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Meeting Oct 23, 2023 (All day) to Oct 28, 2023 (All day) AKDT 2023 Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review
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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, Dec 6, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am Pacific Time LANDFIRE Office Hour (2023 Series)
Sep 27, 2023 1:00 pm MDT Webinar - Colorado Wildfire Risk Assessment (CO-WRA): Overview and Technical Discussion
Sep 29, 2023 10:00 am PDT Dissertation Proposal: Views to a Flame: The Social Reproduction of the Wildfire Crisis
Oct 5, 2023 9:00 am to 10:00 am PDT Webinar - AIM Grant Informational Webinar
Oct 11, 2023 12:00 pm MDT Webinar - Prescribed Burns as a Tool to Mitigate Future Wildfire Smoke Exposure
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, Dec 6, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am Pacific Time LANDFIRE Office Hour (2023 Series)
Oct 26, 2023 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT Webinar - Forest Health in the Ossipee and Waterboro Pine Barrens: Preparing for the Arrival of the Southern Pine Beetle
Nov 2, 2023 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT Webinar - Forest Structure Drives Fine Scale Variation in Microclimate and Fuel Moisture in Northern Conifer Forests
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, Dec 6, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am Pacific Time LANDFIRE Office Hour (2023 Series)
Dec 8, 2023 9:30 am to 10:30 am MST Webinar - BurnP3+: A New Multi-model Burn Probability Simulator Based on Burn-P3
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Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Aug 22, 2023 Webinar - Wildfire and Invasive Plants in Alaska’s Boreal Forest
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Jun 21, 2023 Webinar - New NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Products for Wildland Fire Applications
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Jun 9, 2023 Webinar - Far Out: An Overview of BC Wildfire Service’s Seasonal Outlooks
Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips May 31, 2023 Climate Change in Arctic Environments (Ongoing: May 31 - August 17)
Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips May 31, 2023 Remote Sensing of Wildfires (Ongoing: May 31 - July 31)
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations May 26, 2023 POSTPONED: Webinar - BurnP3+: A New Multi-Model Burn Probability Simulator Based on Burn-P3
Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips May 16, 2023 to May 17, 2023 FireCast Trainings
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Apr 25, 2023 Webinar - Identifying the Physiological Demands of the Wildland Firefighter: A 25-year Assignment by Brent Ruby
Meeting Mar 29, 2023 Kenai Peninsula All Lands All Hands Spring Meeting
Workshops, Trainings and Fieldtrips Mar 20, 2023 to Mar 24, 2023 Alaska Interagency Spring Operations Meeting


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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