Item talk:Q47594

usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:12:25.797707'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/rachel-a-loehman
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations:
   - Association for Fire Ecology (Board member, 2017-present)
   - Alaska Fire Science Consortium (Board member, 2016-present)
   - Society for American Archaeology
   - USGS Fire Science Communities of Practice
   - Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) Wildfires Collaboration
     Team
   education:
   - Ph.D.  2006   The University of Montana  Ecosystems Ecology
   - M.A.   1999   University of New Mexico     Biogeography
   - B.A.    1995   University of New Mexico     Anthropology
   email: rloehman@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - wildfire
   - landscape and fire ecology
   - coupled natural-human systems
   - historical ecology
   - fire behavior
   - fire effects
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - My research focuses on understanding complex, multi-scale dynamics of natural
     and coupled human-natural systems, particularly focused on impacts of disturbance
     (climate changes, wildfires, insect outbreaks, erosion and sedimentation, invasive
     species) on landscapes, ecological communities, and natural and cultural resources.
   name: Rachel A Loehman, Ph.D.
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0001-7680-1865
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/alaska-science-center
   organization_name: Alaska Science Center
   personal_statement: Research summaryMy projects integrate field studies, in-situ
     instrumentation and monitoring, ecosystem and fire models, geospatial and statistical
     modeling and analysis, and ecological theory to provide new insights into changing
     climates, disturbance regimes, and landscapes. Applications include development
     of strategies for restoration of forests and fire regimes, assessments of landscape
     resilience and vulnerability, reconstruction of long-term human-environment
     interactions, predictive models of climate-vegetation-disturbance interactions,
     quantification of fire impacts on above- and belowground cultural and natural
     resources, and development of new tools and techniques for quantifying and managing
     shifting environments. I work in coastal, boreal, and tundra ecosystems in Alaska
     as well as forest and woodland ecosystems in the interior west and southwestern
     U.S.
   professional_experience:
   - 2014 - Present  Research Landscape Ecologist, US Geological Survey, Alaska Science
     Center, Anchorage, Alaska
   - 2009-2014       Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research
     Station Fire Sciences Lab, Missoula, Montana
   - 2007-2009       Research Scientist, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula,
     Montana
   - 2007-2008       Climate Change Analyst, National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis,
     The University of Montana
   - 2006-2007      Post-doctoral Research Scientist, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation
     Group, The University of Montana
   - 2004-2006      National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, The University of
     Montana
   - 2001-2004      NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation
     Group, The University of Montana
   - 1997-2000      GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist, Sandia National Laboratories,
     Albuquerque, New Mexico
   title: Research Landscape Ecologist