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Our February 21, 2012 Webinar: Learning from Prescribed Fire Reviews: Initial Results will be presented by Anne Black. Anne will present on recent research on lessons learned from reviews of escaped prescribed fire events. The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, February 21 from 1:00 -2:00 PM MST.
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Our March 7, 2012 Webinar: Heat Stress in the Wildland Firefighter will be presented by Crista Vesel. She will present on new research she has completed examining the role of heat stress in wildland firefighting accidents and fatalities. The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, March 7 from 1:00 -2:00 pm MST.
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Our March 27, 2012 Webinar: Effects of Fuels Treatments on the Spatial Probabilities of Burning and Final Size of Recent Wildfires across the United States will be presented by Mark Cochran. Large wildfire frequency has increased several-fold in recent decades throughout the western United States. These changes have resulted from a combination of human land use practices, altered climates and shifting forest and fire management policies. Through the integration of data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Project, LANDFIRE and detailed treatment information from hundreds of land managers, we have assembled the necessary data to model (FARSITE) the spread and estimate the impacts of large numbers of these fires. Through assessment of many wildfires and multiple simulations of each fire, both with and without fuels treatments, we are now estimating the ways in which fuels treatments have altered the extent and spatial patterning of wildfires in recent years. The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, March 27 at 1:00 -2:00 pm, MST.
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IAWF Past Webinars
Our January 26, 2012 Webinar: Hot off the Press: The Latest Research from the Joint Fire Science Program was presented by Molly Hunter. In this webinar she highlighted the latest research from JFSP funded projects and showed participants how to find more in depth information on the projects. Topics included climate change and fire, revegetating arid lands, syntheses, and salvage logging.
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Our January 10, 2012 webinar: Human Performance and Risk Management was presented by Ivan Pupulidy. He discussed the roles individuals, leaders and organizations have in improving performance. Historically human performance has been seen as a simply looking at how the individual workers behave. The focus of post incident analysis, for example, has been to judge actions and decisions based on the result or outcome; essentially, if the outcome was positive, then the action was appropriate or even laudatory. However, if the outcome was negative, then the individual action was deemed inappropriate; often judged to be a violation. This approach misses the system contribution to the events. This creates confusion, an undeniable level of distrust and a lack of reporting in the work force; thereby destroying the safety culture of the organization. The webinar introduced current research surrounding topics like risk assessment, reporting and learning.
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Our December 13, 2011 webinar: Introduction to WFDSS-Air Quality Tools was presented by Miriam Rorig, a research meteorologist with the AirFire Team. Miriam walked through each of the tools and discuss their uses and limitations.
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Our November 30, 2011 webinar: Using fire as a restoration tool: A case study in the Gila National Forest was presented by Dr. Molly Hunter. She talked about the results of a study examining the effects of prescribed fire and resource benefit fire on understory and overstory fuels. Additionally, Dr. Hunter described forest stand conditions in areas that have been subject to multiple resource benefit fires over the course of several decades.
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Our October 25, 2011 webinar: Human & Organizational Performance: Folklore & Science was presented by James Saveland. Many common practices are at least 50 years behind the science. We explored some of the latest developments in the psychological and social sciences as they apply to improving performance out on the fireline.
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Our September 27, 2011 webinar: "The 'pyrogeography' of western North America: How climate has affected fire regimes across the West, and where it may be going in the future" was presented by Peter Brown.
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Our August 25, 2011 webinar: "US biomass and bioenergy policy: Where are we and where might we be going?" was presented by Chris Farley.
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Our July 12, 2011 webinar: "Mountain pine beetle and fire: The British Columbia experience" was presented by Dana Hicks.
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Our June 28, 2011 webinar: "Emissions, Energy Returns and Economics of Utilizing Forest Residues for Thermal Energy Compared to Disposal by Pile Burning" was presented by Greg Jones, a research forester with the Rocky Mountain Research Station.
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Our May 26, 2011 webinar: "Simulating vegetation, fire, and climate dynamics in the northern Rocky Mountain landscape" was presented by Robert Keane. Time 1:00 - 2:00 pm (MDT)
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Our May 3, 2011 webinar: "Fire, Carbon, and Climate: Past and Future" was presented by Michael Ryan, a research ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station.
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Our April 19, 2011 webinar: "Using climate information for risk mitigation and objective achievement in managed fire" was presented by Crystal Kolden, assistant research professor with the University of Idaho.
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Our November 9, 2010 webinar: "Climate Change and Stress Complexes of Forests of Western North America" presented by Dave Peterson and Christie McNeillis available online. To view:
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Our October 19, 2010 webinar: "Climate Change and Fire Projections in the West: Why the Science Should Matter to Managers" archive is available online. To view:
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Our September 21, 2010 webinar: "Using Climate and Climate Change Information for Fire Management" archive is available online. To view:
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Our June 30, 2009 webinar: "Prepare, Stay and Defend, or Go Early: International Perspectives" was a huge success. Presented in cooperation with the Lessons Learned Center, the webinar archive can be found here:
- Webinar Part 1 - http://www.myfirevideos.net/?v=101
- Webinar Part 2 - http://www.myfirevideos.net/?v=100
- Webinar Part 3 -
http://www.myfirevideos.net/?v=99
Our April 22, 2010 archives for the webinar: "Climate Change and Land/Fire Management" can be found here:
- Webinar Part 1 - http://www.myfirevideos.net/Default.aspx?CategoryID=1&SubCategoryID=3&VideoID=359
- Webinar Part 2 - http://www.myfirevideos.net/Default.aspx?CategoryID=1&SubCategoryID=3&VideoID=361
- Webinar Part 3 -
http://www.myfirevideos.net/Default.aspx?CategoryID=1&SubCategoryID=3&VideoID=360
