Papers on Forest Management, Fire, and PM

I am fascinated with the dynamic relationship between humans and wildfires. The following is a growing list of papers relevant to this topic. References Agee, J. K., and C. N. Skinner (2005), Basic principles of forest fuel reduction treatments, Forest Ecol Manag, 211(1-2), 83-96. Ager, A. A., N. M. Vaillant, and M. A. Finney (2010), A […]

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The secret to keeping instruments working

Hey everyone. Jake and I have a secret method for keeping instruments working. The method is so effective we had to share. The secret to keeping instruments happy and working is ….. reading to them! We have found that they like adventure stories best. Jake tried reading the PAN GC The Three Little Pigs and […]

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Humans vs. climate change. What starts more fires?

The EPA is interested in quantifying what future particulate matter (PM) concentrations might be in the future. In the U.S. intermountain west both extreme PM events and background PM concentrations are closely linked to wildfire activity. Once you start digging through fire science or air quality literature you don’t get far before someone mentions the expectation […]

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R Notebooks and interactive ggplot2

This morning I was browsing R-bloggers and found a post too cool not to share. R now has the same notebook feature that has been so popular with python developers. The link below shows one of these notebooks in action. This particular notebook demonstrates code that makes some really nice interactive plots. It would be […]

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How to use this wiki

Welcome to the Fischer group internal site! We can treat this group like a wiki page. This is a good place to document things that need to be shared with the group (instrument checksheets, field campaign logistics, how to run the latest version of GEOS-Chem, etc. The basic idea is to use this website as an alternative […]

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