Tyler McIntosh is a graduate student at CU Boulder working with Dr. Jennifer Balch in the Department of Geography and Dr. Laura Dee in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. His work focuses on wildfire in the western United States as a coupled social-ecological system. Tyler is interested in integrating big data and remotely sensed data from social, ecological, and physical systems to understand fire-mediated feedback mechanisms between humans and ecological systems, such as fire-related ecosystem services, fire behavior, fuel treatments and other management activities, and environmental governance.

Tyler received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Earth Systems from Stanford University. His prior research includes evaluating the impact of landowner preferences on deforestation in the Paraguayan Chaco, as well as investigating how deforestation, landscape patterns, and human livelihood behaviors intersect to influence human-non-human contacts in Uganda. Tyler most recently worked as the Forest Disturbance Project Manager at Earth Lab. In this role he managed a diverse set of projects and led data syntheses and field campaigns related to macrosystems and disturbance ecology. Prior to joining Earth Lab he worked in the fields of environmental education and conservation advocacy.

In his free time, Tyler loves exploring the mountains by bike, ski, and foot, in addition to reading and writing. You can find Tyler online via  LinkedIn and Google Scholar.