Current
Postdoc
Dr. Jen Baron
(she/her)
Understanding and restoring altered fire-adapted ecosystems in British Columbia
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Dr. Jen Baron is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and an incoming Assistant Professor in Fire Ecology at the Centre for Wildfire Coexistence, University of British Columbia Okanagan. She completed her PhD at the UBC Faculty of Forestry in the Tree Ring Lab, where she focused on understanding and managing altered fire regimes in southeastern British Columbia.
Through her research program, she works to understand how the ongoing legacies of colonial land management systems have altered fire regimes and how the strategic applications of treatments and management can restore fire-adapted communities, ecosystems, and landscapes.
AFFILIATIONS
Member, Centre for Wildfire Coexistence
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Associate Editor, Fire Ecology
TEACHING
GEM500: Landscape Ecology and Management
SELECT GRANTS AND AWARDS
Izaak Walter Killam Memorial Fellowship
Jordan L Burke Memorial Award in Forestry
Killam Graduate Teaching Award
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship
MEDIA
The Ubyssey | UBC researchers propose six strategies for coexisting with wildfires
The Narwhal | Aspen is a natural fire guard. Why has B.C. spent decades killing it off with glyphosate?
The Globe and Mail | Inaccurate data on forest fuels may stoke B.C. wildfires, study finds
The Globe and Mail | PODCAST | The challenge with preparing for wildfires in B.C.
The Clear Cut | PODCAST | Wildfire: What are the drivers?
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions | Wildfire and Carbon Project
Get FireSmart | PODCAST | Understanding and Restoring Active Fire Regimes in BC
CBC | If we're going to tackle worsening wildfires, we need to think differently, say those who know
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Daniels, L. D., Dickson-Hoyle, S., Baron, J. N., Copes-Gerbitz, K., Flannigan, M. D., Castellanos-Acuna, D., Hoffman, K. M., Bourbonnais, M., Wilkinson, S. L., Roeser, D., Harvey, J. E., Laflamme, J., Tiribelli, F., Whitehead, J., Leverkus, S. E. R., & Gray, R. W. (2025). The 2023 wildfires in British Columbia, Canada: Impacts, drivers, and transformations to coexist with wildfire. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 55, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0092
Baron, J. N., Hessburg, P. F., Parisien, M.-A., Greene, G. A., Gergel, Sarah. E., & Daniels, L. D. (2024). Fuel types misrepresent forest structure and composition in interior British Columbia: A way forward. Fire Ecology, 20(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00249-z
Copes-Gerbitz, K., Sutherland, I. J., Dickson-Hoyle, S., Baron, J. N., Gonzalez-Moctezuma, P., Crowley, M. A., Kitchens, K. A., Devisscher, T., & Burr, J. (2024). Guiding principles for transdisciplinary and transformative fire research. Fire Ecology, 20(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00244-w
Dickson-Hoyle, S., St̓uxwtéws (Bonaparte First Nation), Skeetchestn Natural Resources Corporation, Eatherton, A., Baron, J. N., Tiribelli, F., & Daniels, L. D. (2024). Fire severity drives understory community dynamics and the recovery of culturally significant plants. Ecosphere, 15(3), e4795. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4795
Baron, J. N., Gergel, S. E., Hessburg, P. F., & Daniels, L. D. (2022). A century of transformation: Fire regime transitions from 1919 to 2019 in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-022-01506-9
Brookes, W., Daniels, L. D., Copes-Gerbitz, K., Baron, J. N., & Carroll, A. L. (2021). A Disrupted Historical Fire Regime in Central British Columbia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 676961. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.676961