to the Fire Sciences Laboratory of the USDA Forest Service in Missoula, Montana, from which he retired in September of 2002. He has studied all aspects of the relationship... of lightning and thunderstorms to forest fires, including generation of space charge, lightning from pyrocumulus, lightning ignition of fires, and optical emissions from fires. His...

2000, Tahoe, CA. 1987 2. Moderator/session keynoter, Forestry Expert Systems, Forest Resources Systems Institute, Syracuse, NY, 1987 3. Keynote speaker, 10th Conference on Fire... and Forest Meteorology, Ottawa, Ont., Canada. April, 1989 4. Keynote speaker and moderator, session on Artificial Intelligence, Ontario Division of Natural Resources, Ottawa, Ont... of the lightning discharge." Sixth Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Seattle, WA, 1980. "A possible fire season severity predictor." AGU, San Francisco, Fall Meeting 1980. "Luminous...

Research Work Unit, Fire Sciences Laboratory, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service (7 Scientists, 4 Professionals, 2 Technicians, 2 Program Assistants, ~ 3.5 MM budget.... Vonnegut, B., D.J. Latham, C.B. Moore, and S.J. Hunyady. An Explanation for Anomalous Lightning From Forest Fire Clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research, V. 100, 5037-5050. 1996. Invited.... Atmospheric Research, 51, 267-278 2001. Latham, D.J. and Williams, E. Lightning and Forest Fires, Chapter 11, Forest Fires, E.A. Johnson, ed. Academic Press, NY, p 375-418 2002...