Abstract
In August, 2018, an editorial in Fire entitled Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science was published. This was intended to ignite a conversation into diversity in fire science by highlighting several women leaders in fire research and development. This editorial was released alongside a new Topical Collection in Fire called Diversity Leaders in Fire Science. The response on social media was fantastic, leading to numerous recommendations of women leaders in fire science that had been inadvertently missed in the first editorial. In this editorial, we acknowledge 145 women leaders in fire science to promote diversity across our disciplines. Fire is continually committed to improving diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the journal and welcomes perspectives, viewpoints, and constructive criticisms to help advance that mission.
Highlights
Following the release of the initial editorial, Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science [1], we received over 100 recommendations from Twitter and other forms of social media of potential other women leaders in fire science
We checked all Google Scholar accounts contained within the first 100 hits for whether each woman fire scientist met the leader criteria, as described below. This does limit the search for women scientists to those who have a Google Scholar account, we did enable a wider geographic distribution of women fire scientists to be highlighted than the previous approach
Dr Turetsky’s research focuses on the impacts of wildfires and retreating permafrost on plant communities and biogeochemical cycling, with a focus on boreal systems. Her notable works include a spatio-temporal assessment of how fire patterns changed in the boreal regions of Canada and Alaska [71], an assessment of how climate change may impact fire activity and management in boreal forests [72], and the impacts of fires on carbon cycling in Alaskan forests and peatlands [40,73,74]
Summary
Following the release of the initial editorial, Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science [1], we received over 100 recommendations from Twitter and other forms of social media of potential other women leaders in fire science. This follow-up editorial seeks to acknowledge these women leaders in fire science to promote diversity across our disciplines
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