LEMMA Team Detail

Jeremy Fried Research Forester Forest Inventory and Analysis Pacific Northwest Research Station USDA Forest Service Affiliate Faculty Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management Oregon State University

Educational Background

B.S., 1982 (Forestry), University of California, Berkeley, CA
M.S., 1985 (Forest Management), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Ph.D., 1992 (Wildland Resource Science), University of California, Berkeley, CA

Research Interests

Landscape-scale modeling of fuel treatment economics and fire hazard; inventory applications of geographic information science; decision support tools for fire and forest management; social acceptance of fire and fuels management; linkages among climatic change, forests and wildland fire.

Biography

Jeremy has led the Portland-based research team of the PNW Research Station's Forest Inventory and Analysis Program since 1999. From 1998-1999, he was Visiting Professor of Geoinformatics at the University of Helsinki, and from 1992-1999 served as the Forest Management professor on the faculty of the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University. Outside of work, Jeremy enjoys biking, hiking, time with family and walking his Portuguese Water Dog.