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Meeting Mar 29, 2023 10:00 am to 3:00 pm AKDT Kenai Peninsula All Lands All Hands Spring Meeting
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Jan 25, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Feb 22, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Mar 29, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Apr 26, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, May 31, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Jun 28, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Sep 27, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Oct 25, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am Pacific Time LANDFIRE Office Hour (2023 Series)
Feb 8, 2023 10:00 am, Feb 15, 2023 10:00 am, Feb 22, 2023 10:00 am, Mar 1, 2023 10:00 am, Mar 8, 2023 10:00 am, Mar 22, 2023 10:00 am, Mar 29, 2023 10:00 am Mountain Time Science You Can Use 2023 Spring Webinar Series
Mar 29, 2023 2:00 pm PDT Dissertation Defense: Towards a Theory of Default Suppression: Decision Making in the Context of Full Suppression and Polystrategic Wildfires on Federal Lands, USA
Mar 29, 2023 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm MDT AFE Student and Early-Career Connections
Mar 30, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am MDT Webinar - Fires, Forest Management, and the Future of New Mexico’s Endemic Salamanders
Feb 24, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Mar 3, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Mar 10, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Mar 17, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Mar 24, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Mar 31, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Apr 7, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Apr 14, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Apr 21, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Apr 28, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, May 5, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, May 12, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, May 19, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, May 26, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am Pacific Time Fabulous Fuels Friday
Apr 5, 2023 11:00 am to 12:30 pm MDT Webinar - Landscape Fuels Treatment Effectiveness
Apr 5, 2023 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm PDT Webinar - Resources for Private Forestland Risk Reduction and Post-fire Restoration
Apr 6, 2023 11:00 am to 12:00 pm MDT Fire Lab Seminar Series - A New Semi-Lagrangian Solver in WindNinja
Feb 24, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Mar 3, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Mar 10, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Mar 17, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Mar 24, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Mar 31, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Apr 7, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Apr 14, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Apr 21, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, Apr 28, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, May 5, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, May 12, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, May 19, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am, May 26, 2023 9:00 am to 10:30 am Pacific Time Fabulous Fuels Friday
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Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips Mar 20, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023 Alaska Interagency Spring Operations Meeting
Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips Mar 7, 2023 2023 AWFCG Fuels Treatment Planning Workshop
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Mar 1, 2023 Webinar - Unrecorded Tundra Fires of the Arctic Slope, Alaska USA
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Nov 15, 2022 Webinar - Alaska Fire Season 2022: Focus on Southwest Alaska and Impacts on Vegetation and Fuels
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Nov 4, 2022 Webinar - Evaluating Flammability of Reburns in the Boreal Forests of Interior Alaska 
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Nov 1, 2022 Webinar - Storage and Emissions of Carbon in Boreal Peatlands Affected by Extreme Drought and Wildfire
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Oct 27, 2022 Webinar - Current and Near-Term Future Trends of Boreal and Arctic Fire and Smoke
Conferences and Symposia Oct 25, 2022 to Oct 27, 2022 2022 Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review and Fire Science Workshop
Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips Aug 24, 2022 NASA ABoVE Airborne Team Open House
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations May 24, 2022 Alaska Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee Spring Refresher 2022


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Alaska Fire Season 2022: Focus on Southwest Alaska and Impacts on Vegetation and Fuels

The 2022 fire season in Alaska was unprecedented. Southwest Alaska experienced record-breaking fires that impacted local communities and challenged management resources. This webinar will review the weather, climate, and ecological factors that...
Presenter(s): Richard L. Thoman Jr., Gerald V. Frost
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Date: November 15, 2022

Burn Severity Explained

In 2019, the Shovel Creek Fire grew rapidly and threatened nearby neighborhoods north of Fairbanks. The fire was started by lighting on June 21. After 39 days of burning, and $25 million spent on suppression the fire was put out and no homes or...
Type: StoryMap
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Planning, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Date: 2022

Alaska’s Fire Weather Hotspot and its Response to Regional Atmospheric Circulation at Weather and Climate Time Scales

Alaska’s central and eastern interior (CEI), including the greater Tanana Valley and Yukon Flats, has consistently been the most fire prone area of the state during the last two decades. Toward operational and research applications, several...
Presenter(s): Tom Ballinger
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Date: January 25, 2022

Alaska's Changing Wildfire Environment

An intensified pattern of wildfire is emerging in Alaska as rapidly increasing temperatures and longer growing seasons alter the state's environment. Both tundra and Boreal forest regions are seeing larger and more frequent fires. The impacts of...
Presenter(s): Zav Grabinski
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Date: June 8, 2021

Mapping Fire Emissions: A review of the Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System and Explanation of Recent Updates

The Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System (WFEIS) came out of a NASA Applied Science program focused on creating maps of regional-scale wildland fire carbon emissions using the Consume emissions model and the Fuel Characteristic...
Presenter(s): Nancy H. F. French , Michael Billmire
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Date: May 6, 2021

The McKinley Fire: Rebuilding and Lessons Learned

The 2019 McKinley Fire devastated a 10-mile stretch of homes along Alaska's Parks Highway. This video describes the fire and its aftermath through interviews with residents and fire professionals, and discusses ways to protect structures from...
Type: Video
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Date: September 28, 2020

Arctic Urban Risks and Adaptations and Forest Health Updates

In 2019 the National Science Foundataion (NSF) funded a Navigating the New Arctic project called "Arctic Urban Risks and Adaptations (AURA): a co-production framework for addressing multiple changing environmental hazards". This...
Presenter(s): Jennifer I. Schmidt
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Date: April 1, 2020

Hollings Scholar Presentations: Exploration of the Hot Dry Windy Index and Wildfire; Climate Change and Overnight Fire Growth

Speakers: Clairisse Reiher & Emily McCutchan, 2020 Hollings ScholarsDuring the summer of 2020 ACCAP and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium hosted two Ernest F. Hollings scholars for the summer internships. Because of COVID-19...
Presenter(s): Clairisse Reiher , Emily McCutchan
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Weather
Date: July 24, 2020

Land surface modeling and assimilation of SMAP soil moisture

Powerpoint talk presented by Dr. Clay Blankenship, Universities Space Research Association (USRA)/NASA Short-Term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT)Soil moisture is a critical variable for agriculture and for predicting fire risk, and...
Presenter(s): Clay Blankenship
Type: Presentation
Topic(s): Climate, Mapping, Models, Weather
Date: November 7, 2019

The North American Wildland Fuels Database (NAWFD): Improved Information on Fuel Loading for Fire and Smoke Modeling in Research and Operations

The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has supported the development of a new resource for defining fuel loading across the variable landscapes of the US. The work entailed compiling existing data on fuel loadings categorized by Existing Vegetation...
Presenter(s): Nancy H. F. French , Susan J. Prichard , Maureen C. Kennedy , Michael Billmire
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Date: December 3, 2019