Faith Heinsch, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Pia Labenski, Michael Ewald, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Faith Heinsch, Fabian Ewald Fassnacht. 2023. Quantifying surface fuels for fire modelling in temperate forests using airborne lidar and Sentinel-2: potential and limitations
• Faith Heinsch, Pamela G. Sikkink, Helen Y. Smith, Molly L. Retzlaff. 2018. Characterizing fire behavior from laboratory burns of multi-aged, mixed-conifer masticated fuels in the western United States
• Pamela G. Sikkink, Terrie B. Jain, James Reardon, Faith Heinsch, Robert E. Keane, Bret W. Butler, L. Scott Baggett. 2017. Effect of particle aging on chemical characteristics, smoldering, and fire behavior in mixed-conifer masticated fuel
• Faith Heinsch, Patricia L. Andrews, Deb Tirmenstein. 2017. How to generate and interpret fire characteristics charts for the U.S. fire danger rating system
• Faith Heinsch, Charles W. McHugh, Colin C. Hardy. 2016. Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program 2015 Research Accomplishments
• Faith Heinsch, Robin J. Innes, Colin C. Hardy, Kristine M. Lee. 2015. Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Program: 2014 Research Accomplishments
• Faith Heinsch, Robin J. Innes, Colin C. Hardy, Kristine M. Lee. 2014. Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program: 2013 Research accomplishments
• Robin J. Innes, Faith Heinsch, Kristine M. Lee. 2014. 2013 Annual Report: Fire Modeling Institute
• Nina Dobrinkova, LaWen Hollingsworth, Faith Heinsch, Greg Dillon, Georgi Dobrinkov. 2014. Bulgarian fuel models developed for implementation in FARSITE simulations for test cases in Zlatograd area
• Karin Riley, John T. Abatzoglou, Isaac C. Grenfell, Anna E. Klene, Faith Heinsch. 2013. The relationship of large fire occurrence with drought and fire danger indices in the western USA, 1984-2008: The role of temporal scale
• Maosheng Zhao, Steven Running, Faith Heinsch, Ramakrishna Nemani. 2011. MODIS-derived terrestrial primary production [chapter 28]
• Pat L. Andrews, Faith Heinsch, Luke Schelvan. 2011. How to generate and interpret fire characteristics charts for surface and crown fire behavior
• Faith Heinsch, Pat L. Andrews. 2010. Fire characteristics charts for fire behavior and U.S. fire danger rating
• Faith Heinsch, Charles W. McHugh. 2010. Climate change and fire danger rating in the Northern Rockies
• Faith Heinsch, Pat L. Andrews. 2010. BehavePlus fire modeling system, version 5.0: Design and Features

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  Behave

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/behave
• Tool
  

  FireFamilyPlus

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/firefamilyplus

• Project
  

  National Fire Danger Rating System

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/firedangerrating
• Center or Group
  

  Fire Modeling Institute (FMI)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/centers/fmi
• Program
  

  Fire, Fuel, and Smoke

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

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Native Landscaping

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/nativelandscaping
• Project
  

  MASTIDON - Masticated fuel characteristics

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/mastidon

Articles

• Article
  

  Behave7: Improvements to the Behave Fire Modeling System

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/articles/behave7-improvements-behave-fire-modeling-system

Multimedia

• Video

  Can scientists finally decode fire? Freethink

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/multimedia/videos/can-scientists-finally-decode-fire-freethink
• Webinars

  Behave7 for Prescribed Fire Planning

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/multimedia/webinars/behave7-prescribed-fire-planning
• Webinars

  Behave7 for Fire Analysts

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/multimedia/webinars/behave7-fire-analysts
• Webinars
  

  Behave7 fire modeling system: A long time coming

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/behave7-fire-modeling-system-long-time-coming
• Webinars

  Behave7 Fire Modeling System: A Long Time Coming

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/multimedia/webinars/behave7-fire-modeling-system-long-time-coming

• University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, AL, B.S., Geography/German
• Oregon State University,Corvallis, OR, M.S., Atmospheric Sciences
• Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Ph.D., Soil Science