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Scaling up: citizen science engagement and impacts beyond the individual

As the application of citizen science expands to address increasingly complex social problems (e.g., community health), there is opportunity to consider higher-order engagement beyond that of individual members of a community. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public involvement, system change, wildfires, organization, citizen science, Smoke Sense, data collection, community groups

Public health messaging during extreme smoke events: are we hitting the mark?

Background: Emergency services working to protect communities from harm during wildfires aim to provide regular public advisories on the hazards from fire and smoke. However, there are few studies evaluating the success of public health communications regarding the management of…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, wildfire, bushfire, public health, social media, Australia

Knowing your audience: a typology of smoke sense participants to inform wildfire smoke health risk communication

Central to public health risk communication is understanding the perspectives and shared values among individuals who need the information. Using the responses from a Smoke Sense citizen science project, we examined perspectives on the issue of wildfire smoke as a health risk in…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfires, Smoke Sense, citizen science, risk communication, mobile applications, health risk, air quality, community engagement, human health

Infrared as a fire control tool

Late in 1961 the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory initiated a fire detection research program. The primary objective of this program is the development of a system capable of detecting both man-caused and lightning-caused fires day or night through all normally encountered…
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Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: conservation, fire control, lightning caused fires, Montana, photography, Picea engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, remote sensing, smoke management, spot fires