Contact
Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Renewable Resources Dept
- flanniga@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 248-2033
- Address
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751 General Services Building
9007 - 116 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H1
Overview
About
Job/Research Area: Wildland Fire.
Awards
- Service award for media interaction during the Fort McMurray wildfire (University of Alberta, May 2016).
- International Association for Wildland Fire – 2008 – Service Award for his work as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wildland Fire 2002-2008.
- Natural Resources Canada – Departmental Award 1997 for his role in the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment
Research
Major Responsibilities/Research Interests
Dr Mike Flannigan is a professor with the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta and the Director of the Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science located at the University of Alberta.. He received his BSc (Physics) from the University of Manitoba, his MS (Atmospheric Science) from Colorado State University and his PhD (Plant Sciences) from Cambridge University. Mike also completed Meteorologist course MT35 with Environment Canada and worked as a meteorologist for a few years. After that, Mike worked as a physical scientist, research scientist and senior research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service until his recent departure. Dr. Flannigan's primary research interests include fire and weather/climate interactions including the potential impact of climatic change, lightning-ignited forest fires, landscape fire modelling and interactions between vegetation , fire and weather. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wildland Fire (2002-2008) and has taken on leadership roles with the US National Assessment on Global Change, IPCC, IGBP Fire Fast Track Initiative and Global Change Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) efforts on the global impacts of fire.
Publications
Wildfire smoke and public health risk
Author(s): Reisen, F., Duran, S.M., Flannigan, M.D., Elliott, C., and Rideout, K.
Publication Date:
2015
Publication: International Journal of Wildland Fire
Volume: 24
Page Numbers: 1029-1044
Moderate drop in water table increases peatland vulnerability to post-fire regime shift
Author(s): Kettridge, N., Turetsky, M., Sherwood, J., Thompson, D., Miller, C., Benscoter, B., Flannigan, M., Wotton, M. and Waddington, M.
Publication Date:
2015
Publication: Scientific Reports
Volume: 5
Page Numbers: 8063
Increasing frequency of extreme fire weather in Canada with climate change
Author(s): Wang, X., Thompson, D.K., Marshall, G.A., Tymstra, C., Carr, R. and Flannigan, M.D.
Publication Date:
2015
Publication: Climatic Change
Volume: 130
Page Numbers: 573-586
Development of a Global Fire Weather Database
Author(s): Field, R.D., Spessa, A.C. Aziz, N.A. Camai, A. Cantin, A., Carr, R., de Groot, W.J. Dowdy, A.J. Flannigan, M.D., Manomaiphiboon, K., Pappenberger, F., Tanpipat, V. and Wang, X.
Publication Date:
2015
Publication: Natural Hazards Earth Systems Science
Volume: 15
Page Numbers: 1407-1423
Global patterns in fire leverage: the response of annual area burnt to previous fire
Author(s): Price, O.J., Pausas, J.G., Govender, G., Flannigan, M.D., Fernandes, P.M., Brooks, M.L. and Bird, R.B.
Publication Date:
2015
Publication: International Journal of Wildland Fire
Volume: 24
Page Numbers: 297-306
Fire in arctic tundra of Alaska: past fire activity, future fire potential, and significance for land management and ecology
Author(s): French, N., Jenkins, L., Loboda, T., Flannigan, M.D., Jandt, R., Bourgeau-Chavez, L., and Whitley, M.
Publication Date:
2015
Publication: International Journal of Wildland Fire
Volume: 24
Page Numbers: 1045-1061
Fire Evolution split by continent. News and Views.
Author(s): Flannigan, M.D.
Publication Date:
2015
Publication: Nature Geoscience.
An analysis of controls on fire activity in boreal Canada: comparing models built with different temporal resolutions
Author(s): Parisien, M-A., Parks, S.A., Krawchuk, M.A., Little, J.M., Flannigan, M.D., Gowman, L.M., and Moritz, M.A.
Publication Date:
2014
Publication: Ecological Applications
Volume: 24
Page Numbers: 1341-1356
External Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-1477.1
Wildfires in boreal ecoregions: evaluating the power law assumption and intra- and inter-annual variations
Author(s): Lehsten, V., de Groot, W.J., Flannigan, M.D., Charles, G.T. and Balzter H.
Publication Date:
2014
Publication: JGR –Biogeosciences
Volume: 119
Page Numbers: 14-23
The potential and realized spread of wildfires across Canada
Author(s): Wang, X., Parisien, M-A., Flannigan. M.D., Parks, S.A. Anderson, K.R. Little, J.M. and Taylor, S.W.
Publication Date:
2014
Publication: Global Change Biology
Volume: 20
Page Numbers: 2518-2530
Area burned in Portugal over the last decades: an extreme value analysis
Author(s): Scotto, M. G., Gouveia, S., Carvalho, A., Monteiro, A., Martins, V., Flannigan, M., San Miguel-Ayanz, J., Miranda, A.I. and C. Borrego
Publication Date:
2014
Publication: International Journal of Wildland Fire
Volume: 23
Page Numbers: 812-824
External Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF13104
.Exploring the role of fire, succession, climate, and weather on landscape dynamics using comparative modeling
Author(s): Keane, R., Cary, G., Flannigan, M., Parsons, R., Davies, I., King, K., Li, C., Bradstock, R., and Gill, A.M.
Publication Date:
2013
Publication: Ecological Modelling
Volume: 266
Page Numbers: 172-186
Global wildland fire season severity in the 21st century
Author(s): Flannigan, M.D. Cantin, A.S. de Groot, W.J. Wotton, M. Newbery, A. and Gowman, L.M.
Publication Date:
2013
Publication: Forest Ecology and Management
Volume: 294
Page Numbers: 64-71
Climate change impacts on future boreal fire regimes
Author(s): de Groot, W.J., Flannigan, M.D., and Cantin, A.S.
Publication Date:
2013
Publication: Forest Ecology and Management
Volume: 294
Page Numbers: 35-44
Anticipating the consequences of climate change for Canada’s boreal forest ecosystems
Author(s): Price, D.T., Alfaro, R.I. Brown, K.J., Flannigan, M.D., Fleming, R.A., Hogg, E.H., Girardin, M.P., Lakusta, T., Johnston, M., McKenney, D.W., Pedlar, J., Stratton, T. Sturrock, R. Thompson, I., Trofymow, J.A. and Venier, L.A.
Publication Date:
2013
Publication: Environmental Reviews
Volume: 21
Page Numbers: 322-365
An Introduction to Canada’s boreal zone: ecosystem processes, health, sustainability and environmental issues
Author(s): Brandt, J.P., Flannigan, M.D., Maynard, D., Thompson, I. and Volney, W.J.A.
Publication Date:
2013
Publication: Environmental Reviews
Volume: 21
Page Numbers: 207-226
A comparison of Canadian and Russian boreal forest fire regimes
Author(s): de Groot, W.J., Cantin, A.S., Flannigan, M.D., Soja, A.J., Gowman, L.M. and Newbery, A
Publication Date:
2013
Publication: Forest Ecology and Management
Volume: 294
Page Numbers: 23-34
Examining the utility of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in Canadian Boreal Peatlands
Author(s): Waddington, J.M. Thompson, D.K. Wotton, M. Quinton, W.L. Flannigan, M.D. Benscoter, B.W. Baisley, S.A. and Turetsky, M.R.
Publication Date:
2012
Publication: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Volume: 42
Page Numbers: 47-58
Forest fires in a changing climate and their impacts on air quality
Author(s): Carvalho, A. Monteiro, A. Flannigan, M. Solman, S. Miranda, A.I. and Borrego, C.
Publication Date:
2011
Publication: Atmosphere Environment.
Volume: 45
Page Numbers: 5545-5553.
Interactive effects of vegetation, soil moisture and bulk density on depth of burning of thick organic soils
Author(s): Benscoter, B.W., Thompson, D.K., Waddington, J.M., Flannigan, M.D., Wotton, B.M., de Groot, W.J. and Turetsky, M.R.
Publication Date:
2011
Publication: International Journal of Wildland Fire
Volume: 20
Page Numbers: 418-429
Prediction of Seasonal Forest Fire Severity in Canada from Large-Scale Climate Patterns
Author(s): Shabbar, A., Skinner, W. and Flannigan, M.
Publication Date:
2011
Publication: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Volume: 50
Page Numbers: 785-799
Scale-dependent controls on the area burned in the boreal forest of Canada, 1980-2005
Author(s): Parisien, M-A., Parks, S.A., Krawchuk, M.A., Flannigan, M.D., Bowman, L.M., and Moritz, M.A.
Publication Date:
2011
Publication: Ecological Applications
Volume: 21
Page Numbers: 789-805
The association between Northern Hemisphere climate patterns and interannual variability in Canadian wildfire activity
Author(s): Beverly, J.L. Flannigan, M.D. Stocks, B.J. and Bothwell, P.
Publication Date:
2011
Publication: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Volume: 41
Page Numbers: 2193-2201