Nicole M. Vaillant, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Claire Tortorelli, John B. Kim, Nicole M. Vaillant, Karin Riley, Alex Dye, Ty C. Nietupski, Kevin C. Vogler, Rebecca Lemons, Michelle A. Day, Meg A. Krawchuk, Becky K. Kerns. 2023. Feeding the fire: Annual grass invasion facilitates modeled fire spread across Inland Northwest forest‐mosaic landscapes
• T. Ryan McCarley, Andrew T. Hudak, Aaron M. Sparks, Nicole M. Vaillant, Arjan J. H. Meddens, Laura Trader, Francisco Mauro, Jason Kreitler, Luigi Boschetti. 2020. Estimating wildfire fuel consumption with multitemporal airborne laser scanning data and demonstrating linkage with MODIS-derived fire radiative energy
• 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
• Ryan D. Haugo, Bryce S. Kellogg, Alina Cansler, Crystal A. Kolden, Kerry B. Kemp, James C. Robertson, Kerry L. Metlen, Nicole M. Vaillant, Christina M. Restaino. 2019. The missing fire: Quantifying human exclusion of wildfire in Pacific Northwest forests, USA
• Rachel White, Morris C. Johnson, Nicole M. Vaillant, Jeremy S. Fried. 2018. Fuel treatments: Are we doing enough?
• Joel B. Sankey, Jason Kreitler, Todd J. Hawbaker, Jason L. McVay, Mary Ellen Miller, Erich R. Mueller, Nicole M. Vaillant, Scott E. Lowe, Temuulen T. Sankey. 2017. Climate, wildfire, and erosion ensemble foretells more sediment in western USA watersheds
• Nicole M. Vaillant, Elizabeth Reinhardt. 2017. An evaluation of the Forest Service Hazardous Fuels Treatment Program—Are we treating enough to promote resiliency or reduce hazard?
• T. Ryan McCarley, Crystal A. Kolden, Nicole M. Vaillant, Andrew T. Hudak, Alistair M. S. Smith, Jason Kreitler. 2017. Landscape-scale quantification of fire-induced change in canopy cover following mountain pine beetle outbreak and timber harvest
• T. Ryan McCarley, Crystal A. Kolden, Nicole M. Vaillant, Andrew T. Hudak, Alistair M. S. Smith, Brian M. Wing, Bryce S. Kellogg, Jason Kreitler. 2017. Multi-temporal LiDAR and Landsat quantification of fire-induced changes to forest structure
• Nicole M. Vaillant, Crystal A. Kolden, Alistair M. S. Smith. 2016. Assessing landscape vulnerability to wildfire in the USA
• Nicole M. Vaillant, Erin Noonan-Wright, Alicia L. Reiner, Carol M. Ewell, Benjamin Rau, Josephine A. Fites-Kaufman, Scott N. Dailey. 2015. Fuel accumulation and forest structure change following hazardous fuel reduction treatments throughout California
• Erin Noonan-Wright, Nicole M. Vaillant, Alicia L. Reiner. 2014. The effectiveness and limitations of fuel modeling using the fire and fuels extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator
• Nicole M. Vaillant, Alan Ager. 2014. ArcFuels: an ArcMap toolbar for fuel treatment planning and wildfire risk assessment
• Alan Ager, Michelle A. Day, Mark A. Finney, Ken Vance-Borland, Nicole M. Vaillant. 2014. Analyzing the transmission of wildfire exposure on a fire-prone landscape in Oregon, USA
• Martin E. Alexander, Miguel G. Cruz, Nicole M. Vaillant. 2014. Toward improving our application and understanding of crown fire behavior
• 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
• Alan Ager, Nicole M. Vaillant, Andrew McMahan. 2013. Restoration of fire in managed forests: a model to prioritize landscapes and analyze tradeoffs
• Nicole M. Vaillant, Alicia L. Reiner, Erin Noonan-Wright. 2013. Prescribed fire effects on field-derived and simulated forest carbon stocks over time
• Matthew P. Thompson, Michael Hand, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Nicole M. Vaillant, Darek Nalle. 2013. Hazardous fuel treatments, suppression cost impacts, and risk mitigation
• Nicole M. Vaillant, Alan Ager, John Anderson, Lauren Miller. 2013. ArcFuels User Guide and Tutorial: for use with ArcGIS 9
• Nicole M. Vaillant, Alan Ager, John Anderson. 2013. ArcFuels10 system overview
• Alicia L. Reiner, Nicole M. Vaillant, Scott N. Dailey. 2012. Mastication and prescribed fire influences on tree mortality and predicted fire behavior in ponderosa pine
• 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)
• Alan Ager, Nicole M. Vaillant, Mark A. Finney, Haiganoush K. Preisler. 2012. Analyzing wildfire exposure and source–sink relationships on a fire prone forest landscape
• Alan Ager, Nicole M. Vaillant, David E. Owens, Stuart Brittain, Jeff Hamann. 2012. Overview and example application of the Landscape Treatment Designer
• Alan Ager, Nicole M. Vaillant, Mark A. Finney. 2011. Integrating fire behavior models and geospatial analysis for wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning
• Alan Ager, Nicole M. Vaillant. 2010. A comparison of landscape fuel treatment strategies to mitigate wildland fire risk in the urban interface and preserve old forest structure
• Alicia L. Reiner, Nicole M. Vaillant, JoAnn Fites-Kaufman, Scott N. Dailey. 2009. Mastication and prescribed fire impacts on fuels in a 25-year old ponderosa pine plantation, southern Sierra Nevada
• Nicole M. Vaillant, JoAnn Fites-Kaufman, Scott L. Stephens. 2006. Effectiveness of Prescribed Fire as a Fuel Treatment in Californian Coniferous Forests

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  Fire Modeling Services Framework (FMSF)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/fire-modeling-services-framework-fmsf
• Tool
  

  ArcFuels

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/dataandtools/arcfuels

• Project
  

  ArcFuels

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

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Program
  

  Fire, Fuel, and Smoke

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/firefuelsmoke
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Project level fuels management planning using Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment in IFTDSS

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/project-level-fuels-management-planning-using-quantitative
• Webinars
  

  Fuels Treatment Effectiveness

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/fuels-treatment-effectiveness

• University of California - Berkeley, Ph.D., Environmental Science Policy and Management, 2008
• University of California - Berkeley, M.S., Environmental Science Policy and Management, 2005
• University of California - Davis, B.S., Evolution and Ecology, 2001