Congratulations to dave peterson for being awarded 2024 Outstanding Associate Editor and karen short for receiving the 2024 journal Service Award for
Fire Ecology.
Dave Peterson is Professor of Forest Biology at the University of Washington, and Emeritus Senior Research Scientist with the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. He has conducted research on fire science and climate change throughout the western United States and has published 280 scientific articles and 5 books on these topics. He was a contributing author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was co-lead for the Forests chapter of the Fourth National Climate Assessment. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief for the journal Northwest Science, and served as Associate Editor for Ecological Applications, Canadian Journal of Forest Science, and Environmental Science and Policy. He currently works on climate change vulnerability assessments and adaptation on federal lands in the western United States in association with the USDA Northwest Climate Hub and the Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center. Dave lives on Mountain Heart Tree Farm in northwest Washington, where he has planted 3000 native trees and cultivates bonsai, epiphyllums, and a variety of vegetables, fruits, and flowers.
Editors Note: Dave has been a rock on our editorial mountain since the journal’s inception. He has taken the most contentious and ground-breaking papers and lead the review of these papers with objectivity and professionalism. He also has stepped in and taken over the AE role on nearly all our major emergencies. His reviews are of the highest quality and they are done quickly and without problems. Thank you Dave for all the work you have done for the journal.
Karen Short is a Research Ecologist at the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station located at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Montana. She began her career in wildland fire science studying the effects of prescribed burns in southwestern national parks. Her current research is focused on wildfire risk assessment and mitigation efforts at national and regional scales. To support that work, she has developed and maintains several fundamental wildfire activity datasets and is a member of an informal confederation of interagency teams working to improve the availability and quality of wildland fire data for research and fire management applications.
Editor’s Note: Karen volunteered to be an editor for a special collection in Fire Ecology. Unbeknownst to her, most of the papers in that collection were written by authors who were also editors of the collection. As a result, she was assigned eight articles over the last two years and at one time she was working on five articles simultaneously – a new record for the journal. We thank her for the service above and beyond the call.
