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Name: A Synthesis of the Science on Forests and Carbon for U.S. Forests
Description: Dr. Mike Ryan, USDA Forest Service Research Forest Ecologist, presented a scientific synthesis of the forest carbon cycle. The synthesis covers the entire US, but Dr. Ryan focused on the western US for this webinar. Forests play a key role in the...
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Name: Alaska Fire History Database
Description: Fourteen existing published and unpublished fire history (or stand age) tree-ring datasets were compiled into the Alaska Fire History Database. For each of the plots in the database, fire dates, possible fire dates, and tree establishment dates were...
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Name: Alaska Fire Science Consortium
Description: The Alaska Consortium is part of a national effort to improve technology transfer between management and researchers. The consortium is gearing up for several upcoming events, including the annual workshop.
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Name: Alaska Large Fire Database
Description: The Alaska Large Fire Database contains current and historical reported fire locations and fire perimeters (since 1939 and 1942, respectively). It was originally developed during the early 1990s by Nancy French and others from the Environmental...
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Name: An Overview of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Project and Field-Based Burn Severity Assessment
Description: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) is a multi-year, interagency project designed to consistently map the location, extent and associated burn severity of large fires occurring on all lands of the United States from 1984 to present. The suite of...
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Name: Climate Change and Stress Complexes in Forests of Western North America
Description: Stress complexes in Western forests are affected by a warmer climate, that is the interaction of fire, drought, insects, etc. can alter the vigor of forest ecosystems and potentially change their structure and function. This webinar will cover the...
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Name: Climate Change in Alaska
Description: In general, all climate prediction models are projecting continued increases in seasonal temperatures. Precipitation is also predicted to increase, though the impact on Alaska seems relatively minor. Alaska will most likely experience a drier...
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Name: Development of The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System
Description: The web-based Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS) was designed to provide fire and fuels managers with a single software solution to manage the many data, software applications, and tools available for fuels treatment...
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Name: Effectiveness Monitoring of Fuel Treatments in Southwest Yukon
Description: The southwest Yukon is currently experiencing a widespread outbreak of spruce bark beetle, creating an extensive area of standing dead trees. With the increased level of fire risk, monitoring fuel treatment effectiveness, especially in terms of...
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Name: Emissions, Energy Returns, and Economics of Utilizing Forest Residues for Thermal Energy Compared to Disposal by Pile Burning
Description: Greg Jones presented a webinar on using biomass for bioenergy. The greenhouse gas and particulate matter emissions from delivering and burning forest treatment residue biomass in a boiler for thermal energy are compared with onsite disposal by...
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