Dr. Chris Moran

Chris endeavors to develop and apply science for improved ecosystem management. He has expertise in data science, remote sensing, and fire ecology with over fourteen years of experience in wildfire research, application, and management. At Pyrologix, he develops custom analytics and data products to improve wildfire risk quantification. Past and ongoing research includes 3D remote sensing to improve fuel mapping, characterizing the spatial variation in wildfire ignitions by cause, evaluating fuel treatment effectiveness, designing and implementing experimental prescribed burns for the calibration and validation of next-generation fire models, and fusing fine-scale drone data and CFD fire modeling to characterize fuel pattern and fire process interactions. Chris also has several years of wildland fire experience including assisting on over 50 prescribed and research burns.