Years: 2017-2021
Location: Northern Rocky Mountains of 猎奇重口 and Idaho
Funding: The National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology (grant 1655121)
Investigators: Higuera (PI), and co-PIs Tara Hudiburg (Univ. of Idaho), Kendra McLauchlan (Kansas St. Univ.), and Bryan Shuman (Univ. of Wyoming)
Years: 2016-2020
Location: Northern Rocky Mountains of 猎奇重口 and Idaho
Funding: Joint Fire Science Program (grant 16-1-01-15)
Investigators: Kimberly Davis (co-PI, principal author of grant), Higuera (PI), and Solomon Dobrowski (co-PI)
Years: 2016-2020
Location: Bitterroot Valley, MT, Methow Valley, WA, western United States
Funding: Joint Fire Science Program (grant 16-3-01-24)
Investigators: Higuera (PI), and co-PIs Libby Metcalf (UM), Alex Metcalf (UM), Carol Miller (USFS), and Dave McWethy (猎奇重口 St. Univ.)
Years: 2013-2018
Location: Alaskan boreal forests
Funding: National Science Foundation MacroSystems Biology Program
Investigators: Jason McLachlan (PI, Notre Dame), co-PIs Higuera et al.
Years: 2012-2017
Location: Coordination network; global scope
Funding: National Science Foundation's Research Coordination Network Program
Investigators: Kendra McLauchlan (PI, Kansas St. Univ.), co-PIs Higuera, and Dan Gavin
WildFIRE PIRE
Feedbacks and consequences of altered fire regimes in the face of climate and land-use change in Australia, New Zealand, and the western U.S.
Years: 2010-2015
Location: U.S. Rocky Mountains, Tasmania, Australia, New Zealand
Funding: National Science Foundation's Program for International Research and Education
Investigators: Cathy Whitlock (PI, 猎奇重口 St. Univ.), co-PIs Higuera, et al.
Integrating paleoecological analysis and ecological modeling to elucidate the responses of tundra fire regimes to climate change.
Years: 2010-2014
Location: Alaskan and Canadian Arctic
Funding: National Science Foundation's Division of Polar Programs
Investigators: Feng Sheng Hu (PI) and co-PIs Higuera, Paul Duffy, and Mike Dietze
Impacts of climate change on the boreal forest fire regimes of Alaska
Years: 2006-2010
Location: Alaskan boreal forests
Funding: Post-doctoral research, funded through the National Science Foundation's Arctic System Science Program: to F. S. Hu et al.
Investigators: Feng Sheng Hu (PI), Higuera as post doc.
Reconstructing fire regimes in tundra ecosystems to inform a management-oriented ecosystem model
Years: 2006-2010
Location: Noatak National Preserve, Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska
Funding: Joint Fire Science Program (Grant 06-3-1-23) to F. S. Hu et al.
Investigators: Feng Sheng Hu (PI), Higuera as post doc, and principal author of proposal
Spatial and temporal evolution of late Holocene fire regimes in subalpine forests
Years: 2006-2009
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Funding: Post-doctoral research funded through a National Park Ecological Research Fellowship program and the National Park Service.
Investigators: Higuera (PI), Cathy Whitlock, post-doctoral advisor
Late Glacial and Holocene Fire History in the South-central Brooks Range, Alaska
Direct and Indirect Impacts of Climatic Change on Fire Regimes
Years: 2003-2006
Location: South-central Brooks Range, Alaska
Funding: Dissertation research, funded through the National Science Foundation, OPP-01121586 to L. B. Brubaker et al. and a Graduate Research Fellowship to PEH
Reconstructing fire regimes with charcoal and pollen from small hollows: a calibration with tree-ring records of fire
Years: 1999-2003
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Funding: Master's research funded through the National Science Foundation, to L. B. Brubaker and D. G. Sprugel, and a Graduate Research Fellowship to PEH