Department of Interior Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)Fire Leaders And Managers, Emerging Scientists (FLAMES)
Funds a graduate student's own wildfire research project, paired with hands-on time with fire practitioners.
A PhD or master's thesis on wildfire can sit entirely inside a university, disconnected from anyone who actually manages fire on the ground. This award is built to close that gap for one student at a time.
What is funded is a new, unfunded research project that supplements the student's own existing thesis or dissertation plan, already approved by their advisor or committee, on one of five named …
A new research project supplementing a current master's or doctoral student's own approved thesis or dissertation, on fuels management and prescribed fire, the changing fire environment, emissions and air quality, fire effects and post-fire recovery, or the human dimensions of fire management.
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