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March 16, 2018: Diversity: Just gender and race…Or a diversity of perspectives?
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…
February 14, 2018: Fire severity and regeneration strategy influence shrub patch size and structure
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…
January 10, 2018: The Wildfire Within: Firefighter perspectives on gender and leadership in wildland fire
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…
December 6, 2017: Federal fire managers’ perceptions of the importance, scarcity & substitutability of suppression resources
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…
November 14, 2017: Where there’s smoke… there’s social science! Public perceptions of smoke & communication from multiple regions
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…
November 1, 2017: Interagency coordination to meet multiple objectives: An effective approach to wildfire
Date: November 1, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenters: Shaula Hedwall, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Wesley Hall, Coconino National Forest While the number of acres burned annually by uncharacteristic wildfire continues to grow, it is becoming exceedingly important for agencies to…
October 3, 2017: Modeling Dynamic Fuels with an Index System: MoD-FIS in the Great Basin & Southwestern U.S.
Webinar presenters: Charley Martin, LANDFIRE Fuels Team Lead, and Tobin Smail, Fire & Fuels GIS specialist, both Technical Support Services Contractors to the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Date: October 3, 2017 11:30am AZ/12:30pm MDT This webinar is co-hosted…
August 31, 2017: The East Jemez Landscape Futures Project
Date: August 31, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Collin Haffey, USGS Jemez Mountains Field Station The East Jemez Landscape Futures (EJLF) project is a collaborative process that aims to develop a holistic and forward-looking approach to managing areas of the eastern Jemez…
June 14, 2017: Recovery & adaptation after wildfire across the United States, 2009-2011
Date: June 14, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Miranda H. Mockrin, USFS Northern Research Station Becoming a fire-adapted community that can live with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation. In eight case study sites across the United…
May 17, 2017: Getting ahead of the wildfire problem: Linking operational fire response to landscape planning objectives
Getting ahead of the wildfire problem: Linking operational fire response to landscape planning objectives Date: May 17, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Christopher O’Connor, US Forest Service RMRS Human Dimension Program, Wildfire Risk Management Team Part of the solution to dealing…
April 26, 2017: Southwest Fire Season 2016 Overview and 2017 Outlook
Date: Wednesday April 26, 2017 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenter: Zander Evans, Forest Stewards Guild and Chuck Maxwell, Predictive Services Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center Please join us for a webinar to review last year’s fires and look ahead toward conditions for this…
April 12, 2017: Efficacy of resource objective wildfires for restoring ponderosa pine ecosystems in N. Arizona
Efficacy of resource objective wildfires for restoring ponderosa pine ecosystems in northern Arizona Date: April 12, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: David Huffman, Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University Historical interruption of frequent surface fire regimes and decades of fire exclusion…
March 1, 2017: Fuels treatments and ecological values in piñon-juniper woodlands: Vegetation, birds, and modeled fire behavior
Date: March 1, 2017, 12pm MST Presenter: Jonathan Coop and Pat Magee Mastication and hand-thinning treatments are increasingly utilized by land managers as a means of reducing tree cover for fire hazard mitigation and other habitat objectives in piñon-juniper (P-J) woodlands.…
January 18, 2017: Patterns of conifer regeneration following high severity wildfire in ponderosa pine-dominated forests
Date: January 18, 2017, 12pm MST Presenter: Marin Chambers, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, CSU The past two decades have witnessed fires of increased severity in southern Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine – dominated forests. Marin will discuss results from an ongoing project that…
November 1, 2016: Is science used to inform fire management and policy decisions?
Date: November 1, 2016 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenter: Molly Hunter, University of Arizona This webinar will include recent science findings and a case study. Dr. Molly Hunter will present results from an assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the…