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College of Natural Resources

Physical Address:
975 W. 6th Street
Moscow, Idaho

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1138
Moscow, ID 83844-1138

Phone: 208-885-8981

Fax: 208-885-5534

Email: cnr@uidaho.edu

Web: College of Natural Resources

Aaron Sparks

Aaron Sparks, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor of Fire Ecology & Geospatial Data Analysis

Office

IRIC 243

Mailing Address

Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences
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875 Perimeter Drive MS 1133
Moscow ID 83844-1133

Degrees

  • Ph.D., ¹û¶³´«Ã½Â鶹Éç, Moscow, ID, 2017, Natural Resources
  • M.S. (Honors), ¹û¶³´«Ã½Â鶹Éç, Moscow, ID, 2014, Natural Resources
  • B.S. (High Honors), University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 2010, Resource Conservation

Research Interests

  • Remote Sensing
  • Precision Forestry
  • Wildland Fire
  • Fire Ecology

Sparks, A.M., A.M.S. Smith. (2022), Accuracy of a LiDAR-based individual tree detection and measurement algorithm developed to inform forestry supply-chain and resource management, Forests, 13, 1,

Wooster, M.J., G. Roberts, L. Giglio, D. Roy, P. Freeborn, L. Boschetti, C. Justice, C. Ichoku, W. Schroeder, D. Davies, A.M.S. Smith, A. Setzer, I. Csiszar, T. Strydom, P. Frost, T. Zhang, W. Xu, M. de Jong, J. Johnston, L. Ellison, K. Vadrevu, A.M. Sparks, H. Nguyen, J. McCarty, V. Tanpipat, C. Schmidt, J. San-Miguel-Ayanz, (2021), Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements, Remote Sensing of Environment, 267,

Partelli Feltrin, R., D.M. Johnson, A.M. Sparks, H.D. Adams, C.A. Kolden, A.S. Nelson, A.M.S. Smith (2020), Drought increases vulnerability of Pinus ponderosa saplings to fire-induced mortality, Fire 3, 56,

McCarley, T.R., A.T. Hudak, A.M. Sparks, N.M. Vaillant, A. Meddens, L. Trader, F. Mauro, J. Kreitler, L. Boschetti (2020), Estimating wildfire fuel consumption with multi-temporal lidar and demonstrating linkage with MODIS-derived fire radiative energy, Remote Sensing of Environment, 251,

Steady, W.D., R. Partelli Feltrin, D.M. Johnson, A.M. Sparks, C.A. Kolden, A.F. Talhelm, J.A. Lutz, L. Boschetti, A.T. Hudak, A.S. Nelson, A.M.S. Smith (2019), The vulnerability of Pinus Ponderosa saplings to fire intensity and impacts on post-fire growth, Fire 2, 1-13,

Huo, L.Z., L. Boschetti, A.M. Sparks (2019), Object-based classification of forest disturbance types in the conterminous United States, Remote Sensing 11, 477,

Sparks, A.M., A.F. Talhelm, R. Partelli Feltrin, A.M.S. Smith, D.M. Johnson, C.A. Kolden, L. Boschetti (2018), An experimental assessment of the impact of drought and fire on western larch injury, mortality and recovery, International Journal of Wildland Fire 27, 490-497,

Lyon, Z.D., P. Morgan, C. S. Stevens-Rumann, A.M. Sparks, R.F. Keefe, Alistair M.S. Smith (2018), Fire behavior in masticated forest fuels: lab and prescribed burn experiments, International Journal of Wildland Fire 27, 280-292,

Sparks, A.M., A.M.S. Smith, C.A. Kolden, D.M. Johnson, L. Boschetti, M.A. Cochrane (2018), Fire intensity impacts on post-fire temperate coniferous forest net primary productivity, Biogeosciences, 15, 1173-1183,

Sparks, A.M., A.M.S. Smith, A.F. Talhelm, C.A. Kolden, K.M. Yedinak, D.M. Johnson (2017), Impacts of fire radiative flux on mature Pinus ponderosa growth and vulnerability to secondary mortality agents, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 26, 95-106,

Smith, A.M.S., A.F. Talhelm, D.M. Johnson, A.M. Sparks, C.A. Kolden, K.M. Yedinak, K.G. Apostol, W.T. Tinkham, J.T. Abatzoglou, J.A. Lutz, A.S. Davis, K.S. Pregitzer, H.D. Adams, R.L. Kremens (2017), Effects of fire radiative energy density doses on Pinus contorta and Larix occidentalis seedling physiology and mortality, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 26, 82-94,

Sparks, A.M., C.A. Kolden, A.F. Talhelm, A.M.S. Smith, K.G. Apostol, D.M. Johnson, L. Boschetti (2016), Spectral indices accurately quantify changes in seedling physiology following fire: toward mechanistic assessments of post-fire carbon cycling, Remote Sensing, 8, 7, 572,

Smith, A.M.S., A.M. Sparks, C.A. Kolden, J.T. Abatzoglou, A.F. Talhelm, D.M. Johnson, L. Boschetti, J.A. Lutz, K.G. Apostol, K.M. Yedinak, W.T. Tinkham, R.J. Kremens (2016), Towards a new paradigm in fire severity research using dose-response experiments, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 25, 158-166,

Sparks, A.M., L. Boschetti, A.M.S. Smith, W.T. Tinkham and K.O. Lannom (2015), An accuracy assessment of the MTBS burned area product for shrub-steppe fires in the northern Great Basin, United States, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 24, 70-78,

Lannom, K. O., W. T. Tinkham, A. M. S. Smith, J. Abatzoglou, B. A. Newingham, T. E. Hall, P. Morgan, E. K. Strand, T. B. Paveglio, J. W. Anderson, A.M. Sparks (2014), Defining extreme wildland fires using geospatial and ancillary metrics, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 23, 322-337,

Smith, A.M.S., W.T. Tinkham, D.P. Roy, L. Boschetti, R.L. Kremens, S.S. Kumar, A.M. Sparks, M.J. Falkowski (2013), Quantification of fuel moisture effects on biomass consumed derived from fire radiative energy retrievals, Geophysical Research Letters, 40,

Contact Us

College of Natural Resources

Physical Address:
975 W. 6th Street
Moscow, Idaho

Mailing Address:
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1138
Moscow, ID 83844-1138

Phone: 208-885-8981

Fax: 208-885-5534

Email: cnr@uidaho.edu

Web: College of Natural Resources