Past Events

Integrated Rangeland Fire Strategy

You are cordially invited to the August 3rd Joint WRP Natural Resources and Military Readiness, Homeland Security, Disaster Preparedness and Aviation Committee’s webinar on Integrated Rangeland Fire Strategy (Implementation of DOI Secretarial Order 3336). 

This webinar will run from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Pacific.

DOI Secretarial Order 3336 was signed by Secretary Jewell on…

Job Opportunity - Postdoctoral Research Ecologist/Forester

Fire Ecology Research with the USDA Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Research Station, Resource Monitoring & Assessment Program - Corvallis or Portland, OR

Candidates will be evaluated based on their response to this Outreach notice. Please respond by August 15, 2016 and provide all of the necessary information to be considered for…

Power of Embers

Ask an expert virtual workshop series

Steve Quarles, PH.D., IBHS Research Center 

Learn about the impacts embers are capable of and the little things around the home that are vulnerable. Quarles will share some information on why and how IBHS is doing wildfire ember research at the lab in South Carolina.

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Land use planning to reduce wildfire risk: Lessons from 5 western cities

Presented by Dr. Kimiko Barrett, Headwaters Economics

In the American West, wildfire risk to life and property is accelerating as a result of development trends favoring the region’s Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). Moreover, extended droughts, unseasonably warm temperatures, and other climate-induced impacts are influencing the frequency and size of wildfires. In response, a number of…

Development of a Micro-UAV for Prescribed Fire Ignition

The use of helicopter-based ignition has helped to increase the number of prescribed fire acres but the expense and complexity of air operations makes aerial ignitions inaccessible to many land managers. The NIMBUS Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed an Unmanned Aerial System for Firefighting (UAS-FF) to precisely drop delayed ignition spheres in a manner similar to…

Building a path to resiliency

The CoCoRaHS WxTalk Webinar Series

CoCoRaHS WxTalk consists of a series of monthly one-hour interactive Webinars featuring engaging experts in the fields of atmospheric science, climatology and other pertinent disciplines. These easy to follow presentations are live and approximately sixty minutes long. The audience is given the chance to submit questions which the experts answer live on the air.

Topics have included:…

NFPA Conference & Expo

NFPA's Conference & Expo is widely regarded as the most comprehensive industry event for countless professionals -- from architects, engineers, contractors, and building managers to public and private fire service, enforcement agencies, insurers, and utilities.

The event combines an unrivaled educational conference with an expo of more than 300 solution providers. There is no better…

Understanding Public Perceptions of Post-Wildfire Landscape Recovery

Chad Kooistra, candidate for PhD in Forest Ecosystems and Society with Dr. Troy Hall, will present his dissertation.

Resilience and Resistance to Invasive Annuals

Rick Miller, Professor Emeritus of Range and Fire Ecology, Jeremy Maestas, Sagebrush Ecosystem Specialist (NRCS), and local hosts Lars Santana and Aaron Roth (NRCS), will discuss tools to rapidly assess resilience to disturbance (ability of a treatment area to recover), resistance to invasive…