Researchers

Researchers at the Great Lakes Forestry Centre

T.J. (Timothy) Lynham Research Officer Fire Research Group Canadian Forest Service Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 2E5 Phone: (705) 541-5537 Fax: (705) 541-5701 e-mail: Tim.Lynham@nrcan.gc.ca

Tim Lynham is a forest fire research officer with the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. His experience with fire management started in the mid-1970s when he fought forest fires in Manitoba and Ontario. He also implemented the first Canadian computerized lightning locator system for Ontario in 1970. Before joining the CFS in 1981, he worked as an image analyst at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing in Ottawa.

Tim conducts research on fire ecology as well as fire behavior modeling and remote sensing. Recently he has been studying the postfire vegetation dynamics of old-growth red pine and white pine following a 1995 wildfire in Quetico Provincial Park west of Thunder Bay, Ontario.

• B.Sc. (Forestry), Lakehead University
• M.Sc. (Forestry), University of Toronto