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The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
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Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wildfires in the western US have been particularly impactful in recent years not only in terms of loss of life and property but widespread smoke affecting millions of people. Several new satellites have launched…
Person: O'Neill
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, remote sensing, GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, health impact analysis, Wine Country fires, Camp Fire, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, AQI - Air Quality Index, wildfires, mortality, GoFAST - GOES Fire and Smoke Tool
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Snowpacks act like high mountain reservoirs, but are vulnerable to climate change, while the vast majority of forest fires occur in the seasonal snow zone. Forest fires further exacerbate the influence of warming…
Person: Gleason
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, snowpack, snowmelt, snow-water storage, fire severity, wildfires, snow hydrology, snow albedo, black carbon, organic debris, snow water equivalent
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station
Forest managers increasingly require statistically grounded estimates of forest carbon storage at the resolution of individual ownerships (a few thousand acres). Carbon…
Person: Healey, Yang
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: carbon cycle, C - carbon, carbon storage, OBIWAN - Online Biomass Inference using Waveforms and iNventory, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, carbon offsets, GEDI - Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation
Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new public health challenges, as well…
Person: McCarty
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Arctic region, climate change, black carbon, Russia, Canada, air quality, Siberia, agricultural fires, Scandinavia, burned area, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, VIIRS - Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, cultural burning, Indigenous burning
Fire behavior video from the 2020 Red Salmon Complex recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Klamath National Forest, California, Siskiyou County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, fire suppression, 2020 Red Salmon Complex
Wildfires and other types of biomass burning are a seasonal phenomenon in different land ecosystems around the world. Such fires are estimated to consume biomass containing a total of 2-5 petagrams of carbon globally every year, generating heat energy and emitting smoke plumes…
Person: Ichoku
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, biomass, PM - particulate matter, air quality, black carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, remote sensing, emission factor, satellite observations
Wildfire frequency and severity are increasing in many locations around the world. Wildfires emit particles and trace gases that are harmful to public health. In this talk, I will share results from several projects around the world that are evaluating the impact that wildfire…
Person: Marlier
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: Indonesia, air quality, public health, air pollution, remote sensing, morbidity, drought, climate change, land management, wildfires, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5
The Fire Environment Continuing Education SubCommittee presents the 2020 Fall Fire Environment Post Season Lessons Learned Webinar
Topics will include:
Satellite-derived data
WildfireSAFE
Tips for Remote fire analysis assignments
Person: Lindley, Ziel, Teske, Jolly, Law
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: remote sensing, satellite data, fire detection, air quality, smoke dispersion, IA - initial attack, social media, fire management, risk management, WildfireSAFE, lessons learned, fire environment, community preparedness
Emissions from wildland fires strongly influence tropospheric chemistry and climate. Fires emit high levels of trace gases, including semi-volatile and volatile organic compounds (S/VOCs); and primary (directly emitted) particulate matter (PM). During plume evolution, S/VOCs…
Person: Barsanti
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, health impacts, PM - particulate matter, C - carbon, organic carbon, PM2.5, wildfires, POC - Particulate Organic compound, health effects, climate effects, emission factors, fuel consumption, NMOC - nonmethane organic compounds, chemistry, gas chromatography, FIREX - Fire Influence on Regional and Global Environments Experiment, NEIVA - Nextgen Emissions InVentory expansion of Akagi
Some key messages from this webinar:
New operational 3D models such as QUIC-Fire, may change how land managers plan for and manage prescribed fire, but they require unique input data about fuels.
Representing fuels in 3D adds detail on fuel structure and distribution. This info…
Person: Loudermilk
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coupled atmosphere-fire model, coupled fire-atmosphere model, QUIC-Fire, fire spread, TLS - Terrestrial Laser Scanning, fuel structure, fuel characteristics, fluid flow, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, fuel loading, leaf litter, 3D fuels
These webinars are part of the U.S. EPA Environmental Justice Webinar Series for Tribes and Indigenous Peoples - to build the capacity of tribal governments, indigenous peoples and other environmental justice practitioners, and discuss priority EJ issues of interest to tribes…
Person: Ray, Rappold, Hano
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Smoke Sense, air quality, health risk, wildfires, citizen science, Smoke Ready, smoke event, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5
These webinars are part of the U.S. EPA Environmental Justice Webinar Series for Tribes and Indigenous Peoples - to build the capacity of tribal governments, indigenous peoples and other environmental justice practitioners, and discuss priority EJ issues of interest to tribes…
Person: McCaughey, Clements, Holder, Weston
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, wildfires, air sensors, PurpleAir, AirNow, air quality monitoring, AQI - Air Quality Index, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5
Greg Dillon of the USDA Forest Service's Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) gives an overview of the work FMI does in wildland fire.
Webinar hosted by National Weather Service IMET.
Person: Dillon
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
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We evaluated the accuracy of National Weather Service (NWS) Fire Weather mixing height estimates over the western United States corresponding to smoke plume events from 2006-2020. We developed a toolbox for measuring smoke-related aerosol mixing heights using Cloud-Aerosol LiDAR…
Person: Wright, Berkowitz, Liu, Mock, Weber, Nisbet-Wilcox, Ross, Toth
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: satellite, smoke
Fires, including wildfires, prescribed burns, agricultural burning, or residential biomass burning, emit substantial amounts of particles, reactive trace gases, and longer-lived species to the atmosphere on regional and global scales. These emissions and the products from…
Person: Wiedinmyer
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollutants, biomass burning, atmospheric pollutants, emission factor, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, aerosol, health impacts, FINN - Fire Inventory of NCAR, VOC - volatile organic compounds
On 26 April 1986, the explosion and subsequent open-air graphite fire at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant contaminated the soil, water and atmosphere alike with radioactive material. The 30-km2 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains one of the most contaminated areas…
Person: Eriksen
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: Chernobyl, radioactivity, air pollution, wildfires, atmosphere, radiation, exposure, human health, nuclear effects
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 Classification System (FCCS) for describing…
Person: French, Billmire
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: WFEIS - Wildland Fire Emissions Information System, air quality, land management, fire management, smoke management, atmospheric chemistry, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, CONSUME, emission factor, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Canada, health effects, PM2.5, Arctic-Boreal zone
Rapid advancements in wildland fire modeling are promoting innovations in how we characterize and map wildland fuels. Before these models can be widely used, more research on fuel characterization and mapping methods is needed to support 3D model inputs. The 3D Fuels Project is…
Person: Prichard
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: 3D fuels, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, remote sensing, multi-scale imagery, fuel characterization, FastFuels, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, fuel classification, CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics, fuel consumption
The 4th installment of the Mountain Studies Institute's Learning Series will feature Dr. Jessica Gilman and her research on the air quality impacts of wildfire smoke. Dr. Gilman will describe her work making detailed chemical measurements of biomass burning from the NOAA (…
Person: Gilman
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: chemistry, health impacts, air quality, smoke components, VOC - volatile organic compounds, biomass burning, lignin, cellulose, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, fire temperature, smoke exposure, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, pollutants, wildfires, agricultural fires
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, moderate severity fire, burnout operation, fire suppression, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, moderate severity fire, burnout operation, fire suppression, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, low severity fire, moderate severity fire, burnout operation, fire suppression, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, light wind, low rate of spread, backing fire, surface fire, high severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels, 2015 Willow Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2015 Willow Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra National Forest, California, Madera County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, torching, high severity fire, moderate severity fire, uncontained widlfire, unmanaged fuels, 2015 Willow Fire