Presenter

Dr. Janice Coen is a Project Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. She received a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Grove City College and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. She is currently an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Wildland Fire and a member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Modelling and Software and has served has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Wildland Fire and on the Colorado Aerial Firefighting Center of Excellence Vision/Focus Subcommittee, the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology National Wildland Fire Weather Needs Assessment Joint Action Group, and interagency Fire Research Coordination Council. She currently investigates wildland fire behavior and its interaction with weather using coupled weather-wildland fire computer simulation models and by analyzing infrared imagery of wildland fires. Her current work investigates the unfolding of large wildland fire events, distilling understanding to improve firefighter safety, drought and fuel mitigation impacts on fire behavior, assimilation of satellite active fire detection data, and the use of coupled weather-fire models as forecasting tools.