Researchers

Researchers at the Pacific Forestry Centre

B.C. (Brad) Hawkes Research Officer Fire Research Group Canadian Forest Service Pacific Forestry Centre 506 West Burnside Road Victoria, BC V8Z 1M5 Phone: (250) 363-0665 Fax: (250) 363-0775 e-mail: Brad.Hawkes@nrcan.gc.ca

Since 1980, Brad Hawkes has worked as a fire research officer for the Canadian Forest Service at the Pacific Forestry Centre in Victoria, British Columbia. He has worked in the areas of wildland fire ecology and prescribed fire behavior and ecological effects, and has been involved in the development of methodology, strategic plans, and guidelines for the use of fire in forest management. Brad is currently conducting a number of research studies that cover a range of subjects, including fire behavior, fuel moisture, fire occurrence, and fire landscape biodiversity (e.g., interaction of fire and insects). Most recently, he has started work in the area of fire management systems, specifically looking at the use of wildfire threat analysis in fire planning.

He works as an adjunct professor of natural resource management and environmental studies at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He is also associate editor of the International Journal of Wildland Fire.

• BSc (Forestry) 1976
• MSc 1979, University of Alberta
• PhD 1993, University of Montana
• BC Registered Professional Forester