Full Name
Dr. Sonja Leverkus, RPF, RPBio, PAg, EP
Job Title
Prescribed Fire Specialist
Organization
Shifting Mosaics Corporation and Northern Fire WoRx Corporation
Speaker Bio
Dr. Sonja Leverkus is the founder of Shifting Mosaics Corporation and Northern Fire WoRx Corporation. She earned a PhD from Oklahoma State University, with specialization in pyric herbivory, landscape ecology, and prescribed fire.
She is an RPF, RPBio, PAg, EP, and is a burn boss, ignitions specialist, and incident commander. She also holds a BSc in environmental biology from McGill, a BA in French from the University of Victoria, and is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Wildfire Science, Adaptation and Resiliency at Thompson Rivers University.
Leverkus has served on the Forest Professionals BC-BC Wildfire Service Wildland Fire Joint Panel for two years.
In 2024, she and her crew worked a combined 3,850 hours on the fire line, five minutes from her home, as they stayed to defend their community in Fort Nelson.
The experiences of both safely lighting prescribed fire during burn bans combined with fighting wildfire in severe drought over the past three years allows Dr. Leverkus the opportunity to observe and adapt to numerous impacts of a changing climate.
Her passion for the land and all its inhabitants drives her to provide effective, efficient, ecologically and culturally appropriate natural resource management opportunities for all those she and her team work with.
She is an RPF, RPBio, PAg, EP, and is a burn boss, ignitions specialist, and incident commander. She also holds a BSc in environmental biology from McGill, a BA in French from the University of Victoria, and is an adjunct professor at the Institute for Wildfire Science, Adaptation and Resiliency at Thompson Rivers University.
Leverkus has served on the Forest Professionals BC-BC Wildfire Service Wildland Fire Joint Panel for two years.
In 2024, she and her crew worked a combined 3,850 hours on the fire line, five minutes from her home, as they stayed to defend their community in Fort Nelson.
The experiences of both safely lighting prescribed fire during burn bans combined with fighting wildfire in severe drought over the past three years allows Dr. Leverkus the opportunity to observe and adapt to numerous impacts of a changing climate.
Her passion for the land and all its inhabitants drives her to provide effective, efficient, ecologically and culturally appropriate natural resource management opportunities for all those she and her team work with.
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