CAROL MILLER
Address:
Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Research Institute
790 E. Beckwith Ave.
Missoula, MT 59801
Phone: (406) 542-4198
Email: cmiller04@ fs.fed.us
EDUCATION:
 Ph.D. in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 1998.
Title of Dissertation: “Forest Pattern, Surface Fire Regimes, and Climatic Change in the
Sierra Nevada, California”
 M.S. in Forest Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 1994.
 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1985.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
 Research Ecologist, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Rocky Mountain
Research Station, 2013-current.
 Instructor, Colorado State University, Department of Forest Sciences, Fort Collins, CO;
2001.
 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Montana, School of Forestry, Missoula,
MT; 1998-2001.
 Graduate Research Assistant; Department of Forest Sciences and Graduate Degree
Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; 1991-1998.
 Air Quality Engineer, ENSR Consulting and Engineering, Fort Collins, CO 80525; 19901991.
 Software Systems Engineer, Plessey Electronic Systems (now GEC-Marconi Systems)
Totowa, NJ; 1985-1990.
GRANTS (PRINCIPAL OR CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR):
 USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (Ecosystem Science).
Landscape scale interactions between fire regimes and ecosystems. $88,000. 1999-2003.
 Joint Fire Sciences Program. Evaluating and planning the risks and benefits of wildland
fire. $170,627. 2000-2004.
 Joint Fire Sciences Program. Can wildland fire use restore historical fire regimes in
wilderness and other unroaded areas? $87,516. 2001-2005.
 Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Fire Plan. Fire management strategies for
wilderness, other protected areas, and adjacent lands. National Fire Plan project ID
#01.RMS.A.5. Between $300,000 and $500,000 awarded annually 2001-2011.
 Joint Fire Sciences Program. Climate drivers of fire and fuel in the northern Rockies: past,
present and future. $319,037. 2003-2007.
 Joint Fire Sciences Program. Learning from the past: retrospective analyses of fire behavior
in Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks. $180,876. 2004-2007.
 Joint Fire Sciences Program. Evaluating and comparing approaches for mapping burn
probabilities for a quantitative risk analysis framework. $350,000. 2006-2009.
 Joint Fire Sciences Program. Consequences of alternative response strategies to wildland
fires in the northern Rockies and Southwest in 2007 and 2008. $295,399. 2009-2013.
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Joint Fire Sciences Program. Quantifying the effectiveness and longevity of wildland fire
as a fuel treatment. $239,781. 2012-2015.
Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Fire Plan. Exploiting remotely sensed data to
better understand fire behavior and effects. $98,500. 2012-2014.
Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Fire Plan. Mapping current and future fire
regimes in the western U.S. 238,500. 2012-2015.
USGS, Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative. Identification of fire refugia
in Rocky Mountain ecosystems of the U.S. and Canada: Development and application of
the refugium concept for biodiversity conservation over large spatial and temporal scales.
$127,400. 2013-2014.
AWARDS:
 Best Mid-Career Scientist Publication, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2011.
 Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology, US-International Association for Landscape
Ecology. 2008.
 Excellence in Research, National Fire Plan. 2005.
 Best Publication for Early Career Scientist, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2004.
 Service Award, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, 1998.
 Honorable Mention for Best Student Presentation Award, U.S.-International Association
for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Symposia. 1996 and 1997.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (LAST FIVE YEARS):
STEWART, S., WILMER, B., HAMMER, R.B., APLET, G.H., HAWBAKER, T.J.,
MILLER, C. RADELOFF, V.C. 2009. Wildland-urban interface maps vary with purpose
and context. Journal of Forestry 107(2):78-83
PARISIEN, M.-A.; MILLER, C.; AGER, A.A.; FINNEY, M.A. 2010. Use of artificial
landscapes to isolate controls on burn probability. Landscape Ecology 25:79-94
PARKS, S.A.; PARISIEN, M.-A. ; MILLER, C. 2011. Multi-scale evaluation of the
environmental controls on burn probability in a southern Sierra Nevada landscape.
International Journal of Wildland Fire 20:815-828.
PARISIEN, M.-A.; PARKS, S.A.; MILLER, C. KRAWCHUK, M.A.; HEATHCOTT, M.;
MORITZ, M.A. 2011. Contributions of ignitions, fuels, and weather to the spatial patterns
of burn probability of a boreal landscape. Ecosystems 14:1141-1155.
PARKS, S.A.; PARISIEN, M.-A.; MILLER, C. 2012. Spatial bottom-up controls on fire
likelihood vary across western North America. Ecosphere 3(1): Article 12.
SCOTT, J.H.; HELMBRECHT, D.J.; PARKS, S.A.; MILLER, C. 2012. Quantifying the
threat of unsuppressed wildfires reaching the adjacent wildland-urban interface on the
Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, USA. Fire Ecology 8(2): 12-142.
MILLER, C.; AGER, A. 2013. A review of recent advances in risk analysis for wildfire
management. International Journal of Wildland Fire 22: 1-14.
HAIRE, S.L.; McGARIGAL, K.; MILLER, C. 2013. Wilderness shapes contemporary fire
size distributions across landscapes of the western U.S. Ecosphere 4(1):15.
FULÉ, P.Z.; SWETNAM, T.W.; BROWN, P.B.; FALK, D.A.; PETERSON, D.L.; AND
ALLEN, C.D.; APLET, G.H.; BATAGLIA, M.A.; BINKLEY, D.; FARRIS, C.; KEANE,
R.E.; MARGOLIS, E.Q.; GRISSINO-MAYER, H.; MILLER, C.; SIEG, C.; SKINNER,
C.; STEPHENS, S.L.; TAYLOR, A. 2014. Unsupported and inaccurate inferences of high
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severity fire in historical western United States dry forests: Response to Williams and
Baker. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23(7): 825-830.
PARKS, S.A.; MILLER, C.; NELSON, C.R.; HOLDEN, Z.A. 2014. Previous fires moderate
burn severity of subsequent wildland fires in two large western US wilderness areas.
Ecosystems 17:29-42.
MORGAN, P.; HEYERDAHL, E.K.; MILLER, C.; WILSON, A.M.; GIBSON, C.E. 2014.
Northern Rockies pyrogeography: an example of fire atlas utility. Fire Ecology 10(1):1430.
PARKS, S.A.; DILLON, G.K.; MILLER, C. 2014. A new metric for quantifying burn
severity: the relativized burn ratio. Remote Sensing 6(3): 1827-1844.
BATLLORI, E.; MILLER, C.; PARISIEN, M.A.; PARKS, S.A.; MORITZ, M.A. 2014. Is
US climatic diversity well represented within the existing federal protection network?
Ecological Applications (in press).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS (LAST FIVE YEARS):
MILLER, C., DAVIS, B. 2009. Quantifying the consequences of fire suppression in two
California national parks. The George Wright Forum 26(1): 76-88.
DAVIS, B.H.; MILLER, C.; PARKS, S. 2010. Retrospective Fire Modeling: Quantifying the
Impacts of Fire Suppression. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-236WWW. Fort Collins, CO:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 40p.
MILLER, C., ABATZOGLOU, J., BROWN, T., SYPHARD, A. 2011. Wilderness fire
management in a changing environment. Pages 269-294 In McKenzie, D., Miller, C., Falk,
D.A., eds. The Landscape Ecology of Fire. Springer.
McKENZIE, D., MILLER, C., FALK, D.A. 2011. Toward a theory of landscape ecology.
Pages 3-26 In McKenzie, D., Miller, C., Falk, D.A., eds. The Landscape Ecology of Fire.
Springer.
McKENZIE, D., MILLER, C., FALK, D.A. 2011. Synthesis: Landscape ecology and
changing fire regimes. Pages 295-303 In McKenzie, D., Miller, C., Falk, D.A., eds. The
Landscape Ecology of Fire. Springer.
McKENZIE, D., MILLER, C., FALK, D.A., editors. 2011. The Landscape Ecology of Fire.
Springer. 312 pages.
MILLER, C. 2012. The hidden consequences of fire suppression. Park Science. 28(3): 75-80.
THESIS COMMITTEE SERVICE:
 Helmbrecht, Don. M.S. A modeling approach to analyzing ecological condition as a result
of alternative fuel treatment strategies. University of Montana.
 Rodriguez, Josh. M.S. Quantification and comparison of post-fire landscapes in the Crown
of the Continent Ecosystem. University of Montana.
 Gibson, Carly. M.S. Climate drivers of regional fire years in the northern Rocky
Mountains.University of Idaho.
 Haire, Sandra. PhD. Disturbance ecology of Rocky Mountain pine forests: conservation
implications. University of Massachusetts.
 Robinne, François. PhD (in progress). Wildfire risks on drinking water in Alberta.
University of Alberta.
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