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Feb 19 2019 | 7:00 - 8:00pm AKST

Webinars, Seminars and Presentations

Location

Raven Landing Center
1222 Cowles St., Fairbanks, AK 99701

Presented by Randi Jandt, Alaska Fire Science Consortium

Wildfires were in the news last fall—again. Have you wondered what drives large fire seasons and whether climate or humans are more to blame? Here’s an Alaskan perspective on climatic and environmental changes we've observed so far, and how they affect wildfire incidence, size, seasonality, effects, and severity. Since many environmental factors (temperature, lightning, permafrost, forest make-up) contribute to fire processes, an interdisciplinary approach is essential to predicting what fire seasons of the future will be like. We’ll discuss current thinking on will happen in Alaska with climate projections in the not-so-distant future.