This undergraduate certificate is designed to provide a strong background for working fire and natural resource professionals interested in studying fire or working in natural resources on fire management and general land management issues. The certificate is all online.
The content studied includes the basics physical and chemical properties of fire, fire effects on ecosystems, management issues surrounding wildland fire, fire behavior modeling and monitoring, and the interaction of climate, fire regimes, and management. Skills developed include developing and implementing a monitoring program related to fire effects, the use of several different fire behavior and fire effects models, writing a fire monitoring plan, and analyzing fire behavior outputs.
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