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Global Wildfire Collective

Dr. Jon Fink

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Professor of Geology and Director of the Digital City Testbed Center at Portland State University (PSU)

Jonathan Fink is Professor of Geology and Director of the Digital City Testbed Center at PSU, where he studies natural hazards and urban sustainability. He also is a visiting professor at University of British Columbia where he co-directs the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative, which seeks to help build a technology corridor between Vancouver and Seattle. He previously was Vice President for Research at both PSU and Arizona State University. He received a PhD in Geology from Stanford University and is an elected fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Established in 2019, Co-PI Dr. Jonathan Fink directs the Cascadia Wildfire and Urban Smoke Working Group, which has hosted more than 118 webinars and multiple symposia to advance science-policy exchanges that are available on YouTube.

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