Maxwell C. Cook
firefactswithmax.bsky.social
Maxwell C. Cook
@firefactswithmax.bsky.social
Pyrogeographer | Fire Ecologist | Earth Data Scientist

Passionate about using Earth Observation and Geospatial data to help us better live with wildfires 🌲🛰️🔥🌲

🌎📍Total map nerd📍🌎

Ph.D., Geography, University of Colorado Boulder

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Our team just published a new paper in Global Change Biology 🧪🔥

The title succinctly describes the main take home message, but here's the deal:

We produced gridded, fine-scale (resolution = 30m) daily fire progression maps for 623 wildfires in the SW US using satellite fire data.

read on ...
Extreme Fire Spread Events Burn More Severely and Homogenize Postfire Landscapes in the Southwestern United States
Extreme fire spread events rapidly burn large areas and are predicted to increase under a warmer and drier climate. Using satellite data, we analyzed the daily progression of over 600 wildfires in th...
dx.doi.org
February 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM