19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting (Expanded View)

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Monday, 24 October 2005
5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
Conference Registration
 
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
7:30 AM, Tuesday
Registration Continues Through Thursday 27 October
 
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
9:00 AMJ1.1Keynote Talk: Kerry Anderson  
Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada
9:10 AMJ1.2Keynote Talk: Timothy Brown  
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV
9:15 AMJ1.3Keynote Talk: Tom Archibald  
Tom Archibald, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Peace River, AB, Canada
9:20 AMJ1.4Keynote Talk: Cliff Henderson  
Cliff Henderson, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Edmonton, AB, Canada
9:40 AMJ1.5Keynote Talk: Brian Emmett  
Brian Emmett, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
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)
 
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
10:30 AMJ2.1The History of Wildfire Detection In Alberta  
Tim Klein, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Peace River, AB, Canada
11:00 AMJ2.2Yukon 2004 Fire Season Impacts on Communities and Stakeholders  
Al Beaver, Yukon Wildland Fire Management, Whitehorse, YT, Canada
11:30 AMJ2.3Déjà vu or Trends? A historical look at Fire and Weather in Alberta  
Peter Murphy, Univ. of Alberta, St. Albert, AB, Canada
 
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)
 
1:00 PM-2:30 PM, Tuesday, Orchid
Session 1 Session 1
Organizer: Dennis Quintilio, IWFC, Edmonton, AB Canada
1:00 PM1.1The Great Fire of 1919  
Tom Maccagno, Thomas R Maccagno Professional Corp., Lac La Biche, AB, Canada
1:30 PM1.2Fire and Climate in the Mountain Parks  
Mark Heathcott, Western Fire Centre, Parks Canada, Clagary, AB, Canada
2:00 PM1.3Initial Hydrologic Effects of Fire in High Yielding Watersheds in Alberta's Southern Rockies  
Uldis Silins, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
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)
 
3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Orchid
Session 2 Session 2
Organizer: Dennis Quintilio, IWFC, Edmonton, AB Canada
3:30 PM2.1Fire Spread in Deep Canyons  
4:00 PM2.2Large Fires—Changing Management Regimes  
Paul Maczek, Fire Management and Forest Protection, Prince Albert, SK, Canada
4:30 PM2.3Estimating the Air Quality Impacts of Forest Fires in Alberta II  
Alex Schutte, Levelton Consultants Ltd., Richmond, BC, Canada
 
5:00 PM, Tuesday
Sessions End for the Day
 
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
 P1.1Validation of FARSITE model in Mediterranean area  extended abstract
Bachisio Arca, CNR - IBIMET, Sassari, Italy; and M. Laconi, A. Maccioni, G. Pellizzaro, and M. Salis
 P1.2Fire growth simulations of the Price Canyon, Thirtymile and Storm King Mountain fires using high resolution wind simulation tools and FARSITE  extended abstract
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
 P1.3Computation of the low elevation Haines Index  extended abstract
Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and J. A. Winkler, D. F. Wilhelm, and R. P. Shadbolt
 P1.4Assessing Model-Generated Predictions of NFDRS Indexes  
Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and J. Hoadley and L. S. Bradshaw
 P1.5Field verification of the Nelson dead fuel moisture model and comparisons with National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) predictions  extended abstract
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson, R. R. Bensch, and R. Jabrzemski
 P1.6CMAQ-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
 P1.7Measurements of Ground-Level PM2.5 Concentrations Downwind From Southern Prescribed Burns  
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and L. Naeher
 P1.8On Plume Rise—The Role of Initial Plume Moisture on Subsequent Plume Growth as Simulated by Daysmoke  
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
 P1.9Predicting Lightning Strikes for the Enhancement of Fire Weather Forecasts  extended abstract
Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD
 P1.10On the definition of El Nino and associated weather anomalies  
Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and D. E. Harrison
 P1.11Atmospheric teleconnections and wildfires in the southeastern United States  
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and D. E. Hanley
 P1.12Building historical gridded weather data sets for fire program analysis  
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
 P1.13Estimating missing station weather data using North American Regional Reanalysis  
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown
 P1.14The 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
 P1.15Climate links to escaped prescribed fires in California and Nevada  
Crystal A. Kolden, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown
 P1.16Influence of seasonal weather variations on fuel status for some shrubs typical of Mediterranean Basin  extended abstract
Grazia Pellizzaro, Institute of Biometeorology, Sassari, Italy; and A. Ventura and P. Zara
 P1.17Vertical 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
 P1.18Assessment of fuel dryness index on mediterranean vegetation  extended abstract
Donatella Spano, Univ. of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and P. Duce, R. L. Snyder, P. Zara, and A. Ventura
 P1.19Ichnusa fire index: development and preliminary evaluation at regional scale  
Costantino Sirca, Univ. of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and D. Spano and P. Duce
 P1.20The Inter-Comparison of LANL—FIRETEC and NIST—FDS Idealized Grass Fire Simulations  
Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and W. Mell
 P1.21High-Resolution Numerical Model Simulations of Fire Plume Dynamics  
Philip Cunningham, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick
 P1.22Separating Combustion From Pyrolysis in HIGRAD/FIRETEC  extended abstract
Jonah J. Colman, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. R. Linn
 P1.23Error analysis of PSU/NCAR MM5 forecasts in southern California  
Charles Jones, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and F. Fujioka
 P1.24The 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
 
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)
 
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)
 
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Orchid
Session 3 Session 3
Organizer: Jim Dunlop, British Columbia Forest Service, Victoria, BC Canada
8:30 AM3.1Fire Operations Research in the Northwest Territories  
Dave Schroeder, FERIC, Hinton, AB, Canada
9:00 AM3.2Bow Corridor Wildland Urban Interface Planning—Successes and Challenges  
Stew Walkinshaw, Government of Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Edmonton, AB, Canada
9:30 AM3.3Fire Weather and Behaviour Characteristics of the 1968 Vega and 2001 Chisholm Wildfires  
Bruce MacGregor, Alberta Fores Protection Division, Lac La Riche, AB, Canada
 
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)
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Orchid
Session 4 Session 4
Organizer: Jim Dunlop, British Columbia Forest Service, Victoria, BC Canada
10:30 AM4.1Prescribed Burning in Alberta  
Don Cousins, Sustainable Resource Development Forest Protection Division, Grande Prairie, AB, Canada
11:00 AM4.2Working with Fire in Banff National Park  
Ian Pengelly, Banff National Park, Banff, AB, Canada
11:30 AM4.3Fiire Management in the Aspen Forest of Elk Island National Park  
Steve Otway, Parks Canada, Fort Saskatchewan, AB, Canada
 
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)
 
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)
 
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
1:30 PMJ3.1Estimating the Air Quality Impacts of Forest Fires in Alberta  extended abstract wrf recording
Alex Schutte, Levelton Consultants Ltd., Richmond, BC, Canada; and C. Walsh and C. Tymstra
1:45 PMJ3.2Operational Evaluation of BlueSkyRAINS  extended abstract wrf recording
Jeanne Hoadley, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. Rorig, S. M. O'Neill, and S. Ferguson
2:00 PMJ3.3Evaluation 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 PMJ3.4On Plume Rise—Matching Daysmoke With Briggs Equations for Industrial Stacks  extended abstract wrf recording
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
2:30 PMJ3.5Modelling smoke effects on Lisbon air quality  extended abstract wrf recording
Ana Isabel Miranda, Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and H. Martins, A. Carvalho, and C. Borrego
2:45 PMJ3.6A Local-Scale Modelling System to Simulate Smoke Dispersion  extended abstract wrf recording
Joana Valente, Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and A. I. Miranda, A. G. Lopes, C. Borrego, and D. Xavier Viegas
 
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)
 
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
3:30 PMJ4.1Wildland Fire and Droughts: Searching for Practical Solutions  
Martin E. Alexander, Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada
3:45 PMJ4.2Modeling seasonal variation in the total probability of wildfires  extended abstract wrf recording
Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD
4:00 PMJ4.3The use of climate information in prescribed fire planning and implementation  extended abstract wrf recording
Crystal A. Kolden, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown
4:15 PMJ4.4New York state fire climatology  extended abstract wrf recording
Joseph Kennedy, New York State Forest Rangers, Albany, NY; and B. L. Hall and T. J. Brown
4:30 PMJ4.5Utilizing 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 PMJ4.6The impact of climate change on area burned In Alberta's Boreal Forest  extended abstract wrf recording
Cordy Tymstra, Department of Sustainable Resource Development, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. Armitage
 
5:00 PM, Wednesday
Sessions End for the Day
 
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)
 
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)
 
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, Orchid
Session 5 Session 5
Organizer: Lou Foley, Sustainable Resource Development, Smith, AB Canada
8:30 AM5.1Latest Developments in Crown Fire  
Marty Alexander, FERIC, Hinton, AB, Canada
9:00 AM5.2Extreme Precipitation Events in Southern Alberta  
Nick Nimchuk, Sustainable Resource Development, Edmonton, AB, Canada
9:30 AM5.3The Floods of June 2005  
Ray Keller, Environment Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada
 
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)
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Orchid
Session 6 Session 6
Organizer: Lou Foley, Sustainable Resource Development, Smith, AB Canada
10:30 AM6.1Weather Parameters Leading to 2003 Inuvik Wildfire Event  
Beverly J. Archibald, True North Weather Consulting Inc., Edmonton, AB, Canada; and L. Lewis
11:00 AM6.2Firesmarting Residential Properties in the Wildland Urban Interface  
Bonita McFarlane, Canadian Forest Service, Ottawa, ON, Canada
11:30 AM6.3Concluding Remarks  
 
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)
 
5:00 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends
 

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