Past Events
Development of a Micro-UAV for Prescribed Fire Ignition
Jul 13, 2016 | WebinarThe 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
Jun 26 - 29, 2016 | Conference
The CoCoRaHS WxTalk Webinar Series
Jun 23, 2016 | WebinarCoCoRaHS 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
Jun 13 - 16, 2016 | ConferenceNFPA'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
Jun 6, 2016 | LectureChad Kooistra, candidate for PhD in Forest Ecosystems and Society with Dr. Troy Hall, will present his dissertation.
Resilience and Resistance to Invasive Annuals
Jun 3, 2016 | WorkshopRick 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…
Southwest Fire Season: 2015 Overview & 2016 Outlook
May 25, 2016 | WebinarPlease join us for a webinar to review last year’s fires and look ahead toward conditions for this year. Dr. Zander Evans will present an overview of the 12 largest fires in the Southwest during 2015. He will share summaries of forest types and burn severities for each of the 12 fires. In addition, Brent Wachter, Fire Weather Meteorologist with NOAA, will discuss the fire season outlook for…
International Conference on Forest Fires and WUI Fires
May 25 - 27, 2016 | ConferenceFollowing the first Forest Fire Conference focused on WUI fires in 2013, the second edition of the conference on fire risk assessment, modeling, mapping, and management in wildland and WUI will take place in Aix-en-Provence, France. For more…
California Betweeen Two Fires
May 16, 2016 | WebinarBeginning in the 1960s the U.S. experienced a revolution in fire policy, science, and practice. The contours of that reformation on a national scale are becoming sharper with time. But America is also a confederation of regions, of which three - Florida, California, and the Northern Rockies - are most relevant. The national narrative is the subject of my recent book, Between…
Ashland Forest Restoration Training Exchange (TREX)
May 9 - 21, 2016 |The Ashland Forest Resiliency (AFR) team will be hosting a Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) May 9-21, 2016. The intent of this training is to provide opportunities for local and regional firefighters, scientists and managers to work and train together, build their experience in prescribed fire practices, fire effects, and other conservation efforts affecting…