Aaron Sparks
Aaron Sparks, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Fire Ecology & Geospatial Data Analysis
IRIC 243
Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1133
Moscow ID 83844-1133
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 2017, Natural Resources
- M.S. (Honors), University of Idaho, 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, https://doi.org/10.3390/f13010003
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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112694
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, https://doi.org/10.3390/fire3040056
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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112114
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, https://doi.org/10.3390/fire2020023
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, https://doi.org/10.3390/RS11050477
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, https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18044
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, https://doi.org/10.1071/WF17145
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, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1173-2018
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, https://doi.org/10.1072/WF16139
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, https://doi.org/10.1071/WF16077
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, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8070572
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, https://doi.org/10.1071/WF15130
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, https://doi.org/10.1071/WF14131
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, https://doi.org/10.1071/WF13065
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, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058232