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2012-2013 Lake States Fire Science Consortium Webinars

The Lake States Fire Science Consortium Webinars for the 2012-2013 season have concluded. These webinars covered a variety of topics from fire ecology to the application of tools for managing fire. Click on the links below to view the previously recorded webinars.

Thursday April 18th, 2013, 2:00 PM ET/ 1:00 PM CT
Lessons Learned from the Pagami Creek Fire
Tim Sexton, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station

Thursday March 21st, 2013, 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT
Lake States Fire Science Consortium knowledge gaps assessment: What we know (and don’t know) about fire science in the Lake States region
Jessica Miesel, PhD, Michigan State University

Thursday February 21st, 2013, 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT
Fire severity and ecosystem impacts following the Pagami Creek Fire:  A rapid response
Brian Sturtevant, PhD, USFS Northern Research Station

Thursday January 17th, 2013, 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT
Dynamic disturbance interactions in the Border Lakes Region: A model landscape for investigating, understanding, and anticipating changing forest environments
Douglas Shinneman, PhD, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center

Thursday, December 20th, 2012, 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 10:00 AM AT
What is live fuel moisture: a new look at the combustion of living plants
Matt Jolly, PhD, USFS Fire, Fuel and Smoke Science Program, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory

Tuesday, November 20th, 2012, 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT
Climate change and forest ecosystem vulnerability in the Lake States: how to account for wildfire?
Stephen Handler, USFS Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science

Thursday, October 18th, 2012, 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT
Fire effects on the highly invasive Oriental bittersweet
Noel Pavlovic, PhD, USGS Biological Resources Division
Stacey Leicht-Young, PhD, University of Rhode Island

 

 

Lake States Fire Science Consortium Webinar Archive

To view more information on each webinar use the links below.

Apr 19, 2012: Making Sense of Wildland Smoke (G. Curcio, K.i Fleegel, & W. Heilman)

Mar 15, 2012: A Synthesis of Fire and Oak (L. Frelich)

Feb 24, 2012: Unlocking the mystery of weather forecasts (A. Graning)

Feb 16, 2012: Variability and Persistence of Post-fire Biological Legacies in Michigan Jack Pine Forests (D. Kashian)

Jan 19, 2012: Using Prescribed Fire to Regenerate and Restore Red Pine Ecosystems - Research & Examples from Minnesota. (C. Kern & others)

Dec 15, 2011: A 350 Year Fire Record in Northern Wisconsin Woodlands (R. Guyette & others)

Nov 17, 2011: Monitoring Fire Effects with FFI (D. Lutes)

Oct 20, 2011: LANDFIRE in the Lake States (R. Ziel)

May 2, 2011: Web Based Fire Weather for the Lake States (R. Ziel, J. Horel, & J. Barnier)

Apr 7, 2011: An Overview of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Project and Field-Based Burn Severity Assessment (co-sponsored with Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Project)

Feb 17, 2011: Wildland Fire and Mercury Contamination in Soil and Water (R. Kolka & T. Wickman)

Dec 16, 2010: Fire, Vegetation, and Birds in Northern Sedge Meadows - Lessons Learned At Seney NWR (J. Austin & G. Lindsay)

Webinars of Interest from Other Organizations

Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center, International Association of Wildland Fire, and Joint Fire Science Program (Webinar Archive)

Upper Midwest & Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative (Webinar Archive)

Online Training

National Interagency Fuels, Fire, & Vegetation Technology Transfer (NIFTT) Online Training

METED - Training Modules for the Geoscience Community

National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee (SMOC) Air Quality Education Resources

National Wildfire Coordination Group course s-290 (Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior). Online fire training for anyone who cannot attend a classroom session or simply wants to review critical fire behavior training.

Workshops

For more information on these workshops, please contact Robert Ziel (ziel.4@osu.edu).

Using the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) in the Lake States is a 16-hour workshop that has been delivered twice. Intended for students who have at least completed the NWCG course S290 (Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior), it includes both background concepts and practical exercises for making fireline assessments, considering prescription windows, and daily decisions.

Using FLAME for Fireline Fire Behavior Assessments is presented as an 8 hour workshop to reinforce the concepts and practice the skills required to make fireline assessments using the FLAME tools introduced in the NWCG course S290 (Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior).

Fuel Moisture Monitoring is conducted as a 2 hour web conference to introduce Lake States users to the National Fuel Moisture Database and prepare them for creating data sites and data entries for their locations.

Using the Composite Burn Index (CBI) is conducted as a 4 hour workshop in the field, where participants are introduced to the CBI protocol, practice data collection, and discuss uses and role in a burn monitoring program.

WFDSS Fire Behavior Tools is a 12 hour workshop where participants learn how to navigate the incident and analysis areas of the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS). Within the analysis section, techniques for evaluating landscapes, calibrating modeled fire growth and behavior, and making short-term, near-term, and FSPro projections to support decision-makers are demonstrated and practiced.