Crystal A. Kolden

University of Nevada, Reno Mail Stop 154
Department of Geography, Mackay Science
Reno, NV 89557
Tel:(775) 674-7032
Fax:(775) 784-1058
Email: ckolden@gmail.com

Degrees Conferred, Location, Date  

M.S., Geography, University of Nevada , Reno , May 2005
B.A. cum laude , History, Cornell University , Ithaca , NY , 1999

Current and Recent Employment

Lecturer, Univ. of Nevada , Reno , Geography Department, Fall 2005

Research Assistant, Desert Research Institute, Reno , NV , December 2003-present

Fire Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Region 5, May 2003 - present (intermittent)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Univ. of Nevada , Reno , Geography Department, August 2002- December 2003

Resource/GIS Technician, Synergy Resource Solutions, Inc., Sparks , NV , January 2002- August 2002

Awards  

Best Master's degree-level paper, Biogeography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 2005

Best Graduate Paper, California Geographical Society Annual Meeting, April 2005

Best Graduate Poster, Univ. of Nevada , Reno , College of Science Annual Poster Competition, April 2005

2nd Place , Student Poster Competition, Nevada Geographical Information Society Annual Meeting, April 2005

Best Graduate Poster in the Sciences, Univ. of Nevada , Reno , Graduate Students Association Annual Poster Competition, April 2005

2nd Place , Science Presentations, Univ. of Nevada , Reno , Graduate Students Association Annual Presentation Competition, April 2005

President's Award for Outstanding Paper by a Master's Student; Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting; September 2003.

Outstanding Graduate Student; Univ. of Nevada , Reno , Graduate Students' Association; May 2003

Department of Geography Mountain and Desert Research Scholarship, University of Nevada , Reno, May 2003

Activities  

Student Association for Fire Ecology, UNR chapter, National chapter, 2002-2005

Co-chair of National chapter board, 2003-2004

Secretary of National chapter board, 2002-2003

Founder and Co-chair of UNR chapter, 2002-2004

Volunteers chair, 2003

Association for Fire Ecology, National Board

Student representative and membership committee chair, 2003-2004

Volunteer, session assistant. Association for Fire Ecology Conference, December 2002

Member of Geography Department Faculty Search Committee, 2003

Represented graduate student interests on search committee for new faculty position

Guest lecturer, Geography 103, 2002-2003

Guest Lecturer, Environmental and Resource Science 495/695, Spring 2003

Guest lecturer, Advanced GIS 409/609, Spring 2004

Guest Lecturer, Remote Sensing of Natural Resources, Spring 2005

Professional Affiliations  

American Association of Geographers

Association for Fire Ecology

Association of Pacific Coast Geographers

Biogeography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers

International Association of Wildland Fire

Student Association for Fire Ecology

Grants Awarded

University of Nevada , Reno , Graduate Students Association Travel Award, Spring 2005

University of Nevada , Reno , Graduate Students Association Travel Award, Fall 2004

Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Women's Network Travel Grant, Fall 2004

Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Margaret Trussell Research Grant, September 2004

"Economic impacts of GPS/GIS methods for wildfire mapping," $1,000 P.I.

University of Nevada , Reno , Graduate Students Association Travel Award, Summer 2004

Association for Fire Ecology Student Travel Award, Fall 2003

University of Nevada , Reno , Graduate Students Association Travel Award, Fall 2003

University of Nevada , Reno , Graduate Students Association Travel Award, Summer 2003

University of Nevada , Reno , Graduate Students Association Research Grant, May 2003

"Fire behavior in sagebrush-steppe ecosystems", $2,400, P.I.

Publications

Kolden , C.A. and T.J. Brown. In prep. The use of climate information in prescribed fire planning and implementation. In Proceedings of the 6 th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology . October 24-28, 2005, Banff , Al.

Kolden , C.A. 2005. Climate Impacts on Escaped Prescribed Fire Occurrence in California and Nevada . M.S. Thesis, University of Nevada , Reno . 158pp.

Kolden, C. A. and T. J. Brown. 2005. Utilization of climate information in prescribed fire. In Proceedings of the EastFIRE Conference , George Mason University , May 11-13, 2005, Fairfax , Va.

Brown, T.J., B.A. Morehouse, and C.A. Kolden. 2005. Developing sustainable partnerships between fire scientists and decision-makers. In Proceedings of the EastFIRE Conference , George Mason University , May 11-13, 2005, Fairfax , Va.

Kolden , C.A. and T. J. Brown. 2003. Climate Impacts on Prescribed Fire. In Proceedings of the the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2 nd International Wildland Fire Congress . November 16-20, 2003, Orlando , Fl.