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Name: Nat Johnson
Title: Graduate Research Assistant
Phone: 406-243-6277
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Nat Johnson is a Graduate Research Assistant at the National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana

Education:

• B.A French, University of Massachusetts, 1991
• Post-Baccalaureate studies at University of Montana 2001-2004
• Graduate student in Forestry 2004 to present
  

Highlights:

• Experience performing a variety of computer programming tasks using Python
• Experience using ArcGIS, Imagine, Matlab, SPSS, and various database management systems 
• 15 years of wildland fire suppression, prescribed fire, and fire technology support experience
• Experience as a classroom wildland fire management instructor
• Extensive work with wildland fire related Job Hazard Analyses
• Worked with University of Montana's Wildlife Spatial Analysis Lab in conjunction with the USFS doing a remote sensing-based land-cover classification project
  

Leadership and Supervisory Skills:

• Served as one of the NCLFA Fire Intelligence Module Crew Bosses for three seasons
• Received performance award from USFS for outstanding leadership skills as Lolo IHC Squad Leader
• Responsible for maintaining high level of situational awareness and firefighter/technical specialist cohesion in order to carry out safe and productive firefighting operations
• Advanced to level of Task Force Leader in National Wildfire Coordinating Group's fire qualifications standards
  

Job Experience:

UM National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis: 2003 to present
     One of Fire Intelligence Module's Crew bosses
     Fire Training and Documentation Supervisor
     MODIS Fire and Thermal Anomalies Fire Detection and Qualification analysis
                
USFS Lolo Interagency Hotshot Crew
     Crewmember 1993, 1995-1996
     Detailed as Squad Leader in 1994, and 1997-1998
     Permanent Seasonal Appointment as Squad Leader 1999, 2002-2003
     Detailed as Assistant Superintendent in 2000.
     Detailed to Custer National Forest for Remote Sensing Project in 2001

Professional Ski Patrol member at Montana Snowbowl Ski area from 1997-1999
Instructor for University of Montana Partnership for Wildland Fire Training in 1998 and 1999