Contributor to Community Fire Plans in Chile
Paula Tiara is is working with Fundación Mar Adentro and Smart Forests to develop community fire plan materials, infrastructures, networks and events.
She is a Forestry Engineer and holds a Master's degree in Natural Resources from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she specialized in assessing wildfire landscape susceptibility using Machine Learning and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Additionally, she has actively contributed to a project aimed at modeling and predicting attacks by xylophagous species in Chilean forests using Systems Dynamics modeling.
Paula is particularly interested in exploring new areas of investigation to contribute to environmental knowledge. She is passionate about how data analysis methodologies can improve sustainable forest management and biodiversity conservation.