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Upcoming Events

Webinar - 2020 Fall Fire Environment Post Season Lessons Learned

Nov 4, 2020 8:00 am AKDT

AFSC Fall Fire Science Workshop part 2: EPSCoR Boreal Fires project updates.

Nov 4, 2020 1:45 pm AKDT

ABoVE 7th Science Team Meeting

May 10, 2021 (All day) to May 13, 2021 (All day) AKDT

Research to Operations (R2O) workshop: Using ABoVE Data in Fire and Resource Management

May 13, 2021 (All day) to May 14, 2021 (All day) AKDT

Joint Fire Science Program Funding Announcement

New JFSP funding opportunities are open through Sept 30, 2020

Recent Events

Thesis Defense - Born to burn: characterizing fuel loads, flammability and plant traits across spatio-temporal gradients of black spruce dominated communities

Oct 23, 2020

Webinar - Fire in Alaska: How Alaska's "Firescape" Responds to Pressures

Oct 21, 2020

2020 AFSC Fall Fire Science Workshop

Oct 21, 2020

2020 Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review

Oct 19, 2020 to Oct 25, 2020

POSTPONED: Bonanza Creek LTER Annual Symposium

Oct 8, 2020, Oct 9, 2020

Recent Fire Science Highlights

The “Zombie” Fires of 1942

Jul 29, 2020 4:23 pm PDT

EPSCoR Boreal Fires Team: Remote Sensing for AK Fire Season

Jul 13, 2020 1:29 pm PDT

NASA ABoVE Science Comes Down to Earth

Jun 3, 2020 3:51 pm PDT

Fires at the Top of the World: Presentation

AFSC fire ecologist Randi Jandt presents at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry's Virtual Science Pub on an increase in unusual wildfire events in forest and tundra in boreal and arctic regions.

Featured Research Brief: The "Zombie" Fires of 1942

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This AFSC research brief looks at early Alaska fire history from the 1940s. The "Zombie" Fires of 1942 is a historical narrative of an exceptional fire event related to the Alaska Railroad, including an early description of a holdover fire burning over winter.

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