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Mike’s current research focus involves developing process based models of fuel moisture exchange, fire ignition and spread that can be applied by fire management agencies throughout Canada. This work, in part, involves development of models for the Canadian Forest Service’s Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS), a system used operationally throughout Canada and a growing number of countries around the world. He also uses these models together with climate change scenarios to examine the impacts of climate change on forest fire management. This research area requires working closely with fire management agencies from across Canada in the application of the research models into daily fire management operations.

Mike is stationed at the University of Toronto as part of a CFS-University of Toronto partnership focusing on providing graduate level training in the physical fire sciences. There he teaches a 4th year and graduate level course on fire danger rating and forest fire behaviour and supervises graduate students working on aspects of the next generation of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System.

Education

• 1990 BScH Queens University at Kingston

• 2004 PhD University of Toronto

Publications

• Canadian Forest Service Publications
• Other publications by this author