BOARD MEMBERS ELECTED
SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS BRING DIVERSE EXPERIENCE
Dolman’s PhD work with the Human-Environment Systems group at Boise State University focuses on reducing human exposure to wildfire hazards using both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Dolman is a recipient of the Joint Fire Science Program Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) award, which supports her work mapping built infrastructure using remote sensing.
Dolman serves as a trustee fellow on The Nature Conservancy Idaho Chapter board of trustees, contributing her expertise to conservation initiatives.
Collaboration is central to Dolman’s work, and she has actively engaged in partnerships to facilitate knowledge exchange between the United State and United Kingdom on community wildfire resilience and property protection.
Additionally, Dolman has worked with Leave No Trace to develop best practices for minimizing the spread of invasive plant species in recreational areas.
Beyond Dolman’s specific research interests, she is passionate about science communication and education.
Dolman holds an M.Sc. in biodiversity, conservation, and management from the University of Oxford and a B.Sc. in physical geography from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Little started her fire career as a rural volunteer with Fire and Emergency New Zealand before moving to the United Kingdom to complete a PhD in geography as part of the European innovative training network PyroLife.
Little is interested in understanding the interacting controls on fuel moisture, fire weather and fire danger across spatiotemporal scales, including compounding and cascading hazards, fire-climate interactions and live fuel moisture content, toward improving the ability to predict extreme fire conditions.
Little has co-led the development of a fire behaviour prediction system for the United Kingdom as part of the Towards a UK Fire Danger Rating System project and is the current UK representative on the COST Action project NERO – European Network on Extreme fire behavior.
Little is passionate about bringing people together and increasing collaboration between historically fire prone and emerging fire prone regions (especially temperate environments experiencing increasing wildfire risk).
Smith has more than 20 years of research and teaching experience related to wildland fire science since completing his PhD at King’s College London.
Smith’s research primarily focuses on improving understanding of vegetation severity following fires by connecting fire behavior with plant physiology.
Smith has served as an associate editor on the International Journal of Wildland Fire since 2009 and previously served for multiple years on the International Association of Wildland Fire scholarship committee.
Smith has also previously served on the governing board of the National Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils.
Recently, Smith helped create a fire risk management guide for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that was developed to help protect World Heritage Sites and in 2024, he was appointed to serve on the United States Geological Survey advisory committee on science quality and integrity.
Smith serves as the post-fire working group co-lead on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) FireSense implementation team.
IAWF 2025 BOARD
- Trevor Howard, Australia, president
- Ciaran Nugent, Ireland, vice president
- Sarah Harris, Australia, secretary
- Tamara Wall, United States, treasurer
- Amy Cardinal Christiansen, Canada
- Meg Dolman, United States
- Scott Goodrick, United States
- Kerryn Little, United Kingdom
- Claire Lötter, South Africa
- Tiago Oliveria, Portugal
- Joaquin Ramirez Cisneros, United States
- Amber Lynn Scott, United States
- David Shew, United States
- Alistair Smith, United State
- Naomi Eva Stephens, Australia
- Vivien Thomson, Australia
