Erin Noonan-Wright, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Zachary Holden, Erin Noonan-Wright, Alan Swanson, Mojtaba Sadegh. 2026. Operational fire spread potential forecasting for the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies U.S.A.
• Zachary Holden, Alan K. Swanson, Mojtaba Sadegh, Charlie H. Luce, Erin Noonan-Wright, Russell A. Parsons. 2025. Soil moisture is a stronger predictor of forest fire spread potential than weather in the U.S. Northern Rocky Mountains
• Erin Noonan-Wright, Carl Seielstad. 2022. Factors influencing risk during wildfires: Contrasting divergent regions in the US
• Erin Noonan-Wright, Carl A. Seielstad. 2021. Patterns of wildfire risk in the United States from systematic operational risk assessments: How risk is characterised by land managers
• Erin Noonan-Wright, Tonja S. Opperman. 2015. Applying the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) to support risk-informed decision making: The Gold Pan Fire, Bitterroot National Forest, Montana, USA
• Nicole M. Vaillant, Erin Noonan-Wright, Alicia L. Reiner, Carol M. Ewell, Benjamin Rau, Josephine A. Fites-Kaufman, Scott N. Dailey. 2015. Fuel accumulation and forest structure change following hazardous fuel reduction treatments throughout California
• Erin Noonan-Wright, Nicole M. Vaillant, Alicia L. Reiner. 2014. The effectiveness and limitations of fuel modeling using the fire and fuels extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator
• Nicole M. Vaillant, Alicia L. Reiner, Erin Noonan-Wright. 2013. Prescribed fire effects on field-derived and simulated forest carbon stocks over time

• Program
  

  Fire, Fuel, and Smoke

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/firefuelsmoke
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Other Publications

• Understory
  

  Mitigating Old Tree Mortality in Long-unburned, Fire-dependent Forests (Poster)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/understory/mitigating-old-tree-mortality-long-unburned-fire-dependent-forests-poster

• University of Montana, Missoula, Ph.D. Candidate, Forestry, Emphasis in Fire Science, 2015
• University of Nevada, Reno, Master Of Science, Environmental Resource Sciences, 2002
• University of California, Berkeley, B.S. Forestry, Forestry, 1997