Kara Yedinak, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Laura Hasburgh, Kara Yedinak, Jenna Zukswert. 2026. WOODWISE Fire Experiments Improve Mass Timber Safety: Phase I
• 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
• Coello, Nicolas, Erica C. Fischer, Laura Hasburgh, David Barber, Kara Yedinak, Ines Pitari. 2025. Fire behavior of CLT floor to wall connections: Findings from the Woodwise Project
• Laura Hasburgh, Erica C. Fischer, David Barber, Kara Yedinak, Amara Holder, Coello, Nicolas, Ines Pitari. 2025. Influence of fuel type and load on fire intensity: Results from full-scale fire tests from the Woodwise project
• Erica C. Fischer, Ines Pitari, Laura Hasburgh, David Barber, Kara Yedinak, Nicolas Coello. 2025. Woodwise: large-scale compartment fire tests examining sustainability, smoldering, and emissions
• J.B. Johnson, J.F. Anderson, Kara Yedinak. 2025. Infrasound produced by a small pile fire
• Mengmeng Luo, Kara Yedinak, Keith Bourne, Thea Whitman. 2025. Reburning pyrogenic organic matter: a laboratory method for dosing dynamic heat fluxes from above
• 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
• Brian Potter, Kara Yedinak, Jay J. Charney. 2024. Measuring wind - Creating new models to gauge impact on wildfire
• Dana B. Johnson, Kara Yedinak, Benjamin N. Sulman, Timothy D. Berry, Kelsey Kruger, Thea Whitman. 2024. Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration
• Dana B. Johnson, Jamie Woolet, Kara Yedinak, Thea Whitman. 2023. Experimentally determined traits shape bacterial community composition one and five years following wildfire
• Raquel Partelli‐Feltrin, Alistair M. S. Smith, Henry D. Adams, R. Alex Thompson, Crystal A. Kolden, Kara Yedinak, Daniel Johnson. 2023. Death from hunger or thirst? Phloem death, rather than xylem hydraulic failure, as a driver of fire‐induced conifer mortality
• Laura Hasburgh, Grant T. Kirker, Katie M. Ohno, Rachel A. Arango, Kara Yedinak, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2023. Fire Protection Research at the Forest Products Laboratory
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Keith Bourne, Laura Hasburgh, Kara Yedinak. 2023. Heat delamination in cross laminated timber: intermediate scale test based upon the North American standards
• Alexandra K. Jonko, Kara Yedinak, Juliana L. Conley, Rodman R. Linn. 2021. Sensitivity of Grass Fires Burning in Marginal Conditions to Atmospheric Turbulence
• J. Morgan Varner, Sharon M. Hood, Doug P. Aubrey, Kara Yedinak, J. Kevin Hiers, W. Matt Jolly, Timothy M. Shearman, Jennifer K. McDaniel, Joseph J. O'Brien, Eric M. Rowell. 2021. Tree crown injury from wildland fires: Causes, measurement and ecological and physiological consequences
• 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
• Mark A. Dietenberger, Laura Hasburgh, Kara Yedinak. 2021. Chapter 18: Fire safety of wood construction
• 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
• Alistair M. S. Smith, Crystal A. Kolden, Travis B. Paveglio, Mark A. Cochrane, David MJS Bowman, Max A. Moritz, Andrew D. Kliskey, Lilian Alessa, Andrew T. Hudak, Chad M. Hoffman, James A. Lutz, Lloyd P. Queen, Scott J. Goetz, Philip E. Higuera, Luigi Boschetti, Mike Flannigan, Kara Yedinak, Adam C. Watts, Eva K. Strand, Jan W. van Wagtendonk, John W. Anderson, Brian J. Stocks, John T. Abatzoglou. 2016. The science of firescapes: Achieving fire-resilient communities
• Janice L. Coen, Marques Cameron, John Michalakes, Edward G. Patton, Philip J. Riggan, Kara Yedinak. 2013. WRF-Fire: Coupled Weather–Wildland Fire Modeling with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
• Mark A. Finney, Jack D. Cohen, Isaac C. Grenfell, Kara Yedinak. 2010. An examination of fire spread thresholds in discontinuous fuel beds
• Kara Yedinak, Jack D. Cohen, Jason M. Forthofer, Mark A. Finney. 2010. An examination of flame shape related to convection heat transfer in deep-fuel beds

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• K M Yedinak, E Strand, J Hiers, J Varner, 2018, Embracing complexity to advance the science of wildland fire behavior, Fire 1 (2), 20
• K M Yedinak, M J Anderson, K G Apostol, A M S Smith, 2017, Vegetation effects on impusive events in the acoustic signature of fires, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141 (1), 557-562.
• Hyde, J. C., Yedinak, K. M., Talhelm, A. F., Smith, A.M.S., Bowman D. M.J.S., Johnston, F. H., Lahm, P., Fitch, M, and Tinkham, W. T., 2017. Air quality policy and fire management responses addressing smoke from wildland fires in the United States and Australia, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 26(1) 95-106
• Smith, A. M. S., Talhelm, A. F., Johnson, D. M., *Sparks, A. M., Kolden, C. A., Yedinak, K. M., Apostol, K. O., Tinkham, W. T., Abatzoglou, J. A., Lutz, J. A., Davis, A. S., Pregitzer, K. S., Adams, H., Kremens, R. L., 2017. Effects of fire radiative energy density doses on Pinus contorta and Larix occidentalis seedling physiology and mortality, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 26(1) 82-94
• Sparks, A. M., Smith, A. M. S., Talhelm, A. F., Kolden, C. A., Yedinak, K. M., and Johnson, D., 2017. Impacts of fire radiative flux on mature Pinus ponderosa growth and vulnerability to secondary mortality agents, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 26(1) 95-106
• Smith A. M. S., Sparks A. M., Kolden C. A., Abatzoglou J. T., Talhelm A. F., Johnson D. M., Boschetti L., Lutz J. A., Apostol K. G., Yedinak K. M., Tinkham W. T., Kremens R. J.,  2016. Towards a new paradigm in fire severity research using dose-response experiments, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25(2) 158-166
• Kochanski A. K., M. A. Jenkins, K. M. Yedinak, J. Mandel, J. D. Beezley, B. K. Lamb. 2016. Toward an integrated system for fire, smoke, and air quality simulations, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25(5) 534-546

• Project
  

  Understanding how fire behavior and wildland fuels affect ember generation and deposition

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-ember-production
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Program
  

  Physical and Ecological Fire Processes, Interactions, and Applications

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/programs/fire-processes
  Station

  Northern Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  WOODWISE Fire Experiments Improve Mass Timber Safety: Phase I

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/fpl/articles/woodwise-fire-experiments-improve-mass-timber-safety-phase-i

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Bigger Than a Woodchip: Building & Fire Sciences

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/fpl/products/multimedia/webinars/bigger-woodchip-building-fire-sciences

• Washington State University, Ph. D. Engineering Science, Wildland Fire-Atmosphere interactions, 2013
• Pacific University, B.S. Physics, Physics: low-dimensional chaos in turbulent systems, 2002