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Jen Beverly

Associate Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Renewable Resources Dept
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Contact

Associate Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Renewable Resources Dept
Email
jbeverly@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-3442
Address
853D General Services Building
9007 - 116 St NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2H1

Overview

About

Research Area –  Wildland Fire 

Website –  Wildfire Analytics

Teaching

  • Wildland Fire Science and Management (REN R 340/740)
  • Environmental Assessment Principles and Methods (REN R 307/710)

    Areas of expertise

      • Fire behaviour
      • Fire risk assessment
      • Landscape values-at-risk mapping
      • Wildfire evacuations
      • Fire-climate interactions
      Education
      • PhD University of Toronto (Faculty of Forestry) 
      • MSc University of Toronto (Faculty of Forestry)
      • BES University of Waterloo (Faculty of Environmental Studies)

      Research

      Wildfire Analytics

      Courses

      REN R 307 - Environmental Assessment Principles and Methods

      Principles and elements of environmental assessment with an interdisciplinary focus. Topics include types of environmental assessments and when to use them, the Alberta and Canadian environmental assessment processes, the relevant legal framework, sampling and pathways of effects for different biophysical components, mitigation of environmental impacts and assessment of risk. Prerequisites: *60 and one of REN R 290 or REN R 299. One course each on soils, plants, wildlife, and water are recommended.

      Fall Term 2023

      REN R 340 - Wildland Fire Science and Management

      Principles of forest fire science and management in Canadian forest ecosystems. Fire science fundamentals and their applications for addressing complex social, ecological and economic fire management challenges. Topics include fire as a natural disturbance process, mechanisms of fire ignition and spread, fire weather, fire behaviour, and fire occurrence prediction. Models, systems, analytical techniques and policies used to support fire management operations and decisions are explored in relation to contemporary fire management issues.

      Winter Term 2024

      REN R 710 - Environmental Assessment Principles and Methods

      Principles and elements of environmental assessment with an interdisciplinary focus. Topics include types of environmental assessments and when to use them, the Alberta and Canadian environmental assessment processes, the relevant legal framework, sampling and pathways of effects for different biophysical components, mitigation of environmental impacts and assessment of risk. Not to be taken if credit received for REN R 307.

      Fall Term 2023

      REN R 740 - Wildland Fire Science and Management

      Principles of forest fire science and management in Canadian forest ecosystems. Fire science fundamentals and their applications for addressing complex social, ecological and economic fire management challenges. Topics include fire as a natural disturbance process, mechanisms of fire ignition and spread, fire weather, fire behaviour, and fire occurrence prediction. Models, systems, analytical techniques and policies used to support fire management operations and decisions are explored in relation to contemporary fire management issues. Intended for students in course based masters programs. Not to be taken if credit received for REN R 340. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

      Winter Term 2024

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      Featured Publications

      Assessing directional vulnerability to wildfire

      Beverly JL, Forbes AM

      Natural Hazards . 2023 March; 117 10.1007/s11069-023-05885-3

      Estimating boreal forest ground cover vegetation composition from nadir photographs using deep convolutional neural networks

      Cameron H, Panda P, Barczyk M, Beverly JL

      Ecological Informatics. 2022 July; 69 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101658

      Classification of forest fuels in selected fire-prone ecosystems of Alberta, Canada – implications for crown fire behaviour prediction and fuel management

      Phelps N, Beverly JL

      Annals of Forest Science. 2022 June; 79 10.1186/s13595-022-01151-x.pdf

      The Alberta Wildland Fuels Inventory Program (AWFIP): data description and reference tables

      Phelps N, Cameron H, Forbes AM, Schiks T, Schroeder D, Beverly JL

      Annals of Forest Science. 2022 June; 79 10.1186/s13595-022-01144-w

      Modelling fire perimeter formation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

      Macauley K, McLoughlin N, Beverly JL

      Forest Ecology and Management. 2022 January; 506 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119958

      Predicting black spruce fuel characteristics with Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS)

      Cameron H, Schroeder D, Beverly JL

      International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2021 December; (0):1-12 10.1071/WF21004

      Estimating canopy fuel load with hemispherical photographs: a rapid method for opportunistic fuel documentation with smartphones

      Cameron HA, Díaz GM, Beverly JL

      Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2021 August; 12 10.1111/2041-210X.13708

      A simple metric of landscape fire exposure

      Beverly JL, McLoughlin N, Chapman E

      Landscape Ecology. 2021 January; 36 10.1007/s10980-020-01173-8

      Stand-level fuel reduction treatments and fire behaviour in boreal conifer forests

      Beverly JL, Leverkus SER, Schroeder D, Cameron H

      Fire. 2020 July; 3 10.3390/fire3030035

      Burn probability simulation and subsequent wildland fire activity in Alberta, Canada – Implications for risk assessment and strategic planning

      Beverly, J.L., McLoughlin, N.

      Forest Ecology and Management. 2019 August; 451

      Time since prior wildfire affects subsequent fire containment in black spruce

      Beverly, J.L.

      International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2017 October; 26

      Wildfire evacuations in Canada 1980-2007

      Beverly, J.L., Bothwell, P.

      Natural Hazards. 2011 January; 59

      The association between Northern Hemisphere climate patterns and interannual variability in Canadian wildfire activity

      Beverly, J.L., Flannigan, M.D., Stocks, B.J., Bothwell, P.

      Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 2011 January; 41

      Assessing the exposure of the built environment to potential ignition sources generated from vegetative fuel

      Beverly, J.L., Bothwell, P., Conner, J.C.R., Herd, E.P.K.

      International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2010 January; 19

      Modeling fire susceptibility in west central Alberta, Canada

      Beverly J.L., Her.d, E.P.K., Conner, J.C.R

      Forest Ecology and Management. 2009 January; 258:

      Assessing spatial attributes of forest landscape values: an internet-based participatory mapping approach

      Beverly, J.L., Uto, K., Wilkes, J., Bothwell, P.

      Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 2008 January; 38

      Stand specific litter moisture calibrations for the Canadian Fine Fuel Moisture Code

      Wotton, B.M., Beverly, J.L

      International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2007 January; 16

      Modeling the probability of sustained flaming: predictive value of fire weather index components compared with observations of site weather and fuel moisture conditions

      Beverly, J.L., Wotton, B.M.

      International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2007 January; 16

      Characterizing extreme fire and weather events in the Boreal Shield ecozone of Ontario

      Beverly, J.L., Martell, D.L.

      Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2005 January; 133

      Modeling prescribed surface-fire regimes for Pinus strobus conservation

      Beverly, J.L., Martell, D.L.

      Conservation Biology. 2004 January; 18

      Modeling Pinus strobus mortality following prescribed fire in Quetico Provincial Park, northwestern Ontario

      Beverly, J.L., Martell, D.L.

      Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 2003 January; 33