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Conferences and Symposia Oct 24, 2022 (All day) to Oct 28, 2022 (All day) AKDT 2022 Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review and Fire Science Workshop
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Oct 12, 2022 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT Webinar - Restoring Fire-Adapted Oak-Pine Communities at The Dome, Green Mtn Natl Forest
Oct 12, 2022 12:00 pm MDT Webinar - The Art of Ranching with Fire: The Spread of Pyrodiversity in Ranching Communities
Oct 14, 2022 9:00 am to 11:00 am MDT Webinar - From Laser Points to Information: Using Lidar to Quantify Pre- and Post-fire Vegetation Structure
Aug 31, 2022 10:00 am, Sep 28, 2022 10:00 am, Oct 26, 2022 10:00 am, Dec 7, 2022 10:00 am Pacific Time LANDFIRE Office Hour
Nov 3, 2022 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT Webinar - UAS Applications for Prescribed Fire
Nov 29, 2022 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm CST Webinar - Management and Climate Variability Effects on the Understory Vegetation Productivity Along Forest-Savanna Continuum
Aug 31, 2022 10:00 am, Sep 28, 2022 10:00 am, Oct 26, 2022 10:00 am, Dec 7, 2022 10:00 am Pacific Time LANDFIRE Office Hour
Jan 17, 2023 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm CST Webinar - Diversity Explodes with Another Boring Burn
Feb 7, 2023 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm CST Webinar - How is Fire Ecology Different from Classical Ecology?
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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
Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips May 17, 2022 to May 18, 2022 Fuels Management Workshop: Strategies for Protecting Alaska Communities and Resources From Wildfire
Conferences and Symposia May 16, 2022 to May 19, 2022 45th Annual National Indian Timber Symposium
Conferences and Symposia May 16, 2022 to May 20, 2022 16th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium
Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips May 12, 2022 to May 13, 2022 Research to Operations (R2O) workshop: Using Remotely Sensed Data in Fire and Resource Management
Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips May 5, 2022 Workshop for Constructing Tanana Valley State Forest Future Management Scenarios
Meeting May 3, 2022 Alaska Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee meeting on the AKVEG map
Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips Apr 26, 2022 to Apr 29, 2022 Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) training for Alaska
Meeting Apr 21, 2022 IARPC: Terrestrial Ecosystems Collaboration Team Meeting


AFSC Webinar Collection

2020 Fall Fire Science Workshop

2020 AFSC Spring and Summer Webinars

2020 AFSC Spring Fire Science Workshop

Association for Fire Ecology 2019 Conference

2019 Fall Fire Review and Science Workshop

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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

Bridging the gap takes a long-term perspective: lessons from climate change in Alaska

Presented by: Alison York, Alaska Fire Science ConsortiumNovember 20th, 2019Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th...
Presenter(s): Alison D. York
Type: Presentation
Topic(s): Communications, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Outreach
Date: November 20, 2019