Meet the Fire Scientist
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- Locations: Grand Teton National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Kings Mountain National Military Park, Natchez Trace Parkway
- Offices: Wildland Fire Program
Cynthia Worthington is a fire effects monitor and has worked in several different units of the National Park Service during her career. The importance of collaboration with other fields and the built-in adaptability of fire programs is one of her favorite parts of working in fire that keeps her coming back.
- Locations: Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Wilson's Creek National Battlefield
- Offices: Wildland Fire Program
Sherry Leis, a plant and fire ecologist, shares her story about being a scientist and her love of prairie ecosystems.
- Locations: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area, Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site, Cane River Creole National Historical Park, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, more »
- Offices: Wildland Fire Program
Alicia Schlarb is the lead fire effects monitor for a portion of the National Park Service's Southeast Region. She and her crew provide prescribed burning, monitoring, and wildland fire responses to national parks located within Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and portions of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Florida. She loves fire and that she can change perceptions about wildland fire through science.
- Locations: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Denali National Park & Preserve, Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, Noatak National Preserve, Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve, Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preserve
- Offices: Team Alaska, Wildland Fire Program
Jennifer Barnes, regional fire ecologist for the Alaska Region of the National Park Service realized that a job as a fire ecologist combined the best of two worlds – the excitement of wildfire and love of science and ecology.
- Locations: Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Point Reyes National Seashore
As part of a larger effort to the dynamic women doing science in our parks, we are featuring Alison Forrestel, Supervisory Vegetation Ecologist at Golden Gate National Recreation Area. What’s it like to manage a vegetation program for a huge, urban National Park? Read Alison’s story to find out!
- Locations: Acadia National Park, Cumberland Island National Seashore, Shenandoah National Park
- Offices: Wildland Fire Program
Ellen Frondorf has worked in fire effects monitoring for the National Park Service. She shares her story of work in fire science.
- Offices: Fire Management, Wilderness Stewardship, Wilderness Stewardship Division, Wildland Fire Program
Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science in February, the NPS Wilderness Stewardship Division recognizes Carol Miller, Research Ecologist at the interagency Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute. Miller's work focuses on wilderness fire.
- Locations: Yellowstone National Park
- Offices: Wildland Fire Program
It was the fall of 1988. Dr. Monica Turner, a 29-year-old staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, flew out to Yellowstone National Park to start an experiment in forest ecology. She got her first glimpse of the Park since it had been ravaged by huge fires, the likes of which no one had ever seen.
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Study the Scientist: Fire Archeologist
Fire archeologist Jun Kinoshita came to Yosemite National Park in 2001 from a seasonal archeologist position at Klondike Goldrush National Historical Park in Skagway, Alaska.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 40 seconds
Last updated: February 8, 2019