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.
Type
Topic
Region
Year
Displaying 51 - 60 of 106
The most common misconception of wildfire is that all fire is bad. But there are important benefits that smaller and more frequent fires offer to the environment. Matt Jolly, an ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station,…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Ward
Wildfires create significant smoke impacts to communities near and downwind of the wildfire events. This webinar will provide a discussion on ways to prevent wildfire smoke exposures, including both residential strategies (including air…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
When wildfires happen, the news media plays an important role in covering events, providing information, and influencing public understanding. In this video, two scientists discuss recent research on how wildfire is covered in the news, and how this…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Jensen, Volk, Chambers, Ex
These short talks are from a webinar symposium put on by USU Forestry Extension & Southern Rockies Fire Science Network: 1:33 - 21:40 Einar Jensen, Community Risk Reduction Specialist, South Metro Fire Rescue -- 22:54- 40:49 Claire Volk,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Balch
There are three ingredients needed for fire: fuel to burn, hot & dry conditions, and an ignition source. People are changing all three. The area burned has increased over just the past several decades, in western U.S. forests by 1500%. Last year…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Barrett
As wildfires increase in size and severity, the costs to protect homes and lives similarly rise. Yet protecting communities represents a relatively small portion of the total costs of a wildfire—other short- and long-term impacts yield a variety of…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
This video is an introduction on how to manage wildland fuels. The objectives of this video are to: 1) Define wildland fuel management; 2) Explain how fuels are modified; 3) Describe some common desired outcomes; 4) Introduce fuel management in the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Benedict, Williams
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s Smoke Committee with assistance from The Nature Conservancy, held a webinar focused on the emerging world of low-cost air quality sensors. Air quality sensors are a rapidly expanding segment of the air…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Wall, Nauslar, Hoon
On Wednesday, April 11th, the NOAA RISA program and National Weather Service hosted a webinar to showcase how the California-Nevada Applications Program (CNAP, a NOAA RISA team) with additional funding from NIDIS, SARP, and the Joint Fire Sciences…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Dillon
The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Media