In Dr. Kane’s Forest Resilience Laboratory, we are forest and fire landscape ecologists who make extensive use of high-fidelity remote sensing data, especially airborne lidar, to enable analyses ranging in scale from stands to landscapes.

Forests across the world are under stress from climate change, legacies of management, and fire. Our work studies the causes and effects of these forces on forest resilience, and we work with forest managers to apply our findings to improve forest resilience.