Contacts
Mitchell Power
My research explores linkages among fire, climate, and vegetation during the last 20,000 years. The creation of the first global charcoal database from charcoal-based fire history studies has stimulated regional-to-continental scale research on the relative roles of climate change and human disturbance on fire regimes. The global charcoal database provides a tool for hypothesis testing and data-model comparisons that help us explore the interactions among fire, climate and vegetation during the past and into the future. Currently, I am facilitating the continued growth of the global charcoal database and conducting research projects in the western United States, including; long-term fire and vegetation studies in the Sierra Nevada of California, the Rocky Mountains of Montana, and in Yellowstone National Park.
Email: Mitchell Power
