Joseph J. O'Brien, PhD

Project Leader/Research Ecologist

Southern Research Station

0000-0003-3446-6063

joseph.j.obrien@usda.gov

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Joseph J. O'Brien. 2025. Properties of Surface-Active Organics in Aerosol Particles Produced from Combustion of Biomass Fuels under Simulated Prescribed-Fire and Wildfire Conditions
Joseph J. O'Brien. 2025. Speciation and Aqueous Dissolution of Macronutrients in Fire Ash: Variation across Ecosystems and the Effects on Nutrient Cycling
Joseph J. O'Brien. 2025. Overview of the Georgia Wildland-fire Simulation Experiment (GWISE)
C. Wade Ross, E. Louise Loudermilk, Steve Flanagan, Grant Snitker, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2025. Wildfire Severity Reduction Through Prescribed Burning in the Southeastern United States
Rodman Linn, John Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, Kara Yedinak, Chad Hoffman, Jesse Canfield, David Robinson, Scott Goodrick. 2025. Wildland fire entrainment: The missing link between wildland fire and its environment
Omar Marcillo, Jonathan M. Lees, Kara Yedinak, Keith Bourne, Brian Potter, Steve Flanagan, Joseph J. O'Brien, Joseph Paki. 2025. Acoustic observations of a prescribed burn
Andrea Nocentini, Caryl Alarcon, Michael Gue, Troy Mullins, Pablo Ruiz, Mayavati Tupaj, John Kominosky, Joseph J. O'Brien, Michael Ross. 2024. Complex burn prioritization models as a decision-support tool for managing prescribed fires in large, heterogeneous landscapes: an example from Everglades National Park, Florida, USA.
Chad M. Hoffman, Adam L. Atchley, Sophie R. Bonner, Scott Ritter, Joseph J. O'Brien, Rodman R. Linn. 2024. Evaluating crown scorch predictions from a computational fluid dynamics wildland fire simulator
Leda N. Kobziar, J. Kevin Hiers, Claire M. Belcher, William J. Bond, Carolyn A. Enquist, E. Louise Loudermilk, Jessica R. Miesel, Joseph J. O'Brien, Juli G. Pausas, Sharon M. Hood, Robert E. Keane, Penelope Morgan, Melissa R. A. Pingree, Karin Riley, Hugh Safford, Francisco Seijo, J. Morgan Varner, Tamara Wall, Adam Watts. 2024. Principles of fire ecology
Seth W. Bigelow, J. Kevin Hiers, Scott Pokswinski, Douglas P. Aubrey, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2024. Plant growth forms influence sandhill longleaf pine regeneration
C. Wade Ross, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Steve Flanagan, Grant Snitker, J. Kevin Hiers. 2024. Wildfire Severity to Valued Resources Mitigated by Prescribed Fire in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
David R. Weise, Thomas H. Fletcher, Timothy J. Johnson, Wei Min Hao, Mark A. Dietenberger, Marko Princevac, Bret W. Butler, Sara S. McAllister, Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Roger D. Ottmar, Andrew T. Hudak, Akira Kato, Babak Shotorban, Shankar Mahalingam, Tanya L. Myers, Javier Palarea-Albaladejo, Stephen P. Baker. 2024. Comparing gas composition from fast pyrolysis of live foliage measured in bench-scale and fire-scale experiments
C. Wade Ross, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Steve Flanagan, Jennifer McDaniel, Doug P. Aubrey, Tripp Lowe, J. Kevin Hiers, Nicholas Skowronski. 2024. Lidar-derived estimates of forest structure in response to fire frequency
Chase K. Glenn, Omar El Hajj, Zachary McQueen, Ryan P. Poland, Robert Penland, Elijah T. Roberts, Jonathan H. Choi, Bin Bai, Nara Shin, Anita Anosike, Kruthika V Kumar, Muhammad Isa Abdurrahman, Pengfei Liu, I. Jonathan Amster, Geoffrey D. Smith, Steve Flanagan, Mac A. Callaham, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Rawad Saleh. 2024. Brown Carbon Emissions from Biomass Burning under Simulated Wildfire and Prescribed-Fire Conditions
Jennifer Possley, James J. Lange, Alan R. Franck, George D. Gann, Trudy Wilson, Susan Kolterman, Janice Duquesnel, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2024. First U.S. vascular plant extirpation linked to sea level rise? Pilosocereus millspaughii (Cactaceae) in the Florida Keys, U.S.A.
Doug Aubrey, Joseph J. O'Brien, Steve Flanagan, Ream Thomas. 2024. Empirical and Theoretical Lethal Fire Energy Dose Thresholds for Tree Stems.
Jenna S. McDanold, Rodman R. Linn, Alex K. Jonko, Adam L. Atchley, Scott Goodrick, J. Kevin Hiers, Chad M. Hoffman, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Russell A. Parsons, Carolyn H. Sieg, Julia A. Oliveto. 2023. DUET - Distribution of Understory using Elliptical Transport: A mechanistic model of leaf litter and herbaceous spatial distribution based on tree canopy structure
Scott Goodrick, Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Rod Linn, Ginny Marshall. 2022. Improving parameterization of combustion processes in coupled fire-atmosphere models through infrared remote sensing
Robert N. Spencer, Doug P. Aubrey, Joseph J. O'Brien, Alistair M. S. Smith, Ream W. Thomas, Daniel M. Johnson, Luke A. Wilson. 2022. Longleaf Pine Seedlings Are Extremely Resilient to the Combined Effects of Experimental Fire and Drought
Dessa L. Benson, Elizabeth G. King, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2022. Forest Dynamics Models for Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Small Forests
Adam B. McClure, T. Adam Coates, J. Kevin Hiers, John R. Seiler, Joseph J. O'Brien, Chad M. Hoffman. 2022. Estimating heat tolerance of buds in southeastern US trees in fire-prone forests
Matthew Reilly, Steve P. Norman, Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk. 2022. Drivers and ecological impacts of a wildfire outbreak in the southern Appalachian Mountains after decades of fire exclusion
R. Todd Engstrom, J. Kevin Hiers, Kevin M. Robertson, J. Morgan Varner, James Cox, Joseph J. O'Brien, Scott Pokswinski. 2022. Long-term recovery of selected indicator species following soil disturbance and compaction in an old-growth longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) woodland.
C. Wade Ross, E. Louise Loudermilk, Nicholas Skowronski, Scott Pokswinski, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2022. LiDAR Voxel-Size Optimization for Canopy Gap Estimation
Zachary J. Robbins, E. Louise Loudermilk, Matthew Reilly, Joseph J. O'Brien, Kate Jones, Christopher T. Gerstle, Robert M. Scheller. 2022. Delayed fire mortality has long‐term ecological effects across the Southern Appalachian landscape
Matthew B. Dickinson, Cyle E. Wold, Bret W. Butler, Robert L. Kremens, Daniel Jimenez, Paul A. Sopko, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2021. The Wildland Fire Heat Budget—Using Bi-Directional Probes to Measure Sensible Heat Flux and Energy in Surface Fires
Quinn A. Hiers, E. Louise Loudermilk, Christie Hawley, J. Kevin Hiers, Scott Pokswinski, Chad M. Hoffman, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2021. Non-destructive fuel volume measurements can estimate fine-scale biomass across surface fuel types in a frequently burned ecosystem
Rodman R. Linn, Judith L. Winterkamp, James H. Furman, Brett Williams, J. Kevin Hiers, Alexandra Jonko, Joseph J. O'Brien, Kara Yedinak, Scott Goodrick. 2021. Modeling Low Intensity Fires: Lessons Learned from 2012 RxCADRE
Nicholas Skowronski, Bret W. Butler, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Morgan. Varner. 2021. The Prescribed Fire Science Consortium
Scott Pokswinski, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Kevin. Hiers. 2020. Diurnal pine bark structure dynamics affect properties relevant to firebrand generation
Dana Carpenter, Melanie K. Taylor, Mac A. Callaham, J. Kevin Hiers, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Nina Wurzburger. 2020. Benefit or Liability? The Ectomycorrhizal Association May Undermine Tree Adaptations to Fire After Long-term Fire Exclusion
J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Morgan Varner, Bret W. Butler, Matthew B. Dickinson, James Furman, Michael R. Gallagher, David Godwin, Scott Goodrick, Sharon M. Hood, Andrew T. Hudak, Leda N. Kobziar, Rodman Linn, E. Louise Loudermilk, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Kevin Robertson, Eric M. Rowell, Nicholas Skowronski, Adam C. Watts, Kara Yedinak. 2020. Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda
R.R. Linn, Scott Goodrick, S. Brambilla, M.J. Brown, R.S. Middleton, Joseph J. O'Brien, J.K. Hiers. 2020. QUIC-fire: A fast-running simulation tool for prescribed fire planning
E. Louise Loudermilk, Lee Dyer, Scott Pokswinski, Andrew T. Hudak, Ben Hornsby, Lora Richards, Jane Dell, Scott Goodrick, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2019. Simulating groundcover community assembly in a frequently burned ecosystem using a simple neutral model
Steven A. Flanagan, Smriti Bhotika, Christie Hawley, Gregory Starr, Susanne Wiesner, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, Scott Goodrick, Mac A. Callaham, Robert M. Scheller, Kier D. Klepzig, R. Scott Taylor, E. Louise Loudermilk. 2019. Quantifying carbon and species dynamics under different fire regimes in a southeastern U.S. pineland
Jane E. Dell, Danielle M. Salcido, Will Lumpkin, Lora A. Richards, Scott M. Pokswinski, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Lee A. Dyer. 2019. Interaction diversity maintains resiliency in a frequently disturbed ecosystem
Craig B. Clements, Adam K. Kochanski, Daisuke Seto, Braniff Davis, Christopher Camacho, Neil P. Lareau, Jonathan Contezac, Joseph Restaino, Warren E. E. Heilman, Steven K. Krueger, Bret W. Butler, Roger D. Ottmar, Robert Vihnanek, James Flynn, Jean-Baptiste Filippi, Toussaint Barboni, Dianne E. Hall, Jan Mandel, Mary Ann Jenkins, Joseph J. O'Brien, Ben Hornsby, Casey Teske. 2019. The FireFlux II experiment: a model-guided field experiment to improve understanding of fire-atmosphere interactions and fire spread
Joseph J. O'Brien, J. K. Hiers, J. M. Varner, C. M. Hoffman, Matthew B. Dickinson, S. T. Michaletz, E. Louise Loudermilk, Bret W. Butler. 2018. Advances in Mechanistic Approaches to Quantifying Biophysical Fire Effects
David R. Weise, Thomas H. Fletcher, Timothy J. Johnson, WeiMin M. Hao, Mark A. Dietenberger, Marko Princevac, Bret W. Butler, Sara S. McAllister, Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Roger D. Ottmar, Andrew T. Hudak, Akira Kato, Babak Shotorban, Shankar Mahalingam, William E. Mell. 2018. A project to measure and model pyrolysis to improve prediction of prescribed fire behavior
E. Louise Loudermilk, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2018. The role of fuels for understanding fire behavior and fire effects
Seth Bigelow, Michael C. Stambaugh, Joseph J. O'Brien, Andrew J. Larson, Michael A. Battaglia. 2018. Longleaf pine restoration in context comparisons of frequent fire forests
Jeffery B. Cannon, Chris J. Peterson, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Stephen. Brewer. 2017. A review and classification of interactions between forest disturbance from wind and fire
Jane E. Dell, Lora A. Richards, Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Andrew T. Hudak, Scott M. Pokswinski, Benjamin C. Bright, J. Kevin Hiers, Brett W. Williams, Lee A. Dyer. 2017. Overstory-derived surface fuels mediate plant species diversity in frequently burned longleaf pine forests
Jane Dell, Joseph J. O'Brien, Lydia Doan, Lora Richards, Lee Dyer. 2017. An arthropod survival strategy in a frequently burned forest
J. W. Campbell, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. H. Irvin, C. B. Kimmel, J. C. Daniels, J. D. Ellis. 2017. Managed bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) caged with blueberry bushes at high density did not increase fruit set or fruit weight compared to open pollination
Bret W. Butler, C. Teske, Dan M. Jimenez, Joseph J. O'Brien, Paul A. Sopko, Cyle E. Wold, Mark G. Vosburgh, Ben Hornsby, E. Louise Loudermilk. 2016. Observations of energy transport and rate of spreads from low-intensity fires in longleaf pine habitat-RxCADRE 2012
Andrew T. Hudak, Matthew B. Dickinson, Benjamin C. Bright, Robert L. Kremens, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Ben Hornsby, Roger D. Ottmar. 2016. Measurements relating fire radiative energy density and surface fuel consumption - RxCADRE 2011 and 2012
Matthew Reilly, Kenneth Outcalt, Joseph J. O'Brien, Dale Wade. 2016. Effects of repeated growing season prescribed fire on the structure and composition of pine-hardwood forests in the southeastern Piedmont, USA
E. Louise Loudermilk, J. Kevin Hiers, Scott Pokswinski, Joseph J. O'Brien, Analie Barnett, Robert J. Mitchell. 2016. The path back: oaks ( Quercus spp.) facilitate longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) seedling establishment in xeric sites
Eric Rowell, E. Louise Loudermilk, Carl Seielstad, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2016. Using simulated 3D surface fuelbeds and terrestrial laser scan data to develop inputs to fire behavior models
Carlos A. Silva, Andrew T. Hudak, Lee A. Vierling, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Kevin Hiers, Steve B. Jack, Carlos Gonzalez-Benecke, Heezin Lee, Michael J. Falkowski, Anahita Khosravipour. 2016. Imputation of individual longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) tree attributes from field and LiDAR data
Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Scott M. Pokswinski, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Ben Hornsby, Carine Klauberg, Carlos A. Silva. 2016. Mapping forest structure and composition from low-density LiDAR for informed forest, fuel, and fire management at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA
Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, J. Kevin Hiers, Scott Pokswinski, Benjamin Hornsby, Andrew T. Hudak, Dexter Strother, Eric Rowell, Benjamin C. Bright. 2016. Canopy-derived fuels drive patterns of in-fire energy release and understory plant mortality in a longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) sandhill in northwest Florida, USA
Fabien H. Wagner, Bruno Herault, Damien Bonal, Clement Stahl, Liana O. Anderson, Timothy R. Baker, Gabriel Sebastian Becker, Hans Beeckman, Danilo Boanerges Souza, Paulo Cesar Botosso, David M. J. S. Bowman, Achim Brauning, Benjamin Brede, Foster Irving Brown, Jesus Julio Camarero, Plinio Barbosa Camargo, Fernanda C. G. Cardoso, Fabricio Alvim Carvalho, Wendeson Castro, Rubens Koloski Chagas, Jerome Chave, Emmanuel N. Chidumayo, Deborah A. Clark, Flavia Regina Capellotto Costa, Camille Couralet, Paulo Henrique da Silva Mauricio, Helmut Dalitz, Vinicius Resende de Castro, Jacanan Eloisa de Freitas Milani, Edilson Consuelo de Oliveira, Luciano de Souza Arruda, Jean-Louis Devineau, David M. Drew, Oliver Dunisch, Giselda Durigan, Elisha Elifuraha, Marcio Fedele, Ligia Ferreira Fedele, Afonso Figueiredo Filho, Cesar Augusto Guimaraes Finger, Augusto Cesar Franco, Joao Lima Freitas Junior, Franklin Galvao, Aster Gebrekirstos, Robert Gliniars, Paulo Mauricio Lima de Alencastro Graca, Anthony D. Griffiths, James Grogan, Kaiyu Guan, Jurgen Homeier, Maria Raquel Kanieski, Lip Khoon Kho, Jennifer Koenig, Sintia Valerio Kohler, Julia Krepkowski, Jose Pires Lemos-Filho, Diana Lieberman, Milton Eugene Lieberman, Claudio Sergio Lisi, Tomaz Longhi Santos, Jose Luis Lopez Ayala, Eduardo Eijji Maeda, Yadvinder Malhi, Vivian R. B. Maria, Marcia C. M. Marques, Renato Marques, Hector Maza Chamba, Lawrence Mbwambo, Karina Liana Lisboa Melgaco, Hooz Angela Mendivelso, Brett P. Murphy, Joseph J. O'Brien, Steven F. Oberbauer, Naoki Okada, Raphael Pelissier, Lynda D. Prior, Fidel Alejandro Roig, Michael Ross, Davi Rodrigo Rossatto, Vivien Rossi, Lucy Rowland, Ervan Rutishauser, Hellen Santana, Mark Schulze, Diogo Selhorst, Williamar Rodrigues Silva, Marcos Silveira, Susanne Spannl, Michael D. Swaine, Jose Julio Toledo, Marcos Miranda Toledo, Marisol Toledo, Takeshi Toma, Mario Tomazello Filho, Juan Ignacio Valdez Hernandez, Jan Verbesselt, Simone Aparecida Vieira, Gregoire Vincent, Carolina Volkmer de Castilho, Franziska Volland, Martin Worbes, Magda Lea Bolzan Zanon, Luiz E. O. C. Aragao. 2016. Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests
Evelyn Wenk, Mac A. Callaham, Joseph J. O'Brien, Paul J. Hanson. 2016. Soil macroinvertebrate communities across a productivity gradient in deciduous forests of eastern North America
J. Morgan Varner, Jesse K. Kreye, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2016. Recent advances in understanding duff consumption and post-fire longleaf pine mortality
Roger D. Ottmar, J. Kevin Hiers, Bret W. Butler, Craig B. Clements, Matthew B. Dickinson, Andrew T. Hudak, Joseph J. O'Brien, Brian Potter, Eric M. Rowell, Tara Strand, Thomas J. Zajkowski. 2016. Measurements, datasets and preliminary results from the RxCADRE project-2008, 2011 and 2012
Matthew B. Dickinson, Andrew T. Hudak, Thomas Zajkowski, E. Louise Loudermilk, Wilfrid Schroeder, Luke Ellison, Robert L. Kremens, William Holley, Otto Martinez, Alexander Paxton, Benjamin C. Bright, Joseph J. O'Brien, Ben Hornsby, Charles Ichoku, Jason Faulring, Aaron Gerace, David L. Peterson, Joseph Mauceri. 2016. Measuring radiant emissions from entire prescribed fires with ground, airborne and satellite sensors - RxCADRE 2012
G. Starr, C. L. Staudhammer, H. W. Loescher, R. Mitchell, A. Whelan, J. K. Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2015. Time series analysis of forest carbon dynamics: recovery of Pinus palustris physiology following a prescribed fire
James Hanula, Scott Horn, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2015. Have changing forests conditions contributed to pollinator decline in the southeastern United States?
G. M. Fleming, Joseph M. Wunderle Jr., D. N. Ewert, Joseph J. O'Brien, Eileen Helmer. 2015. Functional attributes of two subtropical shrubs and implications for the distribution and management of endangered bird habitat
Hiroshi Ikeda, Mac A. Callaham, Joseph J. O'Brien, Ben Hornsby, Evelyn S. Wenk. 2015. Can the invasive earthworm, Amynthas agrestis, be controlled with prescribed fire?
Robert J. Mitchell, Yongqiang Liu, Joseph J. O'Brien, Katherine Elliott, Gregory Starr, Chelcy F. Miniat, J. Kevin Hiers. 2014. Future climate and fire interactions in the southeastern region of the United States
E. Louise Loudermilk, Gary L. Achtemeier, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Kevin Hiers, Benjamin S. Hornsby. 2014. High-resolution observations of combustion in heterogeneous surface fuels
Jeffery B. Cannon, Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Matthew B. Dickinson, Chris J. Peterson. 2014. The influence of experimental wind disturbance on forest fuels and fire characteristics
Genie M. Fleming, Joseph M. Wunderle Jr., David N. Ewert, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2014. Estimating plant biomass in early-successional subtropical vegetation using a visual obstruction technique
V.R. Garbarino, J. Campbell, Joseph J. O'Brien, H.C. Proctor, B. Dik. 2013. Phthiraptera and Acari collected from 13 species of waterfowl from Alabama and Georgia
Yanzhuo Zhang, James Hanula, Joseph J. O'Brien, Scott Horn, Braman Kris, Jianghua Sun. 2013. Evaluation of the impacts of herbivory by lace bugs on Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense) survival and physiology
Joseph J. O'Brien, L. Dyer, R. Mitchell, Andrew T. Hudak. 2013. Patterns and processes: Monitoring and understanding plant diversity in frequently burned longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) landscapes
Mac A. Callaham, John A. Stanturf, William J. Hammond, Donald L. Rockwood, Evelyn Wenk, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2013. Survey to evaluate escape of Eucalyptus spp. seedlings from plantations in southeastern USA
DP Aubrey, B Martazavi, Joseph J. O'Brien, JD McGee, JJ Hendricks, KA Kuehn, RJ Mitchell. 2012. Influence of repeated canopy scorching on soil CO₂ efflux
E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, RJ Mitchell, JK Hiers, WP Cropper, S Grunwald, J Grego, J Fernandez. 2012. Linking complex forest fuel structure and fire behavior at fine scales
Mac A. Callaham, Andy Scott, Joseph J. O'Brien, John A. Stanturf. 2012. Cumulative effects of fuel management on the soils of eastern U.S
Matthew Reilly, Tom Waldrop, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2012. Fuels management in the southern Appalachian Mountains, hot continental division
Joyce Maschinski, Michael S. Ross, Hong Liu, Joseph J. O'Brien, Erick J. von Wettberg, Kristin E. Haskins. 2011. Sinking ships: conservation options for endemic taxa threatened by sea level rise
Joseph J. O'Brien, J.K. Hiers, R.J. Mitchell, J.M. Varner, K. Mordecai. 2010. Acute physiological stress and mortality following fire in a long-unburned longleaf pine ecosystem
Joseph J. O'Brien, Kathryn A. Mordecai, Leslie Wolcott, James Snyder, Kenneth Outcalt. 2010. Fire managers field guide: hazardous fuels management in subtropical pine flatwoods and tropical pine rocklands
Terry L. Sharik, William Adair, Fred A. Baker, Michael A. Battaglia, Emily J. Comfort, Anthony W. D'Amato, Craig Delong, R. Justin DeRose, Mark J. Ducey, Mark Harmon, Louise Levy, Jesse A. Logan, Joseph J. O'Brien, Brian J. J. Palik, Scott D. Roberts, Paul C. Rogers, Douglas J. Shinneman, Thomas Spies, Sarah L. Taylor, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Andrew Youngblood. 2010. Emerging themes in the ecology and management of North American forests
Dan M. Jimenez, Bret W. Butler, K. Hiers, Roger D. Ottmar, Matthew B. Dickinson, R. Kremens, Joseph J. O'Brien, Andrew T. Hudak, C. Clements. 2009. Rx-CADRE (Prescribed Fire Combustion-Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiments) collaborative research in the core fire sciences
J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, R. J. Mitchell, John M. Grego, E. Louise Loudermilk. 2009. The wildland fuel cell concept: an approach to characterize fine-scale variation in fuels and fire in frequently burned longleaf pine forests
Emile S. Gardiner, Joseph J. O'Brien, M. Löf, John A. Stanturf, P. Madsen. 2009. Photosynthetic characteristics of Fagus sylvatica and Quercus robur established for stand conversion from Picea abies
James Hanula, D.D. Wade, Joseph J. O'Brien, Susan Loeb. 2009. Ground-dwelling arthropod association with coarse woody debris following long-term dormant season prescribed burning in the longleaf pine flatwoods of north Florida
Emile S. Gardiner, Magnus Lof, Joseph J. O'Brien, John A. Stanturf, Palle Madsen. 2009. Photosynthetic characteristics of fagus sylvatica and quercus robur established for stand conversion from picea abies
Matthew Reilly, Joseph J. O'Brien, Tom Waldrop. 2008. Fuels Management in the Hot Continental Division, Southern Appalachian Mountains
Joseph J. O'Brien, J.K. Hiers, Mac A. Callaham, R.J. Mitchell, S. Jack. 2008. Interactions among overstory structure, seedling life-history traits and fire in frequently burned neotropical pine forests
E. Louise Loudermilk, Abhinav Singhania, Juan C. Fernandez, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, Wendell P. Cropper Jr., K. Clint Slatton, Robert J. Mitchell. 2007. Application of ground-based LIDAR for fine-scale forest fuel modeling
Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Kevin Hiers, Rodney E. Will, Robert J. Mitchell. 2007. Forest floor depth mediates understory vigor in xeric Pinus palustris ecosystems
Joseph J. O'Brien, Caroline Stahala, Gina P. Mori, Mac A. Callaham, Chris M. Bergh. 2006. Effects of prescribed fire on conditions inside a Cuban parrot (Amazona Leucocephala) surrogate nesting cavity on Great Abaco, Bahamas
R.J. Mitchell, J.K. Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, S.B. Jack, R.T. Engstrom. 2006. Silviculture that sustains: the nexus between silviculture, frequent prescribed fire, and conservation of biodiversity in longleaf pine forests of the southeastern United States
Deborah K. Kennard, Kenneth W. Outcalt, David P. Jones, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2005. Comparing techniques for estimating flame temperature of prescribed fires
Joseph J. O'Brien, S.F. Oberbauer, D.B. Clark. 2004. Whole tree xylem sap flow responses to multiple environmental variables in a wet tropical forest
Luitgard Schwendenmann, Edzo Veldkamp, Tania Brenes, Joseph J. O'Brien, Jens Mackensen. 2003. Spatial and temporal variation in soil CO₂ efflux in an old-growth neotropical rain forest, LA Selva, Costa Rica

Florida International University, Ph.D., Biological Sciences, 2001
Florida International University, M.S., Biological Sciences, 1997
State University of New York at Geneseo, B.S., Biology, 1986

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