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Upcoming Events

Funding Announcements: JFSP FOAs

Oct 14, 2021 3:00 pm AKDT

2021 Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review

Oct 19, 2021 (All day) to Oct 22, 2021 (All day) AKDT

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

POSTPONED: DOI Wildland Fire Workshop (online)

Sep 6, 2022 (All day) to Sep 7, 2022 (All day) EDT

Recent Events

Webinar - Using a random forest model to predict historical PM2.5 in Alaska

Jul 13, 2021

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, May 13, 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

In the news: What Alaskans should know about changing wildfires

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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

Arctic Report Card: Wildland Fire in High Northern Latitudes

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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.

Fire Effects 10 Years After the Anaktuvuk River Tundra Fires

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The 10-year follow-up report on the 2007 Anaktuvuk River fire has been recently released as a Technical Report. An interagency team led by the Bureau of Land Management has been studying the vegetation changes and permafrost changes after the fire.