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Dr Maximilian Stiefel

Dr Maximilian Stiefel

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Research Associate in Assessing the Effectiveness of Wildlife Protection Strategies

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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.