Michael R. Gallagher, PhD

Research Ecologist

Northern Research Station

0000-0003-0175-558X

michael.r.gallagher@usda.gov

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Peter J. Breigenzer, Shawn Fraver, Michael R. Gallagher, Laura S. Kenefic, Erin D. Lane, John M. Neely, Jay W. Wason. 2026. Forest cover buffers microclimate and increases fuel moisture in northern conifer forests: a terrestrial laser scanning approach
Raphael Ogabi, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Albert Simeoni. 2025. Reliability of fire indicators based on the damage differential principle in wildland fire investigation: A laboratory approach
Nooshin Zandi-Sohani, Melody Keena, Michael R. Gallagher, Anthony Cullen, Dong H. Cha. 2025. Heat treatments to kill eggs of two invasive forest insects: Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) and Lymantria dispar (Lepidoptera: Erebidae)
Kenneth L. Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Warren E. E. Heilman, Jay J. Charney, Matthew Patterson, Jason Cole, Eric Mueller, Rory Hadden. 2024. Smoke Emissions and Buoyant Plumes above Prescribed Burns in the Pinelands National Reserve, New Jersey
Alex Jonko, Julia Oliveto, Teresa Beaty, Adam Atchley, Michael A. Battaglia, Matthew B. Dickinson, Michael R. Gallagher, Ash Gilbert, Daniel Godwin, John A. Kupfer, J. Kevin Hiers, Chad Hoffman, Malcolm P. North, Joseph Restaino, Carolyn H. Sieg, Nicholas Skowronski. 2024. How will future climate change impact prescribed fire across the contiguous United States?
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher. 2024. Carbon dynamics of prescribed fire in pine- and oak-dominated forests on the mid-Atlantic coastal plain, USA
Mary Murphy, E. Louise Loudermilk, Scott Pokswinski, Brett Williams, Emily Link, Laila Lienesch, Leta Douglas, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Aaron Maxwell, Grant Snitker, Christie Hawley, Derek Wallace, Irenee Payne, Tim Yurkiewicz, Andrew .J. Sanchez Meador, Chad Anderson, J. Mark Jackson, Russell A. Parsons, Melissa Floca, Isaac Nealey, Ilkay Altintas, J. Kevin Hiers, Jon Wallace. 2024. Terrestrial 3D Laser Scanning for Ecosystem and Fire Effects Monitoring
Ajinkya Desai, Clément Guilloteau, Warren E. E. Heilman, Jay J. Charney, Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Tirtha Banerjee. 2024. Investigating Fire–Atmosphere Interaction in a Forest Canopy Using Wavelets
Joseph Seitz, Shiyuan Zhong, Jay J. Charney, Warren E. E. Heilman, Ken Clark, Randy Bian, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Matthew Patterson, Jason Cole, Michael T. Kiefer, Rory Hadden, Eric Mueller. 2024. Atmospheric turbulence observed during a fuel-bed-scale low-intensity surface fire
Michelle S. Bester, Aaron E. Maxwell, Isaac Nealey, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Brenden E. McNeil. 2023. Synthetic forest stands and point clouds for model selection and feature space comparison
Stephen C. Mason, Vaughn Shirey, Evan S. Waite, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski. 2023. Exploring Prescribed Fire Severity Effects on Ground Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Taxonomic and Functional Community Composition
Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden. 2023. The effect of fuel bed structure on Rothermel model performance
E. Louise Loudermilk, Scott Pokswinski, Christie Hawley, Aaron Maxwell, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Andrew T. Hudak, Chad Hoffman, John Kevin. Hiers. 2023. Terrestrial Laser Scan Metrics Predict Surface Vegetation Biomass and Consumption in a Frequently Burned Southeastern U.S. Ecosystem
Aaron E. Maxwell, Michael R. Gallagher, Natale Minicuci, Michelle S. Bester, E. Louise Loudermilk, Scott M. Pokswinski, Nicholas Skowronski. 2023. Impact of Reference Data Sampling Density for Estimating Plot-Level Average Shrub Heights Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data
Ajinkya Desai, Warren E. E. Heilman, Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Craig B. Clements, Tirtha Banerjee. 2023. Features of turbulence during wildland fires in forested and grassland environments
Ilia Rochlin, Andrea Egizi, Zoe Narvaez, Denise L. Bonilla, Michael R. Gallagher, Gregory M. Williams, Tadhgh Rainey, Dana C. Price, Dina M. Fonseca. 2023. Microhabitat modeling of the invasive Asian longhorned tick (Haemaphysalis longicornis) in New Jersey, USA
Alexandra K. Jonko, Rodman R. Linn, Ilkay Altintas, Adam L. Atchley, L. Turin Dickman, Andreas Bar, Adam D. Collins, Jean-Luc Dupuy, Michael R. Gallagher, J. Kevin Hiers, Chad M. Hoffman, Sharon M. Hood, Matthew D. Hurteau, W. Matt Jolly, Alexander Josephson, E. Louise Loudermilk, Wu Ma, Sean T. Michaletz, Rachael H. Nolan, Joseph J. O’Brien, Russell A. Parsons, Raquel Partelli-Feltrin, Francois Pimont, Vıctor Resco de Dios, Joseph Restaino, Zachary J. Robbins, Karla A. Sartor, Emily Schultz-Fellenz, Shawn P. Serbin, Sanna Sevanto, Jacquelyn K. Shuman, Carolyn H. Sieg, Nicholas Skowronski, David R. Weise, Molly Wright, Chonggang Xu, Marta Yebra, Nicolas Younes. 2023. Integrating plant physiology into simulation of fire behavior and effects
Eric V Mueller, Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, C.arlos Walker-Ravena, Matthew Patterson, Jason Cole, Michael R. Gallagher, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden. 2022. Flame spread and combustion dynamics in pine litter under unsteady wind conditions
Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, Carlos Walker-Ravena, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Eric V Mueller, Rory M. Hadden. 2022. Effect of Fuel Bed Structure on the Controlling Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Quiescent Porous Flame Spread
Eric V Mueller, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden. 2022. Convective heat transfer in pine forest litter beds
Michael R. Gallagher, Jesse K. Kreye, Erika T. Machtinger, Alexis Everland, Nathaniel Schmidt, Nicholas Skowronski. 2022. Can restoration of fire‐dependent ecosystems reduce ticks and tick‐borne disease prevalence in the eastern United States?
Ken Clark, Carissa Aoki, Matthew Ayres, John M. Kabrick, Michael R. Gallagher. 2022. Insect infestations and the persistence and functioning of oak-pine mixedwood forests in the mid-Atlantic region, USA
Jeffrey M. Kane, Michael R. Gallagher, J. Morgan Varner, Nicholas Skowronski. 2022. Evidence of local adaptation in litter flammability of a widespread fire‐adaptive pine
Martha Sample, Andrea E. Thode, Courtney Peterson, Michael R. Gallagher, William Flatley, Megan M. Friggens, Alexander Evans, Rachel A. Loehman, Shaula Hedwall, Leslie Brandt, Maria Janowiak, Chris Swanston. 2022. Adaptation strategies and approaches for managing fire in a changing climate
Michael T. Kiefer, Warren E. E. Heilman, Shiyuan Zhong, Jay J. Charney, Randy Bian, Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, John Hom, Matthew Patterson. 2022. Representing low-intensity fire sensible heat output in a mesoscale atmospheric model with a canopy submodel: a case study with ARPS-CANOPY (version 5.2.12)
Michael R. Gallagher, Aaron E. Maxwell, Luis Andrés Guillén, Alexis Everland, E. Louise Loudermilk, Nicholas Skowronski. 2021. Estimation of Plot-Level Burn Severity Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning
Eric V Mueller, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden. 2021. Approaches to Modeling Bed Drag in Pine Forest Litter for Wildland Fire Applications
Jan C. Thomas, Eric V Mueller, Michael R. Gallagher, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Albert Simeoni, Rory M. Hadden. 2021. Coupled Assessment of Fire Behavior and Firebrand Dynamics
Michael R. Gallagher, Zachary Cope, Daniel Rosales Giron, Nicholas Skowronski, Trevor Raynor, Thomas Gerber, Rodman R. Linn, John Kevin. Hiers. 2021. Reconstruction of the Spring Hill Wildfire and Exploration of Alternate Management Scenarios Using QUIC-Fire
Claire M. Belcher, Stacey L. New, Michael R. Gallagher, Mark J. Grosvenor, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski. 2021. Bark charcoal reflectance may have the potential to estimate the heat delivered to tree boles by wildland fires
Simone Zen, Jan C. Thomas, Eric V Mueller, Bhisham Dhurandher, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden. 2021. Development of a Field Deployable Firebrand Flux and Condition Measurement System
Scott Pokwinski, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, E. Louise Loudermilk, Christie Hawley, Derek Wallace, Alexis Everland, Jon Wallace, J. Kevin Hiers. 2021. A simplified and affordable approach to forest monitoring using single terrestrial laser scans and transect sampling
Warren E. E. Heilman, Ken Clark, Randy Bian, Jay J. Charney, Shiyuan Zhong, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Matthew Patterson. 2021. Turbulent Momentum Flux Behavior above a Fire Front in an Open-Canopied Forest
Eric V Mueller, Nicholas Skowronski, Kenneth L. Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, William E. Mell, Albert Simeoni, Rory M. Hadden. 2021. Detailed physical modeling of wildland fire dynamics at field scale - An experimentally informed evaluation
Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, Carlos Walker-Ravena, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Eric V Mueller, Rory M. Hadden. 2021. Investigation of the role of bulk properties and in-bed structure in the flow regime of buoyancy-dominated flame spread in porous fuel beds
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
Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Carrisa Aoki, Matthew Ayers. 2020. Southern pine beetle: damage and consequences in forests of the mid-Atlantic region, USA
Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Richard G. Lathrop, Timothy McWilliams, Edwin J. Green. 2020. An Improved Approach for Selecting and Validating Burn Severity Indices in Forested Landscapes
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
Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Timothy A. Warner. 2020. Decomposing the Interactions between Fire Severity and Canopy Fuel Structure Using Multi-Temporal, Active, and Passive Remote Sensing Approaches
Ken Clark, Warren E. E. Heilman, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Eric Mueller, Rory M. Hadden, Albert Simeoni. 2020. Fire Behavior, Fuel Consumption, and Turbulence and Energy Exchange during Prescribed Fires in Pitch Pine Forests
Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Matthew Patterson, Warren E. E. Heilman, Randy Bian, Jay J. Charney, John Hom, Eric Mueller, Rory Hadden, Zakary Campbell-Lockrie, Carlos Walker-Ravena, Robert Kremens. 2019. Intermediate-scale fire behavior measurements in the field: Bridging the gap between laboratory experiments and management-scale prescribed fires
Jay J. Charney, Michael T. Kiefer, Shiyuan Zhong, Warren E. E. Heilman, Jovanka Nikolic, Randy Bian, John Hom, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Matthew Patterson, Yongqiang Liu, Christie Hawley. 2019. Assessing Forest Canopy Impacts on Smoke Concentrations Using a Coupled Numerical Model
Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher. 2018. Fuels characterization techniques
Eric V Mueller, Nicholas Skowronski, Jan C. Thomas, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Rory Hadden, William E. Mell, Albert Simeoni. 2018. Local measurements of wildland fire dynamics in a field-scale experiment
Ken Clark, Heidi J. Renninger, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Karina V.R. Schäfer. 2018. Decadal-Scale Reduction in Forest Net Ecosystem Production Following Insect Defoliation Contrasts with Short-Term Impacts of Prescribed Fires
Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Warren E. E. Heilman, Nicholas Skowronski, Eric Mueller, Albert Simeoni. 2017. Relationships between firing pattern, fuel consumption, and turbulence and energy exchange during prescribed fires
Warren E. E. Heilman, Randy Bian, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, John Hom, Michael R. Gallagher. 2017. Atmospheric turbulence observations in the vicinity of surface fires in forested environments
Albert Simeoni, Zachary C. Owens, Erik W. Christiansen, Abid Kemal, Michael R. Gallagher, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Eric V. Mueller, Jan C. Thomas, Simon Santamaria, Rory M. Hadden. 2017. A preliminary study of wildland fire pattern indicator reliability following an experimental fire
Eric V. Mueller, Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Robert Kremens, Jan C. Thomas, Mohamad El Houssami, Alexander Filkov, Rory M. Hadden, William E. Mell, Albert Simeoni. 2017. Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands
Jan C. Thomas, Eric V. Mueller, Simon Santamaria, Michael R. Gallagher, Mohamad El Houssami, Alexander Filkov, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden, William E. Mell, Albert Simeoni. 2017. Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: Development of a reliable data collection methodology
Timothy A. Warner, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher. 2017. High spatial resolution burn severity mapping of the New Jersey Pine Barrens with WorldView-3 near-infrared and shortwave infrared imagery
Mohamad El Houssami, Eric Mueller, Alexander Filkov, Jan C Thomas, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Ken Clark, Robert Kremens, Albert Simeoni. 2016. Experimental procedures characterizing firebrand generation in wildland fires
Nicholas Skowronski, Scott Haag, Jim Trimble, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Richard G. Lathrop. 2016. Structure-level fuel load assessment in the wildland–urban interface: a fusion of airborne laser scanning and spectral remote-sensing methodologies
Eric Mueller, Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Robert Kremens, Michael R. Gallagher, Jan Thomas, Mohamad El Houssami, Alexander Filkod, Bret W. Butler, John Hom, William E. Mell, Albert Simeoni. 2015. Initial results from a field experiment to support the assessment of fuel treatment effectiveness in reducing wildfire intensity and spread rate
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher. 2015. Fire management and carbon sequestration in Pine Barren Forests
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher. 2014. The fire research program at the Silas Little Experimental Forest, New Lisbon, New Jersey
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, H. Renninger, K.V.R. Schäfer. 2014. Contrasting effects of invasive insects and fire on ecosystem water use efficiency
Eric Mueller, Nicholas Skowronski, Albert Simeoni, Kenneth Clark, Robert Kremens, William E. Mell, Michael R. Gallagher, Jan Thomas, Alexander Filkov, Mohamad El Houssami, John Hom, Bret W. Butler. 2014. Fuel treatment effectiveness in reducing fire intensity and spread rate - An experimental overview
Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Richard Birdsey, John Hom. 2014. Airborne laser scanner-assisted estimation of aboveground biomass change in a temperate oak-pine forest
Michael T. Kiefer, Warren E. E. Heilman, Shiyuan Zhong, Jay J. Charney, Randy Bian, Nicholas Skowronski, John Hom, Ken Clark, Matthew Patterson, Michael R. Gallagher. 2014. Multiscale simulation of a prescribed fire event in the New Jersey Pine Barrens using ARPS-CANOPY
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Hedi Renninger, Karina Schafer. 2012. Effects of invasive insects and fire on energy exchange and evapotranspiration in the New Jersey pine lands
Michael T. Kiefer, Warren E. E. Heilman, Shiyuan Zhong, Jay J. Charney, Randy Bian, Ryan Shadbolt, John Hom, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Matthew Patterson. 2011. Development of a fine scale smoke dispersion modeling system. Part II: Case study of a prescribed burn in the New Jersey Pine Barrens

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

Clark, Kenneth L.; Skowronski, Nicholas S.; Simeoni, Albert A.; Mell, William E.; Hadden, Rory M.; Gallagher, Michael R.; Mueller, Eric V.; Kremens, Robert L.; El Houssami, Mohamad; Filkov, Alexander I.; Thomas, Jan Christian. 2017. New Jersey fuel treatment effects: 3-dimensional turbulence and temperature data. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2017-0060Gallagher, Michael R.; Clark, Kenneth L.; Thomas, Jan Christian; Mell, William E.; Hadden, Rory M.; Mueller, Eric V.; Kremens, Robert L.; El Houssami, Mohamad; Filkov, Alexander I.; Simeoni, Albert A.; Skowronski, Nicholas S. 2017. New Jersey fuel treatment effects: Pre- and post-burn biometric data. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2017-0061Skowronski, Nicholas S.; Simeoni, Albert A.; Clark, Kenneth L.; Mell, William E.; Hadden, Rory M.; Gallagher, Michael R.; Mueller, Eric V.; Kremens, Robert L.; El Houssami, Mohamad; Filkov, Alexander I.; Thomas, Jan Christian. 2017. New Jersey fuel treatment effects: Burn units. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2017-0062Skowronski, Nicholas S.; Simeoni, Albert A.; Clark, Kenneth L.; Mell, William E.; Hadden, Rory M.; Gallagher, Michael R.; Mueller, Eric V.; Kremens, Robert L.; El Houssami, Mohamad; Filkov, Alexander I.; Thomas, Jan Christian. 2018. New Jersey fuel treatment effects: Leaf-off airborne LiDAR data. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2017-0059Kremens, Robert L.; Skowronski, Nicholas S.; Simeoni, Albert A.; Clark, Kenneth L.; Mell, William E.; Hadden, Rory M.; Gallagher, Michael R.; Mueller, Eric V.; El Houssami, Mohamad; Filkov, Alexander I.; Thomas, Jan Christian. 2017. New Jersey fuel treatment effects: Wildfire Airborne Sensor Program - orthorectified long-wave infrared and visible data images. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2017-0063

Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Ph.D. Ecology, Remote Sensing of Fire Effects and Burn Severity, 2017
Rutgers University - Cook College, B.S. Natural Resource Conservation And Management, Professional Resource Management, Urban and Community Forestry, GIS, 2008

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