A bibliography dealing with the subject of wildland fire history was first published in December 1979 by the second author of this paper (Alexander 1979). A supplement to the original bibliography was included in the proceedings of the Fire History...

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The Alaska Fire and Fuels Research Map provides online site-level information and locations for fire and fuels-related studies through a map interface. Funding was provided by the Joint Fire Science Program and it is hosted through the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center.

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The Alaska Reference Database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress. The Joint Fire Science Program provided initial funding.

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Comprehensive sampling of curlleaf mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius) on 41 sites in five States allowed an assessment of postfire population dynamics, differences in regeneration patterns, and critical events in stand regeneration. Historical...
The objective of this paper is to explain the distributions, assumptions, interpretations, and relationships of the two compatible, stochastic models of fire history: the negative exponential and the Weibull. For each model the 'fire interval...
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(1) The pattern of post-fire vegetation development in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests in south-eastern Labrador, Canada, is evaluated using palaeoecological methods and vegetation analysis of extant stands.(2) Macrofossil analysis of...
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This publication entitled National Forest Landscape Management Volume 2, Chapter 6, Fire, is part of the National Forest Landscape Management series, issued in 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1980 by the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. This...
Updating the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) was completed in 1977, and operational use of it was begun the next year. The System provides a guide to wildfire control and suppression by its indexes that measure the relative potential of...
The Wilderness Fellow Program is seeking qualified candidates to fill Wilderness Fellow positions. Fellows are based in locations around the country, with a significant amount of travel within their base region. Work is roughly 80% office based and 20% field-based and is performed at USFS offices to directly support the goals of a collaborative wilderness character monitoring initiative currently underway in the USFS.
Primary Wilderness Fellow Responsibilities
- Attend one-week training in Granby, Colorado (travel provided; training may be remote).
- Work out of remote USFS locations, residing in USFS housing.
- Coordinate meetings with USFS resource specialists and line officers to gather information regarding wilderness character.
- Research, compile, and analyze legislative and administrative historical data per wilderness area.
- Travel to and into wilderness areas.
- Select indicators relevant for each wilderness area to monitor wilderness character over time.
- Compile and analyze data for selected monitoring indicators and complete a baseline assessment for wilderness character monitoring.
- Implement inventory and monitoring strategies for tracking wilderness character.
- Write a wilderness character baseline assessment for each wilderness area worked in.
- Participate in weekly conference calls.
- Set and meet benchmarks and deadlines for data collection, meetings, and draft and final reports.
This position is located with Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Trust Services, Location Negotiable After Selection.
Summer work locations and duties vary and are designed to provide hands on experience and training.
Successful completion of the Pathways Internship Program, students may be non-competitively placed into career-conditional positions within the BIA.
The first cut-off date for referral of applications to be considered for available vacant positions will be 2/24/2021.
Internship work assignment opportunities are based on BIA needs. Under this announcement, real estate services, land titles and records, minerals and energy, and forestry management programs will be given priority consideration. However, selections may be made for other program areas, including for the following targeted positions:
- Environmental
- Archeology
- Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences
- Cartographic
- Rangeland or Agriculture Management
- Soil Conservation
- Forestry
- Accounting
- Civil Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Legal Instruments Examining
- Realty
- Irrigation System Operation
- Hydrology
The National Park Service is looking for temporary employees to work as Fire Effects Monitors (Biological Science Technicians).
This announcement has a cut-off date of 02/16/2021. The following locations will begin to consider applicants prior to the closing date of the announcement. You must apply on or before the date indicated below to receive first consideration. Thereafter, applications may be considered as needed, during the open period of the announcement:
- Denali, AK (Denali NP&P)
- Grand Canyon, AZ (Grand Canyon NP)
- Estes Park, CO (Rocky Mtn. NP)
- West Glacier, MT (Glacier NP)
- Big Bend NP, TX (Big Bend NP)
- Fritch, TX (Lake Meredith NRA)
- Springdale, UT (Zion NP)
- Luray, VA (Shenandoah NP)
- Mammoth, WY (Yellowstone NP)
- Moose, WY (Grand Teton NP)
We are looking to support a PhD student (stipend, tuition, health coverage) to work on a NSF project, Managing Future Risk of Increasing Simultaneous Megafires starting as early as summer 2021. This project will involve colleagues at the University of Washington and National Center for Atmospheric Research with expertise in climate science, public policy, and fire ecology. Elements of this work are to understand biophysical influences on fire activity at different scales, particularly related to widespread lightning-ignited fires, and develop convergent approaches for understanding how the confluence of fire suppression and land management approaches can ameliorate future synchronous large fires.
The Stanford University School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences (Stanford Earth) seeks candidates for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Consistent with Stanford University’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEAL) vision and commitment to diversity (broadly defined) among its faculty, students, and staff, we especially seek to attract applications from promising scholars with historically underrepresented backgrounds in traditional STEM fields, as well as in emerging areas of Earth, Energy, and Environmental sciences, including research areas that intersect with societal issues. All four Stanford Earth departments are partnering in this search and a successful candidate will be appointed in one of the following:
Earth System Science - We study the world’s air, water, land, and life as an integrated system. As scientists, we unite basic and purpose-driven research to chronicle how the Earth functions, the many ways it is changing, and what the consequences of changes will be for people and other species. We believe that science can improve the world by enabling us to understand, predict, and solve the pressing issues of global environmental change.
Energy Resources Engineering - We train future leaders in the science and engineering of Earth's energy resources. We combine theory, experiments, and computation to understand and influence the global energy resources landscape. We are committed to leading the way to provide the people, methods, and tools for sustainable management of the Earth's energy resources.
Geological Sciences - We study the properties of minerals, rocks, soils, sediments and water, using multiple lenses -- stratigraphy, paleobiology, geochemistry, and planetary sciences. Their work informs our understanding of natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and floods. It helps us meet natural resource challenges through environmental and geological engineering, mapping and land use planning, surface and groundwater management, and the exploration and sustainable extraction of energy and minerals. It also helps us answer fundamental questions about the origin, history, and habitability of planets.
Geophysics - We study Earth and planetary processes through laboratory experiments, computational and theoretical modeling, remote imaging, and direct observation. At Stanford, our teaching and research focus on understanding systems critical to the future of civilization. We apply expertise to fundamental research sustaining life on Earth, combining underlying science with studies of Earth’s environment and resource needs.
The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, seeks applicants for five tenure-track positions at the level of Assistant Professor in the thematic area of restoring and protecting global biodiversity. The Faculty of Science, together with the Faculties of Arts, Forestry, and Land and Food Systems, is sponsoring this unique cluster hire, which builds on existing excellence in this area at UBC. These new hires will join an interdisciplinary research and scholarship team focused on solutions-oriented approaches to biodiversity loss, and its connection to sustainability and adaptive capacity for humanity. For further information see https://biodiversity.ubc.ca/cluster-hire
As part of the cluster, we seek a Conservation and Restoration Scientist to be jointly appointed in the Departments of Botany, and Forest & Conservation Sciences, with opportunities for strong interaction with UBC’s Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Biodiversity Research Centre. The Conservation and Restoration Scientist will conduct research broadly investigating how to conserve and protect biodiversity, and restore functioning ecosystems in a changing world. Applicants should have an interest in integrating fundamental research on restoring biodiversity, ecosystem functions or adaptive capacity, with applied research on conservation and restoration strategies that involve engagement with communities, industry or governments. Their expertise will be in ecology (including applied ecology), conservation, evolutionary biology, forestry, geography, or related disciplines. We encourage applicants who use a range of empirical or theoretical approaches, applying them to real-world problems from local to global scales, in terrestrial or aquatic ecosystems, and working in plant, animal or fungal systems.
On April 6, 2020, the Fire Management Board (FMB) established the Wildland Fire Medical and Public Health Advisory Team (MPHAT) to address medical and health-related issues specific to the interagency administration of mission critical wildland fire management functions under a COVID-19 modified operating posture. The COVID-19 MPHAT is tasked with providing medical and public health expertise, advice, coordination, and collaboration with external subject matter experts and developing protocols and practices for all aspects of COVID-19 planning, prevention, and mitigation for wildland fire operations. Guidance found on this page has been issued via FMB Memorandum. They may be updated as appropriate and necessary to respond to the evolving situations and work conditions surrounding COVID-19.
With multiple agencies/entities, groups and task forces all working to find solutions for operational concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, the need for a space to share information is apparent. This forum serves as a platform to ask questions, as well as to share ideas, information, and solutions.
Do you have an innovative idea for an effective, low-cost technology or approach to clean indoor air?
EPA and its federal, state, local and tribal partners announce a Challenge competition to encourage the development of effective, low-cost...
Sponsored by Nebraska Pheasants Forever
Many of Alaska's forest and tundra landscapes are fire-prone, as residents can observe during each warm and dry summer. Alaska scientists and fire managers use satellite imagery and aerial photography to better understand the conditions that lead to...
Sponsored by The Association for Fire Ecology
Hosted by Bob Keane
It is time to change the face of zoom meetings and finally do something fun while learning new things about fire ecology. This virtual webinar will be a trivia competition...
This webinar will share recent research on drought impacts to coastal ecosystems and services.
Speakers:
Dr. Kirsten Lackstrom, Research Associate, Carolinas Integrated Sciences & Assessments (a NOAA RISA)
Dr. Beth Middleton,...
Sponsor: Northwest Fire Science Consortium
Presenter: Dr. Susan Prichard; Research Scientist, University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Rapid advancements in wildland fire modeling are promoting innovations in...
The 2021 Alaska Interagency Spring Operations Meeting will be hosted online via Microsoft Teams the week of March 22
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The Crown Managers Partnership is excited to announce that their 2021 Fire in the Crown of the Continent forum will be held virtually from March 22nd to March 26th. Be sure to register below to receive a unique invitation link and a calendar invite....
Join the Northwest Fire Science Consortium for interactive presentations that bridge research and practice using the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy's three pillars: Resilient Ecosystems, Fire-Adapted Communities, and Safe &...
The 2021 AFSC Spring Fire Science Workshop will be hosted online via Microsoft Teams on March 24 from 1 to 3pm as part of the Springs Ops Interagency Meeting (...
Drought can exacerbate wildfire frequency, intensity, and severity. This webinar will explore wildfire management approaches based on ecological principles, including those that embed traditional ecological knowledge.
Speakers:
Dr. Jeremy...
Thesis defense by James White 'Exploring the Use of Machine Learning for Daily Wildfire Forecasting in Alaska'. International Arctic Reserach Center, UAF. Advised by John Walsh.
Please email Zav...
Presenter: Vita Wright, Social Science Analyst & Science Applications Specialist, US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
This seminar is part of the University of Idaho's Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences 2021...
Host: Rocky Mountain Research Station
Presenters: Greg Dillon and Sean Parks
Area burned by wildland fire has been increasing since the mid-1980s across much of the US. But the effects of fire on vegetation and soil – what we call burn...
Thesis defense by Chris Smith on research funded by the Alaska EPSCoR Boreal Fires Team.
Wildfires in Alaska have been increasing in frequency, size, and intensity putting a strain on communities across the state, especially remote communities...
Sponsor: Colorado State University, Warner College of Natural Resources
Presenter: Mary Huffman, The Nature Conservancy
Indigenous Peoples across North America and around the world have prospered through pro-active relationships with fire...
During this virtual workshop presenters will share case studies and lessons learned from the field, showcase multiple scales of potential operational delineations (PODs) work that have been utilized and adapted for a range of applications, identify...
During this virtual workshop presenters will share case studies and lessons learned from the field, showcase multiple scales of potential operational delineations (PODs) work that have been utilized and adapted for a range of applications, identify...
We have all experienced extraordinary changes and challenges in the past year – truly a “trial by fire”. Yet as we know, fire is the key to the amazing diversity and resilience of prairies and savannas.
In response to the pandemic, TPE’s 2021...
Presenters: Zelalem Mekonnen, Qing Zhu, and Maegen Simmonds, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), LBNL
Wildfire is globally important to climate change and is projected to increase in severity with it. Thus, improving our predictability...