The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is partnering with FRAMES to help fire managers access important fire science information related to the Southwest's top ten fire management issues.
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Ottmar, Brown, Larkin
This project will develop and prioritize the observations needed to perform this task, bring teams of modelers and observational specialists in various disciplines on board under separate funding, and coordinate these teams to create and validate a…
Year: 2020
Type: Project
Sesnie, Dickson, Johnson, Sisk
Prescribed fire plays a vital role in restoring vegetation and fuel bed conditions characteristic of frequent fire regimes in southwestern semidesert grasslands. Nevertheless, fire management activities implemented at local- to landscape-scales must…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Hood, Varner, van Mantgem
Forests represent a major source of carbon storage, drive numerous ecosystem processes, and have huge economic and social importance. Wildland and prescribed fires burn millions of forested acres annually, making accurate prediction of post-fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Robichaud, Massman
Accurately modeling the duration and extent of soil heating from prescribed fires and wildfires is vital to predicting many second-order fire effects, including development of soil hydrophobicity and other biological, chemical, and physical effects…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Hogue, McCray
Fresh water resources in the Western U.S. have generally been allocated to municipal, agricultural or riparian use. Large fires, which have significant impact on downstream water quality, will ultimately influence a regional municipal water source…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Wildfire and Fuel Treatment Strategy Effects on Water Quantity across the Conterminous United States
Sun, Caldwell, McNulty, NormanForest watersheds provide over half of our national water supplies. However, wildfires pose increasing threats to stream water quantity, water quality, and drinking water supplies to millions of peoples in municipalities. Wildfires may negatively…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Loudermilk, Hurteau, Scheller
Active forest management practices (e.g., mechanical thinning, prescribed fire) for reducing fire risk and enhancing forest integrity have become essential in many U.S. forests. The risks of inaction and escalating costs of continued fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Reich, Broome, Cope, Fann, Johnston, Morgan, Rappold
Fire smoke is a major contributor to both particulate matter (PM) and ozone exposure in urban centers. Epidemiological, clinical, and toxicological studies have demonstrated a casual relationship between these pollutants and cardiovascular and…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Singletary, Evans
This agreement is made and entered into by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Joint Fire Science Program (BLM), and the University of Nevada Reno for the purpose of Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Joint Fire Science…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Gilmour, Dye, Hays, Hazari, Higuchi
Short-term exposures to ambient particulate matter (PM) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in the exposed population, and these same patterns have been noted during wildland fire episodes. Since the scale and frequency of…
Year: 2018
Type: Project