Kevin C. Ryan, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Coşkun Okan Güney, Aylin Güney, Abdullah Sarı, Ali Kavgacı, Kevin C. Ryan, Sharon M. Hood. 2024. Modeling post-fire mortality of Turkish pine (Pinus brutia Ten.)
• Kevin C. Ryan, Andrew P. Vayda, Timothy C. Jessup, Mark A. Cochrane. 2020. Ignitions for peat fires in Indonesia: A critical look
• C. Alina Cansler, Sharon M. Hood, J. Morgan Varner, Phillip J. van Mantgem, Michelle C. Agne, Robert A. Andrus, Matthew P. Ayres, Bruce D. Ayres, Jonathan D. Bakker, Michael A. Battaglia, Barbara J. Bentz, Carolyn R. Breece, James Brown, Daniel R. Cluck, Tom Coleman, R. Gregory Corace, W. Wallace Covington, Douglas S. Cram, James Cronan, Joseph E. Crouse, Adrian J. Das, Ryan S. Davis, Darci M. Dickinson, Stephen A. Fitzgerald, Peter Z. Fulé, Lisa M. Ganio, Lindsay M. Grayson, Charles B. Halpern, Jim L. Hanula, Brian J. Harvey, J. Kevin Hiers, David W. Huffman, MaryBeth Keifer, Tara L. Keyser, Leda N. Kobziar, Thomas E. Kolb, Crystal A. Kolden, Karen E. Kopper, Jason R. Kreitler, Jesse K. Kreye, Andrew M. Latimer, Andrew Lerch, Maria J. Lombardero, Virginia McDaniel, Charles W. McHugh, Joel D. McMillin, Jason J. Moghaddas, Joseph J. O’Brien, Daniel D. B. Perrakis, David W. Peterson, Susan J. Prichard, Robert Progar, Kenneth F. Raffa, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Joseph Restaino, John P. Roccaforte, Brendan M. Rogers, Kevin C. Ryan, Hugh D. Safford, Alyson E. Santoro, Timothy M. Shearman, Alice M. Shumate, Carolyn H. Sieg, Sheri L. Smith, Rebecca J. Smith, Nathan L. Stephenson, Mary Stuever, Jens Stevens, Michael T. Stoddard, Walter G. Thies, Nicole M. Vaillant, Shelby A. Weiss, Douglas J. Westlind, Travis J. Woolley, Micah C. Wright. 2020. The Fire and Tree Mortality Database, for empirical modeling of individual tree mortality after fire
• Coskun Okan Guney, Kevin C. Ryan, Aylin Guney, Sharon M. Hood. 2019. Wildfire in Turkey: Fire management challenges at an ancient crossroads of nature and culture
• Kevin C. Ryan, Eric E. Knapp, J. Morgan Varner. 2013. Prescribed fire in North American forests and woodlands: history, current practice, and challenges
• Kevin C. Ryan, Tonja S. Opperman. 2013. LANDFIRE - A national vegetation/fuels data base for use in fuels treatment, restoration, and suppression planning
• Kevin Hyde, Matthew B. Dickinson, Gil Bohrer, Dave E. Calkin, Louisa Evers, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Tessa Nicolet, Kevin C. Ryan, Christina Tague. 2013. Research and development supporting risk-based wildfire effects prediction for fuels and fire management: Status and needs
• Russell A. Parsons, J. Morgan Varner, Bret W. Butler, Kevin C. Ryan, Corey Gucker, W. Matt Jolly. 2012. Do mountain pine beetle outbreaks change the probability of active crown fire in lodgepole pine forests?
• Rebecca S. Timmons, Leonard deBano, Kevin C. Ryan. 2012. Implications of fire management on cultural resources [Chapter 9]
• Kevin C. Ryan, Cassandra L. Koerner, Kristine M. Lee, Nelson Siefkin. 2012. Effects of fire on cultural resources-Introduction [Chapter 1]
• Kevin C. Ryan, Cassandra Koerner. 2012. Fire behavior and effects: Principles for archaeologists [Chapter 2]
• Kevin C. Ryan, Ann Trinkle Jones, Cassandra L. Koerner, Kristine M. Lee. 2012. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on cultural resources and archaeology
• Kevin C. Ryan, Eric Rigolot, Francisco C. Rego, Herminio Botelho, Jose A. Vega, Paulo M. Fernandes, Tatiana M. Sofronova. 2010. Prescribed fire applications in Forest and Woodlands: Integration of models and field studies to guide fire use
• Alexandra V. Volokitina, Kevin C. Ryan, Tatiana M. Sofronova, Mark A. Sofronov. 2010. Selection of fire spread model for Russian fire behavior prediction system
• Kevin C. Ryan. 2010. Effects of fire on cultural resources
• Kevin C. Ryan, E. Rigolot, F. C. Rego, H. Botelho, J. A. Vega, P. M. Fernandes, T. M. Sofronova. 2010. Use of prescribed burning for restoration and maintenance of ecological conditions: Predicting and managing fire injury and tree mortality
• Kevin C. Ryan, Susan Gallagher, Colin C. Hardy, Diane Smith. 2010. Still hot at 50
• Matthew B. Dickinson, Kevin C. Ryan. 2010. Introduction: Strengthening the foundation of wildland fire Effects prediction for research and management
• Matt C. Reeves, Kevin C. Ryan, Matthew G. Rollins, Thomas Thompson. 2009. Spatial fuel data products of the LANDFIRE Project
• Mark A. Cochrane, Kevin C. Ryan. 2009. Fire and fire ecology: Concepts and principles
• Sharon M. Hood, Danny R. Cluck, Sheri L. Smith, Kevin C. Ryan. 2008. Using bark char codes to predict post-fire cambium mortality
• Sharon M. Hood, Donald Long, Melanie Miller, Kevin C. Ryan. 2007. Introduction [Chapter 1]
• Jim J. Reardon, Roger Hungerford, Kevin C. Ryan. 2007. Factors affecting sustained smouldering in organic soils from pocasin and pond pine woodland wetlands
• L. Lentile, P. Morgan, Colin C. Hardy, Andrew T. Hudak, R. Means, Roger D. Ottmar, Pete R. Robichaud, Elaine K. Sutherland, J. Szymoniak, F. Way, J. Fites-Kaufman, S. Lewis, E. Mathews, H. Shovik, Kevin C. Ryan. 2007. Value and challenges of conducting rapid response research on wildland fires
• Sharon M. Hood, Barbara J. Bentz, Ken Gibson, Kevin C. Ryan, Gregg DeNitto. 2007. Assessing post-fire Douglas-fir mortality and Douglas-fir beetle attacks in the northern Rocky Mountains
• Sharon M. Hood, Charles W. McHugh, Kevin C. Ryan, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Sheri L. Smith. 2007. Evaluation of a post-fire tree mortality model for western US conifers
• Matthew C. Reeves, Jay R. Kost, Kevin C. Ryan. 2006. Fuels Products of the LANDFIRE Project
• Kevin C. Ryan, Kristine M. Lee, Matthew G. Rollins, Zhiliang Zhu, James Smith, Darren Johnson. 2006. Landfire: Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project
• Daniel G. Neary, Kevin C. Ryan, Leonard F. DeBano. 2005. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on soils and water
• Sharon M. Hood, Barbara J. Bentz, Kevin C. Ryan. 2003. Douglas-fir beetle attack and tree mortality following wildfire
• Robert E. Keane, Kevin C. Ryan, Tom T. Veblen, Craig D. Allen, Jessie Logan, Brad Hawkes. 2002. Cascading effects of fire exclusion in the Rocky Mountain ecosystems: a literature review
• Gene D. Amman, Kevin C. Ryan. 1994. Using pheromones to protect heat-injured lodgepole pine from mountain pine beetle infestation
• Elizabeth Reinhardt, Kevin C. Ryan. 1988. How to estimate tree mortality resulting from underburning
• Elizabeth Reinhardt, Kevin C. Ryan. 1988. Eight-year tree growth following prescribed underburning in a western Montana Douglas-fir/western larch stand
• Kevin C. Ryan, David L. Peterson, Elizabeth Reinhardt. 1988. Modeling long-term fire-caused mortality of Douglas fir
• James Brown, Michael A. Marsden, Kevin C. Ryan, Elizabeth Reinhardt. 1985. Predicting duff and woody fuel consumed by prescribed fire in the Northern Rocky Mountains
• Kevin C. Ryan. 1981. Evaluation of a passive flame-height sensor to estimate forest fire intensity.

• Project
  

  Peatland Fire

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

Other Publications

• General
  

  Use of the FARSITE fire growth model for fire prediction in U.S. National Parks

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/understory/use-farsite-fire-growth-model-fire-prediction-us-national-parks

• Colorado State University, Fort Collins, B.S., Forest Biology, 1973
• Colorado State University, Fort Collins, M.S., Forest Ecology, 1976
• University of Montana, Missoula, Ph.D., Forest Ecology - Doctoral research concentrated on the effects of fire on the physiology, survival, and growth of conifers., 1993