Dr. Amber Soja is an interdisciplinary scientist, with 30 years of research experience in wildland fire and smoke science. Her goal is to connect these integral physical and chemical processes through the biosphere, atmosphere, weather, and climate systems, using Earth Observation and ground-based data. Amber’s inspiration comes from having been born into a family that spent every spare moment exploring the natural world.
Over the years, Dr. Soja has participated in and led numerous projects and field campaigns (e.g., FireBear, INTEX-A, INTEX-B, TexAQS, ARCTAS, FIREX-AQ, Fuel2Fire). She led international teams of scientists to remote Siberia, where they measured emissions from fires, spectral signatures, and biomass fuels from both wildfire and set experimental fires (1999-2014 Crimea). For decades, she continued as a lead scientist for the Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership (NEESPI), working with scientists from this challenging continent to collate data and manuscripts (4 special issue, 40 books and chapters, 160 collaborative international projects, 750 scientists across 30 countries). Over her career, she served as an Associate Program Manager for the Wildland Fire Program (2014-2018), where the teams excelled at advancing a mean of 5 steps in Applications Readiness Levels (ARL), several reaching ARL 8 and 9. She led the LaRC Disasters program (2016-201 …
