| Monday, 24 October 2005 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
Conference Registration |
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| Tuesday, 25 October 2005 |
| 7:30 AM, Tuesday
Registration Continues Through Thursday 27 October |
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| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, Ladyslipper/Orchid
Joint Session 1 Symposium Welcome (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
Chair: Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB Canada
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| 9:00 AM | J1.1 | Keynote Talk: Kerry Anderson
Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 9:10 AM | J1.2 | Keynote Talk: Timothy Brown
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV |
| 9:15 AM | J1.3 | Keynote Talk: Tom Archibald
Tom Archibald, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Peace River, AB, Canada |
| 9:20 AM | J1.4 | Keynote Talk: Cliff Henderson
Cliff Henderson, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 9:40 AM | J1.5 | Keynote Talk: Brian Emmett
Brian Emmett, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
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| 10:00 AM, Tuesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Coffee Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Ladyslipper/Orchid
Joint Session 2 Canadian Wildfire Perspectives (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
Organizer: Dennis Quintilio, IWFC, Edmonton, AB Canada
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| 10:30 AM | J2.1 | The History of Wildfire Detection In Alberta
Tim Klein, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Peace River, AB, Canada |
| 11:00 AM | J2.2 | Yukon 2004 Fire Season Impacts on Communities and Stakeholders
Al Beaver, Yukon Wildland Fire Management, Whitehorse, YT, Canada |
| 11:30 AM | J2.3 | Déjà vu or Trends? A historical look at Fire and Weather in Alberta
Peter Murphy, Univ. of Alberta, St. Albert, AB, Canada |
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| 12:00 PM, Tuesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Exhibit Hours (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 1:00 PM-2:30 PM, Tuesday, Orchid
Session 1 Session 1 |
Organizer: Dennis Quintilio, IWFC, Edmonton, AB Canada
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| 1:00 PM | 1.1 | The Great Fire of 1919
Tom Maccagno, Thomas R Maccagno Professional Corp., Lac La Biche, AB, Canada |
| 1:30 PM | 1.2 | Fire and Climate in the Mountain Parks
Mark Heathcott, Western Fire Centre, Parks Canada, Clagary, AB, Canada |
| 2:00 PM | 1.3 | Initial Hydrologic Effects of Fire in High Yielding Watersheds in Alberta's Southern Rockies
Uldis Silins, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
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| 3:00 PM, Tuesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Coffee Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Orchid
Session 2 Session 2 |
Organizer: Dennis Quintilio, IWFC, Edmonton, AB Canada
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| 5:00 PM, Tuesday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday
Poster Session 1 Formal Poster Viewing with Icebreaker Reception (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
Chair: Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV
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| | P1.1 | Validation of FARSITE model in Mediterranean area 
Bachisio Arca, CNR - IBIMET, Sassari, Italy; and M. Laconi, A. Maccioni, G. Pellizzaro, and M. Salis |
| | P1.2 | Fire growth simulations of the Price Canyon, Thirtymile and Storm King Mountain fires using high resolution wind simulation tools and FARSITE
B. W. Butler, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT; and J. M. Forthofer, R. D. Stratton, M. A. Finney, and L. S. Bradshaw |
| | P1.3 | Computation of the low elevation Haines Index
Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and J. A. Winkler, D. F. Wilhelm, and R. P. Shadbolt |
| | P1.4 | Assessing Model-Generated Predictions of NFDRS Indexes
Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and J. Hoadley and L. S. Bradshaw |
| | P1.5 | Field verification of the Nelson dead fuel moisture model and comparisons with National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) predictions
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson, R. R. Bensch, and R. Jabrzemski |
| | P1.6 | CMAQ-Daysmoke as a Smoke and Air Quality Management Technique: A Case Study of a Prescribed Burning in Georgia
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and G. Achtemeier and S. Goodrick |
| | P1.7 | Measurements of Ground-Level PM2.5 Concentrations Downwind From Southern Prescribed Burns
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and L. Naeher |
| | P1.8 | On Plume Rise—The Role of Initial Plume Moisture on Subsequent Plume Growth as Simulated by Daysmoke
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| | P1.9 | Predicting Lightning Strikes for the Enhancement of Fire Weather Forecasts
Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD |
| | P1.10 | On the definition of El Nino and associated weather anomalies
Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and D. E. Harrison |
| | P1.11 | Atmospheric teleconnections and wildfires in the southeastern United States
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and D. E. Hanley |
| | P1.12 | Building historical gridded weather data sets for fire program analysis
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| | P1.13 | Estimating missing station weather data using North American Regional Reanalysis
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| | P1.14 | The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS): Its Role within NRCan's National Carbon Accounting and Sustainable Development Framework
Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and E. Banfield, R. Carr, B. de Groot, P. Englefield, M. Gartrell, R. Hall, K. Hirsch, J. Little, J. Pritchard, V. Peters, R. Suddaby, V. Decker, R. Fraser, D. Jacques, R. Landry, D. Raymond, J. van der Sanden, M. D. Flannigan, J. Ji-Zhong, T. Lynham, and W. Kurz |
| | P1.15 | Climate links to escaped prescribed fires in California and Nevada
Crystal A. Kolden, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| | P1.16 | Influence of seasonal weather variations on fuel status for some shrubs typical of Mediterranean Basin
Grazia Pellizzaro, Institute of Biometeorology, Sassari, Italy; and A. Ventura and P. Zara |
| | P1.17 | Vertical Distribution of Fuel in a Chamise Chaparral Stand
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA; and J. Chong and D. Kisor |
| | P1.18 | Assessment of fuel dryness index on mediterranean vegetation
Donatella Spano, Univ. of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and P. Duce, R. L. Snyder, P. Zara, and A. Ventura |
| | P1.19 | Ichnusa fire index: development and preliminary evaluation at regional scale
Costantino Sirca, Univ. of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and D. Spano and P. Duce |
| | P1.20 | The Inter-Comparison of LANL—FIRETEC and NIST—FDS Idealized Grass Fire Simulations
Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and W. Mell |
| | P1.21 | High-Resolution Numerical Model Simulations of Fire Plume Dynamics
Philip Cunningham, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick |
| | P1.22 | Separating Combustion From Pyrolysis in HIGRAD/FIRETEC
Jonah J. Colman, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. R. Linn |
| | P1.23 | Error analysis of PSU/NCAR MM5 forecasts in southern California
Charles Jones, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and F. Fujioka |
| | P1.24 | The interaction between a wildfire and a sea-breeze front
Deborah E. Hanley, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and P. Cunningham and S. L. Goodrick |
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| 5:00 PM, Tuesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Exhibit Hours (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| Wednesday, 26 October 2005 |
| 8:30 AM, Wednesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Exhibit Hours (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Orchid
Session 3 Session 3 |
Organizer: Jim Dunlop, British Columbia Forest Service, Victoria, BC Canada
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| 8:30 AM | 3.1 | Fire Operations Research in the Northwest Territories
Dave Schroeder, FERIC, Hinton, AB, Canada |
| 9:00 AM | 3.2 | Bow Corridor Wildland Urban Interface Planning—Successes and Challenges
Stew Walkinshaw, Government of Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 9:30 AM | 3.3 | Fire Weather and Behaviour Characteristics of the 1968 Vega and 2001 Chisholm Wildfires
Bruce MacGregor, Alberta Fores Protection Division, Lac La Riche, AB, Canada |
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| 10:00 AM, Wednesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Coffee Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Orchid
Session 4 Session 4 |
Organizer: Jim Dunlop, British Columbia Forest Service, Victoria, BC Canada
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| 10:30 AM | 4.1 | Prescribed Burning in Alberta
Don Cousins, Sustainable Resource Development Forest Protection Division, Grande Prairie, AB, Canada |
| 11:00 AM | 4.2 | Working with Fire in Banff National Park
Ian Pengelly, Banff National Park, Banff, AB, Canada |
| 11:30 AM | 4.3 | Fiire Management in the Aspen Forest of Elk Island National Park
Steve Otway, Parks Canada, Fort Saskatchewan, AB, Canada |
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| 12:00 PM, Wednesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Lunch Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 1:00 PM, Wednesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Exhibit Hours (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday, Ladyslipper/Orchid
Joint Session 3 Smoke Management and Air Quality (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
Chair: Susan O'Neill, USDA, Seattle, WA
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| 1:30 PM | J3.1 | Estimating the Air Quality Impacts of Forest Fires in Alberta 
Alex Schutte, Levelton Consultants Ltd., Richmond, BC, Canada; and C. Walsh and C. Tymstra |
| 1:45 PM | J3.2 | Operational Evaluation of BlueSkyRAINS
Jeanne Hoadley, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. Rorig, S. M. O'Neill, and S. Ferguson |
| 2:00 PM | J3.3 | Evaluation of the BlueSkyRAINS Smoke Prediction System
Robert Solomon, USDA, Seattle, WA; and S. Ferguson, S. O'Neill, J. Hoadley, J. Peterson, N. Larkin, R. Wilson, R. Peterson, and D. Matheny |
| 2:15 PM | J3.4 | On Plume Rise—Matching Daysmoke With Briggs Equations for Industrial Stacks
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 2:30 PM | J3.5 | Modelling smoke effects on Lisbon air quality
Ana Isabel Miranda, Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and H. Martins, A. Carvalho, and C. Borrego |
| 2:45 PM | J3.6 | A Local-Scale Modelling System to Simulate Smoke Dispersion
Joana Valente, Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and A. I. Miranda, A. G. Lopes, C. Borrego, and D. Xavier Viegas |
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| 3:00 PM, Wednesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Coffee Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, Ladyslipper/Orchid
Joint Session 4 Utilization of weather and climate information for wildfire decision-making (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
Chair: Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA
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| 3:30 PM | J4.1 | Wildland Fire and Droughts: Searching for Practical Solutions
Martin E. Alexander, Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 3:45 PM | J4.2 | Modeling seasonal variation in the total probability of wildfires
Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD |
| 4:00 PM | J4.3 | The use of climate information in prescribed fire planning and implementation
Crystal A. Kolden, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| 4:15 PM | J4.4 | New York state fire climatology
Joseph Kennedy, New York State Forest Rangers, Albany, NY; and B. L. Hall and T. J. Brown |
| 4:30 PM | J4.5 | Utilizing climate information for smoke dispersion planning
Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. M. O'Neill, R. Solomon, M. Johnson, and S. A. Ferguson |
| 4:45 PM | J4.6 | The impact of climate change on area burned In Alberta's Boreal Forest
Cordy Tymstra, Department of Sustainable Resource Development, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. Armitage |
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| 5:00 PM, Wednesday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| 7:30 PM, Wednesday, Ladyslipper/Orchid
Session Evening Banquet (Cash Bar)-Guest Speaker Dave Coutts, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development and Student Awards Presented by Brad Pickering, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| Thursday, 27 October 2005 |
| 8:30 AM, Thursday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Exhibit Hours (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, Orchid
Session 5 Session 5 |
Organizer: Lou Foley, Sustainable Resource Development, Smith, AB Canada
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Latest Developments in Crown Fire
Marty Alexander, FERIC, Hinton, AB, Canada |
| 9:00 AM | 5.2 | Extreme Precipitation Events in Southern Alberta
Nick Nimchuk, Sustainable Resource Development, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 9:30 AM | 5.3 | The Floods of June 2005
Ray Keller, Environment Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
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| 10:00 AM, Thursday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Coffee Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Orchid
Session 6 Session 6 |
Organizer: Lou Foley, Sustainable Resource Development, Smith, AB Canada
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| 12:00 PM, Thursday
Session Lunch Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 5:00 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends |
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