Inga La Puma, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Eugenia Kelly Luciano Batista, Andrew T. Hudak, Jeff W. Atkins, Eben North Broadbent, Kody Melissa Brock, Michael J. Campbell, Nuria Sanchez-Lopez, Monique Bohora Schlickmann, Francisco Mauro, Andres Susaeta, Eric Rowell, Caio Hamamura, Ana Paula Dalla Corte, Inga La Puma, Russell A. Parsons, Benjamin C. Bright, Jason Vogel, Inacio Thomaz Bueno, Gabriel Maximo da Silva, Carine Klaubers, Jinyi Xia, Jessie F. Eastburn, Kleydson Diego Rocha, Carlos Alberto Silva. 2025. Comparing terrestrial and mobile laser scanning approaches for multi-layer fuel load prediction in the Western United States
• Terry Sohl, Karen G. Schleeweis, Nate Herold, Megan Lang, Inga La Puma, James Wickham, Rick Mueller, Matthew Rigge, Jon Dewitz, Jesslyn F. Brown, Jeffrey Ingebritsen, James Ellenwood, Ellen Wengert, Jordan Rowe, Patrick Flanagan, Emily Kachergis, Iris Garthwaite, Zhuoting Wu. 2025. An interagency perspective on improving consistency and transparency of land use and land cover mapping
• Annabelle Moore, Inga La Puma, Greg Dillon, Tobin Smail, Karen G. Schleeweis, Chris Toney, Jim Menakis, Henry Bastian, Josh Picotte, Daryn Dockter, Brian Tolk. 2024. Twenty years of science and management with LANDFIRE
• Sanath Sathyachandran Kumar, Brian Tolk, Ray Dittmeier, Joshua J. Picotte, Inga La Puma, Birgit Peterson, Timothy D. Hatten. 2024. The Spatially Adaptable Filter for Error Reduction (SAFER) Process: Remote sensing-based LANDFIRE disturbance mapping updates
• Inga La Puma. 2023. LANDFIRE technical documentation
• Mohamad Alipour, Inga La Puma, Joshua Picotte, Kasra Shamsaei, Eric Rowell, Adam Watts, Branko Kosovic, Hamed Ebrahimian, Ertugrul Taciroglu. 2023. A multimodal data fusion and deep learning framework for large-scale wildfire surface fuel mapping
• Inga La Puma, Timothy D. Hatten. 2022. LANDFIRE data and applications
• Timothy A. Warner, Tricia A. Miller, Inga La Puma, Lee Ann Nolan, Nicholas Skowronski, Aaron E. Maxwell. 2022. Exploring golden eagle habitat preference using lidar-based canopy bulk density
• Timothy A. Warner, Nicholas Skowronski, Inga La Puma. 2020. The influence of prescribed burning and wildfire on lidar-estimated forest structure of the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve
• Patricia R. Butler-Leopold, Louis Iverson, Frank R. Thompson, Leslie Brandt, Stephen Handler, Maria Janowiak, P. Danielle Shannon, Chris Swanston, Scott Bearer, Alexander M. Bryan, Ken Clark, Greg Czarnecki, Philip DeSenze, William D. Dijak, Jacob S. Fraser, Paul F. Gugger, Andrea Hille, Justin Hynicka, Claire A. Jantz, Matthew C. Kelly, Katrina M. Krause, Inga La Puma, Deborah Landau, Richard G. Lathrop, Laura P. Leites, Evan Madlinger, Stephen Matthews, Gulnihal Ozbay, Matthew Peters, Anantha M. Prasad, David A. Schmit, Collin Shephard, Rebecca Shirer, Nicholas Skowronski, Al Steele, Susan L. Stout, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, John Thompson, Richard M. Turcotte, David A. Weinstein, Alfonso Yáñez. 2018. Mid-Atlantic forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Mid-Atlantic Climate Change Response Framework project
• Robert M. Scheller, Steve Van Tuyl, Ken Clark, John Hom, Inga La Puma. 2011. Carbon sequestration in the New Jersey Pine Barrens under different scenarios of fire management
• Zewei Miao, Richard G. Lathrop, Ming Xu, Inga La Puma, Ken Clark, John Hom, Nicholas Skowronski, Steve Van Tuyl. 2011. Simulation and sensitivity analysis of carbon storage and fluxes in the New Jersey Pinelands

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• La Puma, I.P., ed., 2023, LANDFIRE technical documentation: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2023–1045, 103 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20231045.
• La Puma, I.P., and Hatten, T.D., 2022, LANDFIRE data and applications: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2022–3034, 4 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20223034.

Data and Tools

• Dataset
  

  LANDFIRE – Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/landfire-landscape-fire-and-resource-management-planning

• Center or Group
  

  Fire Modeling Institute (FMI)

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

Multimedia

• Webinars

  A New Foundation for LANDFIRE

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/multimedia/webinars/new-foundation-landfire

• Rutgers University, Ph.D. Ecology and Evolution, Landscape/Fire Ecology, 2012
• Florida International University, M.S. Biology, Remote Sensing - Plant Physiology, 2003
• George Mason University, B.A. Geography, Geography, 1996