Dunn, Christopher

Dunn, Christopher
Position Type:
Faculty
Job Title:
Assistant Professor (Senior Research)
Department:
Forest Engineering, Resources & Management
Office Location:
343 Peavy Forest Science Center (PFSC)
Phone Number:
(541) 737-1194
Email:
Education:
Ph.D. in Forest Resources, 2015, Oregon State University
M.S. in Forest Resources, 2010, Oregon State University
B.S. in Forest Management, 1999, Colorado State University
Research Areas:
- Silviculture, Fire, Forest Health and Biodiversity
Selected Publications:
- Dunn, CJ, Johnston, JD, Reilly, MJ, Bailey, JD, Miller, RA (2020) Regeneration dynamics offer new insights into fire’s functional role in Douglas-fir forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Ecosphere.
- Dunn, CJ, O’Connor, CD, Abrams, J, Thompson, MP, Calkin, DE, Johnston, JD, Stratton, R, Gilbertson-Day, J (2020) Wildfire risk science facilitates adaptation of fire-prone social-ecological systems to the new fire reality. Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6498
- Thompson, MP, Wei, Y, Calkin, DE, O’Connor, DE, Dunn, CJ, Anderson, NM, Hogland, JS (2019) Risk Management and Analytics in Wildfire Response. Current Forestry Reports, 5(4), 226-239.
- Wei, Y, Thompson, MP, Scott, JH, O’Connor, CD, Dunn, CJ (2019) Designing operationally relevant daily large fire containment strategies using risk assessment results. Forests, 10(4), 311; doi:10.3390/f10040311
- Eisenberg, C, Anderson, CL, Collingwood, A, Dunn, CJ, Meigs, GW, Hibbs, DE, Sissons, R, Murphy, S, Kuiper, SD, Spearchief-Morris, J, Little Bear, L, Edson, CB, Johnston, B (2019) Out of the Ashes: Effects of Extreme Wildfire, Prescribed Burns, and Indigenous Burning on Ecosystem Structure and Diversity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 436. Thompson, MP, Wei, Y, Dunn, CJ (2019) A systems dynamics model examining alternative wildfire response policies. Systems, 2019, 7, 49; doi:10.3390/systems704004
- Dunn, CJ, O’Connor, CD, Reilly, MJ, Calkin, DE, Thompson, MP (2019) Spatial and temporal assessment of responder exposure to snag hazards in post-fire environments. Forest Ecology and Management, 441: 202-214.
- Johnston, JD, Dunn, CJ, Vernon, M (2019) Tree traits influence response to fire severity in the western Oregon Cascades, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 433: 690-698.
- Johnston, JD, Dunn, CJ, Vernon, M, Bailey, JD, Morrissette, B, Morici, K (2018) Restoring historical forest conditions in a diverse inland Pacific Northwest Landscape. Ecosphere, 9(8)
- Hoe, MS, Dunn, CJ, Hailemariam, T (2018) Multi-temporal LiDAR improves estimates of fire severity in forested landscapes. International Journal of Wildland Fire. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF17141
- Thompson, MP, MacGregor, DG, Dunn, CJ, Calkin, DE, Phipps, J (2018) Rethinking the Wildland Fire Management System. Journal of Forestry, 116 (4), 382-390. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvy020
- Zald, HSJ, Dunn, CJ (2018) Severe fire weather and intensive forest management increase fire severity in a multi-ownership landscape. Ecological Applications, 28(4): 1068-1080.
- Dunn, CJ. (2018). Forests on Fire: Nature’s Thermal Creativity. In: Ecological Forest Management, Franklin, JF, Johnson, KN, Johnson, DL (eds). Waveland Press, Inc., Long Grove, IL, USA. ISBN 13: 978-1-4786-3350-1
- Dunn, CJ, Thompson, MP. (2018). The Fire Next Time: Strategies for Fire and Fuels Management. In: Ecological Forest Management, Franklin, JF, Johnson, KN, Johnson, DL (eds). Waveland Press, Inc., Long Grove, IL, USA. ISBN 13: 978-1-4786-3350-1
- Johnston, JD, Bailey, JD, Dunn, CJ, Lindsay, AA (2017) Historical fire-climate relationships in contrasting interior Pacific Northwest forest types. Fire Ecology, 13(2): 17–36. doi: 10.4996/fireecology.130257453
- Dunn, CJ, Thompson, M, Calkin, DE (2017). A framework for developing safe and effective large-fire response in a new fire management paradigm. Forest Ecology and Management, 404: 184-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.08.039
- Dunn, CJ. (2016) Ghost fire of the North: the historical account of a lost boreal forest mega-fire. Ecology, 97 (3): 813-814
- Bailey, JD, Dunn, CJ. (2016). From Smokey Bear to Smoky Air: Wildland Fire Management at a Crossroads. Western Forester, January/February.
- Thompson, MP, Dunn, CJ, Calkin, DE. (2015). Wildfires: Systemic changes needed. Science, 11-20-2015.
- Johnston, JD, Bailey, JD, Dunn, CJ (2016) Influence of Fire Disturbance and Biophysical Heterogeneity on Pre-Settlement Ponderosa Pine and Mixed Conifer Forests. Ecosphere, 7(11).
- Thompson, MP, Dunn, CJ, Calkin, DE. (2016). Systems thinking and wildland fire management. Journal of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, 1(1):1-17.
- Song, Z, Dunn, CJ, Lu, XT, Qiao, L, Pang, JP, Tang, JW (2017). Coarse woody decay rates vary by physical position in tropical seasonal rainforests of SW China. Forest Ecology and Management, 385:206-213. 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.11.033
- Dunn, CJ, Thompson, MP, Calkin, DE. (2017). Towards enhanced risk management: planning, decision making, and monitoring of U.S. wildfire response. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 26: 551-556.
- Katuwal, H, Dunn, CJ, Calkin, DE (2017). Characterizing resource use and exposure during large-fire management in the western US. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 26:604-614.
- Johnston, JD, Bailey, JD, Dunn, CJ, Lindsay, AA (2017) Fire-climate relationships among diverse forest types in an interior Pacific Northwest Landscape. Fire Ecology
- Reilly, M, Dunn, CJ, Meigs, GW, Spies, TA, Kennedy, RE, Bailey, JD, Briggs, K (2017). Contemporary patterns of fire extent and burn severity in forests of the Pacific Northwest (1985-2010). Ecosphere, 8(3).
- Dunn, CJ, Bailey, JD. (2016). Tree mortality and structural change following mixed-severity fire in Pseudotsuga forests 1 of Oregon’s western Cascades, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 365: 107-118. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2016.01.031
- Dunn, CJ, Bailey, JD. 2015. Temporal Fuel Dynamics Following High-Severity Fire in Dry -MIxed Cinifer Forests of the Eastern Cascades, Oregon USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
- Dunn, CJ, Bailey, JD. 2015. Modeling the direct efforts of salvage logging on long-term temporal fuel dynamics in dry-mixed conifer forests. Forest Ecology and Management.
- Dunn, CJ, Bailey, JD. 2012. Temporal dynamics and decay of coarse wood in early seral habitats of dry-mixed conifer forests in Oregon's Eastern Cascades. Forest Ecology and Management. 276: 71-81.