Rate My Professor Jesse Kreye

Jesse K. Kreye, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Pennsylvania State University, specializing in fire and natural resources management. He holds a Ph.D. in Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida (2012), an M.S. in Natural Resources (Forestry) from Humboldt State University (2008), and a B.S. in Forestry (Wildland Fire Management) from Humboldt State University (2004). Kreye's research centers on fire ecology, fire behavior, and effects, exploring critical topics such as multivariate litter traits influencing moisture and flammability in northeastern North American tree species, forest landowner demand for prescribed fire in Pennsylvania, restoration of fire-dependent ecosystems to mitigate ticks and tick-borne diseases, stump sprouting in eastern hardwoods, litter flammability along mesophication gradients, prescribed fire impacts on mid-Atlantic oak forests, radiant heating effects on fuel moisture, duff smoldering in longleaf pine ecosystems, long-term masticated fuelbed changes, pyrogenic flowering post-fire exclusion, solar heating on litter moisture dynamics, and mechanical mastication as a fuels treatment. His work addresses fuel dynamics, fire regimes, and management strategies in fire-prone and fire-excluded forests across eastern North America.