Andrea Duane, PhD

Andrea Duane is a fire ecologist studying wildfire dynamics and its associated impacts on ecosystems. She completed her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona where she contributed to the disclosure of the relationship between fires, vegetation and climate working at the landscape scale and with a focus on Mediterranean ecosystems. After her PhD, she completed four years of postdoc research at the Forest Science Center of Catalonia and the University of Lleida looking for the factors that explain extreme wildfire events around the world. Currently, she is a postdoc in Safford’s lab at UC Davis, and her research is centered on historical fire regimes in California, with a focus on pre-European settlement burnt area and emissions estimations. Her research is devoted to having an impact on current ecosystem and forest management, by providing sound and novel evidence of ecosystem dynamics and quantifying current practice impacts on fire management goals.