Maggie Tucker wins Graduate Research Innovation Award

Maggie Tucker, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Dan Kashian's lab, has been awarded a Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) Award from the Joint Fire Sciences Program.

This program funds graduate students for projects in the fields of wildland fire and related human dimensions and ecological sciences. She has been awarded $25,000 to spend on research expenses over the next two years. Her project will use a landscape model and GIS (Global Information System) work to investigate whether the arrangement of jack pine barrens in northern Lower Michigan may mediate the spread and behavior of wildfires under various climate change scenarios.

This is a highly competitive award and is a great recognition of Maggie's past and projected future research success.