Matthew P. Thompson, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Alexander Arkowitz, Scott Ritter, Matthew P. Thompson, Jesse D. Young, Brad Pietruszka, David E. Calkin. 2025. Quality assured spatial dataset of wildfire containment firelines and engagement outcomes 2017 to 2024
• Dung Nguyen, Yu Wei, Erin J. Belval, Matthew P. Thompson, Benjamin M. Gannon, Jesse D. Young, Christopher D. O'Connor, Dave E. Calkin. 2024. An optimization model to prioritize fuel treatments within a landscape fuel break network
• Jesse D. Young, Erin J. Belval, Benjamin Gannon, Yu Wei, Christopher D. O'Connor, Christopher Dunn, Bradley Pietruszka, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2024. The cost of operational complexity: A causal assessment of pre-fire mitigation and wildfire suppression
• Stephen D. Fillmore, Sarah McCaffrey, Rachel Bean, Alexander M. Evans, Jose Iniguez, Andrea Thode, Alistair M. S. Smith, Matthew P. Thompson. 2024. Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update
• Alexander J. Heeren, Philip E. Dennison, Michael J. Campbell, Matthew P. Thompson. 2023. Modeling wildland firefighters’ assessments of structure defensibility
• Matthew P. Thompson, John F. Carriger. 2023. Avoided wildfire impact modeling with counterfactual probabilistic analysis
• Katherine A. Mistick, Michael J. Campbell, Matthew P. Thompson, Philip E. Dennison. 2023. Using airborne lidar and machine learning to predict visibility across diverse vegetation and terrain conditions
• Bradley Pietruszka, Jesse D. Young, Karen C. Short, Lise A. St. Denis, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin. 2023. Consequential lightning‑caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative
• Anthony G. Vorster, Camille Stevens-Rumann, Nicholas Young, Brian Woodward, Christopher Tsz Hin Choi, Marin E. Chambers, Antony S. Cheng, Michael Caggiano, Courtney Schultz, Matthew P. Thompson, Michelle Greiner, Greg Aplet, Robert N. Addington, Michael A. Battaglia, Daniel Bowker, Ethan Bucholz, Brian Buma, Paul Evangelista, David Huffman, Stephanie Mueller, Charles C. Rhoades, William H. Romme, Andrew J. Sanchez Meador, Wade Tinkham, Matt Tuten, Amanda West (Fordham). 2023. Metrics and considerations for evaluating how forest treatments alter wildfire behavior and effects
• Erin J. Belval, Matthew P. Thompson. 2023. A decision framework for evaluating the Rocky Mountain Area Wildfire Dispatching System in Colorado
• Benjamin Gannon, Yu Wei, Erin J. Belval, Jesse D. Young, Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher D. O'Connor, Dave E. Calkin, Christopher Dunn. 2023. A quantitative analysis of fuel break effectiveness drivers in Southern California National Forests
• Yu Wei, Benjamin Gannon, Jesse D. Young, Erin J. Belval, Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher D. O'Connor, Dave E. Calkin. 2023. Estimating WUI exposure probability to a nearby wildfire
• Alexis Neukirch, Dave E. Calkin, Christopher D. O'Connor, Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher Dunn, Michael Caggiano. 2023. Embracing PODs: Advancing wildfire response planning
• Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval, Jude Bayham, Dave E. Calkin, Crystal S. Stonesifer, David Flores. 2023. Wildfire response: A system on the brink?
• Matthew P. Thompson, Kevin C. Vogler, Joe H. Scott, Carol L. Miller. 2022. Comparing risk‑based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives
• Michael J. Campbell, Philip E. Dennison, Matthew P. Thompson, Bret W. Butler. 2022. Assessing potential safety zone suitability using a new online mapping tool
• Katherine A. Mistick, Philip E. Dennison, Michael J. Campbell, Matthew P. Thompson. 2022. Using geographic information to analyze wildland firefighter situational awareness: Impacts of spatial resolution on visibility assessment
• Matthew P. Thompson, David L. Martell, Erin J. Belval. 2022. How operations research and management science can help address the wildfire crisis
• Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher D. O'Connor, Benjamin M. Gannon, Michael D. Caggiano, Christopher J. Dunn, Courtney A. Schultz, David E. Calkin, Bradley Pietruszka, S. Michelle Greiner, Richard Stratton, Jeffrey T. Morisette. 2022. Potential operational delineations: New horizons for proactive, risk‑informed strategic land and fire management
• Negar Elhami‑Khorasani, Hamed Ebrahimian, Lawrence Buja, Susan L. Cutter, Branko Kosovic, Neil Lareau, Brian J. Meacham, Eric Rowell, Ertugrul Taciroglu, Matthew P. Thompson, Adam Watts. 2022. Conceptualizing a probabilistic risk and loss assessment framework for wildfires
• Michael J. Campbell, Philip E. Dennison, Matthew P. Thompson. 2022. Predicting the variability in pedestrian travel rates and times using crowdsourced GPS data
• Matthew P. Thompson, Donald G. MacGregor, Dave E. Calkin, Joel O. Iverson. 2022. Wildfire, COVID-19, and enterprise risk management in the Forest Service
• William M. Downing, Christopher J. Dunn, Matthew P. Thompson, Michael D. Caggiano, Karen C. Short. 2022. Human ignitions on private lands drive USFS cross‑boundary wildfire transmission and community impacts in the western US
• Benjamin M. Gannon, Yu Wei, Matthew P. Thompson, Joe H. Scott, Karen C. Short. 2022. System analysis of wildfire-water supply risk in Colorado, USA with Monte Carlo wildfire and rainfall simulation
• Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval, Jake Dilliott, Jude Bayham. 2021. Supporting wildfire response during a pandemic in the United States: The COVID-19 Incident Risk Assessment Tool
• Erin J. Belval, Jude Bayham, Matthew P. Thompson, Jacob Dilliott, Andrea G. Buchwald. 2021. Modeling the systemic risks of COVID-19 on the wildland firefighting workforce
• Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval. 2021. “Moneyball” for the wildland fire system
• Dave E. Calkin, Christopher D. O'Connor, Matthew P. Thompson, Richard Stratton. 2021. Strategic wildfire response decision support and the risk management assistance program
• Ali Arab, Amin Khodaei, Rozhin Eskandarpour, Matthew P. Thompson, Yu Wei. 2021. Three lines of defense for wildfire risk management in electric power grids: A review
• Crystal S. Stonesifer, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval. 2021. Is this flight necessary? The Aviation Use Summary (AUS): A framework for strategic, risk-informed aviation decision support
• John F. Carriger, Matthew P. Thompson, Mace G. Barron. 2021. Causal Bayesian networks in assessments of wildfire risks: Opportunities for ecological risk assessment and management
• François‐Nicolas Robinne, Dennis Hallema, Kevin D. Bladon, Mike D. Flannigan, Gabrielle Boisramé, Christian M. Bréthaut, Stefan H. Doerr, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Louise A. Gallagher, Amanda K. Hohner, Stuart J. Khan, Alicia M. Kinoshita, Rua Mordecai, João Pedro Nunes, Petter Nyman, Cristina Santín, Gary Sheridan, Cathelijne R. Stoof, Matthew P. Thompson, James M. Waddington, Yu Wei. 2021. Scientists' warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply
• Matthew P. Thompson, Benjamin M. Gannon, Michael D. Caggiano. 2021. Forest roads and operational wildfire response planning
• Yu Wei, Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval, Dave E. Calkin, Jude Bayham. 2020. Understand daily fire suppression resource ordering and assignment patterns by unsupervised learning
• Matthew P. Thompson, Benjamin M. Gannon, Michael D. Caggiano, Christopher D. O’Connor, April Brough, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Joe H. Scott. 2020. Prototyping a geospatial atlas for wildfire planning and management
• Benjamin M. Gannon, Yu Wei, Matthew P. Thompson. 2020. Mitigating source water risks with improved wildfire containment
• Robert N. Addington, Brian G. Tavernia, Michael D. Caggiano, Matthew P. Thompson, Jason D. Lawhon, John S. Sanderson. 2020. Identifying opportunities for the use of broadcast prescribed fire on Colorado's Front Range
• Jude Bayham, Erin J. Belval, Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher Dunn, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Dave E. Calkin. 2020. Weather, risk, and resource orders on large wildland fires in the western US
• Yu Wei, Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval, Benjamin Gannon, Dave E. Calkin, Christopher D. O'Connor. 2020. Comparing contingency fire containment strategies using simulated random scenarios
• Benjamin M. Gannon, Matthew P. Thompson, Kira Z. Deming, Jude Bayham, Yu Wei, Christopher D. O'Connor. 2020. A geospatial framework to assess fireline effectiveness for large wildfires in the western USA
• Matthew P. Thompson, Jude Bayham, Erin J. Belval. 2020. Potential COVID-19 outbreak in fire camp: Modeling scenarios and interventions
• Christopher J. Dunn, Christopher D. O'Connor, Jesse Abrams, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin, James D. Johnston, Rick Stratton, Julie Gilbertson-Day. 2020. Wildfire risk science facilitates adaptation of fire-prone social-ecological systems to the new fire reality
• Francisco Rodriguez y Silva, Juan Ramon Molina Martinez, Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher D. O'Connor. 2020. Landscape and Wildfires Seminary: Diagnosis and suppression, methodological advances
• Francisco Rodriguez y Silva, Christopher D. O'Connor, Matthew P. Thompson, Juan Ramon Molina Martinez, Dave E. Calkin. 2020. Modelling suppression difficulty: Current and future applications
• Alex T. Masarie, Yu Wei, Erin J. Belval, Matthew P. Thompson, Iuliana Oprea, Maryam Tabatabaei, Dave E. Calkin. 2019. Valuating fire suppression risk data
• Erin J. Belval, Christopher D. O'Connor, Matthew P. Thompson, Michael S Hand. 2019. The role of previous fires in the management and expenditures of subsequent large wildfires
• Benjamin M. Gannon, Yu Wei, Lee H. MacDonald, Stephanie K. Kampf, Kelly W. Jones, Jeffery B. Cannon, Brett H. Wolk, Antony S. Cheng, Robert N. Addington, Matthew P. Thompson. 2019. Prioritising fuels reduction for water supply protection
• Yu Wei, Matthew P. Thompson, Joe H. Scott, Christopher D. O'Connor, Christopher J. Dunn. 2019. Designing operationally relevant daily large fire containment strategies using risk assessment results
• Matthew P. Thompson, Yu Wei, Dave E. Calkin, Christopher D. O'Connor, Christopher Dunn, Nathaniel Anderson, John S. Hogland. 2019. Risk management and analytics in wildfire response
• Courtney A. Schultz, Matthew P. Thompson, Sarah M. McCaffrey. 2019. Forest Service fire management and the elusiveness of change
• Christopher J. Dunn, Christopher D. O'Connor, Matthew Reilly, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2019. Spatial and temporal assessment of responder exposure to snag hazards in post-fire environments
• Yu Wei, Matthew P. Thompson, Jessica R. Haas, Greg Dillon, Christopher D. O'Connor. 2018. Spatial optimization of operationally relevant large fire confine and point protection strategies: Model development and test cases
• Matthew P. Thompson, Zhiwei Liu, Yu Wei, Michael D. Caggiano. 2018. Analyzing wildfire suppression difficulty in relation to protection demand [Chapter 3]
• Hugo Torres, Abilio Pereira Pacheco, Joao Claro, Michele Salis, Matthew P. Thompson, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Gavino Diana, Silvio Cocco. 2018. Flexible design of a helipad network for forest firefighting helicopters, applied to the case of Sardinia [Chapter 7]
• Hari Katuwal, Michael Hand, Matthew P. Thompson, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Dave E. Calkin. 2018. Predict and attack (or don’t): An econometric approach to large wildfire early detection and suppression effectiveness
• Erin J. Belval, Dave E. Calkin, Yu Wei, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Matthew P. Thompson, Alex Masarie. 2018. Examining dispatching practices for Interagency Hotshot Crews to reduce seasonal travel distance and manage fatigue
• Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher J. Lauer, Dave E. Calkin, Jon Rieck, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Michael Hand. 2018. Wildfire response performance measurement: Current and future directions
• Matthew P. Thompson, Donald G. MacGregor, Christopher J. Dunn, Dave E. Calkin, John Phipps. 2018. Rethinking the wildland fire management system
• Karin Riley, Matthew P. Thompson, Joe H. Scott, Julie Gilbertson-Day. 2018. A model-based framework to evaluate alternative wildfire suppression strategies
• Matthew P. Thompson, Karin Riley, Dan Loeffler, Jessica R. Haas. 2017. Modeling fuel treatment leverage: Encounter rates, risk reduction, and suppression cost impacts
• Jessica R. Haas, Matthew P. Thompson, Anne Tillery, Joe H. Scott. 2017. Capturing spatiotemporal variation in wildfires for improving postwildfire debris‐flow hazard assessments [Chapter 20]
• Christopher J. Dunn, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin. 2017. A framework for developing safe and effective large-fire response in a new fire management paradigm
• Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher J. Dunn, Dave E. Calkin. 2017. Systems thinking and wildland fire management
• Erin J. Belval, Yu Wei, Dave E. Calkin, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Matthew P. Thompson, John R. Tipton. 2017. Studying interregional wildland fire engine assignments for large fire suppression
• Christopher J. Dunn, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2017. Towards enhanced risk management: Planning, decision making and monitoring of US wildfire response
• Michael Hand, Hari Katuwal, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2017. The influence of incident management teams on the deployment of wildfire suppression resources
• Christopher D. O'Connor, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2017. An empirical machine learning method for predicting potential fire control locations for pre-fire planning and operational fire management
• Matthew P. Thompson, Francisco Rodriguez y Silva, Dave E. Calkin, Michael Hand. 2017. A review of challenges to determining and demonstrating efficiency of large fire management
• Matthew P. Thompson, David Calkin, Joe H. Scott, Michael Hand. 2017. Uncertainty and probability in wildfire management decision support: An example from the United States [Chapter 4]
• Matthew P. Thompson, Jord J. Warmink. 2017. Natural hazard modeling and uncertainty analysis [Chapter 2]
• Karin Riley, Matthew P. Thompson, Peter Webley, Kevin Hyde. 2017. Uncertainty in natural hazards, modeling and decision support: An introduction to this volume [Chapter 1]
• Karin Riley, Matthew P. Thompson. 2017. An uncertainty analysis of wildfire modeling [Chapter 13]
• Matthew P. Thompson, Phil Bowden, April Brough, Joe H. Scott, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Alan Taylor, Jennifer Anderson, Jessica R. Haas. 2016. Application of wildfire risk assessment results to wildfire response planning in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
• Yu Wei, Erin J. Belval, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin, Crystal S. Stonesifer. 2016. A simulation and optimisation procedure to model daily suppression resource transfers during a fire season in Colorado
• Brian Cooke, William J. Elliot, Mary Ellen Miller, Mark A. Finney, Matthew P. Thompson. 2016. Protecting the source: Tools to evaluate fuel treatment cost vs. water quality protection
• Christopher D. O'Connor, Matthew P. Thompson, Francisco Rodriguez y Silva. 2016. Getting ahead of the wildfire problem: Quantifying and mapping management challenges and opportunities
• Crystal S. Stonesifer, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson, Keith D. Stockmann. 2016. Fighting fire in the heat of the day: An analysis of operational and environmental conditions of use for large airtankers in United States fire suppression
• Matthew P. Thompson, Tom Zimmerman, Dan Mindar, Mary Taber. 2016. Risk terminology primer: Basic principles and a glossary for the wildland fire management community
• Matthew P. Thompson, Donald G. MacGregor, Dave E. Calkin. 2016. Risk management: Core principles and practices, and their relevance to wildland fire
• Bruce G. Marcot, Matthew P. Thompson, Thomas W. Bonnot, Frank R. Thompson. 2016. Uncertainty is information, too
• Matthew P. Thompson, Patrick Freeborn, Jon Rieck, Dave E. Calkin, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Mark A. Cochrane, Michael Hand. 2016. Quantifying the influence of previously burned areas on suppression effectiveness and avoided exposure: A case study of the Las Conchas Fire
• Joe H. Scott, Matthew P. Thompson, Julie Gilbertson-Day. 2016. Examining alternative fuel management strategies and the relative contribution of National Forest System land to wildfire risk to adjacent homes - A pilot assessment on the Sierra National Forest, California, USA
• Michael Hand, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin. 2016. Examining heterogeneity and wildfire management expenditures using spatially and temporally descriptive data
• Matthew P. Thompson, Jessica R. Haas, Mark A. Finney, Dave E. Calkin, Michael Hand, Mark J. Browne, Martin Halek, Karen C. Short, Isaac C. Grenfell. 2015. Development and application of a probabilistic method for wildfire suppression cost modeling
• Matthew P. Thompson, Jessica R. Haas, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Joe H. Scott, Paul Langowski, Elise Bowne, Dave E. Calkin. 2015. Development and application of a geospatial wildfire exposure and risk calculation tool
• Matthew P. Thompson, Christopher Dunn, Dave E. Calkin. 2015. Wildfires: Systemic changes required
• Michael Hand, Matthew J. Wibbenmeyer, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2015. Risk preferences, probability weighting, and strategy tradeoffs in wildfire management
• Matthew P. Thompson, Nathaniel Anderson. 2015. Modeling fuel treatment impacts on fire suppression cost savings: A review
• Joe H. Scott, Matthew P. Thompson, Julie Gilbertson-Day. 2015. Exploring how alternative mapping approaches influence fireshed assessment and human community exposure to wildfire
• Crystal S. Stonesifer, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin, Charles W. McHugh. 2015. Characterizing large airtanker use in United States fire management
• Matthew P. Thompson. 2015. Decision making under uncertainty: Recommendations for the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS)
• Joe H. Scott, Matthew P. Thompson. 2015. Emerging concepts in wildfire risk assessment and management (Publ.)
• Matthew P. Thompson, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Joe H. Scott. 2015. Integrating pixel- and polygon-based approaches to wildfire risk assessment: Application to a high-value watershed on the Pike and San Isabel National Forests, Colorado, USA
• Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson, Mark A. Finney. 2015. Negative consequences of positive feedbacks in US wildfire management
• Jessica R. Haas, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2014. Wildfire risk transmission in the Colorado Front Range, USA
• Anne C. Tillery, Jessica R. Haas, Lara W. Miller, Joe H. Scott, Matthew P. Thompson. 2014. Potential postwildfire debris-flow hazards - a prewildfire evaluation for the Sandia and Manzano Mountains and surrounding areas, central New Mexico
• Crystal S. Stonesifer, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson, Jeffrey D. Kaiden. 2014. Developing an aviation exposure index to inform risk-based fire management decisions
• J. H. Scott, D. J. Helmbrecht, Matthew P. Thompson. 2014. Assessing the expected effects of wildfire on vegetation condition on the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, USA
• Matthew P. Thompson. 2014. Social, institutional, and psychological factors affecting wildfire incident decision making
• Michael Hand, Krista M. Gebert, Jingjing Liang, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson, Mo Zhou. 2014. Economics of wildfire management: The development and application of suppression expenditure models
• Dave E. Calkin, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Matthew P. Thompson, Charles W. McHugh. 2014. Large airtanker use and outcomes in suppressing wildland fires in the United States
• Dave E. Calkin, Jack D. Cohen, Mark A. Finney, Matthew P. Thompson. 2014. How risk management can prevent future wildfire disasters in the wildland-urban interface
• Matthew P. Thompson, Nicole M. Vaillant, Jessica R. Haas, Krista Gebert, Keith D. Stockmann. 2013. Quantifying the potential impacts of fuel treatments on wildfire suppression costs
• Matthew P. Thompson, Joe Scott, Paul G. Langowski, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Jessica R. Haas, Elise M. Bowne. 2013. Assessing watershed-wildfire risks on National Forest System lands in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States
• Jessica R. Haas, Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson. 2013. A national approach for integrating wildfire simulation modeling into Wildland Urban Interface risk assessments within the United States
• Joe H. Scott, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin. 2013. A wildfire risk assessment framework for land and resource management
• Matthew P. Thompson, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Robert C. Seli, Marlena Hovorka. 2013. Developing standardized strategic response categories for fire management units
• Travis Warziniack, Matthew P. Thompson. 2013. Wildfire risk and optimal investments in watershed protection
• Matthew P. Thompson, Michael Hand, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Nicole M. Vaillant, Darek Nalle. 2013. Hazardous fuel treatments, suppression cost impacts, and risk mitigation
• Matthew P. Thompson, Bruce G. Marcot, Frank R. Thompson, Steve McNulty, Larry A. Fisher, Michael C. Runge, David Cleaves, Monica Tomosy. 2013. The science of decisionmaking: applications for sustainable forest and grassland management in the National Forest System
• Matthew J. Wibbenmeyer, Michael Hand, Dave E. Calkin, Tyron J. Venn, Matthew P. Thompson. 2013. Risk preferences in strategic wildfire decision making: A choice experiment with U.S. wildfire managers
• Matthew P. Thompson. 2013. Modeling wildfire incident complexity dynamics
• Matthew P. Thompson, Joe Scott, Don Helmbrecht, Dave E. Calkin. 2013. Integrated wildfire risk assessment: Framework development and application on the Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana, USA
• Matthew P. Thompson, Joe Scott, Jeffrey D. Kaiden, Julie Gilbertson-Day. 2013. A polygon-based modeling approach to assess exposure of resources and assets to wildfire
• Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin, Mark A. Finney, Krista Gebert, Michael Hand. 2013. A risk-based approach to wildland fire budgetary planning
• Karl Malcolm, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin, Mark A. Finney, Alan Ager. 2012. Wildfire triage: Targeting mitigation based on social, economic, and ecological values
• Dave E. Calkin, Tyron Venn, Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Matthew P. Thompson. 2012. Estimating US federal wildland fire managers' preferences toward competing strategic suppression objectives
• Joe Scott, Don Helmbrecht, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin, Kate Marcille. 2012. Probabilistic assessment of wildfire hazard and municipal watershed exposure
• Bruce G. Marcot, Matthew P. Thompson, Michael C. Runge, Frank R. Thompson, Steve McNulty, David Cleaves, Monica Tomosy, Larry A. Fisher, Andrew Bliss. 2012. Recent advances in applying decision science to managing national forests
• Matthew P. Thompson, Alan Ager, Mark A. Finney, Dave E. Calkin, Nicole M. Vaillant. 2012. The science and opportunity of wildfire risk assessment (Chapter 6)
• David E. Calkin, Jason Herynk, Charles W. McHugh, Karen C. Short, Matthew P. Thompson. 2012. Airtankers and wildfire management in the US Forest Service: examining data availability and exploring usage and cost trends
• Dave E. Calkin, Mark A. Finney, Alan Ager, Matthew P. Thompson, Krista Gebert. 2011. Progress towards and barriers to implementation of a risk framework for US federal wildland fire policy and decision making
• Dave E. Calkin, Matthew P. Thompson, Mark A. Finney, Kevin D. Hyde. 2011. A real-time risk assessment tool supporting wildland fire decisionmaking
• Dave E. Calkin, John Phipps, Tom Holmes, Jon Rieck, Matthew P. Thompson. 2011. The Exposure Index: Developing firefighter safety performance measures
• David E. Calkin, Alan Ager, Matthew P. Thompson, Mark A. Finney, Danny C. Lee, Thomas M. Quigley, Charles W. McHugh, Karin Riley, Julie Gilbertson-Day. 2011. A comparative risk assessment framework for wildland fire management: the 2010 cohesive strategy science report
• Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin. 2011. Uncertainty and risk in wildland fire management: A review
• Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Alan Ager. 2011. Advancing effects analysis for integrated, large-scale wildfire risk assessment
• Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin, Mark A. Finney, Alan Ager, Julie Gilbertson-Day. 2011. Integrated national-scale assessment of wildfire risk to human and ecological values
• Matthew P. Thompson, John Sessions, Kevin Boston, Arne Skaugset, David Tomberlin. 2010. Forest road erosion control using multiobjective optimization

• Project
  

  Potential COVID-19 outbreak in fire camp: Scenario analysis and implications

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/analysiscovid19firecamp
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Other Publications

• Notes
  

  POD Boundaries and Fuel Breaks are not Synonymous: Considerations for potential operational delineations (PODs) and strategic fuel breaks

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/understory/pod-boundaries-and-fuel-breaks-are-not-synonymous-considerations-potential

Multimedia

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  Meet Dr. Matthew Thompson, Research Forester

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/videos/meet-dr-matthew-thompson-research-forester

• Stanford University, Certificate, Strategic Risk and Decision Making, 2017
• Oregon State University, Ph.D., Forest Engineering, 2009
• Oregon State University, M.S., Forest Management, 2008
• University of California, Berkeley, M.S., Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, 2002
• University of Virginia, B.S., Systems Engineering, 2001