Lacki, M.J. 2010. Effects of wildland fire smoke on a tree-roosting bat: integrating a plume model, field measurements, and mammalian dose-response relationships. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40: 2187-2203. Chatziefstratiou, Efthalia K.; Bohrer, Gil; Bova, Anthony S.; Subramanian, Ravishankar; Frasson, Renato P.M.; Scherzer, Amy; Butler, Bret W.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2013. FireStem2D — A two-dimensional heat transfer model for simulating tree stem injury in fires. PLoS One. 8(7): e70110. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070110Bova, Anthony S.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2008. Beyond "fire temperatures": calibrating thermocouple probes and modeling their response to surface fires in hardwood fuels. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38:1008-1020.
Why This Research is Important
Wildfires and prescribed fires are a central concern of the US Forest Service, accounting for a large portion of its budget and the work of its employees. Colleagues' and my research focuses on developing fundamental understanding of fire dynamics and resulting fire effects on fuels, vegetation, and wildlife with the goals of improving both the state of the science and its application to management.Education
- Florida State University, Phd Tropical forest ecology, disturbance ecology, sustainable forestry, Yucatan Peninsula, 1998
- Florida State University, Ms Community ecology, aquatic plant ecology, 1991
- Texas A&M University , Marine Biology Coastal ecology, fish demography, fire ecology of salt marshes, sea turtle and marine mammal stranding, 1988
Professional Organizations
- U.S. Forest Service (2013 - Current)
Research advisor - International Association of Wildland Fire (2009 - Current)
Featured Publications & Products
- Dickinson, Matthew B.; Hutchinson, Todd F.; Dietenberger, Mark; Matt, Frederick; Peters, Matthew P.; Yang, Jian. 2016. Litter Species Composition and Topographic Effects on Fuels and Modeled Fire Behavior in an Oak-Hickory Forest in the Eastern USA. PLOS ONE, Vol. 11(8): e0159997-.
- Dickinson, Matthew B.; Hudak, Andrew T.; Zajkowski, Thomas; Loudermilk, E. Louise; Schroeder, Wilfrid; Ellison, Luke; Kremens, Robert L.; Holley, William; Martinez, Otto; Paxton, Alexander; Bright, Benjamin C.; O'Brien, Joseph; Hornsby, Ben; Ichoku, Charles; Faulring, Jason; Gerace, Aaron; Peterson, David; Mauceri, Joseph. 2016. Measuring radiant emissions from entire prescribed fires with ground, airborne and satellite sensors - RxCADRE 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25: 48-61.
- Chatziefstratiou, Efthalia K.; Bohrer, Gil; Bova, Anthony S.; Subramanian, Ravishankar; Frasson, Renato P.M.; Scherzer, Amy; Butler, Bret W.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2013. FireStem2D A two-dimensional heat transfer model for simulating tree stem injury in fires. PLoS One. 8(7): e70110. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070110
- Kavanaugh, Kathleen L.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Bova, Anthony S. 2010. A way forward for fire-caused tree mortality prediction: Modeling a physiological consequence of fire. Fire Ecology. 6(1): 80-94.
- Dickinson, M.B.; Norris, J.C.; Bova, A.S.; Kremens, R.L.; Young, V.; Lacki, M.J. 2010. Effects of wildland fire smoke on a tree-roosting bat: integrating a plume model, field measurements, and mammalian dose-response relationships. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40: 2187-2203.
- Bova, Anthony S.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2008. Beyond "fire temperatures": calibrating thermocouple probes and modeling their response to surface fires in hardwood fuels. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38:1008-1020.
Publications & Products
- Brady, Mary K.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Miesel, Jessica R.; Wonkka, Carissa L.; Kavanagh, Kathleen L.; Lodge, Alexandra G.; Rogers, William E.; Starns, Heath D.; Tolleson, Doug R.; Treadwell, Morgan L.; Twidwell, Dirac ; Hanan, Erin J. 2022. Soil Heating in Fire ( SheFire ): A model and measurement method for estimating soil heating and effects during wildland fires. Ecological Applications
- Brady, Mary K.; Hanan, Erin J.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Miesel, Jessica R.; Wade, Laura ; Greenberg, Jonathan. 2022. How interactions between wildfire and seasonal soil moisture fluxes drive nitrogen cycling in Northern Sierra Nevada forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire
- Dickinson, Matthew B.; Wold, Cyle E.; Butler, Bret W.; Kremens, Robert L.; Jimenez, Daniel ; Sopko, Paul ; O'Brien, Joseph J. 2021. The Wildland Fire Heat Budget—Using Bi-Directional Probes to Measure Sensible Heat Flux and Energy in Surface Fires. Sensors
- Hiers, Quinn A.; Treadwell, Morgan L.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Kavanagh, Kathleen L.; Lodge, Alexandra G.; Starns, Heath D.; Tolleson, Doug R.; Twidwell, Dirac ; Wonkka, Carissa L.; Rogers, William E. 2021. Grass bud responses to fire in a semiarid savanna system. Ecology and Evolution
- Quigley, Kathleen M.; Kolka, Randall ; Sturtevant, Brian R.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Kern, Christel C.; Miesel, Jessica R. 2021. Restoring open canopy pine barrens from the ground up: Repeated burns correspond with increased soil hydraulic conductivity. Science of The Total Environment
- Vaughan, Matthew C.; Hagan, Donald L.; Bridges, William C.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Coates, T. Adam. 2021. How do fire behavior and fuel consumption vary between dormant and early growing season prescribed burns in the southern Appalachian Mountains?. Fire Ecology
- Hiers, J. Kevin; O'Brien, Joseph J.; Varner, J. Morgan; Butler, Bret W.; Dickinson, Matthew ; Furman, James ; Gallagher, Michael ; Godwin, David ; Goodrick, Scott L.; Hood, Sharon M.; Hudak, Andrew ; Kobziar, Leda N.; Linn, Rodman ; Loudermilk, E. Louise; McCaffrey, Sarah ; Robertson, Kevin ; Rowell, Eric M.; Skowronski, Nicholas ; Watts, Adam C.; Yedinak, Kara M. 2020. Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda. Fire Ecology
- Quigley, Kathleen M.; Kolka, Randall ; Sturtevant, Brian R.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Kern, Christel C.; Donner, Deahn M.; Miesel, Jessica R. 2020. Prescribed burn frequency, vegetation cover, and management legacies influence soil fertility: Implications for restoration of imperiled pine barrens habitat. Forest Ecology and Management
- Dickinson, Matthew B.; Butler, Bret W.; Hudak, Andrew T.; Bright, Benjamin C.; Kremens, Robert L.; Klauberg, Carine. 2019. Inferring energy incident on sensors in low-intensity surface fires from remotely sensed radiation and using it to predict tree stem injury. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 28: 230-236.
- Liu, Yongqiang ; Kochanski, Adam ; Baker, Kirk R.; Mell, William ; Linn, Rodman ; Paugam, Ronan ; Mandel, Jan ; Fournier, Aime ; Jenkins, Mary Ann; Goodrick, Scott ; Achtemeier, Gary ; Zhao, Fengjun ; Ottmar, Roger ; French, Nancy H. F.; Larkin, Narasimhan ; Brown, Timothy ; Hudak, Andrew ; Dickinson, Matthew ; Potter, Brian ; Clements, Craig ; Urbanski, Shawn ; Prichard, Susan ; Watts, Adam ; McNamara, Derek. 2019. Fire behaviour and smoke modelling: model improvement and measurement needs for next-generation smoke research and forecasting systems. International Journal of Wildland Fire
- Prichard, Susan ; Larkin, Sim N.; Ottmar, Roger ; French, Nancy H.F.; Baker, Kirk ; Brown, Tim ; Clements, Craig ; Dickinson, Matt ; Hudak, Andrew ; Kochanski, Adam ; Linn, Rod ; Liu, Yongqiang ; Potter, Brian ; Mell, William ; Tanzer, Danielle ; Urbanski, Shawn ; Watts, Adam. 2019. The fire and smoke model evaluation experiment—a plan for integrated, large fire-atmosphere field campaigns. Atmosphere. 10(2): 66-.
- Quigley, K.M. ; Wildt, R.E. ; Sturtevant, B.R. ; Kolka, R.K. ; Dickinson, M.B. ; Kern, C.C. ; Donner, D.M. ; Miesel, J.R. 2019. Fuels, vegetation, and prescribed fire dynamics influence ash production and characteristics in a diverse landscape under active pine barrens restoration. Fire Ecology
- Hromada, Steven J.; Howey, Christopher A.F.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Perry, Roger W.; Roosenburg, Willem M.; Gienger, C.M. 2018. Response of reptile and amphibian communities to the reintroduction of fire in an oak/hickory forest. Forest Ecology and Management
- Lodge, Alexandra ; Dickinson, Matthew ; Kavanagh, Kathleen L. 2018. Xylem heating increases vulnerability to cavitation in longleaf pine. Environmental Research Letters
- Miesel, Jessica ; Reiner, Alicia ; Ewell, Carol ; Maestrini, Bernardo ; Dickinson, Matthew. 2018. Quantifying Changes in Total and Pyrogenic Carbon Stocks Across Fire Severity Gradients Using Active Wildfire Incidents. Frontiers in Earth Science
- O'Brien, J. J.; Hiers, J. K.; Varner, J. M.; Hoffman, C. M.; Dickinson, M. B.; Michaletz, S. T.; Loudermilk, E. L.; Butler, B. W. 2018. Advances in Mechanistic Approaches to Quantifying Biophysical Fire Effects. Current Forestry Reports
- Clements, Craig B.; Lareau, Neil P.; Seto, Daisuke; Contezac, Jonathan; Davis, Braniff; Teske, Casey; Zajkowski, Thomas J.; Hudak, Andrew T.; Bright, Benjamin C.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Butler, Bret W.; Jimenez, Daniel; Hiers, J. Kevin. 2016. Fire weather conditions and fire-atmosphere interactions observed during low-intensity prescribed fires - RxCADRE 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25: 90-101.
- Howey, Christopher A. F.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Roosenburg, Willem M. 2016. Effects of a landscape disturbance on the habitat use and behavior of the black racer. Copeia
- Hudak, Andrew T.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Bright, Benjamin C.; Kremens, Robert L.; Loudermilk, E. Louise; O'Brien, Joseph J.; Hornsby, Benjamin S.; Ottmar, Roger D. 2016. Measurements relating fire radiative energy density and surface fuel consumption - RxCADRE 2011 and 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25: 25-37.
- Mathews, Bill J.; Strand, Eva K.; Smith, Alistair M. S.; Hudak, Andrew T.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Kremens, Robert L. 2016. Laboratory experiments to estimate interception of infrared radiation by tree canopies. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25: 1009-1014.
- Miller, Dan; Allison, J. D.; Crowe, C. M.; Dickinson, Matthew; Eglitis, A.; Hofstetter, R. W.; Munson, A. S.; Poland, Therese M.; Reid, L. S.; Steed, B. E.; Sweeney, J. D. 2016. Pine sawyers (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) attracted to a-pinene, monochamol, and ipsenol in North America. Journal of Economic Entomology
- Ottmar, Roger D.; Hiers, J. Kevin; Butler, Bret W.; Clements, Craig B.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Hudak, Andrew T.; O'Brien, Joseph; Potter, Brian E.; Rowell, Eric M.; Strand, Tara M.; Zajkowski, Thomas J. 2016. Measurements, datasets and preliminary results from the RxCADRE project-2008, 2011 and 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire
- O'Brien, Joseph J.; Loudermilk, E. Louise; Hornsby, Benjamin; Hudak, Andrew T.; Bright, Benjamin C.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Hiers, J. Kevin; Teske, Casey; Ottmar, Roger D. 2016. High-resolution infrared thermography for capturing wildland fire behaviour - RxCADRE 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25: 62-75.
- Zajkowski, Thomas J.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Hiers, J. Kevin; Holley, William; Williams, Brett W.; Paxton, Alexander; Martinez, Otto; Walker, Gregory W. 2016. Evaluation and use of remotely piloted aircraft systems for operations and research - RxCADRE 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25: 114-128.
- Kremens, Robert L.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2015. Estimating radiated flux density from wildland fires using the raw output of limited bandpass detectors. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 24(4): 461-469.
- Cannon, Jeffery B.; O'Brien, Joseph J.; Loudermilk, Louise; Dickinson, Matthew; Peterson, Chris J. 2014. The influence of experimental wind disturbance on forest fuels and fire characteristics. Forest Ecology and Management
- Dickinson, M.B.; Johnson, E.A.; Artiaga, R. 2013. Fire spread probabilities for experimental beds composed of mixedwood boreal forest fuels. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 43: 321-330.
- Dickinson, Matthew; Wigham, D.F. 2013. Competition among surface roots in a selectively-logged, semi-deciduous forest in southeastern Mexico - effects on seedlings of two species of contrasting shade tolerance. Caribbean Journal of Science. 47(2-3): 140-152.
- Hyde, Kevin; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Bohrer, Gil; Calkin, David; Evers, Louisa; Gilbertson-Day, Julie; Nicolet, Tessa; Ryan, Kevin; Tague, Christina. 2013. Research and development supporting risk-based wildfire effects prediction for fuels and fire management: Status and needs. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 22: 37-50.
- Schroeder, Wilfrid; Ellicott, Evan; Ichoku, Charles; Ellison, Luke; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Ottmar, Roger D.; Clements, Craig; Hall, Dianne; Ambrosia, Vincent; Kremens, Robert. 2013. Integrated active fire retrievals and biomass burning emissions using complementary near-coincident ground, airborne and spaceborne sensor data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 140: 719-730
- Kremens, R.L.; Dickinson, M.B.; Bova, A.S. 2012. Radiant flux density, energy density, and fuel consumption in mixed-oak forest surface fires. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 21: 722-730.
- Stout, Susan L.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Nowacki, Gregory J. 2012. The hot continental division: Oak forests, fire, and ecosystem management frame fuels management questions. In: LaFayette, Russell; Brooks, Maureen T.; Potyondy, John P.; Audin, Lisa; Krieger, Suzanne L.; Trettin, Carl C. Eds. 2012. Cumulative watershed effects of fuel management in the Eastern United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-161. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 82-100.
- Bova, A.S.; Bohrer, G.; Dickinson, Matthew. 2011. A model of gas mixing into single-entrance tree cavities during wildland fires. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40: 1659-1670.
- Butler, Bret W.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2010. Tree injury and mortality in fires: developing process-based models. Fire Ecology. 6(1): 55-79.
- Dickinson, Matthew B.; Ryan, Kevin C. 2010. Introduction: Strengthening the foundation of wildland fire Effects prediction for research and management. Fire Ecology. 6(1): 1-12.
- Hardy, Colin C.; Kremens, Robert; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2010. Modern developments for ground-based monitoring of fire behavior and effects. In: Wade, Dale D.; Robinson, Mikel L., eds. Proceedings of 3rd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference; 25-29 October 2010; Spokane, WA. Birmingham, AL: International Association of Wildland Fire. 1 p.
- Kremens, Robert L.; Smith, Alistair M.S.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2010. Fire metrology: Current and future directions in physics-based measurements. Fire Ecology. 6(1): 13-35.
- Reinhardt, Elizabeth D.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2010. First-order fire effects models for land Management: Overview and issues. Fire Ecology. 6(1): 131-142.
- Song, Conghe; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Su, Lihong; Zhang, Su; Yaussey, Daniel. 2010. Estimating average tree crown size using spatial information from Ikonos and QuickBird images: Across-sensor and across-site comparisons. Remote Sensing of Environment. 114: 1099-1107.
- Stephan, Kirsten; Miller, Melanie; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2010. First-order fire effects on herbs and Shrubs: present knowledge and process modeling needs. Fire Ecology. 6(1): 95-114.
- Bova, Anthony S.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2009. An inverse method to estimate stem surface heat flux in wildland fires. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 18: 711-721.
- Bova, Anthony; Dickinson, Matthew. 2009. Modeling the protection afforded by burrows, cavities, and roosts during wildland surface fires. In: Hutchinson, Todd F., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd fire in eastern oak forests conference; 2008 May 20-22; Carbondale, IL. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-46. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 144.
- Dickinson, Matthew B.; Lacki, Michael J.; Cox, Daniel R. 2009. Fire and the endangered Indiana bat. In: Hutchinson, Todd F., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd fire in eastern oak forests conference; 2008 May 20-22; Carbondale, IL. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-46. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 51-75.
- Dickinson, Matthew; Bova, Anthony; Kavanagh, Kathleen; Randolph, Antoine; Band, Lawrence. 2009. Surface fire effects on conifer and hardwood crowns--applications of an integral plume model. In: Hutchinson, Todd F., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd fire in eastern oak forests conference; 2008 May 20-22; Carbondale, IL. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-46. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 148.
- Jimenez, D.; Butler, B.; Hiers, K.; Ottmar, R.; Dickinson, M.; Kremens, R.; O'Brien, J.; Hudak, A.; Clements, C. 2009. Rx-CADRE (Prescribed Fire Combustion-Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiments) collaborative research in the core fire sciences. In: Masters, R. E.; Galley, K. E. M.; Despain, D. G., eds. The '88 Fires: Yellowstone and Beyond: Conference Proceedings; 2008 September 22-27; Jackson Hole, WY. Tall Timbers Miscellaneous Publications No. 16. Tallahassee, FL: Tall Timbers Research Station: 29. Online: http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/upload/'88fires.pdf
- Lacki, Michael J.; Cox, Daniel R.; Dodd, Luke E.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2009. Response of northern bats (Myotis septentrionalis) to prescribed fires in eastern Kentucky forests. Journal of Mammalogy. 90: 1165-1175.
- Lacki, Michael; Cox, Daniel R.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2009. Meta-analysis of summer roosting characteristics of two species of Myotis bats. American Midland Naturalist. 162: 318-326.
- Suciu, Loredana; Bova, Anthony S.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Dyer, Jim; Kremens, Robert; Young, Valerie L. 2009. Airborne fire monitoring--extraction of active fire fronts from time-sequence imaging of the Arch Rock fire in southeast Ohio. In: Hutchinson, Todd F., ed. Proceedings of the 3rd fire in eastern oak forests conference; 2008 May 20-22; Carbondale, IL. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-46. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 154.
- Song, C.; Dickinson, M.B. 2008. Extracting forest canopy structure from spatial information of high resolution optical imagery: tree crown size versus leaf area index. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 29(19): 5605-5622.
- Bova, Anthony S.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2006. Thermocouple probes in surface fires. In: Dickinson, Matthew B., ed. 2006. Fire in eastern oak forests: delivering science to land managers, proceedings of a conference; 2005 November 15-17; Columbus, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-1. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 269.
- Dickinson, Matthew B., ed. 2006. Fire in eastern oak forests: delivering science to land managers. Fire in eastern oak forests: delivering science to land managers, proceedings of a conference; 2005 November 15-17; Columbus, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-1. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 303 p.
- Dickinson, Matthew B.; Bova, Anthony S. 2006. Hardwood stem injury and mortality in surface fires. In: Dickinson, Matthew B., ed. 2006. Fire in eastern oak forests: delivering science to land managers, proceedings of a conference; 2005 November 15-17; Columbus, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-1. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 274.
- Jones, Joshua L.; Webb, Brent W.; Butler, Bret W.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Jimenez, Daniel; Reardon, James; Bova, Anthony S. 2006. Prediction and measurement of thermally induced cambial tissue necrosis in tree stems. International Journal of Wildland Fire 15:3-17
- Kremens, Robert; Bova, Anthony; Dickinson, Matthew; Faulring, Jason; McNamara, Shari. 2006. Estimating fire behavior from overhead imagery in eastern oak forests. In: Dickinson, Matthew B., ed. 2006. Fire in eastern oak forests: delivering science to land managers, proceedings of a conference; 2005 November 15-17; Columbus, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-1. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 281.
- Rebbeck , Joanne; Yaussy, Daniel; Iverson, Louis; Hutchinson, Todd; Long, Robert; Bova, Anthony; Dickinson, Matthew. 2006. Use of temperature-sensitive paints as an index of heat output from fire. In: Dickinson, Matthew B., ed. 2006. Fire in eastern oak forests: delivering science to land managers, proceedings of a conference; 2005 November 15-17; Columbus, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-1. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 295.
- Yaussy, Daniel A.; Hutchinson, Todd; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Rebbeck, Joanne. 2006. Fire research on the Raccoon Ecological Management Area. In: Dickinson, Matthew B., ed. 2006. Fire in eastern oak forests: delivering science to land managers, proceedings of a conference; 2005 November 15-17; Columbus, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-1. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 303.
- Bova, A.S.; Dickinson, M.B.; Dickinson, M.B. 2005. Linking surface-fire behavior, stem heating, and tissue necrosis. Can. J. For. Res. 35: 814-822.
- Dickinson, M.B.; Jolliff, J.; Bova, A.S. 2004. Vascular cambium necrosis in forest fires: using hyperbolic temperature regimes to estimate parameters of a tissue-reponse model. Australian Journal of Botany. 52: 757-763.
- Dickinson, Matthew B.; Johnson, Edward A. 2004. Temperature-dependent rate models of vascular cambium cell mortality. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 34: 546-559
- Wildman, Richard A., Jr.; Hickey, Leo J.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Berner, Robert A.; Robinson, Jennifer M.; Dietrich, Michael; Essenhigh, Robert H.; Wildman, Craig B. 2004. Burning of forest materials under late Paleozoic high atmospheric oxygen levels. Geology 32(5):457-460
- Yaussy, Daniel A.; Dickinson, Mathew B.; Bova, Anthony S. 2004. Prescribed Surface-fire Tree Mortality in Southern Ohio: Equations Based on Thermocouple Probe Temperatures. In: Yaussy, Daniel A.; Hix, David M.; Long, Robert P.; Goebel, P. Charles, eds. Proceedings, 14th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2004 March 16 19; Wooster, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-316. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 67-75.
- Bova, Anthony S.; Dickinson, Matthew B. 2003. Surface fires and stem mortality: physical connections. In: Second international wildland fire ecology and fire management congress and fifth symposium on fire and forest meteorology; 2003 November 16-20; Orlando, FL. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society: 116.
- Dickinson, Matthew B. 2003. Stem mortality in surface fires. Part I, tissue response to elevated temperatures. In: Second international wildland fire ecology and fire management congress and fifth symposium on fire and forest meteorology; 2003 November 16-20; Orlando, FL. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society: 72.
- Dickinson, M. B. 2002. Heat transfer and vascular cambium necrosis in the boles of trees during surface fires. Forest Fire Research & Wildland Fire Safety; Viegas, ed. 1-10
- Dickinson, M.B.; Whigham, D.F.; Whigham, D.F. 1999. Regeneration of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) in the Yucatan. International Forestry Review. 1(1): 35-39.
- Dickinson, Matthew B.; Dickinson, Joshua C.; Putz, Francis E.; Putz, Francis E. 1996. Natural forest management as a conservation tool in the tropics: divergent views on possibilities and alternatives. Commonwealth Forestry Review. 74(4): 309-315.
Research Datasets
- Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike. 2020. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: fire severity data. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0030.
- Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike. 2020. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: pre- and post-fire canopy cover data. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0028.
- Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike. 2020. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: plot photographs. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2020-0013.
- Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike. 2019. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: understory vegetation, raw and processed. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2019-0047.
- Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike. 2018. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: pre- and post-fire tree data, raw and processed. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2018-0057.
- Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike. 2018. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: plot location data. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2018-0056.
- Hudak, Andrew T.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Rodriguez, Adrien J.; Bright, Benjamin C. 2016. RxCADRE 2012: Instrument and infrared target survey locations and attributes. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2016-0014.
- Hudak, Andrew T.; Bright, Benjamin C.; Kremens, Robert L.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Alden, Matthew G. 2016. RxCADRE 2008: Wildfire Airborne Sensor Program - Lite uncalibrated long wave infrared image mosaics. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2016-0006.
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National Research Highlights
Space-Based Fire Effects Mapping
Year: 2020
Scientists are building capacity to do space-based fire effects mapping and post-fire monitoring as a means of strengthening ongoing national programs. A key part of that effort is figuring out how to predict fire effects from remotely-sensed information. Results of a recent study demonstrate one approach.
Shift Toward Mesophytic Species in Oak Forests May Limit Fire Reintroduction
Year: 2016
Exclusion of fire from eastern mixed-oak forests is widely understood to be an important explanation for difficulty in regenerating oaks. Forest Service scientists studied whether the change in species composition of forest floor litter, as species composition shifts to more mesophytic and less fire tolerant species over time, could be a barrier to successful use of fire to restore oak ecosystems.
More Realistic Model of Tree Trunk Heating and Injury in Wildland Fires Now Available
Year: 2013
Forest Service scientists developed new models of tree-stem heating that are the most physically realistic to date to predict tree mortality more accurately. Trees stems are heated unevenly in wildland fires because a standing-leeward flame develops as a result of the interaction of the bole and flame. Forest Service fire scientists and their research partners used the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Dynamics Simulator to describe uneven heating of the stem surface and the newly revised FireStem2D to simulate the resulting stem heating and injury.