Carrie Levine, PhD is the co-director of the Forest and Agriculture domain with expertise in forest ecology, fire and fuels modeling, natural resource management, and remote sensing and GIS. Broadly, Carrie is interested in understanding the processes that underlie changes in forest structure and function over time and provide actionable recommendations for ecosystem management. At SIG, Carrie leads fuels and fire modeling efforts for First Street Foundation’s parcel-level fire risk analysis as well as programs supporting California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force.
Carrie holds a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California, Berkeley. She has a Masters in Forest Ecology and a BA in biology.

Carrie is a contributor to the Pyregence Fuel Mapping and Fire Physics Team, which is developing a new fuel inventory and fire behavior system. She is helping integrate forest structure modeling and tree mortality dynamics into short-term and long-term fire prediction models.

Carrie’s research seeks to inform our understanding of the impacts of forest disturbance and forest restoration on ecosystem structure and function. Her work addressing methods for quantifying baseline forest conditions has been used to inform decision-making regarding restoration actions in California forests. Before joining SIG, she was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis and a lead scientist at Conservation Science Partners Inc.

Carrie is the project lead for the fuels team of the First Street Foundation’s annualized fire risk product Fire Factor.