Alan Ager

Alan Ager is an Emeritus Scientist with the USDA Forest Service Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula Montana. Ager also holds a Professor position in the Forest Research Centre at the University of Lisbon, and a Courtesy Faculty appointment at Oregon State University. He received his BS and PhD degrees in Forest Science from the University of Washington and an MS degree in plant genetics from the University of Wisconsin. Ager started working for the Forest Service in 1987 and since then has conducted research on a wide range of forest management issues, most recently wildfire risk and scenario planning. Alan and his research group mapped wildfire risk transmission to communities and combined this information with other land condition assessments to explore cross boundary investment scenarios as part of shared stewardship efforts. In related work Alan’s group are experimenting with forest landscape models to understand synergies between wildfire and forest management to improve landscape resiliency on fire excluded western forests. In prior work he developed several decision support systems that have been widely used in the management and research environment. He has served as an advisor to a number of PhD students and sponsored several Forest Service International Scholars. His international work experience includes stints in Kenya, Ukraine, Sardinia, France, Portugal, Greece, and Sweden.