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September 26, 2018: Use and benefits of NASA’s RECOVER for post-fire decision support

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 18, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenters: William Toombs and Keith Weber, GIS Training and Research Center, Idaho State University Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive …

August 29, 2018: The full community costs of wildfire

by swfscEvents, Webinars August 2, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: August 29, 2018 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Kimiko Barrett, Headwaters Economics 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 costs that often go …

May 17, 2018: Fire and Water Film Screening & Panel Discussion

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 7, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 6:30pm Location: Museum of Northern Arizona, 3100 N. Fort Valley Rd, Flagstaff, AZ Catastrophic wildfire impacts many aspects of life in Arizona: from the quality and sustainability of our water supplies to the safety and livelihood of people who live in mountain towns on the edge of our forests. …

May 9, 2018: BehavePlus updates and changes

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 30, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenters: Faith Ann Heinsch, S&K Global Solutions, RMRS Missoula Fire Lab In the webinar, Faith Ann… briefly described major changes from version 5 to version 6 showed sample Runs demonstrating these changes provided suggestions for calculating surface fire behavior using BehavePlus v6 described how changes in BehavePlus affect …

April 26, 2018: Southwest Fire Season 2017 Overview and 2018 Outlook

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 6, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: Thursday April 26, 2018 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenters: Zander Evans, Forest Stewards Guild and Rich Naden, Fire Weather Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center The purpose of this webinar was to review 2017 fires and look ahead toward conditions for 2018. Dr. Zander Evans presented an overview of the largest fires in the Southwest during 2017. He …

March 16, 2018: Diversity: Just gender and race…Or a diversity of perspectives?

by swfscEvents, Webinars March 1, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: March 16, 2018 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Sara Brown, USFS Human Performance & Organizational Learning Research, Development & Applications Let us unpack an “uncomfortable” question: Why don’t women in fire universally encourage more women to join fire? This discussion will be based on the following premise: “fitting in with the firefighter culture is essential for safety …

February 14, 2018: Fire severity and regeneration strategy influence shrub patch size and structure

by swfscEvents, Webinars February 1, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: February 14, 2018 Presenter: Jesse Minor, Adjunct Instructor, University of Arizona Shrub species demonstrate flexible responses to wildfire disturbance severity that are reflected in shrub patch dynamics at small and intermediate scales. Prior research has examined the dynamics and persistence of large shrub patches on the landscape; our work focuses on individuals or groups of individual …

January 10, 2018: The Wildfire Within: Firefighter perspectives on gender and leadership in wildland fire

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 5, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

The Wildfire Within: Firefighter perspectives on gender and leadership in wildland fire Date: January 10, 2018 12pm Mountain Presenter: Rachel Reimer, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada This project utilized a feminist appreciative approach to Action Research to facilitate a conversation about gender and leadership within the British Columbia Wildfire Service (BCWS). The research question was, “How …

December 6, 2017: Federal fire managers’ perceptions of the importance, scarcity & substitutability of suppression resources

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 21, 2017March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: December 6, 2017 12pm Mountain Presenters: Crystal Stonesifer, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Human Dimensions A frequent prerequisite for meeting fire management objectives is the availability of key suppression resources, prepositioned for timely response. In the United States, multi-jurisdictional fire suppression demand is met by a national-scale pool of suppression resources that come from …

November 14, 2017: Where there’s smoke… there’s social science! Public perceptions of smoke & communication from multiple regions

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 2, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: November 14, 2017 12pm Mountain Presenters: Stacey Frederick, Coordinator, California Fire Science Consortium The importance of smoke has been well-observed by managers through frequent concerns expressed over smoke. Public perceptions of fuel reduction techniques, with a particular emphasis on using prescribed fire as a management tool, have been under study for almost a decade. However, research …