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The Hawaii Fire Portal provides information about fire science and technology relevant to Hawaii. Our goal is to provide "one-stop shopping" for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who want access to the results of efforts to understand and manage fire and fuels on lands in Hawaii. Content may also be relevant to other Pacific Islands.

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Wildfires and Inland Mountain Forests: Is Nonforest Vital to Forest Resilience?

January 22, 2019 11:00 am to 12:00 pm PST

Mapping Burned Areas from the Landsat Archive: A New Way of Monitoring of Fire Occurrence Across the United States, and a Southern Example for Fire Management Applications

January 24, 2019 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm PST

Webinar - Hot Burns, Cold Burns, and Everything in Between

January 29, 2019 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST

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A novel approach to fuel biomass sampling for 3D fuel characterization

Surface fuels are the critical link between structure and function in frequently burned pine ecosystems, which are found globally (Williamson and Black, 1981; Rebertus et al., 1989; Glitzenstein et al., 1995) [[1], [2], [3]]. We bring fuels to the...

Person: Hawley, Loudermilk, Rowell, Pokswinski

Year: 2018

Type: Document

Source: FRAMES

Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System 3.1.1

Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes previously existing and newly developed fire and fuels software applications to make fuels treatment planning and...

Person: Cissel, Rauscher, Drury

Year: 2018

Type: Tool

Source: FRAMES

Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol I + II

The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), completed in November 2018, is a comprehensive and authoritative report on climate change and its impacts in the United States.

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Year: 2018

Type: Document

Source: FRAMES

Flame spread and burning rates through vertical arrays of wooden dowels

Fuel loads in real-world fire scenarios often feature discrete elements, discontinuities, or inhomogeneities; however, most models for flame spread only assume a continuous, homogeneous fuel. Because discrete fuels represent a realistic scenario not...

Person: Lin, Zhao, Tang, Miller, Sun, Gollner

Year: 2019

Type: Document

Source: FRAMES

Social fragmentation and wildfire management: exploring the scale of adaptive action

One overarching goal of United States fire management focuses on fostering human populations who can 'adapt' to wildfire as an unavoidable, reoccurring process operating in the landscapes where they live. The goal of creating 'fire adapted communities...

Person: Paveglio, Carroll, Stasiewicz, Edgeley

Year: 2019

Type: Document

Source: FRAMES

Tradeoffs between US national forest harvest targets and fuel management to reduce wildfire transmission to the wildland urban interface

US public land management agencies are faced with multiple, often conflicting objectives to meet management targets and produce a wide range of ecosystem services expected from public lands. One example is managing the growing wildfire risk to human...

Person: Ager, Houtman, Day, Ringo, Palaiologou

Year: 2019

Type: Document

Source: FRAMES

Solving the geometric firefighter routing problem via integer programming

In this paper, we introduce the Geometric Firefighter Routing Problem (gfrp) as a variant of the Geometric Firefighter Problem aiming to better model more realistic situations. We design an exact algorithm based on a core Linear Integer Programming...

Person: Zambon, de Rezende, de Souza

Year: 2019

Type: Document

Source: FRAMES

The effects of hydration on cognitive performance during a simulated wildfire suppression shift in temperate and hot conditions

The effects on dehydration and cognitive performance from heat and/or physical activity are well established in the laboratory, although have not yet been studied for personnel working in occupations such as wildland firefighting regularly exposed to...

Person: Cvirn, Dorrian, Smith, Vincent, Jay, Roach, Sargent, Larsen, Aisbett, Ferguson

Year: 2019

Type: Document

Source: FRAMES

BehavePlus 6.0 Release Notice

The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire management...

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Year: 2018

Type: Document

Source: FRAMES

BehavePlus 6.0.0 Beta 3

The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams and can be used for...

Person: Heinsch, Bevins, Tirmenstein, Andrews, Heinsch

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Type: Tool

Source: FRAMES

General: Travel, Research, and Educational Experience (TREE) Grants (posted Jan 16, 2019)

The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) has been awarded the privilege of administering the distribution of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) TREE grant, which is designed to help graduate students travel to present at conferences, symposia, and workshops related to wildland fire science and management.

All registered graduate students in good academic standing in a field related to wildland fire science, ecology, or management in the U.S. are eligible to apply for grants. Depending on costs and the number of applicants, grants may fund all or a portion of estimated travel expenses including transportation, lodging, registration fees, and presentation preparation costs, where applicable. Funds cannot be used for food and incidentals, student stipends, direct research costs, or faculty research/administration costs. Grants will be paid as reimbursements for submitted receipts.

Grants are limited and competitively awarded, and can only be awarded to current graduate students in the U.S. who are presenting the results of their fire-related research. This grant is for students without other Joint Fire Science Program support.

Contact Name: Annie Oxarart

Contact E-mail: office@fireecology.net

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General: 2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey (posted Jan 9, 2019)

The NASF and the CPFC is pleased to announce the release of the 2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey. This report is the third of its kind since 2012 and is unique among prescribed fire surveys because it is a national and regional assessment of state-level programs, prescribed fire use, impediments to burning, and, for the first time, degree of liability protection provided by state law.

For more information: Download the report

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Funding: FEMA announces Disaster Mitigation Grant Program (PDM) Fiscal Year 2018 (posted Aug 9, 2018)

FEMA announced the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 application cycle on August 3, 2018. The application period is October 1, 2018 through January 31, 2019. The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is posted on www.Grants.gov. The FY 2018 PDM Fact Sheet provides an overview of the agency's priorities for this year. FEMA will offer NOFO webinars for potential applicants prior to opening the application period. View the complete webinar schedule.

Deadline: Jan 31, 2019 6:00 pm Pacific Standard Time

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Training: National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center FY2019 Sessions (posted Jul 19, 2018)

The Prescribed Fire Training Center (PFTC) is a unique program blending maximum field prescribed burning experience with a flexible curriculum of classroom instruction on foundational topics for prescribed fire practitioners.

The PFTC is headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida. Training locations are dispersed throughout Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Attendees will travel to several remote sites during their stay to take advantage of prescribed burning and learning opportunities with a variety of agencies, fuel types, and challenges such as urban interface.
The Southeast is an ideal site for the PFTC due to the year round burning programs of several agencies, broad prescription windows, and the high level of interagency cooperation. During their 20 day tour, individuals should expect to participate in prescribed burns conducted for a variety of objectives. The wildland urban interface is a focus of PFTC, and most participants will have opportunities to conduct burns in interface situations. This variety of field experience with the different prescriptions, planning procedures, and techniques of the various agencies offers an accelerated learning opportunity for the participants.

FY2019 20-Day Sessions:

January 6, 2019 to January 25, 2019
February 3, 2019 to February 22, 2019
March 10, 2019 to March 29, 2019
April 7, 2019 to April 26, 2019
June 2, 2019 to June 21, 2019

FY2019 Agency Admin Workshops:

October 25, 2018 to October 30, 2018
February 28, 2019 to March 5, 2019

Location: National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center

Address: get directions

Contact Name: Greg Seamon, Fire Training Specialist, Tall Timbers

Contact E-mail: gseamon@talltimbers.org

Contact Phone: (850) 523-8631

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General: NFPA Certified Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Program (posted Mar 26, 2018)

The NFPA Certified Wildfire Mitigation Specialist Program (CWMS) was created in 2017 after discussions with fire service and forestry professionals at the federal, state, and local levels.

The CWMS credential offers professionals whose work involves wildfire hazard mitigation, the ability to demonstrate that they understand hazard mitigation measures, planning and preparedness strategies, public education practices, and wildland fire science. Gain the recognition you deserve as an expert in your field with this specialist certification.

Program goals

Recognize and provide evidence of knowledge of hazard mitigation, planning & preparedness, public education, and fire science concepts associated with the wildland/urban interface
Enhance professionalism
Ensure a uniform, fair process for certification that is accessible to everyone who is eligible
Ensure proficiency in the use of NFPA codes and standards
Facilitate success for those seeking certification
Promote professional development through continuous learning

Program benefits

Enhances professional credibility
Validates specialized knowledge
Increases customer and employer confidence
Provides peer recognition

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Wildfires and Inland Mountain Forests: Is Nonforest Vital to Forest Resilience?

January 22, 2019 11:00 am to 12:00 pm PST

What will you learn?

This presentation introduces a new line of research in our laboratory; one examining the role that nonforest plays in the wildfire resilience of inland montane forests. In past work, we were consistently...

Mapping Burned Areas from the Landsat Archive: A New Way of Monitoring of Fire Occurrence Across the United States, and a Southern Example for Fire Management Applications

January 24, 2019 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm PST

Presenters:

Todd Hawbaker, Ph.D., US Geological Survey, Denver, CO
Casey Teske, Ph.D., Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL

Webinar Description:

Complete and accurate burned area...

Webinar - Hot Burns, Cold Burns, and Everything in Between

January 29, 2019 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST

In this FLN webinar, Jean Lorber will give a short presentation about new fire monitoring results; this will be followed by case studies of individual burn units, presented by the folks that burned them, to showcase a range of fire intensities and talk...

2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report

January 31, 2019 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST

Presenter: Mark Melvin, 2018 Report Author and Chair of the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils

Webinar Description:

The...

Prescribed Fire Training Center February 2019 Session

February 3, 2019 12:00 am to 11:00 pm PST

Session Dates: February 3-22, 2019.

The National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center (PFTC), located in Tallahassee, Florida, is an entity designed to give individuals an opportunity to increase their prescribed fire practitioner skills...

72nd Society for Range Management Annual Meeting

Hilton Minneapolis

February 10, 2019 12:00 am PST to February 14, 2019 11:00 pm PST

The Society for Range Management is the professional scientific society and conservation organization whose members are concerned with studying, conserving, managing and sustaining the varied resources of the rangelands which comprise nearly half of...

Impacts of Wildfires on Air Quality and Health

Santa Rosa, CA

February 13, 2019 (All day) to February 14, 2019 (All day)

This conference will take an encompassing look at the air quality and public health impacts from wildfires by bringing together experts in multiple disciplines to share information and proposed solutions to mitigate smoke effects. This is a unique...

OAHU: Vegetative Fuels Management Collaborative Action Planning Workshop

TBD

February 19, 2019 9:00 am to 12:00 pm PST

Join the broader community of Oahu professionals dealing with wildfire threats and impacts for a facilitated conversation about next step hazard reduction priorities and projects.

Webinar - Homeowner Preparedness in the WUI

February 20, 2019 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST

Webinar Description: A significant amount of research has examined what motivates people living in the WUI to mitigate their wildfire risk, but drawing over-arching conclusions is difficult given the myriad of ways researchers have conceptualized and...

KAUAI: Vegetative Fuels Management Collaborative Action Planning Workshop

War Memorial Convention Hall

February 21, 2019 9:00 am to 12:00 pm PST

Join the broader community of Kauai professionals dealing with wildfire threats and impacts for a facilitated conversation about next step hazard reduction priorities and projects.

Webinar - Residential and Community Strategies to Prevent Wildland Fire Smoke Exposures

January 16, 2019 2:00 pm PST

Sponsored by the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange

Wildfires create significant smoke impacts to communities near and downwind of the wildfire events. This webinar will provide a discussion on ways to prevent wildfire smoke exposures,...

Prescribed Fire Training Center January 2019 Session

January 6, 2019 12:00 am to 11:00 pm PST

Session Dates: January 6-25, 2019.

WAFWA Mid-Winter Meeting

JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass

January 3, 2019 12:00 am PST to January 6, 2019 11:00 pm PST

A preliminary conference schedule and registration pricing will be posted soon. Registration will open in early Fall. Check the website above for the latest information.

Webinar - Use of Small Unmanned Aircraft on Wildfire Incidents

December 12, 2018 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PST

Sponsored by Southwest Fire Science Consortium

Presented by Mike Fontenot, Sky Fire Services

Unmanned Aircraft, commonly called "Drones," are being used more and more for...

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting

December 10, 2018 12:00 am PST to December 14, 2018 11:00 pm PST

The AGU Fall Meeting 2018 will mark another dynamic year of discovery in Earth and space science, serve as the advent of AGU's Centennial year, and provide a special opportunity to share our science with world leaders in Washington, D.C. As the largest...

15th Wildland Fire Safety Summit/5th Human Dimensions Conference

Renaissance Asheville Hotel

December 10, 2018 12:00 am PST to December 14, 2018 11:00 pm PST

The theme of this years event is Rethinking the Global Wildfire Problem: Are we focusing on the right problems and right solutions?

Webinar - Kickin' Grass in Hawaii for Wildfire Management & Restoration

November 19, 2018 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm PST