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Upcoming Events

AFE Webinar - Alaska's Changing Wildfire Environment
Jun 30, 2021 11:00 am AKDT

POSTPONED: DOI Wildland Fire Workshop (online)
Sep 6, 2021 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT

Postponed: Research to Operations (R2O) workshop: Using ABoVE Data in Fire and Resource Management
May 13, 2022 (All day) to May 14, 2022 (All day) AKDT

Recent Events

Webinar - Alaska's Changing Wildfire Environment
Jun 8, 2021

Using the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center Maps and Dashboards
Jun 2, 2021

Alaska Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee (FMAC) Spring Refresher
May 17, 2021

ABoVE 7th Science Team Meeting
May 11, 2021 to May 13, 2021

Webinar - Mapping Fire Emissions: A review of the Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System and explanation of recent updates
May 6, 2021

Recent Fire Science Highlights

Making Sense of Changing Forests in Alaska
Mar 16, 2021 3:57 pm PDT

Do Humans Contribute to Increased Fire in Southcentral Alaska?
Mar 7, 2021 1:37 pm PST

Wildfire detection gets a boost from space
Dec 23, 2020 3:42 pm PST

'Overwintering fires in boreal forests' published in Nature

 

This paper led by Rebecca Scholten and co-authord by Randi Jandt examines overwintering fires in boreal forests of Alaska and Canada

 

Alaska's Changing Wildfire Environment

Fire Science Highlights
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In the news: What Alaskans should know about changing wildfires

News release from the International Arctic Research Center/AFSC, with coauthors Norm McDonald - Chief of Fire and Aviation of the Division of Forestry, Bobette Rowe - Fire Operations Lead of the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska, and Kent Slaughter - Manager of the BLM Alaska Fire Service

Read the press release 

or Anchorage Daily News Op-Ed

Fire Behavior Prediction Mobile App

 

We need iphone beta testers for a new fire prediction mobile application

The mobile app streamlines in-the-field fire behavior calculations and observation sharing

Arctic Report Card: Wildland Fire in High Northern Latitudes

NOAA's Arctic Report Card wildfire essay is available now. This concise report led by Alison York examines the most recent trends in wildfires at high northern lattitues.

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