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Monday, 24 October 2005

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 24 October 2005


Conference Registration

Tuesday, 25 October 2005

7:00 AM-7:00 AM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005


TUE 25 OCT

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005


Registration Continues Through Thursday 27 October

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005

Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Symposium Welcome
Location: Ladyslipper/Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )
Chair: Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service
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

10:00 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005


Session
Coffee Break
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (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, 25 October 2005

Recording files available
Joint Session 2
Canadian Wildfire Perspectives
Location: Ladyslipper/Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )
Organizer: Dennis Quintilio, IWFC
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

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005


Session
Exhibit Hours
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )

Session
Lunch Break
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

1:00 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005


Session 1
Session 1
Location: Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting
Organizer: Dennis Quintilio, IWFC
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

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005

Recording files available
Session 1
Impacts of Weather on Wildfire
Location: Ladyslipper (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair: Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
1:30 PM
1.1
Impacts of weather and growing season on the occurrence of fires in Finland
Heidi Tanskanen, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and A. Venäläinen
1:45 PM
1.2
2:30 PM
1.5
Alaska's exceptional 2004 fire season
Martha Shulski, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and S. Alden, N. Larkin, and G. Wendler
2:45 PM
1.6
Alaska large forest fires in 2004 and weather—Discussion based on satellite and weather data
Hiroshi Hayasaka, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; and K. Nakau, K. Kushida, M. Fukuda, P. Martyn, and T. DeFries

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005


Session
Coffee Break
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )

3:30 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005

Recording files available
Session 2
Fire Behavior and Fire Spread
Location: Ladyslipper (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair: Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service
3:30 PM
2.1
3:45 PM
2.2
A climatology of the Haines Index for North America derived from NCEP/NCAR reanalysis fields
Julie A. Winkler, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; and B. E. Potter, D. F. Wilhelm, R. P. Shadbolt, X. Bian, and K. Piromsopa
4:00 PM
2.3
Space/time characteristics of errors in an integrated weather/fire spread simulation
Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and C. Jones, D. R. Weise, P. E. Dennison, and J. W. Benoit
4:15 PM
2.4
Using Ensemble Techniques in Fire Growth Modelling
Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and G. Reuter and M. D. Flannigan
4:30 PM
2.5

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005


Session 2
Session 2
Location: Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting
Organizer: Dennis Quintilio, IWFC
4:00 PM
2.2
Large Fires—Changing Management Regimes
Paul Maczek, Fire Management and Forest Protection, Prince Albert, SK, Canada

4:30 PM
2.3
Estimating the Air Quality Impacts of Forest Fires in Alberta II
Alex Schutte, Levelton Consultants Ltd., Richmond, BC, Canada

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005


Session
Exhibit Hours
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )

Sessions End for the Day

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 October 2005


Poster Session 1
Formal Poster Viewing with Icebreaker Reception
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )
Chair: Timothy J. Brown, DRI
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

Handout (229.6 kB)

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

Handout (337.6 kB)

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

Handout (706.0 kB)

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 University, Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson Jr., R. R. Bensch, and R. Jabrzemski

Handout (427.4 kB)

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

P1.9
Predicting Lightning Strikes for the Enhancement of Fire Weather Forecasts
Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

Handout (89.6 kB)

P1.10
On the definition of El Nino and associated weather anomalies
Narasimhan 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

P1.14
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, CNR-IBIMET, National Research Council, Sassari, Italy; and A. Ventura and P. Zara

Handout (365.8 kB)

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

Handout (1.2 MB)

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

Handout (1.2 MB)

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, AWS Truepower, LLC, Albany, NY; and P. Cunningham and S. L. Goodrick

Wednesday, 26 October 2005

7:00 AM-7:00 AM: Wednesday, 26 October 2005


WED 26 OCT

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Wednesday, 26 October 2005


Session
Exhibit Hours
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (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, 26 October 2005


Session 3
Session 3
Location: Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting
Organizer: Jim Dunlop, British Columbia Forest Service
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

8:30 AM-10:15 AM: Wednesday, 26 October 2005

Recording files available
Session 3
Fire—Atmosphere Interactions and Coupled Modeling Part 1
Location: Ladyslipper (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair: Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service
8:45 AM
3.2
An Evaluation of the FDS and Clark Coupled Wildfire Model
Ruiyu Sun, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. K. Krueger, M. A. Jenkins, W. Mell, and J. J. Charney
9:00 AM
3.3
Numerical Simulations of Fires Similar to Those of The International Crown Fire Modeling Experiment
Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. Canfield, J. Winterkamp, P. Cunningham, J. Colman, C. Edminster, and S. L. Goodrick
9:15 AM
3.4
Modeling Effects of Atmospheric Stability on Wildfire Behavior
Jesse M. Canfield, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. Linn, P. Cunningham, and S. L. Goodrick
9:30 AM
3.5
Coupled Influences of Topography and Atmosphere on Wildland Fire Behavior: Physics-Based Model Explorations
Judith L. Winterkamp, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. R. Linn, W. S. Smith, and J. J. Colman
9:45 AM
3.6
A Numerical Solution of Reynolds System of Equations for Description of Forest Fire Initiation
Valeriy Perminov, Tomsk Polytechnic Univ., Tomsk, Russia, Russia

10:00 AM
3.1A
Influence of Radiative Heating on Wildfire Behavior—A Sensitivity Study
William S. Smith, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. Linn and J. Winterkamp

10:00 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 26 October 2005


Session
Coffee Break
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (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, 26 October 2005

Recording files available
Session 4
Operational and Near-Operational Fire Weather Forecasting Techniques
Location: Ladyslipper (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair: Rick Ochoa, National Interagency Fire Center
10:30 AM
4.1
The BlueSkyRAINS Smoke Prediction System
Susan M. O'Neill, USDA, Seattle, WA; and S. Ferguson, R. Solomon, J. Hoadley, J. Peterson, N. Larkin, R. Wilson, R. Peterson, and D. Matheny
10:45 AM
4.2
Model-Generated Predictions of Dry Lightning Risk—Initial Results
Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. J. McKay, S. A. Ferguson, and P. Werth
11:00 AM
4.3
HI-RISE—Hazardous Incident Rapid In-Flight Support Effort: Use of asynoptic upper-air data to improve weather forecasts at wildland fires and other hazardous incidents
Paul G. Witsaman, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and J. W. Zeitler, M. C. Oaks, G. P. Murdoch, S. R. Nagle, W. C. Hoffmann, and B. K. Fritz
11:15 AM
4.4
11:30 AM
4.5
Implementation of Windsat Data From NPOESS into 3DVAR for CANSAC Real-Time MM5 Forecasting
Tesfamichael Ghidey, WSU, Prosser, WA; and J. Koracin, T. J. Brown, and M. D. McAtee
11:45 AM
4.6

Session 4
Session 4
Location: Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting
Organizer: Jim Dunlop, British Columbia Forest Service
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

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 October 2005


Session
Lunch Break
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )

1:00 PM-1:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 October 2005


Session
Exhibit Hours
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (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, 26 October 2005

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Smoke Management and Air Quality
Location: Ladyslipper/Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )
Chair: Susan O'Neill, USDA
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
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

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 October 2005


Session
Coffee Break
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (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, 26 October 2005

Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Utilization of weather and climate information for wildfire decision-making
Location: Ladyslipper/Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )
Chair: Narasimhan Larkin, USDA Forest Service
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
4:15 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

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 October 2005


Sessions End for the Day

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 October 2005


Session
Evening Banquet (Cash Bar)-Guest Speaker Dave Coutts, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development and Student Awards Presented by Brad Pickering, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development
Location: Ladyslipper/Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )

Thursday, 27 October 2005

7:00 AM-7:00 AM: Thursday, 27 October 2005


THU 27 OCT

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Thursday, 27 October 2005


Session
Exhibit Hours
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (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, 27 October 2005


Session 5
Session 5
Location: Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting
Organizer: Lou Foley, Sustainable Resource Development
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

8:30 AM-10:15 AM: Thursday, 27 October 2005

Recording files available
Session 5
Core Fire Science
Location: Ladyslipper (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Organizer: Colin C. Hardy, USDA Forest Service
9:00 AM
5.3
Improved models of forest and wildland-urban-interface fires
Ronald Rehm, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and W. Mell
9:15 AM
5.4
Experiments and modeling of fire spread through individual trees
William Mell, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and A. Maranghides and R. Rehm
9:30 AM
5.5
Correlation of mass loss rate and flame height for live fuels
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA; and T. H. Fletcher, S. Mahalingam, X. Zhou, S. Smith, and L. Sun
9:45 AM
5.6
10:00 AM
5.2A
Measurements of water vapor and CO2 fluxes produced by a prescribed prairie fire using a micrometeorological flux tower and tethered balloon sounding system
Craig B. Clements, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and B. E. Potter, S. Zhong, G. Aumann, M. D. Jiang, S. Street, and M. R. Patel

10:00 AM-10:00 AM: Thursday, 27 October 2005


Session
Coffee Break
Location: Crocus/Arnica (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Hosts: (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, 27 October 2005

Recording files available
Session 6
Impacts of Climate and Climate Change on Wildfire
Location: Ladyslipper (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair: Beth L. Hall, DRI
10:30 AM
6.1
Fire-climate interactions in the Mediterranean climate areas of California and Southern Oregon
Valerie M. L. Trouet, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. H. Taylor, R. F. Smith, and A. M. Carleton
10:45 AM
6.2
11:00 AM
6.3
Simulating changes in fire occurrence, behavior, and effects in North America ecosystems under multiple future climate scenarios
James M. Lenihan, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR; and D. Bachelet, R. Drapek, and R. P. Neilson
11:15 AM
6.4
Potential forest fire danger over Northern Eurasia: Changes during the 20th century
Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. G. Sherstyukov, V. N. Razuvaev, R. W. Knight, J. G. Enloe, N. S. Stroumentova, P. H. Whitfield, E. Foerland, I. Hanssen-Bauer, H. Tuomenvirta, H. Aleksandersson, A. V. Mescherskaya, and T. R. Karl
11:30 AM
6.5

Session 6
Session 6
Location: Orchid (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting
Organizer: Lou Foley, Sustainable Resource Development
10:30 AM
6.1
Weather Parameters Leading to 2003 Inuvik Wildfire Event
Beverly J. Archibald, True North Weather Consulting Inc., Edmonton, AB, Canada; and L. Lewis

11:00 AM
6.2
Firesmarting Residential Properties in the Wildland Urban Interface
Bonita McFarlane, Canadian Forest Service, Ottawa, ON, Canada

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 27 October 2005


Session
Lunch Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 27 October 2005

Recording files available
Session 7
Fuels and Fire
Location: Ladyslipper (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair: David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
1:30 PM
7.1
Burning Characteristics of Live California Chaparral and Utah Leaf Samples
Thomas H. Fletcher, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT; and B. M. Pickett, S. G. Smith, and D. R. Weise
1:45 PM
7.2
Ignition of Mulch by Firebrands in Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI) Fires
Samuel L. Manzello, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and J. R. Shields, T. G. Cleary, and J. C. Yang
2:00 PM
7.3
Evaluation of the Nelson dead fuel moisture model in a forecast environment
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson Jr., and R. Jabrzemski
2:30 PM
7.5
Stand specific litter moisture content calibrations for the Canadian Fine Fuel Moisture Code
B. M. Wotton, Canadian Forest Service, Sault St. Marie, ON, Canada; and J. L. Beverly
2:45 PM
7.6
Remote Sensing Vegetation Recovery after Forest Fires using Energy Balance Algorithm
Junming Wang, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and T. W. Sammis, C. A. Meier, L. J. Simmons, D. R. Miller, and D. Bathke

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 27 October 2005


Session
Coffee Break
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 27 October 2005

Recording files available
Session 8
Fire—Atmosphere Interactions and Coupled Modeling Part 2
Location: Ladyslipper (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair: Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service
3:30 PM
8.0
Paper has been moved to Session 3, Paper number 3.1

3:45 PM
8.0
Paper has been moved to Session 5, Paper Number 5.2

4:15 PM
8.2
Experimental Weekly to Seasonal Ensemble Fire Danger Forecasts
J. Roads, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and P. Tripp, H. Juang, J. Wang, S. Chen, and F. Fujioka
4:30 PM
8.3
4:45 PM
8.4
A Mechanism for the Formation of Transverse Horizontal Vortices on Wildland Fires
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and P. Cunningham

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 27 October 2005


Conference Ends