Affiliate assistant professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Wildfires
Expertise: Forest ecology, wildfire ecology, landscape ecology, climate change
Don McKenzie is also a research ecologist for U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. He focuses on the landscape ecology of fire, with an emphasis on how climate change will affect wildfires and their effects on mountain ecosystems, regional air quality and carbon dynamics.
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