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Jan 25, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Feb 22, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Mar 29, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Apr 26, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, May 31, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Jun 28, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Sep 27, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Oct 25, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am, Dec 6, 2023 10:00 am to 11:00 am Pacific Time LANDFIRE Office Hour (2023 Series)
Dec 6, 2023 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT Webinar - Long-term Watershed Research
Dec 8, 2023 9:30 am to 10:30 am MST Webinar - BurnP3+: A New Multi-model Burn Probability Simulator Based on Burn-P3
Dec 14, 2023 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT The Future is Smoky
Jan 10, 2024 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST Idaho Smoke Update
Jan 12, 2024 9:30 am to 10:30 am MST Webinar - Canada's 2023 Fire Season
Jan 18, 2024 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT Phenology of Fire: Listening to the Plants and Animals
Feb 3, 2024 10:00 am to 2:00 pm EST Red Hills Fire Festival
Feb 15, 2024 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT Successfully Bridging the Gap: Eastern US Models of Fire Science and Management Collaboration
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Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Nov 21, 2023 Webinar - The 2023 Wildfire Season in the North: A Tale of Two Extremes
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Nov 16, 2023 Webinar - Forest Fire Suppression Effectiveness in the Boreal Forest
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Nov 15, 2023 Webinar - Arctic Governance, Indigenous Peoples, and Wildfire
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Nov 13, 2023 Webinar - 3rd ABC-iCAP Webinar on Arctic Fires
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Nov 10, 2023 Webinar - Modelling 100: An introduction to Modelling Ranging from Slide Rules to Super Computers
Meeting Oct 23, 2023 to Oct 27, 2023 2023 Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Sep 26, 2023 Webinar - Northern Climate Reports: Ecological Futures in Stories, Charts, and Data
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Sep 26, 2023 Dissertation Defense: Forest Fire Suppression Effectiveness in the Boreal Forest
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Aug 22, 2023 Webinar - Wildfire and Invasive Plants in Alaska’s Boreal Forest
Webinars, Seminars and Presentations Jun 21, 2023 Webinar - New NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Products for Wildland Fire Applications


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Alaska Fire Season 2022: Focus on Southwest Alaska and Impacts on Vegetation and Fuels

The 2022 fire season in Alaska was unprecedented. Southwest Alaska experienced record-breaking fires that impacted local communities and challenged management resources. This webinar will review the weather, climate, and ecological factors that...
Presenter(s): Richard L. Thoman Jr., Gerald V. Frost
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Date: November 15, 2022

Burn Severity Explained

In 2019, the Shovel Creek Fire grew rapidly and threatened nearby neighborhoods north of Fairbanks. The fire was started by lighting on June 21. After 39 days of burning, and $25 million spent on suppression the fire was put out and no homes or...
Type: StoryMap
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Planning, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Date: 2022

Alaska’s Fire Weather Hotspot and its Response to Regional Atmospheric Circulation at Weather and Climate Time Scales

Alaska’s central and eastern interior (CEI), including the greater Tanana Valley and Yukon Flats, has consistently been the most fire prone area of the state during the last two decades. Toward operational and research applications, several...
Presenter(s): Tom Ballinger
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Date: January 25, 2022

Alaska's Changing Wildfire Environment

An intensified pattern of wildfire is emerging in Alaska as rapidly increasing temperatures and longer growing seasons alter the state's environment. Both tundra and Boreal forest regions are seeing larger and more frequent fires. The impacts of...
Presenter(s): Zav Grabinski
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Date: June 8, 2021

Mapping Fire Emissions: A review of the Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System and Explanation of Recent Updates

The Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System (WFEIS) came out of a NASA Applied Science program focused on creating maps of regional-scale wildland fire carbon emissions using the Consume emissions model and the Fuel Characteristic...
Presenter(s): Nancy H. F. French , Michael Billmire
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Date: May 6, 2021

The McKinley Fire: Rebuilding and Lessons Learned

The 2019 McKinley Fire devastated a 10-mile stretch of homes along Alaska's Parks Highway. This video describes the fire and its aftermath through interviews with residents and fire professionals, and discusses ways to protect structures from...
Type: Video
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Date: September 28, 2020

Arctic Urban Risks and Adaptations and Forest Health Updates

In 2019 the National Science Foundataion (NSF) funded a Navigating the New Arctic project called "Arctic Urban Risks and Adaptations (AURA): a co-production framework for addressing multiple changing environmental hazards". This...
Presenter(s): Jennifer I. Schmidt
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Date: April 1, 2020

Hollings Scholar Presentations: Exploration of the Hot Dry Windy Index and Wildfire; Climate Change and Overnight Fire Growth

Speakers: Clairisse Reiher & Emily McCutchan, 2020 Hollings ScholarsDuring the summer of 2020 ACCAP and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium hosted two Ernest F. Hollings scholars for the summer internships. Because of COVID-19...
Presenter(s): Clairisse Reiher , Emily McCutchan
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Weather
Date: July 24, 2020

Land surface modeling and assimilation of SMAP soil moisture

Powerpoint talk presented by Dr. Clay Blankenship, Universities Space Research Association (USRA)/NASA Short-Term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT)Soil moisture is a critical variable for agriculture and for predicting fire risk, and...
Presenter(s): Clay Blankenship
Type: Presentation
Topic(s): Climate, Mapping, Models, Weather
Date: November 7, 2019

The North American Wildland Fuels Database (NAWFD): Improved Information on Fuel Loading for Fire and Smoke Modeling in Research and Operations

The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has supported the development of a new resource for defining fuel loading across the variable landscapes of the US. The work entailed compiling existing data on fuel loadings categorized by Existing Vegetation...
Presenter(s): Nancy H. F. French , Susan J. Prichard , Maureen C. Kennedy , Michael Billmire
Type: Webinar
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Date: December 3, 2019