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Pre-season climate and weather variables indicate a moderate to high chance of a near average wildfire season in Washington and an above average season for Oregon. During this webinar, we’ll explore the factors that make up this outlook, define what a normal fire season looks…
Person: Clark
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: 2018 fire season, fire severity, fire forecasting, rainfall, snowpack, fire potential, fire regimes

SIPFIS is the acronym for Southern Integrated Prescribed Fire Information System. SIPFIS merges prescribed fire and air quality data into a common analysis framework to create a unified prescribed fire and air quality database for the southern U.S. The information available…
Person: Odman, Garcia Menendez
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, SIPFIS - Southern Integrated Prescribed Fire Information System, public health

Oregon State Representative Pam Marsh hosts 15 local and statewide speakers from government agencies, universities, nonprofits and forestry, tourism and business interests to help shape strategies for forest management, health impacts, economic remedies and climate change.
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Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Oregon, forest management, health impacts

Exposure to wildland fire smoke is a community health issue that has gained the attention of public health professionals and organizations, especially in states where fires are becoming more frequent and intense. Emissions from wildland fire smoke has significant health…
Person: Rappold, Hano, Baghdikian
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, health effects, health vulnerability, CHVI - Community Health-Vulnerability Index, Smoke Sense, asthma, public health

Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Person: Lahm
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfires, smoke impacts, ARA - Air Resource Advisor, smoke forecast, agency coordination, public communication, air quality

In the past few decades, wildfire activity has increased in the western United States and Canada, and can be attributed, at least in part, to a changing climate. The air pollution from wildfires has been associated with increased risk of exacerbations of respiratory disease,…
Person: Reid, Dodd
Year: 2018
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, International, National
Keywords: public health, health impacts, air pollution, PM - particulate matter, wildfires, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, Canada, Northwest Territories, mental health

Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Person: Lahm
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke management

This session will provide an overview of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) and a hands-on demonstration on the use of the GWIS viewer. GWIS is an online web application that uses remotely sensed wildfire data. This data includes fire danger, wildfire locations,…
Person: Schmidt, McCullum, Picotte
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: GWIS - Global Wildfire Information System, fire danger, forecast, Rapid Damage Assessment, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite

Presentation to the 33rd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/12th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium/Fourth Conference on Biogeosciences. This presentation focuses on emission factors for wildland fire fuels.
Person: O'Neill
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission factor, smoke modeling, smoke models

The Twelfth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, was held 15-18 May 2018 at the Boise Centre, downtown Boise, Idaho. It was concurrently held with the…
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Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire meteorology, forest meteorology, meteorology, meteorology and smoke

The energy flow from a wildland fire is the most important measurable physical quantity. If we understand the time history of the energy flows, we can derive all other fire behavior and fire effects parameters. Dr. Bob Kremens will describe the difficulties in measuring the…
Person: Kremens
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: radiant heat, radiant energy, convection, radiation, fuel consumption, wildfires, conduction, thermal energy, energy transport

U.S. EPA researchers are using an innovative smoke combustion system in a laboratory in Research Triangle Park, NC, to study the toxicity of smoke from fires in controlled conditions. The studies are showing the potential health effects of smoke from different burned wood and…
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Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: toxicity, health impacts

Prescribed fire is an essential management tool for restoring and maintaining fire-dependent ecosystems; however, land managers are unable to apply prescribed fire at the necessary levels. Past surveys have identified a range of policies and regulations that managers say limit…
Person: Schultz, Huber-Stearns
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: policy, BLM - Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, air quality, forest management, fire management

Millions of acres of fuels reduction treatments are being implemented each year in the fire adapted forests of the US. Typical these fuel reduction treatments target small diameter trees for removal producing large amounts of unmerchantable woody material and elevating surface…
Person: Evans
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: burn piles, fuel treatment, slash, fuel moisture, burning, decomposition, compaction, decay rate, flame height, soil heating, fuel consumption

The National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s Smoke Committee with assistance from The Nature Conservancy, held a webinar focused on the emerging world of low-cost air quality sensors. Air quality sensors are a rapidly expanding segment of the air pollutant monitoring world. There…
Person: Benedict, Williams
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air, monitoring, air pollution, smoke monitoring, smoke monitoring network

This webinar addresses additional issues and questions that arose during the original webinar, “Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges." Moderator: Mike Zupko, Executive Director, Wildland Fire Leadership Council. Panelists: Pete Lahm, Smoke Manager, U.S.…
Person: Zupko, Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke management, wildfires, air quality, smoke dispersion, public relations, agencies, public involvement

This webinar will discuss various agricultural and forestry fires and their impacts on air quality, including smoke and other air emissions. Basic Smoke Management Practices (BSMPs) will be discussed as means to minimize air quality impacts from prescribed fires.
Person: Johnson
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BSMP - Basic Smoke Management Practices, smoke management, particulate emissions, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, PM - particulate matter, O3 - ozone, air quality, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, PM2.5, wildland fire, smoke dispersion, topography, mixing height, ventilation index

The science of wildland fire smoke modeling and the tools and information available are dramatically different from what they were 10 years ago. Satellite systems, computing power, social media, and investments in basic research and research delivery such as made by the Joint…
Person: O'Neill
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke forecasting, BlueSky Modeling Framework, satellite data, air quality

The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange  held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Person: Carlson
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory, smoke management

The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange  held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Person: Kiefer
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: dispersion models, air quality, fire management

This is the fifth webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Ward, Stewart, Saganic
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, health impacts, smoke exposure

This is the fourth webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Hostler, Ray
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, health impacts, disaster response

This is the third webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Stone, Vaughn, Moses
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, air quality, health impacts, PM - particulate matter

This is the second webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Baker, Kelly, Hagler
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, BlueSky Modeling Framework, fire management

This is the first webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Person: Vedal, Rao, Gilmour
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: health impacts, Hayman Fire, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, air quality, Canada, British Columbia, health risk