Fire and Aviation Management Assistant Director
USDA Forest Service
Jessica Haas is an Assistant Director for the USDA Forest Service’s Fire and Aviation Management division. Overseeing Operations Technologies, Information Management and Advanced Capabilities, her team focuses on bringing technical solutions to the operational front of wildfire management. Her Forest Service career spans over 18 years, with her focus primarily centered around natural hazard modeling and wildfire risk assessments. Her work has been used nationally to support hazard mitigation by major land managers and various state forestry departments across the country. Her research is published in both peer-reviewed scientific journals and news media sources from the Wall Street Journal to the Boston Globe. Jessica received her M.S. in Resource Conservation in 2010 from the University of Montana, where she studied landscape ecology, large data analysis and computing. In her former life, Jessica was a ski bum in Big Sky, Montana and in her free time she can still be found skiing and climbing throughout the mountains of the west.
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