swfsc, Author at Southwest Fire Science Consortium

August 22, 2016: Meeting the JFSP data availability requirement

by swfscEvents, Webinars August 13, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Laurie Porth and Dave Rugg, U.S. Forest Service Research & Development, Research Data Archive Meeting the JFSP grant requirement for post-research data accessibility requires some planning. This webinar will review the two paths for satisfying the data requirement, discuss in detail what is needed for publishing research data through the Forest Service Research Data Archive, …

High Severity Fire: Response and Uncertainty

by swfscVideos July 2, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Do high severity burns lead to conversion to new forest types or a shift from forests to shrublands or grasslands? How do wildlife respond to changing habitats? And, finally, what do these changes tell us about how these ecosystems will respond to climate change? We visited the sites of the 2000 Pumpkin Fire and 2003 Aspen Fire, and talked to researchers who have been studying how forests and wildlife respond to high severity burns. View the YouTube video here.

May 18, 2016: Finding the Best Available Science on Fire Effects and Fire Regimes in Southwestern and Southern Rocky Mountains Ecosystems

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 31, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Robin Innes, Ecologist Fire Effects Information System (FEIS, www.feis-crs.org/feis/) staff will introduce new two fire regime products-Fire Regime Reports and Fire Regime Syntheses-and demonstrate FEIS’s new search functions to inform fire management planning and decision-making in the Southwest and Southern Rockies regions. Fire Regime Reports summarize information from thousands of LANDFIRE Biophysical Settings models, which …

May 18, 2016: Southwest Fire Season: 2015 Overview and 2016 Outlook- May 2016

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 31, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Zander Evans, Forest Guild and Brent Wachter, National Weather Service Please join us for a webinar to review last year’s fires and look ahead toward conditions for this year. Dr. Zander Evans will present an overview of the 12 largest fires in the Southwest during 2015. He will share summaries of forest types and burn …

April 20, 2016: Simple Steps to Wildland Fire Communication

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 3, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Cathie Schmidlin, Type 1 PIO, retired USFS Region 3 Media Officer This webinar will cover the basic steps of public information when interacting with communities, general public and media. Click here to register for this webinar now! Cathie has been a public Information officer with a Type 1, Southwest Incident Management Team, off and on …

March 17, 2016: Persistence and fire regimes of oak shrubfields suggest increasing dominance with climate change

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 21, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Chris Guiterman, University of Arizona PhD Candidate A number of recent studies in the Southwest region have documented abrupt transitions of conifer-dominated forests to shrubfields following high-severity fire. Little is known about the long-term ecosystem dynamics of these stands, including their successional trajectories and interactions with fire. I will present dendroecological analyses of five of …

January 13, 2016: Effectiveness of Wildfire Mitigation Activities in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)

by swfscEvents, Webinars February 7, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Date: January 13, 2016Presenter: Zander Evans, Forest Guild Each year wildfires damage homes, businesses, communities, watersheds, and forests on millions of acres across the U.S. However there are effective ways to reduce the impact of wildfire. A new report, Evaluating the Effectiveness of Wildfire Mitigation Activities in the Wildland-Urban Interface, shares lessons learned from communities …

February 17, 2016: Ecology of Smoke

by swfscEvents, Webinars February 7, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Mary Lata, USFS Fire Ecologist The Ecology of Smoke is something that has been considered by very few in the United States, despite extensive and intensive interest and research into frequent fire systems. This presentation will review some of the existing science; present some recent data on smoke and seedling emergence in species native to …

March 2016: New Mexico WUI Summit, Re-energize community response

by swfscEvents, Workshops February 7, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

This year’s theme is ”Re-energize Community Fire Response”. Just because the threat of fire is not immediate, does not mean the threat is removed. All hands from all lands can join together to learn what role to take to keep fire threats at bay. Each day of the conference will target specific audiences to highlight responsibilities that keeps fire response efficient before, during, and after disaster strikes.

March 2016: Arizona WUI Summit and Firewise Conference

by swfscEvents, Workshops February 7, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

This 2-day summit equipped the homeowner as well as fire departments and firefighters with information and actions they can take to reduce loss and increase safety in their community. Topics included fire ecology, hazard fuel reduction grants, insurance issues, risk assessments, Fire Adapted Communities, Ready, Set, Go!, Firewise principles, emergency management, forest health, and various programs …

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August 22, 2016: Meeting the JFSP data availability requirement

High Severity Fire: Response and Uncertainty

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