Dr. Catrin Edgeley has funding available to support one M.S. student in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University. The student will contribute to a Joint Fire Science Program-funded research project focused on strengthening the scientific foundations of wildland fire investigations within federal and state land management agencies.

The Department of Forest Resources Management in the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Stewardship invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at the UBC Vancouver campus. The successful applicant is expected to conduct research and teach in fields related to the social dimensions of wildfire. The costs and impacts of wildfire are growing in Canada and are disproportionately affecting rural and Indigenous communities. Further research is needed to better understand these impacts and to identify effective ways of coexisting with fire, including mitigating the risks that wildfire poses to communities and to other forest values and ecosystem services.