Biographical Sketch

Marco Morais, in color!

Marco Morais is graduate student in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to working at the Southern California Wildfire Hazard Center, Mr. Morais is completing his M.A. in Physical Geography with an emphasis in Modeling, Measurement and Computation. Some of the projects and products that have been completed while Mr. Morais has been at the Wildfire Hazard Center include:

  • development of HFire, a semi-empirical spatially explicit model of fire spread
  • fuels maps of the Santa Monica Mountains and Santa Barbara Front Range
  • supervising undergraduate students collecting live fuel moisture measurements
A current resume with a more complete description of skills and work experience is available online. The HFire model has been released under the GNU Lesser General Public License, complete source code and compiled executables are available for download.

Publications

Morais, M. 2001. Comparing Spatially Explicit Models of Fire Spread through Chaparral Fuels: A New Model Based Upon the Rothermel Fire Spread Equation. MA Thesis. University of California, Santa Barbara.

Roberts, D.A., Dennison, P.E., Morais, M.E., Gardner, M.E., Regelbrugge, J., and Ustin, S.L., 1999, Mapping Wildfire Fuels using Imaging Spectrometry along the Wildland Urban Interface, Proc. 1999 Joint Fire Science Conference and Workshop, June 17-19, Boise, Idaho, 212-223.

Keeley, J.E., Fotheringham, C.J., and Morais, M. 1999. Reexamining Fire Suppression Impacts on Brushland Fire Regimes. Science. June11. 284. 1829-1832.

Roberts, D.A., Dennison, P.E., Ustin, S.L., Reith, E., and Morais, M.E., 1999, Development of a Regionally Specific Library for the Santa Monica Mountains using High Resolution AVIRIS Data, Proc. 8th AVIRIS Earth Science Workshop, Feb 8-11, 1999, JPL, Pasadena, CA, 349-354.

Internet Resources

I am a contributing author to gis.about.com. Check out my author's page for a list of the articles I have written.

My research has been featured on CNN. An archived article is available.

For more information about the Southern California Wildfire Hazard Center (SCWHC) and other projects being completed by the Advanced Remote Sensing Group at UCSB visit the SCWHC webpage.

Some ArcView extensions I wrote in Avenue and find useful are available for download. If you are new to Avenue you might want to check out an article I wrote "Thirty Tips and Tricks for Programming in Avenue". TenLinks listed this article in their "Top Ten" Avenue resources.

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