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Penelope Morgan
Professor of Forest Resources
E-mail: pmorgan@uidaho.edu
Office: B10 Phinney Hall
Phone: (208) 885-7507
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Education &
Experience:
- B.S. Biology, Utah State University, 1977
- M.S. Forest Ecology, Utah State University, 1979
- Ph.D. Fire Ecology and Management, University of Idaho, 1984
- Graduate Assistant, University of Idaho, 1980-1981
- Weyerhaeuser Doctoral Fellow, University of Idaho, 1981-1983
- Whittenberger Doctoral Fellow, University of Idaho,
1983-1984
- Assistant Professor, School of Renewable Natural Resources,
University of Arizona, Tucson, 1985-1986
- Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor,
Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, 1986-present
Specialty Areas of Interest:
- Fire ecology and management
- Landscape ecology
- Natural resources ecology and conservation
Current University of Idaho Courses:
- Wildland Fire Management and Ecology - UGrad
- Wildland Fire Management and Ecology (Online) - UGrad
- Prescribed Burning Lab - UGrad
- Landscape Ecology of Forests and Rangelands - Grad
- Fire Ecology - Grad
Continuing Education or Service Activities:
- Graduate certificate in Fire Ecology Management and
Technology
- Undergraduate certificate in Fire Ecology Management
and Technology
- Advisor to UI Minor in Fire Ecology Management and
Technology
- Courses for fire professionals seeking academic credit,
1998-present
- Continuing Education in Ecosystem Management (CEEM),
1993-1997, Coordinator, Instructor and Steering Committee member
- Continuing Education in Forest Ecology and Silviculture
(CEFES), 1988, 1989, 1991, Coordinator and Instructor
- Forest Regeneration and Site Preparation, 1987, 1989
- Co-Chair, Land Classifications Based on Vegetation:
Applications for Resource Management, 1987
- Lead Instructor, Executive Leadership of Social and
Political Forces in Natural Resources, 1987-1990
- Coordinator, Continuing Education and Outreach, College of
Forestry, Wildlife and Range Sciences, 1986-1989
Recent and Current Research:
- Meeting Fire Management Needs for Science Synthesis,
Workshops and Online Academic Courses: An Innovative Technology Transfer
Approach
- FireWorks: Web Courses in Fire Ecology, Management
and Technology for On- and Off-campus Students
- Predicting Burn Severity in the Gila Wilderness, New
Mexico: Meeting Local Need for Potential Impact of Fire on Fish and
Streams
- Integrated Multisensor Remote Sensing and Modeling to
Manage Mixed-Conifer Forest Fuels
- An Information Portal for Fire Science and Management
in the Southern Region
- A science review of the fire regime condition class
concept, methods and applications
- Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) Training Delivery
and Registration
- Development of a Training Course for Fire Regime
Condition Class (FRCC)
- Modeling trends in forest management, exurban
development, and biodiversity conservation under alternative policy
portfolios in northern Idaho
- Assessing the Causes, Consequences and Spatial
Variability of Burn Severity: A Rapid Response Proposal
- Climate drivers of fire & fuel in the Northern
Rockies: Past, present & future
- Variability in fire regimes across space and time
- Historical Wildland Fire Use: Lessons to be Learned
from Twenty-five Years of Wilderness Fire Management
Selected Publications:
- Hudak, A.T, N.L. Crookston, J.S. Evans, M.J.
Falkowski, A.M.S. Smith, P. Morgan, and P. Gessler. 2006.
Regression modeling and mapping of coniferous forest basal area and tree
density from discrete-return lidar and multispectral satellite data.
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. Accepted January 2006.
- Hudak, A.T., P. Morgan, M. Bobbitt and L.B. Lentile.
Characterizing stand-replacing harvest and fire disturbance patches in a
forested landscape: A case study from Cooney Ridge, Montana. In: Ch. 8;
Forest Disturbance and Spatial Patterns, GIS and Remote Sensing
Approaches (M. Wulder and S. Franklin, eds.), Taylor & Francis, London,
in press.
- Holden, Z. A., P. Morgan, M.G. Rollins, and R. G.
Wright. 2005. Ponderosa pine snag densities following multiple fires in
the Gila Wilderness, New Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management
221(2006): 140-146.
- Holden, Z.A., A.M.S. Smith, P. Morgan, M.G. Rollins,
and P.E. Gessler. 2005. Evaluation of novel thermally enhanced spectral
indices for mapping fire perimeters and comparisons with fire atlas
data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 26(21): 4801-4808.
- Falkowski, M.J., P.E. Gessler, P. Morgan, A.T. Hudak
and A.M.S. Smith. 2005. Mapping mixed-conifer forest fire fuels using
ASTER imagery and gradient models. Forest Ecology and Management
217(2-3): 129-146.
- Jain, T.B., R.T. Graham, and P. Morgan. 2004. Western
white pine growth relative to forest openings. Canadian Journal of
Forest Research 34(11): 2187-2198.
- Black, A.E., P. Morgan and P. F. Hessburg. 2003
Social and biophysical correlates of change in the landscape structure
of forests in the interior Columbia River Basin. Ecological Applications
13(1): 57-67.
- Morgan, P., G.E. E. Defossé, and
N.F. Rodríguez. 2003. Management implications of fire and
climate changes in the western Americas. Chapter 15 in Veblen, T., W.
Baker, G. Montenegro and T. W. Swetnam. Fire and climatic
change in temperate ecosystems of the western Americas.
Ecological Studies 160. Springer. p. 413-440. Peer-reviewed and invited.
- Allen,C.D., M. Savage, D.A. Falk, K.F.
Suckling, T.W. Swetnam, T. Schulke, P. B. Stacey, P. Morgan, M. Hoffman,
and J. Klingel. 2002. Ecological restoration of southwestern
ponderosa pine ecosystems: A broad perspective. Ecological Applications
12(5): 1418-1433.
- Scott, J.M., M. Murray, R.G. Wright, B. Csuti, P.
Morgan, and R.L. Pressey. 2001. Representation of natural vegetation in
protected areas: capturing the geographic range. Biodiversity and
Conservation 10: 1297-1301.
- Morgan,P., C. Hardy, T.W. Swetnam, M.G.
Rollins and D.G. Long. 2001. Mapping fire regimes across time and
space: Understanding coarse and fine-scale patterns. International
Journal of Wildland Fire 10:349-342.
- Rollins, M.G., Swetnam, T. W., and Morgan,
P. 2001. Evaluating a century of fire patterns in two Rocky
Mountain Wilderness areas using digital fire atlases. Canadian Journal
of Forest Research. 31(12):2107-2123.
- Morgan, P. and M.P. Murray. 2001. Landscape ecology and isolation:
Implications for conservation of whitebark
pine. pp 289-309 in D.F. Tomback, R.E. Keane, and S.F. Arno. Whitebark
pine
communities: ecology and restoration. Island Press.
- Murray, M.P., S.C. Bunting, and P. Morgan.
2000. Landscape trends (1753-1993) of whitebark pine (Pinus
albicaulis) forests in the West Big Hole Range of Idaho/Montana U.S.A.
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 32(4): 412-418.
- Landres, P.B., P. Morgan, and F.J. Swanson. 1999.
Evaluating the utility of natural variability concepts in managing ecological
systems. Ecological Applications 9(4):1179-1188.
- Keane, R.E., P. Morgan, and J.D. White. 1999.
Temporal patterns of ecosystem processes on simulated landscapes in Glacier
National Park, Montana, USA. Landscape Ecology 14:311-329.
- Black A.E., E. Strand, P. Morgan, J.M. Scott, R.G. Wright,
and C. Watson. 1998. Biodiversity and land-use history of the Palouse
bioregion: Pre-European to present. Pages 85-89 In: T.D. Sisk, editor, Perspectives
on the land use history of North America: a context for understanding our changing
environment. Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR-1998-0003. Washington,
D.C.:USDI, US Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division.
- Flanagan, P.T., P. Morgan, and R.L. Everett. 1998.
Snag recruitment in subalpine forests. Northwest Science
72(4):303-309.
- Murray, M.P., S.C. Bunting, and P. Morgan. 1998.
Fire history of an isolated subalpine mountain range of the Intermountain
Region, United States. Journal of Biogeography 25:1-10.
- Black, A.E., E. Strand, R.G. Wright, J.M. Scott, P. Morgan,
and C. Watson. 1998. Land use history at multiple scales: implications for
conservation planning. Landscape and Urban Planning 553:1-15.
- Keane, R.E., P. Morgan, and S.W. Running. 1996.
Fire - BGC: A mechanistic ecological process model for simulating fire succession on
coniferous forest landscapes of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Res. Pap. INT-484.
Ogden, UT: US Dept. Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station.
122 p.
- Morgan, P., G.H. Aplet, J.B. Haufler, H.C. Humphries, M.M.
Moore, and W.D. Wilson. 1994. Historical range of variability: a useful tool
for evaluating ecosystem change. Journal of Sustainable Forestry
2(1/2):87-111.
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