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Professor and Chair of Computer Science Department

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Assistant Professor Natural Resources Management & Policy

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Professor of Geosciences

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Fire and Fuels Program Manager & Associate Professor

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Associate Professor and Chair of Geomatics

Director: Surveying Laboratory of Geomatics

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Director Of Aviation Technology

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Dean and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

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Assistant Professor Math Department

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Associate Professor of Economics

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Associate Director Autonomous Aerial Systems Office

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Associate Director Autonomous Aerial Systems Office

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IT/Lab Instructor Physics and Astronomy

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UAS Pilot

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Post Doc Researcher: Fire Center

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Program Coordinator: EPSCoR Track II Natural Resource Management Laboratory

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Assistant Professor: Computer Science & Computer Systems Engineering

Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ Graduate Student

Marta grew up in Southern California and started her M.S. in Forestry at the FireCenter in 2023, focusing on fine-scale fire line interactions using UAV thermal and visual imagery. As a second-year Master's student, she is working to characterize fire behavior from different ignition patterns/fuels treatments for the purpose of informing prescribed burns by directing energy flux to get mixed-severity effects. In her free time, she enjoys bouldering, backpacking, and helping the Fire Center put more good fire on the landscape in Western Montana. 

Academic Poster: The Power of Junction Fires

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Anthony moved to Missoula in 2015 to start work as a wildland firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service. He joined the Computer Science department in 2020 in order to pursue research related to the computational modeling of forest fires. After completing his Masters in the Spring of 2022, Anthony decided to pursue a PhD in Computer Science. His current research interests are the fire dynamics of prescribed burns, the effects of fuel heterogeneity on fire behavior, and representing fuel on the landscape via the FastFuels project. He is working with both our fire science and machine learning teams.

University of Alaska Graduate Student

University of Alaska Research Technician

Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, senior Andrew Coulson is simultaneously pursuing a B.S in Geomatics with a GIS concentration and working as a research technician for Caixia Wang, and the abandoned oil and gas wells section of our project. He previously earned a B.S. in biology and worked for six years as an environmental consultant.

UM Intern: Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024

Born and raised near Pendleton, Oregon on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Jared just completed his junior year in Forestry with a minor in Fire Science and Management. He is working with Dr. Seielstad and our fire team combining his interests in wildfire and aviation to advance our research using remote sensing specific to fire analysis.

UAA Intern: Summer 2023

Karl grew up in Anchorage, AK and just finished his first year studying Mechanical Engineering at UAA. He spent his internship working with Alaska DoT&PF learning about survey equipment and GIS/UAS operations. He loves math and science, and says "having no background in aviation or geomatics prior to the internship has opened my eyes to new career opportunities in the future."

UAA Intern: Summer 2023

Sebastian is from Anchorage, AK and is a Junior in Mechanical Engineering. His internship includes work on the abandoned oil well project with the AOGCC as well as the economics department at UAA. The goal is to eventually use drones to help find the more remote/overgrown abandoned wells in Alaska and test if they are leaking or hazardous. So far he's created maps of oil and gas well locations across the state, parsed location data, researched strategies other states have been using to P&A wells, and got his Part 107 drone pilot’s license. 

UM Intern: Summer 2023 & Fall 2023

Carly, a senior studying Management Information Systems and Environmental Studies, is from St.Paul Minnesota. She was recruited to run track and cross country for the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ and now coaches both youth figure skating and hockey. After college she hopes to stay in Missoula to continue coaching and find a professional job working with drones. She completed a summer 2023 internship with Bart Bauer and Jeremy Crowley and will be joining our team again for the fall 2023 semester.

UM Intern: Summer 2023 & Fall 2023

Brianna is a senior majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. She was born and raised in the Missoula area and hopes to find a job close to home after graduation. She interned with one of our industry partners, Silvx Labs, over the summer of 2023 and is currently working with Jesse Johnson and Anthony Marcozzi in machine learning and fire science.

UAA Intern: Summer 2023 & Fall 2023

UM Intern: Summer 2023 & Fall 2023

Alex Shepherd is from Stevensville, Montana. He is a first year Masters student studying Data Science with interests in Machine Learning and Recommender Systems. Alex is working with Javier Perez-Alvaro on the Machine Learning aspect of our research. 

UM Intern: Fall 2023

Naiya Warren is a Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ student interning with our UAS team.

UM Intern: Fall 2023

UM Intern: Spring 2023

Hailing from Herriman, Utah, Jaret is a senior studying Computational Physics.  He is working with the Ñý¼§Ö±²¥'s UAAS team over the course of his internship.

UM Intern: Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

Gus Kauffman from Laramie, Wyoming, is a senior in the geoscience department with interests in snow science and glaciology. He is working with Joel Harper as part of our snow research team.

UM Intern: Fall 2022

Charles Werk is from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and is currently a senior studying Software Engineering with specific interests in web design, software design, and content creation. For our grant research he is working with Jesse Johnson and the Aerial Team.

UM Intern: Fall 2022

Jackson Nakae is in his first semester of graduate school studying Data Science. He hails from Trout Lake, Washington and is completing his internship with Holtz Forestry, one of our industry partners.

UM Intern: Fall 2022

 Sebastian Coombs is from Denver, Colorado. He's is a second year Masters student studying Data Science with interests in Geospatial Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.  He's working with Javier Perez-Alvaro on the Machine Learning component of our research.