Dr. Rodman Linn began his career in the field of theoretical turbulence modeling in Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Theoretical Fluid Dynamics group in 1990 working with Dr. Francis Harlow. This work provided the foundations for Dr. Linn’s research in the area of wildfire modeling, which began in 1995. Since then, one of his focus areas has been coupled fire/atmosphere behavior. For over two decades he has served as principal investigator for a process-based coupled fire/atmosphere model, FIRETEC. Dr. Linn continues to use next-generation process-based wildfire models for the study of fundamental wildfire behavior, evaluation of prescribed fire tactics, understanding influences of complex environmental conditions on fire behavior, risk assessment for critical facilities and wildfire’s interaction with other landscape disturbances such as insects or drought. Dr. Linn also applies numerical models to study a variety of other near-surface atmospheric-related phenomena including wind energy, dispersion and ecosystem dynamics, which are impacted by the interaction between the atmosphere and surface vegetation though aerodynamic drag and energy balances.