Philip N. Omi




Philip N. Omi Professor Forest Fire Science Dept. of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship Warner College of Natural Resources Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1472 phil@warnercnr.colostate.edu

Professional Interests: Forest fire management, fire behavior prediction, fuel modeling Education: B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1969 M.S., Wildland Resource Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1973 Ph.D., Wildland Resource Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1977 Selected Publications: Pollet, J. and P.N. Omi. 2002. Effect of thinning and prescribed burning on wildfire severity in Ponderosa forests. Internat. J. Wildland Fire, Vol 11:1-10. Hof, J., P.N. Omi, M. Bevers, and R.D. Laven. 2000. A timing-oriented approach to spatial allocation of fire management effort. For. Sci. 46:442-451 Agee, J.K., B. Bahro, M.A. Finney, P. N. Omi, D. B. Sapsis, C.N. Skinner, J.W. van Wagtendonk, C. P. Weatherspoon. 2000. The use of shaded fuelbreaks in landscape fire management. Forest Ecology and Management 127 (1-3) (2000) pp. 55-66. Kalabokidis, K.D. and P.N. Omi. 1998. Reduction of fire hazard through thinning/residue disposal in the urban interface. Internatl. J. Wildland Fire 8(1):29-36. Hesseln, H., D.B. Rideout, and P.N. Omi. 1998. Using catastrophe theory to model wildfire behavior and control. Can. J. For. Res. 28:852-862. Recent Student Theses: Acton, S. 2002. Fire severity and salvage logging effects on exotics in ponderosa pine dominated forests. M.S. thesis Flores, J.G. 2001. Modeling spatial variability of forest fuel arrays. Ph.D. dissertation Beavers, A. 2001. Vegetation recovery following fire in west-central Colorado. M.S. thesis Washa, J. B. 2001. Agency attitudes toward wildland fire management along the Colorado Front Range. M.S. thesis Tu, B. 2000. Response time as a predictor of fire loss in single-family residential structures. M.S. thesis Wu, R. 1999. Fire history and forest structure in the mixed conifer forests of southwest Colorado. M.S..thesis Martinson, E.J. 1998. Fire effects on plant abundance : a meta-analysis. M.S. thesis


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