Fire Ecology Chats

By Association for Fire EcologyScience

Fire Ecology Chats episodes

May 21 Episode 95: Prescribed fire drives divergent invasive annual grass responses in a dry forest-mosaic landscape
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Claire Tortorelli and Alison Dean about how invasive grasses change the spread of fire across the landscape and how to manage it.
Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00468-6
11 min
May 14 Episode 94: The state of the giant sequoias: losses, risks, and opportunities
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Kristen Shive, Linnea Hardlund, and Brianna Baker about how managers can move forward in handling the loss that giant sequoias have suffered.
Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00469-5
12 min
May 07 Episode 93: Epiphytic lichens as ladder fuels: an experimental study on flammability in Southern Chile
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Korina Ocampo-Zuleta, Carolina Quintero, and Melisa Blackhall about lichen ignitions and climate change implications.
Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00456-w
8 min
April 30 Episode 92: Beyond average: a new approach to calculating fire regime departures applied to Western United States forests
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Jeff Chandler and Solomon Dobrowski about capturing the full spread of fire attributes from the past and comparing it to present-day wildfires.
Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00447-x
8 min
April 23 Episode 91: Wildfire research and mental health: impacts, reflections, and a call to action
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Sarah Dickson-Hoyle, Carolyn Szostak, and Nelly Oelke about what we can do to support researchers and students entering into the challenging space of wildland fire research.
Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-025-00434-8
11 min
April 16 Episode 90: Fuel architecture drives shoot flammability
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Azaj Mahmud and Dylan Schwilk about predicting key aspects of shoot flammability and how that relates to flammability category rankings in the National Fire Protection Association’s Firewise program.
Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00460-0
8 min
April 09 Episode 89: Overstory retention in a managed mixed-conifer stand limits cheatgrass invasion after wildfire
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Joe Birch, Jessica Miesel, and Matthew Dickinson about cheatgrass abundance in response to overstory death and prescribed fire.
Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-025-00445-5
8 min
April 02 Episode 88: Tree trunks do not bias estimates of surface fuels by aerial lidar in southern Sweden
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Olga Wepryk and Igor Drobyshev about using aerial lidar to assess ground fuels for surface fires.
Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00454-y
6 min
March 26 Episode 87: Vegetation response varies by season of burning in pine woodlands across the southeastern US
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Craig Harper, Mark Turner, and Jake Bones about comparing vegetation and wildlife effects of burning during all times of the year in the southeastern US.
Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-025-00439-3
10 min
March 19 Episode 86: Environmental health hazards and wildland firefighting: a qualitative analysis
In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Alissa Cordner about underrepresented hazards in wildland firefighting like forever chemicals, minefields, and rainbow meat.
Full journal article can be found at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00449-9
13 min