Episode 101: Forest cover buffers microclimate and increases fuel moisture in northern conifer forests: a terrestrial laser scanning approach

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Episode 101
Interview with Peter Breigenzer and Jay Wason

Host: Robert Keane, Editor of Fire Ecology and Retired Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, USA

Guests: Peter Breigenzer, Fire and Fuels Manager with the US Forest Service and Jay Wason, Associate Professor at University of Maine

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Peter Breigenzer and Jay Wason about using terrestrial lidar (TLS) to better understand how forest cover influences understory temperature, relative humidity, and dead fuel moisture in mesic forests in the north-east US.


Special thanks to our guests for their participation, to Bob Keane for hosting this podcast series, and to Madeline Scheintaub for volunteering her time to edit the audio recordings.