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Type: Conference Paper
Author(s): Dave Jones
Publication Date: 2003

StormCenter Communications in conjunction with the National Environmental Educational and Training Foundation (NEETF) has developed a powerful tool for delivering timely wildland fire information and public safety messages to the public through a partnership with local broadcast meteorologists in Colorado, California and Arizona. Uttilizing StormCenter Communications Environcast™ for TV software, advanced satellite imagery from NASA and other agencies will be delivered directly to media partners, specifically TV meteorologists and weathercasters. Specific public safety messages, tips, factoids and visualizations as part of a public safety and educational campaign will be delivered to these media outlets in order to better inform the public of wildland fire dangers and threats. A special Envirocast™ Newsletter will also be distributed via email to broadcast meteorologists in fire prone area of the country. This pilot project is being funded by the USDA Forest Service.

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Citation: Jones, D. 2003. Partnering with the broadcast meteorologist: an innovative science approach to informing the public about the dangers of wildland fires, Second International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, 16-20 November 2003, Orlando, FL [program volume and electronic resource]. American Meteorological Society,Boston, MA. p. 83, http://ams.confex.com/ams/FI.

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Topics:
Climate    Fire Ecology    Safety    Weather    Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Regions:
Alaska    California    Eastern    Great Basin    Hawaii    Northern Rockies    Northwest    Rocky Mountain    Southern    Southwest    National
Keywords:
  • Arizona
  • Colorado
  • education
  • fire management
  • JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
  • public information
  • remote sensing
  • US Forest Service
  • wilderness areas
  • wilderness fire management
  • wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 16234 • Location Status: In-file • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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FRAMES Record Number: 41337

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