International Association of Wildland Fire

 

IAWF Upcoming Webinars

Our May 14, 2013 Webinar is "Quantifying Biomass and Fuels for Non-Forest Lands of the Coterminous US". Dr. Matt Reeves will present a webinar on a satellite based fuel updating protocol for estimating surface Fire Behavior Fuel Models for U.S. rangelands.
Current fire behavior and decision support systems such as Wildand Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) and Rapid Assessment of Values at risk (RAVAR) require up-to-date spatial data depicting the amount and condition of fuels across the landscape. With so many lives, properties and resources at risk, updated, timely and accurate estimates of of non-forest fuels is a critical component of fire management today. Wildland fuels in arid regions of the U.S. respond quickly to inter-annual variations in vegetation productivity, especially when annual invasive species such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and red brome (Bromus rubens) are present. Currently no system exists which seamlessly and comprehensively provides updated data for all non-forest fuels. Therefore, an annual monitoring and updating strategy is needed that will deliver spatially explicit depictions of surface fuels in a continuous and comprehensive manner.The Webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, May 14 at 1:00 pm MDT.

IAWF Past Webinars

Our April 30, 2013 Webinar was "After the Smoke Clears: The Use of Wood Mulch to Reduce Post-fire Erosion Risk", presented by Pete Robichaud. In recent years, wood based mulches have been applied to hillslopes when downstream values at risk have warranted erosion control treatments.  This webinar reviewed the properties of wood mulch, performance as compared to agricultural straw and the logistics of applying wood mulch to burned hillslopes.

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Our April 4, 2013 Webinar was “Exploring fire behavior and wind flows in bark beetle-infested forests and woodlands using HIGRAD/FIRETEC,” presented by Carolyn Seig. A diverse team of researchers from the USDA Forest Service, Colorado State University, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory has been exploring the implications of bark beetle-induced tree mortality in several forest types on fire behavior and wind flows using HIGRAD/FIRETEC.  

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Our March 20, 2013 Webinar was The Economic Impact of Large Wildfires. Cassandra Moseley discussed how suppression spending can help mediate negative impacts of wildfires, and explore factors that influence whether local businesses capture suppression spending.

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Our February 27, 2013 Webinar was Debunking Myths in Wildland Fire. Sarah McCaffrey presented findings from recent research on social issues of fire management with particular emphasis on the accuracy of various accepted truths about the public and fire management and the variables that actually are associated with approval of different fire management practices.

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Our February 13, 2013 Webinar was Management of Cheatgrass Fuel Loading in the Shrub-Steppe. Steven Link presenter.

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Our November 20, 2012 Webinar was Mobile Technologies in Fire and Aviation Management. Presented by Esther Godson of the USFS Missoula Technology and Development Center.

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Our October 2, 2012 Webinar was 2012 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey and the Coalition of Prescribe Fire Councils

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Our October 18, 2012 Webinar was Introduction to the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System – IFTDSS presented by Stacy Drury.

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September 20, 2012 Webinar: Current Research on Public Perceptions of Smoke from Wildland and Prescribed Fire to Inform Communication and Outreach.

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Our August 9, 2012 Webinar was Introduction to FlamMap5.

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Our July 12, 2012 Webinar: Landscape Treatment Designer: A multicriteria optimization tool for fuel treatment planning was presented by Alan Ager. The Landscape Treatment Designer (LTD) is a multicriteria spatial prioritization and optimization system to help design and explore landscape fuel treatment scenarios.

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Our June 19, 2012 Webinar: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS): Project Overview and Data Access was presented by Josh Picotte and Jennifer Lecker.

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Our June 26, 2012 Webinar: Innovative uses of Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Data at Grand Canyon National Park was presented by Eric Gdula, a Fire GIS specialist at Grand Canyon National Park.Grand Canyon National Park has an active fire program.

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Our June 7, 2012 Webinar: ArcFuels: An ArcGIS Interface for Fuel Treatment Planning and Wildfire Risk Assessment was presented by Nicole Vaillant.

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Our May 17, 2012 Webinar: Wildland Firefighter Heat Illness Awareness and Prevention. Presented by an expert panel.

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Our May 3, 2012 Webinar: On the Causes and Movement of Smoke-Induced Fog was presented by Gary L. Achtemeier.

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Our April 17, 2012 Webinar: Smoke Management: Preparing and Informing the Public (Lessons from SWA Fire Season 2011) was presented by Emily Irwin and Josh Hall.

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Our March 27, 2012 Webinar: Effects of Fuels Treatments on the Spatial Probabilities of Burning and Final Size of Recent Wildfires across the United States was presented by Mark Cochran.

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Our February 21, 2012 Webinar: Learning from Prescribed Fire Reviews: Initial Results was presented by Anne Black.

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Our January 26, 2012 Webinar: Hot off the Press: The Latest Research from the Joint Fire Science Program was presented by Molly Hunter.

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Our January 10, 2012 webinar: Human Performance and Risk Management was presented by Ivan Pupulidy.

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Our December 13, 2011 webinar: Introduction to WFDSS-Air Quality Tools was presented by Miriam Rorig, a research meteorologist with the AirFire Team. Miriam walked through each of the tools and discuss their uses and limitations.

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Our November 30, 2011 webinar: Using fire as a restoration tool: A case study in the Gila National Forest was presented by Dr. Molly Hunter.

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Our October 25, 2011 webinar: Human & Organizational Performance: Folklore & Science was presented by James Saveland.

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Our September 27, 2011 webinar: "The 'pyrogeography' of western North America: How climate has affected fire regimes across the West, and where it may be going in the future" was presented by Peter Brown.

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Our August 25, 2011 webinar: "US biomass and bioenergy policy: Where are we and where might we be going?" was presented by Chris Farley.

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Our July 12, 2011 webinar: "Mountain pine beetle and fire: The British Columbia experience" was presented by Dana Hicks.

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Our June 28, 2011 webinar: "Emissions, Energy Returns and Economics of Utilizing Forest Residues for Thermal Energy Compared to Disposal by Pile Burning" was presented by Greg Jones, a research forester with the Rocky Mountain Research Station.

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Our May 26, 2011 webinar: "Simulating vegetation, fire, and climate dynamics in the northern Rocky Mountain landscape" was presented by Robert Keane. Time 1:00 - 2:00 pm (MDT)

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Our May 3, 2011 webinar: "Fire, Carbon, and Climate: Past and Future" was presented by Michael Ryan, a research ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station.

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Our April 19, 2011 webinar: "Using climate information for risk mitigation and objective achievement in managed fire" was presented by Crystal Kolden, assistant research professor with the University of Idaho.

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Our November 9, 2010 webinar: "Climate Change and Stress Complexes of Forests of Western North America" presented by Dave Peterson and Christie McNeillis available online.  To view:

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Our October 19, 2010 webinar: "Climate Change and Fire Projections in the West: Why the Science Should Matter to Managers" archive is available online.  To view:

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Our September 21, 2010 webinar: "Using Climate and Climate Change Information for Fire Management" archive is available online.  To view:

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Our June 30, 2009 webinar: "Prepare, Stay and Defend, or Go Early: International Perspectives" was a huge success. Presented in cooperation with the Lessons Learned Center, the webinar archive can be found here:

Our April 22, 2010 archives for the webinar: "Climate Change and Land/Fire Management" can be found here:

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