Greg has worked with FPInnovations since 2001 where he has focused on fuels research, firefighter safety, and now on community protection research. Over the last four years he has developed a data collection framework for the purpose of collecting fuels and structure data prior to a wildfire arriving in and around structures as well as completing post-fire structure analysis. The data will be used to enhance educational tools that provide homeowners structure protection practices and identify appropriate construction methods/materials that will reduce the impact of wildfire in the WUI. To supplement this, experimental crown fire in the NWT has been used on structures built to various construction standards.

Greg is also involved in evaluating the effectiveness of fuel treatments in and around communities that have been impacted by wildfire. Following the damaging WUI wildfires of 2023 in British Columbia, Greg’s focus has shifted to documenting fire behaviour, fuels, and structural damage in a post-fire environment. Greg is also directly involved in FPInnovations’ 3-year undertaking to standardize data collection in their Wildfire Community Impact Research (WCIR) project.