Fire and landscape ecologist.
Andrea Duane has developed quantitative approaches to predict changes in fire regimes related to climatic and social factors, and has evaluated the effects of these changes on ecosystems. She specialises in Mediterranean ecosystems, although she also analyses the problem of extreme forest fires at the global scale. She has worked in institutions in Canada, Australia, Chile and the United States, and has 25 scientific publications and various popular science articles to her name. She is currently working at the University of California, Davis, where she is leading a research project on historical forest fires in California, specifically for the period prior to the arrival of Europeans, that combines ecological sampling with anthropological evidence. She is an active volunteer in the Prescribed Burn Association of Butte County, California, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Pau Costa Foundation.
