Carl A. Norlen, Research Scientist at NASA Earth Exchange

Carl Norlen is a Research Scientist with the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) at the NASA Ames Research Center, contributing to the Wildfire, Ecosystem Resilience, & Risk Assessment Initiative (WERK) project in partnership with the state of California. He leads creation of fuel data sets to aid understanding of the impacts and effectiveness of California’s increased investment in fuel treatments.

Previously, Norlen served as a Presidential Management Fellow with the USGS National Land Imaging program and the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station. In that role he worked to understand end-user needs for Earth Observation–based data, acted as a liaison for USGS to the National Space Council, and conducted research on the impacts of urban fires on people and communities.

He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, where he studied the impacts of droughts and fires on California forests.

United States, California

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