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Global Wildfire Collective

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Dr. Mike Flannigan

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BC Innovation Research Chair in Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science
 

BC Innovation Research Chair in Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science, Faculty of Science

Dr. Mike Flannigan’s primary research interests include fire and weather/climate interactions, including the potential impact of climatic change, lightning-ignited forest fires, landscape fire modelling and interactions between vegetation, fire, and weather. He uses machine learning approaches to better model and predict wildfire activity to inform the development of a wildfire early warning system and improve fire management planning and operations.

Mike was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wildland Fire (2002-2008) and has taken on leadership roles with the US National Assessment on Global Change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Fire Fast Track Initiative and Global Change Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) efforts on the global impacts of fire. He is a regular media commentator on Canadian wildland fire science topics, including fire mitigation, fire weather and climate change.