Andy McEvoy

McEvoy, Andy

Position Type:
Faculty
Job Title:
Faculty Research Assistant
Department:
Forest Engineering, Resources & Management
Education
M.S., Environmental Science and Management, Portland State University (2020)
B.A., Colby College (2009)
Research Interests
  • Wildfire risk assessment methods
  • Wildfire risk in low probability, high consequence environments
  • Risk Communication
  • Collaborative planning and coproduction processes
Selected Publications:

  1. Dye, A.W., Reilly, M.J., McEvoy, A., Lemons, R., Riley, K.L., Kim, J.B., Kerns, B.K., 2024. Simulated Future Shifts in Wildfire Regimes in Moist Forests of Pacific Northwest, USA. JGR Biogeosciences 129, e2023JG007722. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007722

  2. Reilly, Matthew J.; Zuspan, Aaron; Halofsky, Joshua S.; Raymond, Crystal; McEvoy, Andy; Dye, Alex W.; Donato, Daniel C.; Kim, John B.; Potter, Brian E.; Walker, Nathan; Davis, Raymond J.; Dunn, Christopher J.; Bell, David M.; Gregory, Matthew J.; Johnston, James D.; Harvey, Brian J.; Halofsky, Jessica E.; Kerns, Becky K. 2022. Cascadia Burning: The historic, but not historically unprecedented, 2020 wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Ecosphere. 13(6): 6383-6403. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4070.

  3. McEvoy, Andy, Becky K. Kerns, and John B. Kim. 2021. "Hazards of Risk: Identifying Plausible Community Wildfire Disasters in Low-Frequency Fire Regimes" Forests 12, no. 7: 934. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12070934

  4. McEvoy, A., Nielsen-Pincus, M., Holz, A., Catalano, A.J., Gleason, K.E., 2020. Projected Impact of Mid-21st Century Climate Change on Wildfire Hazard in a Major Urban Watershed outside Portland, Oregon USA. Fire 3, 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire3040070

  5. Dye, A.W., Kim, J.B., McEvoy, A., Fang, F., Riley, K.L., 2021. Evaluating rural Pacific Northwest towns for wildfire evacuation vulnerability. Nat Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04615-x