Mark A. Finney is a Research Forester with the US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory. He has worked at the Fire Laboratory since 1993 on fire behavior, fire growth modeling and risk analysis, and landscape fuel management. He leads the fire behavior program on fundamental fire behavior research focusing on laboratory and field-scale experiments to understand the physical processes in fire spread. He was responsible for development and transfer of existing fire models to the national internet-based Wildland Fire Decision Support System. He holds a Ph.D. in wildland fire science from Univ. California at Berkeley (1991), an M.S. in Fire Ecology from University of Washington (1986), and a B.S. in Forestry from Colorado State University (1984).