Miriam Rorig

Research Meteorologist and Senior Scientist
U.S. Forest Service AirFire Team


Contact info:

Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory
400 N. 34th St #201, Seattle, WA 98103
mrorig (at) fs.fed.us;  206-732-7843 (o);  206-732-7801 (fax)


Miriam has been with the Forest Service for almost 20 years. She has worked on a wide range of topics, including understanding and predicting dry lightning outbreaks in the western U.S. She has been integrally involved in the development and evaluation of the BlueSky Framework, a smoke dispersion prediction system which simulates the effects of smoke from prescribed and wildfires. 


Research links:

Ms. Rorig is the lead on a variety of projects including:

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Recent publications and reports:

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