The Cultural and Environmental Resource Management (CERM) Master’s Program at Central Washington University and the US Forest Service are seeking a master’s student interested in natural resources and wildfire. This is a 2-year graduate assistantship appointment, which includes a maximum allowable tuition waiver and 9-month salary for academic years 2023-24 and 2024-25.
Apply by February 1, 2023, for priority consideration.
The project involves investigating the weather conditions that contribute to the largest wildfires (Fires of Unusual Size, FOUS), and the large-growth days on those fires. It seeks to understand how the weather conditions during these large fires and large-growth days differ from the weather conditions on other, less extreme fires. Previous work has shown that overall weather conditions on the FOUS are more moderate, but individual days of more fire-conducive weather drive the fires’ exceptional growth. The student for this project will use spatial and temporal analysis techniques to look at weather patterns in space and time as associated with these fires and events.
