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Keane, Tomback, Aubry, Bower, Campbell, Cripps, Jenkins, Mahalovich, Manning, McKinney, Murray, Perkins, Reinhart, Ryan, Schoettle, Smith
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis), an important component of western high-elevation forests, has been declining in both the United States and Canada since the early Twentieth Century from the combined effects of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Hawbaker, Zhu
The methodology for this assessment explicitly addressed ecosystem disturbances, including human- and naturally caused wildland fires, as required by the EISA legislation (U.S. Congress, 2007; Zhu and others, 2010). As indicated by figure 1.2 in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
This assessment was conducted to fulfill the requirements of section 712 of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 and to improve understanding of carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in ecosystems of the Western United States.…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
van Mantgem, Keifer, Klinger, Knapp
We propose to test the idea that climate may affect forest fire severity independent of fire intensity. Pervasive warming can lead to chronic stress on forest trees (McDowell et al. 2008, Raffa et al. 2008), resulting in higher sensitivity to fire-…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Swetnam, Brown, Brown, Falk, Sutherland
A recent surge of scientific publications and interest in fire climatology derives in part from two new paradigms in climatology: (1) the discovery and understanding of broad-scale ocean-atmosphere oscillations (e.g., El Niño Southern-Oscillation)…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Olmstead, Kousky, Sedjo
This project will test the hypothesis that public fire suppression in forested areas increases the fraction of developed land in these areas, drawing people and structures into the wildland/urban interface. To test this hypothesis, we will construct…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Keane, Loehman
Climate projections for the next 20-50 years forecast higher temperatures and variable precipitation for many landscapes in the western United States and many ecosystem and fire modelers are using gridded future climate data generated and…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand, Wheeler
Fire emissions and smoke impacts from wildland fire are a growing concern due to increasing fire season severity, dwindling tolerance of smoke by the public, tightening air quality regulations, and their role in climate change issues. Unfortunately…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Hann, Keane
A 23-minute video in which Robert Keane and Wendel Hann discuss advances in fire technology, particularly modeling, assessments, and mapping, since 2000, and technological needs for the future, including those that include climate change. Presented…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Hunter
Molly Hunter will present a webinar on January 26, 1 PM MST. In this webinar we will highlight the latest research from JFSP funded projects and show participants how to find more in depth information on the projects. Topics include climate change…
Year: 2012
Type: Media