Webinars Archives - Page 14 of 16 - Southwest Fire Science Consortium

May 15, 2013: The Structure of Fire Size Distributions: A Broad View of Interacting Gradients in Wilderness Management, Spatial Climate, and Topography in Three Western Regions

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 21, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Sandra Haire, Haire Laboratory for Landscape Ecology Determining the effects of land management on fire regime characteristics is complicated by the interaction of several factors that vary in space and time. First, fire size and frequency are linked to climate conditions, including drought, as well as wind and temperature that define weather conditions during …

April 25, 2013: Impacts of fire hazard assessment and fuel reduction priorities on mega-fire outcomes: A hypothetical test using the Wallow Fire in Arizona

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 6, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Amy Waltz, Program Director of Science Delivery, Ecological Restoration Institute Uncharacteristically large and severe wildfires, or mega-fires, are occurring with increasing frequency over the last decades in the western United States. The 2011 Wallow Fire, a 538,049-acre (217,740-hectare) fire in the conifer forests of eastern Arizona, provided the opportunity to compare the effectiveness of …

March 27, 2013: The Fire Season Outlook for 2013 and How It’s Built

by swfscEvents, Webinars March 28, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Chuck Maxwell, Fire Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center, Predictive Services Chuck Maxwell will discuss how Predictive Services develops seasonal fire potential predictions and what the outlook is this year for the Southwest. Join this webinar to get an inside view of the data and methods that go into fire season predictions, and equally important where …

February 19, 2013: Implementing the Mexican spotted owl revised recovery plan: Conducting fire management in owl habitat

by swfscEvents, Webinars February 19, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenters: Bill Block (USFS RMRS) and Shaula Hedwall (USFWS) The Mexican Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, First Revision, was released on December 17, 2012. The Recovery Team used the best available science to delineate actions we think are required to recover and protect the owl. This Recovery Plan presents realistic and attainable goals for recovering the …

January 16, 2013: Temperature as a driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 17, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Park Williams, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dr. Williams will discuss his recent work to derive a forest drought-stress index (FDSI) for the southwestern United States using a comprehensive tree-ring data set representing AD 1000–2007. This FDSI is linked to measures of forest productivity, mortality, bark-beetle outbreak and wildfire. If climate models are accurate, the …

December 9, 2012: Synthesis of Knowledge of Extreme Fire Behavior for Fire Managers

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 3, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Paul Werth Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection column. This webinar will summarize the recent JFSP publication that connects the …

November 14, 2012: Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Effects of Fire on Cultural Resources

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 15, 2012May 18, 2023Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Kevin Ryan This webinar provided an introduction to the new edition of the Rainbow series that provides fire and land management professionals and policy makers with a greater understanding of the value of cultural resource protection and the methods available to evaluate and mitigate risks to cultural resources. Watch the webinar recording.

October 17, 2012: Economics of Ecological Restoration and Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments

by swfscEvents, Webinars October 18, 2012May 18, 2023Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Yeon-Su Kim (Northern Arizona University) and Diane Vosick (Ecological Restoration Institute) What are the economic values of landscape-level ecological restoration and hazardous fuel treatments? The Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University (ERI) assembled a team of wildland fire economists to conduct a rapid evidence-based assessment, as well as to design a timely and efficient …

September 19, 2012: Social Network Analysis

by swfscEvents, Webinars October 1, 2012April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Vita Wright (Northern Rockies Fire Science Network) Recent science communication studies of the federal fire management community suggest managers access research via informal information networks, and that these networks vary by both agency and position. We used a phone survey to understand the informal science communication networks of fire professionals in two of the …

June 22, 2011: Fire history and age structure patterns at landscape scales

by swfscEvents, Webinars July 5, 2012April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Jose Iniguez (USFS RMRS) Top-down regional climate patterns result in high spatial fire synchrony among Southwest forests. At landscape scales, however bottom-up (topography) patterns are also important in determining fire history and tree age structure variability. The distinct fire histories from these two study areas provided natural age structure experiments that indicated tree age …