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This project is purposed to develop a consensus approach to undertake smoke model validation through field measurements. It builds upon needs described in the JFSP Smoke Science Plan (Riebau and Fox 2010), in the JFSP Models and Measurements Workshop, and lessons learned from…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: model validation
The availability of integrated, quality-assured fuels, fire, and atmospheric data for development and evaluation of fuels, fire behavior, smoke, and fire effects models is limited. The lack of co-located, multi-scale measures of pre-fire fuels, active fire processes, and post-…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fuel consumption
The International Fire Smoke Symposium is proposed for the fall of 2013 and will be co-presented by The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee (SmoC). The purpose of this conference is to convene air…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, symposium
This study will examine citizens' knowledge of and perceptions about smoke management and associated communication strategies before and after exposure to a smoke event and/or communication event that addresses smoke. This study is an expansion of a larger multi-region project…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
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 opinion, survey, public perceptions
This project examines how communication programs and fire and fuels-related community partnerships influence public perceptions of smoke management across multiple regions. Using a case study design, we will compare communities where smoke (from wildfire or prescribed fire) has…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
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: preparedness, public perceptions, community participation
Climate driven changes to fuel loads, fire regimes, and the potential for uncharacteristically large and severe wildfires in forests of the western United States have created the need for active management to mitigate fire hazards. Prescribed fire is an important tool in…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: forest management, public opinion, public perception, information sharing
Module 4 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
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Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: attitudes, community, public, tolerance, trust, values, perceptions
Module 3 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
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Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: attitudes, community, public, tolerance, trust, values, perceptions
Module 2 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
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Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: attitudes, community, public, tolerance, trust, values, perceptions
Module 1 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
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Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: attitudes, community, public, tolerance, trust, perceptions
Thirteen minute video outlining the risks of smoke exposure to wildland fire personnel and ways to mitigate exposure.
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Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighter safety, PM - particulate matter, smoke effects, smoke exposure, CO - carbon monoxide
Bret Butler presented a webinar on December 2, 2014. Current safety zone guidelines for wildland firefighters are based on the assumption of flat ground, no wind, and radiative heating only. Recent measurements in grass, shrub and crown fires indicate that convective heating can…
Person: Butler
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire temperature, entrapment, firefighter safety, heat flux, PPE - Personal Protective Equipment, radiant heat flux, safety zone, slope effects, convective heating, injuries, toxic emissions, burn injury
Canada's NWT burned over 7 million acres in 2014. What were the indications (drought codes, forecasts, fuel moisture) to alert managers that they were in for a record-breaking season? How well did pre- and early-season Fuel Moisture Indices reflect the fire risk? What were the…
Person: Archibald
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: fire weather, fuel moisture, climate change, drought, fire prediction, AO - Arctic Oscillation, Northwest Territories, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, polar vortex
This webinar reviews the current options for smoke modeling and tracking.
Person: Sherron, Malloy
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework, smoke management, smoke forecasting, smoke prediction systems, SWFSC - Southwest Fire Science Consortium, Slide Fire, smoke prediction, HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory, Wind Ninja, GR2Analyst
From the Prescribed Fire in the Mid-South conference held June 4-5, 2014 in Crossville, TN
Person: Miller
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ozone, regional haze, PM2.5 emissions, Kentucky, air quality regulations, public health, wildfire, smoke management plan
From the Prescribed Fire in the Mid-South conference held June 4-5, 2014 in Crossville, TN
Person: Varner
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: biodiversity, disturbance, fire frequency, fire regime, grazing, public acceptance, collaboration, hazard reduction, invasive species, prescribed fire councils, wildlife habitat, fire-dependent species, Mid-South
Several U.S. state and tribal agencies and other countries implement a methodology developed in the arid intermountain western United States, where short-term (1-3 hr) particulate matter (PM) concentrations are estimated from human-observed visual range (Vr) sightings. These PM2…
Person: Malm
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, PM - particulate matter, visual range, observer error, health impacts
Tara Strand presented a webinar on April 24, 2014. Low intensity prescription burning is used to reduce fuels, improve ecosystem health, and to mimic a natural fire pattern that is otherwise suppressed during the more intense wildfire season. There are many constraints that…
Person: Strand
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework
This webinar touched on stakeholder values and perceptions of restoration. It included a presentation by University of Wyoming professor Jessica Clement about methods for garnering public feedback and incorporating it into decisions. We also learned about two case studies, one…
Person: Clement, Blades, Alldredge
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: public opinion, values, public perceptions
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Joe Roise of the North Carolina State University, Siamak Khorram of the University of California, Berkeley, and Duncan Lutes with the USDA Forest Service. This webinar presented an introduction to some recent interdisciplinary…
Person: Roise, Khorran, Lutes
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burn severity, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, remote sensing, EES - Emission Estimation System
Smoke generated from low-intensity prescribed fires used for fuels management can have an adverse impact on local air quality, raising human health and safety concerns especially in wildland-urban-interface areas. Local smoke behavior is a complex process and is highly dependent…
Person: Heilman
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: low intensity burns, meteorology and smoke, smoke dispersion, New Jersey Pine Barrens, fire-induced atmospheric conditions
Since 2010, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has been coordinating a USDA multi-agency program to conduct an emissions inventory of black carbon from fires and burning in Russia, examine transport of black carbon from these sources to the Arctic, and identify and implement…
Person: Kinder, Hao
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: wildfires, agricultural burning, Arctic, black carbon, Russia
Satellite remote sensing is generally the most practical way to measure aerosol amount and type frequently, over large areas. However, aerosol remote sensing is especially challenging in the polar regions, due to the combination of very bright surface, low sun angle, persistent…
Person: Kahn
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: remote sensing, aerosols, climate change, global warming, aerosol transport, CALIPSO
Black carbon is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. When BC is deposited on snow and ice, it darkens an otherwise bright surface. The darker surface may enhance the absorption of solar radiation resulting in an acceleration of snow and ice…
Person: Quinn
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: agricultural burning, albedo, black carbon, Arctic climate system, arctic warming, wildfire
Randall Roy of the Missouri Department of Conservation discussed the use of prescribed fire on the Drury-Mincy conservation area during a Missouri State University Biology Department seminar.
Person: Roy
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Missouri, burn plans, fuels reduction, habitat, plant diversity, smoke management, topography, fuel loads, glade