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Join project staff and members of the committee for a public release webinar about the new report, The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface on Tuesday, September 20th from 3:00PM to 4:00PM EDT. The committee will share information about their findings and…
Person: Allen, Lowry, Adetona, Holder, Rosario-Ortiz, Turpin
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: public health, wildfires, fire chemistry, communities at risk, air quality, water quality
This webinar is part of the ABoVE Northwest Territories-focus webinar series.
Person: Billmire, Vander Bilt
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: NWT - Northwest Territories, ABoVE - NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, carbon storage, boreal peatlands, extreme drought, wildfire, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, CanFIRE
Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a transdisciplinary perspective. This presentation will summarize a recently published article in Current Environmental Health…
Person: Smith, D’Evelyn
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke exposure, forest management, fire management, human health, environmental justice, smoke impacts, wildfire preparedness, air pollution, health impacts, respiratory effects, cardiovascular effects, adaptive capacity, partnerships, integrated management, collaborative partnerships, Indigenous Peoples, social equity
This StoryMap presents information about the use of prescribed fire on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, specifically: 1) what is prescribed fire, 2) types of prescribed fire, 3) pile burning, 4) understory burning, 5) broadcast burning, 6) benefits of mitigating risk, 7)…
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Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
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Smoke from wildfires is a well-recognized public health and safety issue. While there have been extensive efforts to help communities be “smoke ready”, most people would still prefer not to live with weeks of unhealthy air quality during the summer and fall. This webinar will…
Person: Graw
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: air pathways, air quality, wildfires, fuel treatments, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, fuel bed, vegetative strata, AQI - Air Quality Index
In this webinar, RMRS research ecologist Sam Cushman, wildlife biologist Joe Ganey, and research ecologist Gavin Jones discussed their latest research on spotted owls and wildfire, including modeling the impacts of habitat loss under climate change on the Mexican spotted owl,…
Person: Cushman, Ganey, Jones
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, Strix occidentalis, Strix occidentalis caurina, Strix occidentalis lucida, Strix occidentalis occidentalis, spotted owl, annual area burned, habitat, northern spotted owl, California spotted owl, Mexican spotted owl, forest composition, historical fire regime
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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The American Lung Association recently released a report titled "Can Prescribed Fire Mitigate Health Harm? A Review of Air Quality and Public Health Implications of Wildfire and Prescribed Fire." This report, commissioned by the American Lung Association and written by PSE…
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Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: health risk, air quality risk, catastrophic wildfire, lung health, wildfire smoke exposure, harmful smoke exposure
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Presented by Bret Anderson, Physical Sciences Technician, USFS, WO, Air Resource Management Program
Person: Anderson
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: smoke forecast, dry thunderstorm, ADI - Atmospheric Dispersion Index, ventilation index, spot forecast, LVORI - Low Visibility Occurrence Risk Index, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, WRF - Weather Research Forecast, injection height
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Person: Mass
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: Camp Fire, meteorology, wind, Diablo winds, relative humidity, fuel moisture, air temperature, dead fuel moisture
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
This is the first panel discussion in Season 2 of the Fueling Collaboration series. Moderator Nick Skowronski (USDA Forest Service) discusses fire and the carbon cycle with panelists Ken Clark (USDA Forest Service), Jessica Miesel (Michigan State University), Louise Loudermilk (…
Person: Skowronski, Clark, Miesel, Loudermilk, Midgley, Coates
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: C - carbon, carbon cycle, CO2 - carbon dioxide, carbon sequestration, carbon pool, fuels treatment, soil carbon
This is the 3rd panel discussion in Season 2 of the Fueling Collaboration series. Moderator Jack McGowan-Stinski (Lake States Fire Science Consortium) discusses all things smoke. What is it? What are the messages we should be communicating? What are the tools that can help us…
Person: McGowan-Stinski, Charney, Kobziar, Wickman, Pitrolo
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Outreach, 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 quality, bioaerosols, firefighter safety, human health, smoke management, smoke effects, CO - carbon monoxide, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, air pollution, climate change, wildfire
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
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
We compare 18 years of hourly mesoscale weather (wind and dryness) observations to daily fire emissions across California’s forest and savanna fuels (~80,000 “days of fire”). We find that severe weather and fire…
Person: Murphy
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfire, mesoscale weather, wind, dryness, fuel types, savanna, forest, climate change, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, VPD - vapor pressure deficit, fire severity
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The NWS mission is to provide weather data, forecasts, warnings, and decision support services for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy. You may be asking yourself, how…
Person: Lukinbeal
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: coordination, air quality, wildfire, health effects, public messaging, forecasting
Sarah Trainor & Jeremy Littell present at the 2021 Association for Fire Ecology Conference special session: The Nexus of Climate Change and Fire: Taking Science to Action
Addressing the unprecedented challenges of climate change, wildland fire, and human land use requires…
Person: Littell, Trainor
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Safety
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: wildfire, fire management, wildfire management, climate change, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, partnerships, boundary organization, decision making, human health, fuels management, PM2.5, fire regime change, fire frequency, annual area burned
Smoke is a risk faced by wildland firefighters and personnel with both short and long-term health impacts. Safety Officers, Logistics Section Chiefs, Medical Unit Leaders and Air Resource Advisors can work individually and together as part of the Incident Management Team to…
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Year: 2024
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Logistics, Planning, Safety
Region(s): National
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NV-RxFIRe provides an interface between air quality managers, land management agencies, and individuals that conduct prescribed burning in Nevada. The web map facilitates communication by providing access to a database containing information on burn planning and burn approvals.…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin
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Progam details fact sheets and other information about prescribed fire in Oklahoma.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
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The website provides additional information on air quality, prescribed burning and wildfires, and steps to take when the air quality is affected by smoke.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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The Nez Perce Tribe operates a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) delegated burn permit program within the exterior boundaries of the 1863 Nez Perce Reservation pursuant to the EPA Federal Air Rules for Reservations (FARR). The Nez Perce Environmental Restoration and…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northern Rockies
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The Air Quality Division's WyVisNet website is a 'self serve' resource: that provides access to near real-time ambient air monitored data and web cameras throughout Wyoming. The Air Quality Division may also post messages to WyVisNet for forecasted moderate to heavy smoke. The…
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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Information page on preparing for wildfire smoke and video snippets from partners.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northwest
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