Matt is the Fire Risk & Forest Resilience Project Manager for the Balch Fire Lab. In this role, Matt manages diverse research projects related to wildfire, disturbance, and ecosystem resilience at large spatial scales. Prior to joining the Balch...

Mia is a PhD student whose research focuses on the intersection of wildfires and social vulnerability. She seeks to understand how wildfires impact communities—particularly those most at risk—and what these dynamics reveal about building a more...

Tyler is a PhD student in the Balch Lab at CU Boulder. His research investigates dimensions of social-ecological risk and resilience in the face of disturbances, particularly the tension between the social-ecological benefits and risks of...

Kyle is a CIRES visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Balch Fire Lab, broadly focused on the social-ecological impacts of climate change. His research uses environmental data science tools—like social sensing data and remote sensing—to assess the...

Lilly is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with Earth Lab, where she has worked with a dynamic, interdisciplinary team to advance predictive fire-vegetation modeling. Recent work supports Southern California Edison’s fire mitigation strategies...

Nicole is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Earth Lab researching wildfire entrapment risk in Colorado. She has a Ph.D. in Earth System Science from the University of California, Irvine, where she studied methods for mapping individual tree...

Lise is a Research Scientist at Earth Lab responsible for the Global Social Sensing Project, a research initiative to develop Earth scale datasets related to the societal impact and societal disruption of natural hazard events for use in Earth...

Dr. Nayani Ilangakoon is a Research Scientist at Earth Lab, University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in remote sensing, ecosystem resilience, and postfire forest recovery. She earned her PhD in Geosciences from Boise State University and...

Virginia Iglesias is the Director of Earth Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, working on the effects of climate variability on social-environmental systems.

Jennifer Balch is the Principal Investigator of the Balch Fire Lab and Director of the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL).  Her research aims to understand the patterns and processes that underlie disturbance and...