PFS-Webinars

First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM)

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Presenter: Duncan Lutes (RMRS Fire Modeling Institute, Missoula, MT)

FOFEM is a computer program for predicting first order fire effects including tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke production, and soil heating caused by prescribed fire or wildfire. In this webinar you will learn about the FOFEM algorithms, how to prepare the input data, run the tool and interpret outputs.

Webinar: Making Sense of Smoke

Aired 10:30 ET (9:30 CT) Thursday, April 19, 2012

Lake States Fire Science Consortium Presents: Gary Curcio (US Forest Service AIR FIRE Team), Kari Fleegel (NWS Incident Meterologist), Warren Heilman (US Forest Service, Research Meterologist):

"Bringing both national and regional perspectives to the issues, tools and decisions concerning smoke from wildland fires, this webinar will highlight a range of current perspectives, activities, developments and emerging issues for fire practitioners"

Social Motivation in the WUI: Ways to Effectively Engage the Public

Aired 11 am PST April 24, 2012

This webinar by Sarah McCaffrey, US Forest Service, Research Forester, Social Science Unit, will focus on the importance of social interest in fire mitigation along the WUI.

Firewise Communities: A Tool for WUI Residents

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

This webinar will give an overview of the Firewise Communities/USA® Recognition Program administered by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) in partnership with the USDA Forest Service, US Department of the Interior, the California Fire Safe Council, CAL FIRE, and state forestry agencies across the U.S. This program is being used in California to help neighbors work together in high risk areas to achieve safer communities. Learn more about how this program can help your community, as well as available support and training.

This webinar is presented by Michele Steinberg (NFPA), Phyllis Banducci (CalFire), and Pat Durland (Stone Creek Fire LLC), and hosted by the California Fire Science Consortium. It is part of an ongoing wildland-urban interface series sponsored by the California Fire Science Consortium. - FRAMES

Webinars

Economics of Ecological Restoration and Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12pm-1pm 'MD' time

Presenters: 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 way to answer the emerging questions. In this Webinar, we will present some of our preliminary findings and innovations, not just in addressing the sharp increase in fire suppression costs and damages, but more importantly in enhancing natural resource and ecosystem service values.

This webinar presented by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium

Current Research on Public Perceptions of Smoke from Wildland Fire to Inform Communication and Outreach

Monday, August 20, 2012

Jarod Blades, Eric Toman, Christine Olsen, Stacey Frederickson, Jarod Blades, and Troy Hall - review key findings from two large, multi-region studies of public perceptions of smoke from wildland fire funded by the JFSP, emphasizing the important points related to public outreach and communication.

Introduction to the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System – IFTDSS

Thursday, October 18, 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. HST

The web-based Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) was designed to provide fire and fuels managers with a single software solution to manage the many data types, software applications, and tools available for fuels treatment planning.