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More Fire, More People, Less Water: Exploring Wildfire Risks to Water Security in a Changing World
Robinne
Learn about: how forests contribute to water security; how fire, forests, and humans interact to impact water security; what is the state of wildfire-watershed risk research in Canada; and, what are the tools, methods, and data available to advance…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Mission Critical Teams: Reflection, Reset, and Residue in Wildland Fire Management
Cline
Dr. Cline presents a way to resolve complex adaptive problems in an immersive, but constrained (five minutes or less), temporal environments, where the consequence of failure can be critical.
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Increases in Large Wildfire Driven Nighttime Fire Activity Observed across the Conterminous United States
Freeborn
Wildfire activity typically subsides sufficiently enough at night to provide firefighters with opportunities to rest and recover. However, nighttime fire operations are not uncommon. Whilst favorable conditions may enable better fire management…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface: Public Release
Allen, Lowry, Adetona, Holder, Rosario-Ortiz, Turpin
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…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

New Research Towards Improving the Wildland Fire Shelter
Roise, Barker
For the wildland firefighter, deploying a shelter is the last thing they want to do – it’s the final resort, the last line of defense. While there’s no such thing as ‘fire-proof,’ NC State University researchers are seeking to develop new fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

FlamMap 6.2
McHugh
This webinar provides an introduction and overview of the FlamMap modeling system and its new capabilities in version 6.2, with focus on several new additions. Hosted by the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network, a regional fire science exchange…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Wildfire, Smoke Exposure, Human Health, and Environmental Justice Need to be Integrated into Forest Restoration and Management
Smith, D’Evelyn
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…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Female Firefighter Personal Protective Clothing: Investigation of Design, Comfort, and Mobility Issues
McQuerry, Kwon
Structural and wildland firefighting personal protective clothing (PPC) is primarily developed for the male firefighter, despite the growing number of female firefighters in the fire protection community. Female firefighters wear the same turnout…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Existing Vegetation, Existing Vegetation Cover Products: Explained
Dockter
In this Open Office Hour, KBR Vegetation Scientist, Daryn Dockter discusses the ins and outs of how LANDFIRE maps Existing Vegetation Cover and Existing Vegetation Height products. Throughout the talk, he describes the update process and methods…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Effective Communication about Wildfire Management: Observations from 20 Years of Fire Social Science Research
McCaffrey
Fire management in the United States is currently facing numerous challenges. While many of these challenges involve questions about how to increase pace and scale of fuels treatments and adapt to longer, sometimes year-round, fire seasons and more…
Year: 2022
Type: Media