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Dr Maximilian Stiefel
Research Associate in Assessing the Effectiveness of Wildlife Protection Strategies
Contact details
Biography
Max is a climate risk researcher. He is currently working with Dr. David Demeritt on natural language processing of natural hazard mitigation plans to construct a dataset for statistically modeling the effectiveness of wildfire protection strategies. His broader research interests are in modeling risk to human systems across all climate-sensitive hazards. Max holds a PhD from the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Research
- Climate Risk
- Extreme Events
- Wildfire
- Natural Language Processing
- Artificial Intelligence
Max's current project involves gathering Community Wildfire Protection Plans and similar documents (e.g. Natural Hazard Mitigation Plans), analyzing these documents with natural language processing to construct a dataset of plan characteristics, and statistically modeling the effectiveness of wildfire protection strategies in North America.
Research
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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society
Transforming the scientific and practical understanding of wildfire through interdisciplinary research
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Geocomputation and Data Science Research Hub
The Geocomputation and Data Science Research Hub provides expertise in solving contemporary global problems using data.
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Centre for Integrated Research in Risk & Resilience
Bringing together research disciplines to shape a critical perspective on resilience and its application as a concept.
Research
![fire](/newimages/sspp/did/main/fire.xc585de4f.jpg?crop=780,440,0,10&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society
Transforming the scientific and practical understanding of wildfire through interdisciplinary research
![Digital elevation model GIS 3D illustration](/newimages/sspp/sga/digital-elevation-model-gis-3d-illustration.xb1b37a65.jpg?w=780&h=522&crop=780,440,0,41&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Geocomputation and Data Science Research Hub
The Geocomputation and Data Science Research Hub provides expertise in solving contemporary global problems using data.
![environmental pollution smoke stacks](/newimages/sspp/Geography/hero/environmental-pollution-smoke-stacks.xb6367059.jpg?w=1064&h=543&crop=780,440,152,51&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Centre for Integrated Research in Risk & Resilience
Bringing together research disciplines to shape a critical perspective on resilience and its application as a concept.