Penelope Morgan Professor of Forest Resources E-mail: pmorgan@uidaho.edu Office: B10 Phinney Hall Phone: (208) 885-7507

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:

• Holden, Z.A., Morgan, P., Smith, A.M.S. and Vierling, L.A., Beyond Landsat: Multi-scale Assessment of Four Satellite Sensors for Detecting Burn Severity in Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Gila Wilderness, NM, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire. Accepted Pending Revisions.
• Kobziar, L.N, A.Thode, M. Rocca, C. Dicus, C. Hoffman, N. Sugihara, J. M. Varner, P. Morgan. Challenges to educating the next generation of wildland fire professionals in the US. In review. Journal of Forestry.
• Lentile, L.B*., Smith, A.M.S*., Hudak, A.T., Morgan, P., Bobbitt, M., Lewis, S.A. and Robichaud, P. [* Equal Contribution] Remote sensing for prediction of 1-year post-fire ecosystem condition, International Journal of Wildland Fire. In press.
• Pocewicz, A. P. Morgan and S.D. Eigenbrode. Local and landscape effects on butterfly density in northern Idaho grasslands and forests. Ecological Entomology. In Press.
• Heyerdahl, E.K., P. Morgan and J.P. Riser, II. 2008. Multi-season climate synchronized widespread historical fires in dry forests (1650-1900), Northern Rockies, USA. Ecology. 89(3):705-716.
• Morgan, P., E.K. Heyerdahl, and C.E. Gibson. 2008. Multi-season climate synchronized widespread forest fires throughout the 20th-century, Northern Rocky Mountains. USA Ecology. 89(3):717-728.
• Pocewicz, A., M. Nielsen-Pincus, C.S. Goldberg, M.H. Johnson, P. Morgan, J.E. Force, L.P. Waits, and L. Vierling. 2008. Predicting land use change: comparison of models based on landowner surveys and historical land cover trends. Landscape Ecology 23:195-210.
• Holden, Z. A., P. Morgan, M. Crimmins, R. Steinhorst and A. Smith. 2007. Fire season precipitation variability influences fire extent and severity in a large southwestern wilderness area. USA. Geophysical Research Letters 34: 1-5.
• Pocewicz A., P. Morgan, and K. Kavanagh. 2007. The effects of adjacent land use on nitrogen dynamics at forest edges in northern Idaho. Ecosystems 10: 226-238.
• Shapiro-Miller, L.B., E.K. Heyerdahl, and P. Morgan. 2007. Comparison of fire scars, fire atlases, and satellite data in the northwestern United States.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:1933-1943.
• Sherich, K., A. Pocewicz and P. Morgan. 2007. Canopy characteristics and growth rates of ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir at long-established forest edges. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37: 2096-2105.
• Smith, A.M.S., L.B. Lentile, A.T. Hudak and P. Morgan. 2007. Evaluation of linear spectral unmixing and dNBR for predicting post-fire recovery in a North American ponderosa pine forest. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28(22):5159-5166.
• Hudak, A.T., P. Morgan, M.J. Bobbitt, A.M.S. Smith, S.A. Lewis, L.B. Lentile, P.R. Robichaud, J.T. Clark and R.A. McKinley. 2007 The relationship of multispectral satellite imagery to immediate fire effects. Fire Ecology. 3(1):64-90.
• Lentile, LB, P. Morgan, A.T. Hudak, MJ Bobbitt, SA Lewis, AMS Smith, and PR Robichaud. 2007. Burn severity and vegetation response following eight large wildfires across the western US. Fire Ecology. 3(1):91-108.
• Lewis, S.A., L.B. Lentile, A.T. Hudak, P.R. Robichaud, P. Morgan and M.J. Bobbitt. 2007. Mapping post-wildfire ground cover after the 2003 Simi and Old wildfires in southern California. Fire Ecology 3(1):109-128.
• Abella, S. R., W. W. Covington, P. Z. Fulé, L. B. Lentile, A. J. Sánchez Meador, and P. Morgan. 2007. Past, present, and future old growth in frequent-fire conifer forests of the western United States. Ecology and Society 12(2): 16. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art16/
• Doane, D., J. O’Laughlin. P. Morgan, and C. Miller. 2006. Barriers to Wildland Fire Use: A preliminary problem analysis. International Journal of Wilderness 12(1): 36-38.
• Lentile, L.B*., Holden, Z.A.*, Smith, A.M.S*., Falkowski, M.J., Hudak, A.T., Lewis, S.A., Morgan, P., Gessler, P.E. and Benson, N.C., Remote sensing techniques to assess active fire and post-fire effects, International Journal of Wildland Fire 15(3): 319–345. [*Equal contribution to paper] (12/2006: #7 most read in this journal in last 12 months.)
• Hudak, A.T., Evans, J.S. Falkowski, M.J. Crookston, N.L. Smith, A.M.S. Gessler P.E. and Morgan, P. 2006. Regression modeling and mapping of coniferous forest basal area and tree density from discrete-return lidar and multispectral data, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 32 (2): 126-138.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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