Kurt Menning

Kurt Menning is a Lecturer at San Francisco State University, teaching courses in Biogeography, National Park Management, and Bay Area Environmental Issues. With over 40 years of experience in American National Parks, his work bridges conservation biology and physics through landscape-level ecological modeling, remote sensing, and field data analysis.

• Education: PhD in Conservation Biology and Physics (University of California, 2003), Master's in Resource Conservation (University of Montana), and Bachelor's in Physics (University of Colorado).
• Research Focus: Landscape fire ecology, disturbance dynamics, biogeography, and statistical analysis of forest ecosystems using GIS and remote sensing.
• Notable Contributions: Postdoctoral work at Berkeley on ladder fuel hazards and fire dynamics modeling; visiting scholar at City University of London (2005).
• Awards: Recipient of the prestigious Canon National Park Science Scholar Fellowship (3-year term).
• Field Experience: Directed University of Colorado Wilderness Study Group, censused wildlife in Alaska, and collaborated with Russian Institute for Research in Mountain Forestry.