The Big Burns Project: Causes and consequences of fire-regime variability in Rocky Mountain forests

Years: 2017-2021

Location: Northern Rocky Mountains of Montana and Idaho

Funding: The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (grant 1655121)

Investigators: Higuera (PI), and co-PIs Tara Hudiburg (Univ. of Idaho), Kendra McLauchlan (Kansas St. Univ.), and Bryan Shuman (Univ. of Wyoming)

Climate variability and post-fire forest regeneration in the Northern Rockies

Years: 2016-2020

Location: Northern Rocky Mountains of Montana and Idaho

Funding: Joint Fire Science Program (grant 16-1-01-15)

Investigators: Kimberly Davis (co-PI, principal author of grant), Higuera (PI), and Solomon Dobrowski (co-PI)

Identifying ecological and social resilience in fire-prone landscapes

Years: 2016-2020

Location: Bitterroot Valley, MT, Methow Valley, WA, western United States

Funding: Joint Fire Science Program (grant 16-3-01-24)

Investigators: Higuera (PI), and co-PIs Libby Metcalf (UM), Alex Metcalf (UM), Carol Miller (USFS), and Dave McWethy (Montana St. Univ.)

The NOVUS project for integrating Paleo- and Neo-ecology

Years: 2012-2017

Location: Coordination network; global scope

Funding: National Science Foundation's Research Coordination Network Program

Investigators: Kendra McLauchlan (PI, Kansas St. Univ.), co-PIs Higuera, and Dan Gavin

WildFIRE PIRE

Feedbacks and consequences of altered fire regimes in the face of climate and land-use change in Australia, New Zealand, and the western U.S. 

Years: 2010-2015

Location: U.S. Rocky Mountains, Tasmania, Australia, New Zealand

Funding: National Science Foundation's Program for International Research and Education

Investigators: Cathy Whitlock (PI, Montana St. Univ.), co-PIs Higuera, et al. 

Integrating paleoecological analysis and ecological modeling to elucidate the responses of tundra fire regimes to climate change.

Years: 2010-2014

Location: Alaskan and Canadian Arctic

Funding: National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs

Investigators: Feng Sheng Hu (PI) and co-PIs Higuera, Paul Duffy, and Mike Dietze

Impacts of climate change on the boreal forest fire regimes of Alaska

Years: 2006-2010

Location: Alaskan boreal forests

Funding: Post-doctoral research, funded through the National Science Foundation's Arctic System Science Program: ARC-0612366 to F. S. Hu et al.

Investigators: Feng Sheng Hu (PI), Higuera as post doc.

Reconstructing fire regimes in tundra ecosystems to inform a management-oriented ecosystem model

Years: 2006-2010

Location: Noatak National Preserve, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska

Funding: Joint Fire Science Program (Grant 06-3-1-23) to F. S. Hu et al.

Investigators: Feng Sheng Hu (PI), Higuera as post doc, and principal author of proposal

Spatial and temporal evolution of late Holocene fire regimes in subalpine forests

Years: 2006-2009
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Funding: Post-doctoral research funded through a National Park Ecological Research Fellowship program and the National Park Service.

Investigators: Higuera (PI), Cathy Whitlock, post-doctoral advisor

Late Glacial and Holocene Fire History in the South-central Brooks Range, Alaska

Direct and Indirect Impacts of Climatic Change on Fire Regimes
Years: 2003-2006

Location: South-central Brooks Range, Alaska

Funding: Dissertation research, funded through the National Science Foundation, OPP-01121586 to L. B. Brubaker et al. and a Graduate Research Fellowship to PEH

Reconstructing fire regimes with charcoal and pollen from small hollows: a calibration with tree-ring records of fire

Years: 1999-2003

Location: Orcas Island, Washington

Funding: Master's research funded through the National Science Foundation, to L. B. Brubaker and D. G. Sprugel, and a Graduate Research Fellowship to PEH