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Sunday, 16 November 2003
	9:30 AM-1:30 PM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Sunday Congress Registration
	5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Sunday Ice Breaker Reception
Monday, 17 November 2003
	9:00 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Plenary Session 1 Opening Plenary Session (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
9:00 AM PL1.1 Welcome and Call to Order   Ronald E. Masters, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL 9:10 AM PL1.2 Opening Remarks from the Florida State Forester   Michael Long, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL 9:25 AM PL1.3 Welcome from AFE Representative   Jan Van Wagtendonk, AFE, El Portal, CA 9:35 AM PL1.4 Welcome from TNC Representative   Jeff Hardesty, The Nature Conservatory's Global Fire Initiative, Gainesville, FL 9:45 AM PL1.5 Welcome from AMS Representative   Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC 9:55 AM PL1.6 Fire Ecology of the Recent Anthropocene (Keynote Address)   Johann G. Goldammer, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Global Fire Monitoring Center, Freiburg, Germany 10:35 AM Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Joint Session 1G GIS/Remote Sensing: Part 1 (TRACK VII) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chairs: Skip Edel, Colorado State Forest Service, Boulder, CO; Dorothy Albright, USDA Foreest Service, McClellan, CA
11:00 AM J1G.1 Using NDVI to determine green-up date for the National Fire Danger Rating System   Paul M. Schlobohm, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID; and B. L. Hall and T. J. Brown 11:30 AM J1G.2 Progress towards development of methods for evaluation of spatial fire potential indicators   Jon M. Graham, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and P. L. Andrews 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM J1G.3 Phoenix—the new Forest Service airborne infrared fire detection and mapping system   Paul H. Greenfield, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC; and W. Smith and D. C. Chamberlain 2:00 PM J1G.4 Operational Detection of Fires in Brazil with EOS, GOES and NOAA Satellites   Alberto W. Setzer, Center for Weather Forecast and Climatic Studies, S.J.Campos, SP, Brazil 2:30 PM J1G.5 Measurement of the time-temperature and emissivity history of the burn scar for remote sensing applications   Robert Kremens, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and J. Faulring and C. C. Hardy 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J1G.6 Monitoring wildland fire activity on a national-scale with MODIS imagery   Brad Quayle, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Lannom, M. Finco, J. Norton, and R. Warnick 4:00 PM J1G.7 Wildfire Risk Data Collection Using Handheld GPS and GIS   Andrew W. Martin, South Alabama Regional Planning Commission, Mobile, AL 4:30 PM J1G.8 Facts and History of NWCG’s Geospatial Task Group   Susan Goodman, Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO 5:00 PM J1G.9 ICS Fire Mapping Tools—A New Standard in Fire Mapping   John Varner, USDA Forest Service , Rocky Mountain Region, Encampment, WY
	11:00 AM-3:30 PM, Monday Joint Session 2 Fire and Atmosphere Interactions (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress)
Chair: Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI
11:00 AM J2.1 Atmospheric Response and Feedback to Smoke Radiative Forcing from Wildland Fires   Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA 11:15 AM J2.2 Modeling interactions between fire and atmosphere in discrete fuel beds   Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. Winterkamp, C. Edminster, J. Colman, and M. Steinzig 11:30 AM J2.3 Numerical Study of Effects of Atmosphere Temperature Profile on Wildfire Behavior   Chunmei Xia, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. Y. Hussaini, P. Cunningham, R. R. Linn, and S. L. Goodrick 11:45 AM J2.4 Simulations of wildfire incidents using coupled atmosphere-fire modeling   Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM J2.5 Comparison of 2-D wind fields and simulated wildland fire growth   Karl Zeller, USDA Forest Service, Ft. Collins, CO; and N. Nikolov, J. Snook, M. A. Finney, J. McGinley, and J. M. Forthofer 1:45 PM J2.6 Predicting surface winds in complex terrain for use in fire growth models   Jason M. Forthofer, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler, K. S. Shannon, M. A. Finney, L. S. Bradshaw, and R. Stratton 2:00 PM J2.7 Impact of released fuel moisture on atmospheric dynamics   Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI 2:15 PM J2.8 Analysis of space/time characteristics of errors in an integrated weather/fire spread simulation   Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and P. E. Dennison, F. M. Fujioka, D. R. Weise, and J. W. Benoit 2:30 PM J2.9 Infrared imagery applied for insights into wildland fire dynamics   Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO 2:45 PM J2.10 Mobile Radar Observations of the Big Elk (2002) and Roberts (2003) Fires   Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO; and S. Weygandt 3:00 PM Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Monday Session 1 Mesoscale Meteorology I
Chair: Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
1.1 Comparison of Local Wind and Stability Fields with Synoptic-Scale Observations and Forecast Products at Fort Ord, California   Wendall A. Nuss, NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. K. Miller and A. N. Barnett 3:30 PM 1.2 Utilizing a biophysical model of ecosystem-atmosphere exchange to improve fire danger assessment and mesoscale meteorological forecasts   N. Nikolov, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO; and K. F. Zeller 3:45 PM 1.3 A Model based Analysis of the Role of an Upper-level Front and Stratospheric Intrusion in the Mack Lake Fire   Tarisa K. Zimet, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. E. Martin 4:00 PM 1.4 Forecasting dry lightning in the western United States   Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. A. Ferguson and S. McKay 4:15 PM 1.5 Low Level Jet Impacts on Fire Evolution in the Mack Lake and Other Severe Wildfires   Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and X. Bian, B. E. Potter, and W. E. Heilman 4:30 PM 1.6 High Resolution Simulations of the Island-Induced Circulations for the Island of Hawaii during HaRP   Yang Yang, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and Y. L. Chen 4:45 PM 1.7 A case study of sea-breeze convergence and lightning-initiated fire in Tampa Bay   Arlene G. Laing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and C. H. Paxton
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Joint Session 3E Combustion Modeling: Part 1 (TRACK V) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: Barbara Bonefeld, USDA Forest Service, McCellan, CA
3:30 PM J3E.1 Core Fire Science Caucus   David V. Sandberg, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR; and C. C. Hardy, D. R. Weise, R. Rehm, and R. R. Linn 4:00 PM J3E.2 A new set of standard fuel models for use with Rothermel's spread model   Joe H. Scott, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and R. Burgan 4:30 PM J3E.3 NEXUS 2.0: not just a spreadsheet anymore   Joe Scott, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT 5:00 PM J3E.4 “Rabbit Rules”—an application of Stephen Wolfram’s “new kind of science” to fire spread modeling   Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
	5:30 PM, Monday Oral Sessions end for the day
	5:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 1 Assessing and Predicting Climate Impacts on Landscapes II
Chair: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice, Seattle, WA
P1.1 Global Climate Model (GCM) projections of future mid-tropospheric flow and the relationship to future Canadian forest fire regimes   Walter R. Skinner, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada   P1.2 Using Climatic Anomalies to Forecast Wildfires in Pennsylvania   Barry C. Lambert, NOAA/NWS, State College, PA; and R. H. Grumm   P1.3 Using a regional climate model to diagnose climatological and meteorological controls of wildfire in the western United States   Steve W. Hostetler, U.S. Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR; and P. J. Bartlein, J. O. Holman, A. M. Solomon, and S. L. Shafer   P1.4 Cross-project synergy in developing decision support tools for wildland fire management   Barbara Morehouse, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and T. J. Brown, G. Christopherson, M. Crimmins, G. G. Garfin, B. Orr, J. Overpeck, T. Swetnam, and S. Yool   P1.5 The weather of large fires in the Canadian boreal forest   Brian D. Amiro, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and K. A. Logan, B. M. Wotton, M. D. Flannigan, J. B. Todd, B. J. Stocks, and D. L. Martell   P1.6 Post-wildfire flash flooding: An analysis of Colorado wildfires and the North American monsoon from 1995–2002   S. Jeffrey Underwood, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL; and T. A. Thomas   P1.7 Probabilistic Forecasts of Fire Occurrence   Haiganoush K. Preisler, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and J. W. Benoit, F. M. Fujioka, D. R. Brillinger, and R. E. Burgan
	5:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 2 Fire and Atmosphere Interactions II
Chair: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice, Seattle, WA
P2.1 Numerical simulation of buoyant plumes from annular heat sources in a crossflow   Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and P. Cunningham, M. Y. Hussaini, C. Xia, and R. R. Linn   P2.2 Non-local chemistry implementation in HIGRAD/FIRETEC   Jonah J. Colman, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. R. Linn   P2.3 MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF LARGE FOREST FIRE INITIATION   Valeri A. Perminov, Belovo Branch of Kemerovo State Univ., Belovo, Kemerovo, Russia
	5:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 3 Fire and Drought Indexes II
Chair: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice, Seattle, WA
P3.1 A risk index for mediterranean vegetation based on micrometeorological and ecophysiological measurements   Donatella Spano, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and T. Georgiadis, P. Duce, F. Rossi, A. Delitala, C. Dessy, and G. Bianco   P3.2 Using surface renewal analysis to develop a fire risk index   Richard L. Snyder, University of California, Davis, CA; and D. Spano, D. Baldocchi, P. Duce, L. Xu, and K. T. Paw U   P3.3 Enhancement of the National Fire Danger Rating System for the New Jersey Pine Barrens   Kenneth L. Clark, USDA Forest Service, New Lisbon, NJ; and J. L. Hom, W. Heilman, and J. Charney
	5:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 4 Predictive Services and Operational Forecasting II
Chair: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice, Seattle, WA
P4.1 FX-Net, New Operational Technology for the Incident Meteorologist   Robert P. Nester, NOAA/NWS, Missoula, MT; and L. Vanbussem   P4.2 Improving Prescribed Burn Planning with NWS Digital Forecast Database Tools   Michael P. Murphy, NOAA/NWS, Rapid City, SD P4.3 Use of asynoptic upper-air data to improve fire weather forecasts at wildland fires   Paul G. Witsaman, NOAA/NWS Southern Region Headquarters, Fort Worth, TX   P4.4 Future of All-Risk Incident Meteorology   Margaret A. Querciagrossa-Sand, Northtree Fire International, Monterey, CA; and J. Stutler, S. Goldwater, and G. Bennett
	5:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 5 Mesoscale Meteorology III
Chair: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice, Seattle, WA
P5.1 Assessing the value of increased model resolution in forecasting fire danger   Jeanne Hoadley, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. Rorig, K. Westrick, L. Bradshaw, S. A. Ferguson, S. L. Goodrick, and P. Werth   P5.2 Evaluating fire-weather parameters predicted by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model   William Y. Y. Cheng, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh   P5.3 The Role of a Stratospheric Intrusion in the Evolution of the Double Trouble State Park Wildfire   Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and X. Bian, B. E. Potter, and W. E. Heilman   P5.4 Application of the BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework to the Rex Creek Wildfire   Candace M. Berg, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. M. O'Neill, S. A. Ferguson, and J. W. Adkins
Tuesday, 18 November 2003
	8:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday Session 2 Predictive Services and Operational Forecasting
Chair: Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA
8:00 AM 2.1 Predictive Services: A New Tool for Proactive Wildland Fire Management   Richard Ochoa, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID 8:15 AM 2.2 ROMAN—Realtime Observation Monitoring and Analysis Network   Edward Delgado, Eastern Great Basin Coordination Center, Salt Lake City, UT; and T. Mathewson and J. Horel 8:30 AM 2.3 Further Applications of ROMAN to Fire Weather   John Horel, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Splitt, J. Pechmann, and B. Olsen 8:45 AM 2.4 High resolution diagnostics and short term prognostics in support of fire weather forecast operations at NWS Melbourne, FL   Peter F. Blottman, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and J. C. Pendergrast, S. M. Spratt, and D. W. Sharp 9:00 AM 2.5 FX-Net, An Expandable Fire Weather Workstation   Sher W. Schranz, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Madine 9:15 AM 2.6 FARSITE Weather Streams from the NWS IFPS System   Chris Gibson, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. Gorski 9:30 AM 2.7 Using short range ensemble model data in national fire weather outlooks   Sarah J. Taylor, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and D. R. Bright, G. Carbin, P. Bothwell, and R. Naden 9:45 AM 2.8 New methods for providing high-resolution weather information to wildfire managers   Daran L. Rife, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. T. Warner, Y. Liu, and J. Coen 10:00 AM Coffee Break
	8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 6E Combustion Modeling: Part 2 (Track V) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chairs: Patricia L. Andrews, USDA Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT; Jolie Pollet, USDI Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, UT
8:00 AM J6E.1 Fire spread around a forest clearing site in the Brazilian Amazonia   João A. Carvalho Jr., Universidade Estadual Paulista, Guaratinguetá, Brazil; and C. A. G. Veras, E. C. Alvarado, D. V. Sandberg, E. R. Carvalho, R. Gielow, and J. C. Santos 8:30 AM J6E.2 The influence of weather on combustion limits in a longleaf pine forest   Casey Anderson, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. A. Ferguson, M. Rorig, K. Heirs, S. McKay, M. Moore, D. Olson, D. Wright, C. Wright, R. E. Vihnanek, and R. D. Ottmar 9:00 AM J6E.3 Fire spread in chaparral—“go or no-go?”   David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and X. Zhou, L. Sun, and S. Mahalingam 9:30 AM J6E.4 Preliminary height to crown base models for Giant Sequoia Groves   Samantha J. Gill, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM J6E.5 Modeling fire risk in post fuels treatment areas   James T. Hutton, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Whiskeytown, CA; and T. S. Bradley 11:00 AM J6E.6 The peripheral reduction in burn probability around recent burns in the boreal forest   Marc-André Parisien, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and V. G. Kafka, J. B. Todd, K. G. Hirsch, and S. Lavoie 11:30 AM J6E.7 Neighborhood-scale Fire Spread   Ronald Rehm, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and D. Evans, W. Mell, S. Hostikka, K. McGrattan, G. Forney, C. Bouldin, and E. Baker
	8:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday Joint Session 4G GIS/REMOTE SENSING: PART 2 (TRACK VII) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chairs: Joe Frost, USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID; Ken Bottle, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, CO
8:00 AM J4G.1 A Multivariate Approach to Mapping Forest Vegetation and Fuels Using GIS Databases, Satellite Imagery, and Forest Inventory Plots   Michael C. Wimberly, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. L. Ohmann, K. B. Pierce, M. J. Gregory, and J. S. Fried 8:30 AM J4G.2 Preliminary evaluation of vegetation change on a large prescribed burn in Alaska   Thomas F Paragi, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK; and D. D. Smart, G. T. Worum, and D. A. Haggstrom 9:00 AM J4G.3 k-NN Mapping of Fire Fuel Parameters Using Satellite Imagery and Field Data from Forest Inventory Plots   Michael D. Fleming, SAIC, Anchorage, AK; and Z. Zhu and M. Hoppus 9:30 AM J4G.4 Mapping Crown Fuels Using Lidar   Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, USDA Forest Service, Nevada City, CA; and B. Peterson, P. Hyde, R. Dubaya, C. Hunsaker, W. Walker, and L. Pierce 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM J4G.5 Florida Fire Management Information System   Bill Beers, URS Corporation, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Brenner and S. Esner 11:00 AM J4G.6 How Enhancements in GIS Technology Can Address Challenges to Wildland Fire Management   Jeff Baranyi, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Broofield, CO; and F. Dahl and J. Young
	8:30 AM-4:30 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 5D Risk Assessment and Decision Support (TRACK IV) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, FL
J5D.1 Bridging the Gap—A Practitioner’s Approach to Mid-scale Air Quality Assessments for Land Management Planning   Deirdre Dether, Boise National Forest, Boise, ID; and A. Acheson and B. Schoeberl 8:30 AM J5D.2 Optimizing Prescribed Burning Policies to Minimize the Economic Impacts of Wildfire in Florida   D. Evan Mercer, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. P. Prestemon, D. T. Butry, and J. M. Pye 9:00 AM J5D.3 Spatial Modeling Tools for Prioritizing Limited Prescribed Fire Resources   J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, FL; and J. H. Furman and S. C. Laine 9:30 AM J5D.4 Fire Management Decision Support System at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA   J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, FL; and J. H. Furman and W. Gooding 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM J5D.5 Florida's Communities At Risk   Susan McLellan, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Brenner 11:00 AM J5D.6 A Scaleable System for Wildland Fire Risk Assessment and Fuels Management   James L. Smith, Space Imaging, Jacksonville, FL; and J. Coen 11:30 AM J5D.7 The Fire Research And Management Exchange System (FRAMES) Tools Project: accessing, comparing, and developing wildland fire tools   Greg Gollberg, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and P. Morgan 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM J5D.8 Web-based Mapping Applications in Response to Wildland Fires   Elizabeth L. Lile, USGS, Denver, CO; and C. Inbau 2:00 PM J5D.9 Evaluating designs for fuel management projects: application of a multi-attribute framework   Donald G. MacGregor, MacGregor-Bates, Inc., Eugene, OR; and C. Dammann and J. Anderson 2:30 PM J5D.10 Western Fire Ignition and Area Time Series Cross-Sectional Models   Jeffrey P. Prestemon, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; and D. T. Butry, K. L. Abt, T. P. Holmes, D. E. Mercer, and J. M. Pye 3:00 PM COFFEE BREAK   3:30 PM J5D.11 Assessing the ecological implications of FireSmart forest management   Ana C. Espinoza, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and W. Cui and D. L. Martell J5D.12 A fire load index for comparative analysis   Al Tithecott, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada; and R. McAlpine 4:00 PM J5D.13 An Event-Frame Model for Decomposition and Reconstruction of Large-Fire Decision Processes   Donald G. MacGregor, MacGregor-Bates, Inc., Eugene, OR; and A. Gonzalez-Caban 4:30 PM J5D.14 Identifying forests in need of fuel reduction and fire restoration   Bo Wilmer, The Wilderness Society, Seattle, WA; and G. Aplet
	10:30 AM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Session 3 Atmospheric Stability and Fire Behavior
Chair: Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI
10:30 AM 3.1 Dynamics of fire plumes in vertical shear   Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick, M. Y. Hussaini, R. R. Linn, and C. Xia 10:45 AM 3.2 Numerical simulations of fire behavior in the presence of vertical wind shear   Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. R. Linn and J. Reisner 11:00 AM 3.3 Using a simple parcel model to investigate the Haines Index   Mary Ann Jenkins, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. K. Krueger and R. Sun 11:15 AM 3.4 Combining the Haines Index and turbulent kinetic energy for fire-weather predictions   Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and X. Bian, J. J. Charney, and B. E. Potter 11:30 AM 3.5 Effects of Near-Surface Atmospheric Stability and Moisture on Wildfire Behavior and Consequences for Haines Index   Ruiyu Sun, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. A. Jenkins 11:45 AM 3.6 Relationship between atmospheric stability and area burned during the 1998 Florida wildfires   Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA 12:00 PM Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 8 Smoke Management and Air Quality (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chairs: Susan M. O'Neill, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; N. K. Larkin, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
1:30 PM J8.1 Adaptive Grid Modeling for Predicting the Air Quality Impacts of Biomass Burning   Alper Unal, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. T. Odman 1:45 PM J8.2 COMBINING WILDFIRE EMISSIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY SMOKE EMISSIONS MODEL (CSEM) WITH A REGIONAL-SCALE AIR QUALITY MODEL   Michael G. Barna, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. G. Fox 2:00 PM J8.3 A natural fire experiment in central Russia: meteorology, radiative and optical properties of atmosphere and resulting effects on sub-boreal forest plants   Nataly Ye. Chubarova, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; and N. G. Prilepsky, A. R. Riebau, A. W. Shoettle, R. Musselman, N. N. Uliumdzhieva, A. Y. Yurova, B. E. Potter, A. N. Rublev, P. Y. Zhmylev, and E. A. Karpuhina 2:15 PM J8.4 Spatial and Temporal Variability of Wildland Fire Emissions over the U.S   Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA 2:30 PM J8.5 Real time high resolution fire/smoke signature prediction model in coastal chaparral   Joe Rawitzer, Fire Spec Systems, Carmel, CA 2:45 PM J8.6 Recent results from PB-Piedmont—a model to simulate smoke on the ground at night   Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J8.7 The BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework (www.BlueSkyRAINS.org)   Susan M. O'Neill, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. A. Ferguson, J. Peterson, and R. Wilson 3:45 PM J8.8 Assessing accuracy of the BlueSky smoke modeling framework during wildfire events   J. Westbrook Adkins, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. M. O'Neill, M. Rorig, S. A. Ferguson, C. M. Berg, and J. L. Hoadley 4:00 PM J8.9 On the origins of “Superfog”—a combination of smoke and water vapor that produces zero visibility over roadways   Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA 4:15 PM J8.10 Smoke measurements during experimental field fires   Ana Isabel Miranda, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and J. Ferreira, J. Valente, P. Santos, J. H. Amorim, and C. Borrego 4:30 PM J8.11 A comparison of real-time particulate monitors for smoke management   Suraj Ahuja, U.S. Forest Service, Willows, CA; and T. Proctor, P. Padgett, and B. Plymale 4:45 PM J8.12 Biomass burning of eucalypt savannas and respiratory illness in the Australian monsoon tropics   David M. J. S. Bowman, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Northern Territo, Australia; and F. H. Johnston
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 7G Wildfire Burn Severity Mapping (Special Session) (TRACK VII) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: Randy A. McKinley, USGS and SAIC, Sioux Falls, SD
1:30 PM J7G.1 Supporting the Mapping Needs of Burned Area Emergency Response Teams with Satellite Imagery   Randy A. McKinley, USGS and SAIC, Sioux Falls, SD; and K. Lannom and A. Parsons 2:00 PM J7G.2 Evaluating Fire Impacts with Landsat Data: A Comparison of Two Methodologies   Stephen M. Howard, SAIC and USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and A. Orlemann and C. H. Key 2:30 PM J7G.3 Data acquisition timing for burned area remote sensing and relationships to measures of burn severity   Carl H. Key, USGS, West Glacier, MT; and N. Benson, D. Ohlen, S. Howard, and Z. Zhu 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J7G.4 Using the Composite Burn Index to field validation meso-scale burn severity assessment   Nathan C. Benson, National Park Service, Homestead, FL; and C. Key J7G.5 Assessment of burn severity in northern Arizona using Landsat ETM+ imagery and ground data   Allison E. Cocke, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and P. Z. Fulé 4:00 PM J7G.6 Assessing Landscape Patterns of Fire Severity and Fire Regimes using Burn Severity Mapping for the Sierra Nevada, CA   Andrea E. Thode, University of California, Davis and US Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest, McClellan, CA; and N. Sugihara, L. Levien, and J. F. Quinn 4:30 PM J7G.7 Assessing Impacts of Scaling on Burn Severity Mapping and Derived Fire Effects   Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD 5:00 PM J7G.8 Burn Mapping of Wildland Fires within Different Ecosystems Using Field Verified Satellite Data   Donald Ohlen, SAIC and USGS/EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD; and C. Key, N. Benson, and Z. Zhu
	5:15 PM, Tuesday Sessions end for the day
Wednesday, 19 November 2003
	8:00 AM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 9 Assessing and Predicting Climate Impacts on Landscapes (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress)
Chairs: Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB Canada
8:00 AM J9.1 Contemporary climate changes in high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere cause an increasing potential forest fire danger   Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight, R. R. Heim, V. N. Razuvaev, B. G. Sherstyukov, and N. A. Speranskaya 8:15 AM J9.2 Forest Fires and Climate in Alaska and Sakha: Forest Fires Near Yakutsk   Hiroshi Hayasaka, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan 8:30 AM J9.3 The impacts of climate on prescribed fire   Crystal A. Kolden, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown 8:45 AM J9.4 The Southwest Monsoon and the relation to fire occurrence   Charlene R. Mohrle, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. L. Hall and T. J. Brown 9:00 AM J9.5 Characterizing extreme dry-spell and forest fire events in the province of Ontario, Canada   Jennifer L. Beverly, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and D. L. Martell 9:15 AM J9.6 Wildfire-Climate Interactions Across Southeast Arizona   Michael A. Crimmins, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. C. Comrie 9:30 AM J9.7 A fire scenario builder for coarse-scale modeling of current and future fire effects   Narasimhan Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and D. McKenzie and S. M. O'Neill 9:45 AM Discussion   10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM J9.8 Characteristic Composite Charts Associated With Peak Fire Season In Vermont   Eric C. Evenson, NOAA/NWS, South Burlington, VT 10:45 AM J9.9 Fire Danger Forecasts   John Roads, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and S. Chen, F. M. Fujioka, and R. Burgan 11:00 AM J9.10 Long lead statistical forecasts of wildland fire suppression costs   Anthony L. Westerling II, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and K. Gebert, G. Jones, K. Abt, J. Prestemon, and A. Gershunov 11:15 AM J9.11 Verification of ECPC’s fire climate and fire danger Forecasts   Hauss J. Reinbold, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown, J. O. Roads, and B. L. Hall 11:30 AM J9.12 The 2003 National Seasonal Assessment Workshop: A Proactive Approach to Preseason Fire Danger Assessment   Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and T. Wordell, T. J. Brown, R. Ochoa, and B. J. Moorehouse 11:45 AM Discussion   12:00 PM Lunch Break
	8:00 AM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 10D Landfire (Special Session) (TRACK IV) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: Melanie Miller, USDI Bureau of Land Management, Missoula, MT
8:00 AM J10D.1 LANDFIRE: A nationally consistent and locally relevant interagency fire, fuels, and risk assesment   Matthew G. Rollins, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. E. Keane, Z. Zhu, J. Menakis, W. Hann, and A. Shlisky 8:30 AM J10D.2 Developing the spatial programs and models needed for implementation of the LANDFIRE Project   Robert E. Keane, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and M. Rollins and R. Parsons 9:00 AM J10D.3 Biophysical Settings -- linking landscape patterns to ecophysiological processes   Lisa Holsinger, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. Parsons, M. Rollins, E. Karau, and A. Keyser 9:30 AM J10D.4 A Repeatable Consistent National vegetation Mapping strategy   Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and J. Vogelmann and C. Huang 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM J10D.5 Preliminary Landfire vegetation products in the Wasatch Range-Uinta Mountain area of Utah   Chengquan Huang, USGS and SAIC, Sioux Falls, SD; and J. Vogelmann, B. Tolk, and Z. Zhu 11:00 AM J10D.6 Predictive Mapping of Fire Regimes   Russell A. Parsons, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. E. Keane and M. G. Rollins 11:30 AM J10D.7 Potential Management Applications of the LANDFIRE Products   Donald Long, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and M. Rollins and W. Hann 12:00 PM Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 11 Fire and Drought Indices (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress)
Chairs: Richard Ochoa, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID; Larry S. Bradshaw, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT
1:30 PM J11.1 Development of a statistical validation methodology for fire weather indices   Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and S. L. Goodrick and T. J. Brown 1:45 PM J11.2 Drought Indexes as Indicators of Fire Activity   Patricia L. Andrews, USDA Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT 2:00 PM J11.3 A comparison of precipitation and drought indices related to fire activity in the US   Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown 2:15 PM J11.4 Validating the Overwintering Effect on the Drought Code in Elk Island National Park   Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and S. Otway 2:30 PM J11.5 Independent field verification of a next-generation model for dead fuel moisture   J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson, and R. R. Bensch 2:45 PM J11.6 A comparison of 3 models of 1-hr time lag fuel moisture in Hawaii   David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and F. M. Fujioka and R. M. Nelson 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J11.7 The Validity of the Keetch/Byram Drought Index in the Hawaiian Islands   Klaus P. Dolling, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and P. S. Chu and F. M. Fujioka 3:45 PM J11.8 A Climatological Study of the Keetch/Byram Drought Index in the Hawaiian Islands   Pao-Shin Chu, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and K. P. Dolling and F. M. Fujioka 4:00 PM J11.9 Exhausting relative greenness: Inaccurate Fire Potential Index for Florida?   Carter Stone, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick and D. E. Hanley 4:15 PM J11.10 National standardized energy release component (ERC) forecasts   Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown, L. S. Bradshaw, W. M. Jolly, and R. Nemani
	4:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday Session 4 Mesoscale Meteorology II
Chair: Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
4:30 PM 4.1 Validations of the NCEP MSM Coupled with the NOAH LSM over the Hawaiian Islands   Yi-Leng Chen, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. X. Zhang, S. Y. Hong, K. Kodama, and H. M. H. Juang 4:45 PM 4.2 An initial analysis of relationships between 2- and 10-minute averaged winds at 10, 6, and 1.8 meters: implications for fire behavior and danger applications   Larry S. Bradshaw, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and E. Petrescu and I. Grenfell 4.3 Fire weather network analysis for British Columbia   Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and J. Beck and E. Meyer 5:00 PM 4.4 Lightning detection for Forestry use in Florida   Deborah E. Hanley, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL
	5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day
	6:30 PM, Wednesday Symposium and Congress Banquet
Lecturer: Henry Lewis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada
Thursday, 20 November 2003
	8:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday Joint Session 12 Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress)
Chair: Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI
8:00 AM J12.1 Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke—FCAMMS: A National Paradigm for Wildland Fire and Smoke Management   Allen R. Riebau, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC; and D. G. Fox 8:30 AM J12.2 A consortium for comprehensive mesoscale weather analysis and forecasting to monitor fire threat and support fire management operations   Karl Zeller, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO; and J. McGinley, N. Nikolov, P. Schultz, B. Shaw, S. Albers, and J. Snook 8:45 AM J12.3 Real-Time Mesoscale Model Forecasts for Fire and Smoke Management: 2003   Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice, Seattle, WA 9:00 AM J12.4 The California and Nevada Smoke and Air Committee (CANSAC)—An interagency partnership to meet decision-making needs   Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV; and F. M. Fujioka and C. Fontana 9:15 AM J12.5 The Southern High-Resolution Modeling Consortium—a source for research and operational collaboration   Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and S. L. Goodrick and Y. Liu 9:30 AM J12.6 National Fire Plan—Eastern Area Modeling Consortium: Research, product development, and partnerships   Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and B. E. Potter, J. J. Charney, and X. Bian 9:45 AM Discussion   10:00 AM Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday Panel Discussion 1 Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV
10:30 AM J4G.6 How Enhancements in GIS Technology Can Address Challenges to Wildland Fire Management   Jeff Baranyi, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Broofield, CO; and F. Dahl and J. Young
	12:00 PM, Thursday Lunch Break (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
	1:30 PM, Thursday Open Discussion with Panel Discussion: Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services
	3:30 PM-5:05 PM, Thursday Plenary Session 2 Closing Plenary Session (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV
3:30 PM PL2.1 Understanding Tropical Fire Regimes: Research Needs, Management Implications   Sally Horn, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 4:00 PM PL2.2 Temperate Ecosystems   Scott Stephens, University of California, Berkeley, CA 4:30 PM PL2.3 Forest Fire Research in the Boreal Zone: Current Status and Future Direction   Brian Stocks, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and E. S. Kasischke, D. J. McRae, S. G. Conard, A. D. McGuire, J. G. Goldammer, M. D. Flannigan, B. D. Amiro, A. I. Sukhinin, and G. A. Ivanova 5:00 PM PL2.4 Closing Remarks   Tim Brown, DRI, Reno, NV

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