| Monday, 22 October 2007 |
| 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Monday 2007, Shore Acres
Registration Begins |
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| Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
| 7:30 AM-5:00 PM, Tuesday 2007, Shore Acres
Registration continues through 25 October |
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| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday 2007, The Turrets
Joint Session 1 Symposium Welcome and Northeast Fire Perspectives (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact Forest Science Working Team) |
Chair: Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada
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| 9:00 AM | | Welcoming Remarks-Timothy Brown, DRI, Reno, NV
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| 9:10 AM | | Welcoming Remarks-Tom Parent, Northeast Fire Protection Compact, China Village, ME
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| 9:15 AM | J1.1 | Background of the Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact
Tom Parent, Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact, China Village, ME |
| 9:25 AM | J1.2 | Background of the Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact Fire Science Working Team
Michael Ricci, Maine Forest Service, Old Town, ME |
| 9:35 AM | J1.3 | Use of Fire Science in the Eastern Canadian Provinces
Timothy Greer, Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact, Fredericton, NB, Canada |
| 9:45 AM | J1.4 | Fire Weather Services for the Northeastern Compact Area
Eric C. Evenson, NOAA/NWS, South Burlington, VT |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday 2007, Wingwood
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday 2007, The Turrets
Joint Session 2 Application of Weather and Climate Science to the Management of Wildland Fire (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact Forest Science Working Team) |
Chair: Kerry R. Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB Canada
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| 10:30 AM | J2.1 | BehavePlus fire modeling system: past, present, and future  
Patricia L. Andrews, US Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT |
| 10:45 AM | J2.2 | OK-FIRE: A weather-based decision support system for wildland fire managers in Oklahoma
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and R. Jabrzemski, S. Blackburn, and J. M. Wolfinbarger |
| 11:00 AM | J2.3 | A Collaborative Fire Weather Training Endeavor Involving the National Weather Service and the Northeast Compact
Eric C. Evenson, NOAA/NWS, South Burlington, VT; and R. J. Schiesser and S. Hogan |
| 11:15 AM | J2.4 | Climatology of fire danger from the North American Regional Reanalysis dataset
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown and W. M. Jolly |
| 11:30 AM | J2.5 | The BlueSky smoke modeling framework: current status and ongoing development
Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and D. Sullivan, D. Pryden, S. Raffuse, R. Solomon, L. Chinkin, and C. Ovard |
| 11:45 AM | J2.6 | Assessment of New Hampshire red flag criteria
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and J. Kennedy |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday 2007
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday 2007, The Turrets
Session 1 Impacts of Weather and Climate on Wildfire |
Chair: Valerie M. L. Trouet, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf Switzerland
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| 1:30 PM | 1.1 | Climate and predictability of Alaskan wildfires
Peter Bieniek, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and M. Shulski and G. Wendler |
| 1:45 PM | 1.2 | Correlation between wildfire statistical datas, weather parameters, and climate
Michel L. Bernard, Université de provence, Marseille, France; and L. G. Bernard |
| 2:00 PM | 1.3 | Weather seasonality and pattern of thermochemical properties in Mediterranean vegetation
Grazia Pellizzaro, CNR - Institute of Biometeorology, Sassari, Italy; and C. Cesaraccio, P. Duce, A. Ventura, and P. Zara |
| 2:15 PM | 1.4 | Determination of weather parameters used to predict fire behavior and growth
Laurie L. Kurth, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and C. McHugh and L. T. Hollingsworth |
| 2:30 PM | 1.5 | Predictability of sea surface temperatures for fire danger
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and J. R. Banta and B. L. Hall |
| 2:45 PM | 1.6 | Multi-decadal variability of fire weather and fire extent in northern California and Oregon
Valerie M. L. Trouet, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland; and A. H. Taylor, A. M. Carleton, and C. N. Skinner |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday 2007, Wingwood
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday 2007, The Turrets
Session 2 Climate Change |
Chair: Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV
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| 3:30 PM | 2.1 | Recent large-scale forest fires in boreal forests and climate change -Discussion based on weather data in Alaska and Sakha-
Hiroshi Hayasaka, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; and M. Fukuda, K. Kushida, R. Jandt, and F. Alexander |
| 3:45 PM | 2.2 | Climate change and bushfire weather in southeast Australia
Chris Lucas, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic, Australia |
| 4:00 PM | 2.3 | Forest fire emissions under climate change: impacts on air quality
Anabela Carvalho, Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and A. Monteiro, M. D. Flannigan, V. Martins, A. I. Miranda, and C. Borrego |
| 4:15 PM | 2.4 | Effects of climate change on forest fires over North America and impact on U.S. air quality and visibility
Rynda C. Hudman, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and D. V. Spracklen, J. A. Logan, L. J. Mickley, R. M. Yevich, M. D. Flannigan, and A. L. Westerling |
| 4:30 PM | 2.5 | Impacts of climate change on fire activity and fire management in the circumboreal forest
M.D. Flannigan, Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada; and B. J. Stocks, M. Turetsky, and B. M. Wotton |
| 4:45 PM | 2.6 | Future climate and the Haines Index as simulated by the NCAR CCSM3.0 general circulation model
Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and J. A. Winkler, H. Prawiranata, K. Piromsopa, and X. Bian |
| 5:00 PM | 2.7 | Assessing climate change and fire danger
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and W. M. Jolly and B. L. Hall |
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| 5:15 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday 2007, The Turrets
Session 3 Poster Introductions |
Presider: Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday 2007, Wingwood
Poster Session 1 Formal Poster Reviewing with Icebreaker Reception |
Chair: Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA
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| | P1.1 | Large forest fires in Canada and the relationship to global sea surface temperatures
Walter Skinner, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and A. Shabbar, M. Flannigan, and K. Logan |
| | P1.2 | A bio-geophysical model of Net Primary Productivity from the climatologic chart concept
Michel L. Bernard, Université de provence, Marseille, France; and L. G. Bernard |
| | P1.3 | The impact of climate change on fire weather as predicted by a regional climate model
Xindi Bian, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and B. Potter, H. Prawiranata, K. Piromsopa, and J. A. Winkler |
| | P1.4 | Regional Climate Change Impact on Fire Regimes in Midwest and Eastern United States
Xindi Bian, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and W. E. Heilman, S. Zhong, and J. A. Winkler |
| | P1.5 | Correlation between remotely sensed fire intensity and fuel consumption in California chaparral – a case study
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and P. J. Riggan |
| | P1.6 | West Texas Mesonet observations in proximity to a dangerous wildfire and wind shift interactions
Kenneth R. Widelski, NOAA/NWS, Lubbock, TX; and T. T. Lindley |
| | P1.7 | Fire intensity in moderate drought conditions: effect on topsoil properties in Mediterranean shrubland vegetation
Annalisa Canu, Institute of Biometeorology, Sassari, Italy; and B. Arca, G. Ghiglieri, D. Pittalis, M. Deroma, A. Ventura, and A. Arca |
| | P1.8 | Application of climatologic chart concepts to a new classification of climates and to climatic change studies
Michel L. Bernard, Université de provence, Marseille, France; and L. G. Bernard |
| | P1.9 | Moisture measures and their correlations with wildland fire in the Lake States
Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and J. J. Charney |
| | P1.10 | Use of FARSITE simulator to produce fire probability maps in a Mediterranean area
Bachisio Arca, National Research Council of Italy, Sassari, Italy; and V. Bacciu, P. Duce, G. Pellizzaro, M. Salis, and D. Spano |
| | P1.11 | Forest fires detected by using doppler weather radar
Kehui Huang, Wenzhou Meteorological Bureau, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang, China; and F. Gu, F. Zhao, J. Zhu, B. Zhou, H. Xie, and J. Zhong |
| | P1.12 | A journey down under: Operational fire weather forecasting exchange for the 2006-2007 fire season
Heath Hockenberry, NOAA/NWS, Boise, ID; and R. Hicks and R. Ochoa |
| | P1.13 | A review of 2006 fire weather support – A record year
Larry Van Bussum, NOAA/NWS, Boise, ID; and R. Lamoni |
| | P1.14 | Program for Climate, Ecosystem and Fire Applications
Laura M. Edwards, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| | P1.15 | Climate in the context of Wildland Fire Use: Windows of opportunity
Crystal A. Kolden, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| | P1.16 | Stereo Photo Series for Quantifying Natural Fuels Volume VIII: Hardwood, Pitch Pine, and Red Spruce/Balsam Fir Types in the Northeastern United States
Clinton S. Wright, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA; and R. D. Ottmar and R. E. Vihnanek |
| | P1.17 | The MJO-Lightning Connection: Understanding Intraseasonal Variations in Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Strikes over the Continental US
John T. Abatzoglou, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
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| Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Wednesday 2007, The Turrets
Session 4 Field Studies |
Chair: Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD
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| 8:30 AM | 4.1 | Field evaluation of PB-Piedmont, a mesoscale nighttime smoke dispersion model, for application to Oklahoma landscapes
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and G. L. Achtemeier |
| 8:45 AM | 4.2 | Rapid Response Field Observations in Support of Improving BlueSky Smoke Predictions
Candace Krull, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. Rorig, S. Larkin, and R. Solomon |
| 9:00 AM | 4.3 | An overview of the FireFlux experiment
Craig B. Clements, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA |
| 9:15 AM | 4.4 | Plume moisture enhancement observed during FireFlux
Caroline Kiefer, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and C. B. Clements and B. Potter |
| 9:30 AM | 4.5 | Turbulent kinetic energy and fire-induced winds observed during FireFlux
Craig B. Clements, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and S. Zhong, W. E. Heilman, X. Bian, and S. L. Goodrick |
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| 9:45 AM-10:15 AM, Wednesday 2007, Wingwood
Coffee Break |
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| 10:15 AM-11:45 AM, Wednesday 2007, The Turrets
Session 5 Improvements to Fire Danger and Fire Behavior Systems I |
Chair: Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI
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| 10:15 AM | 5.1 | Determination of equilibrium moisture content for several fine fuels in Hawaii
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA |
| 10:30 AM | 5.2 | The application of radar-derived precipitation and LAPS gridded analyses to real-time fire weather index maps for the state of Michigan
Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and R. H. Ziel and X. Bian |
| 10:45 AM | 5.3 | Fire behavior and fire danger systems—the evolution continues
Patricia L. Andrews, US Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT |
| 11:00 AM | 5.4 | Assessment of an integrated fire rating index for Sardinia, Italy
Costantino Sirca, Univ. of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and D. Spano and P. Duce |
| 11:15 AM | 5.5 | Validation of fire danger from the North American Regional Reanalysis dataset
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown and W. M. Jolly |
| 11:30 AM | 5.6 | OPERATIONAL FOREST FIRE-GROWTH PREDICTIONS FOR CANADA
Kerry R. Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and P. Englefield and J. Little |
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| 11:45 AM-1:15 PM, Wednesday 2007, Kebo
Luncheon with Guest Speaker Deb Dyer |
Speaker: Deb Dyer, Bar Harbor Historical Society, Bar Harbor, ME
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| 11:45 AM | 1 | The Fire of '47
Deb Dyer, Bar Harbor Historical Society, Bar Harbor, ME |
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| 1:15 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday 2007, The Turrets
Session 6 Smoke Management and Air Quality |
Chair: Narasimhan K. ("Sim") Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA
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| 1:15 PM | 6.1 | Real-time smoke prediction systems
Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA |
| 1:30 PM | 6.2 | Modeling the air quality effects of the 2007 south Georgia wildfires with SHRMC-4S
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and S. L. Goodrick, G. L. Achtemeier, J. Qu, and L. Naeher |
| 1:45 PM | 6.3 | Spatial/temporal characteristics of air quality prediction errors in the Bluesky modeling framework
Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and K. S. Lii and S. Chen |
| 2:00 PM | 6.4 | Reconcilation of satellite detected and ground reported fire information
Sean Raffuse, Sonoma Technologies, Petaluma, CA; and N. K. Larkin, A. Soja, R. Solomon, D. Sullivan, and L. Chinkin |
| 2:15 PM | 6.5 | Estimating the contribution of forest fire emissions to ozone peaks during a 14-20 July 2005 prescribed fire escape in central California using CMAQ modeling system
Tesfamichael Ghidey, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| 2:30 PM | 6.6 | Automated verification of the BlueSky smoke modeling framework
Robert Solomon, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. O'Neill and J. Vaughan |
| 2:45 PM | 6.7 | The 2003 fire season in Portugal: impacts on air quality
Ana Isabel Miranda, Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and A. Monteiro, V. Martins, A. Carvalho, and C. Borrego |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday 2007, Wingwood
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday 2007, The Turrets
Session 7 Fire-Atmosphere Interactions and Coupled Modeling |
Chair: Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
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| 3:30 PM | 7.1 | The Esperanza Fire: Comparison of coupled atmosphere-fire model simulation and FireMapper thermal imaging data
Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. M. Fujioka, C. Jones, and P. J. Riggan |
| 3:45 PM | 7.2 | Mesoscale model simulations of the meteorological conditions during the 2 June 2002 Double Trouble State Park wildfire
Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and D. Keyser |
| 4:00 PM | 7.3 | Effect of Vertical Wind Shear on the Grassfire Evolution
Mary Ann Jenkins, York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. Sun, S. K. Krueger, J. J. Charney, and M. A. Zulauf |
| 4:15 PM | 7.4 | A rule-based fire spread model for simulating prescribed burns
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
|  | 7.5 | Applying FIRETEC to real world wildfire scenarios
Judith L. Winterkamp, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. R. Linn, W. S. Smith, S. P. Brumby, and J. A. Sauer |
| | 7.6 | Influence of wind variations and fluctuations on fire behavior in FIRETEC simulations
Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. M. Canfield, P. Cunningham, F. Pimont, J. A. Sauer, and J. L. Winterkamp |
| 4:30 PM | 7.7 | The dynamics of fire interactions: Simulations of multiple fire lines using FIRETEC
Brandon S. Daly, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and P. Cunningham, J. K. Hiers, R. R. Linn, and J. A. Sauer |
| 4:45 PM | 7.8 | Modeling buoyant plumes: Fundamentals and applications
Philip Cunningham, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick and M. J. Reeder |
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| Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday 2007, The Turrets
Session 8 Fire Behavior, Spread and Emissions Impacts |
Chair: Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA
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| 8:30 AM | 8.1 | Evolution of turbulent kinetic energy and the Haines Index during wildfires in the north central and northeastern U.S
Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and X. Bian |
| 8:45 AM | 8.2 | Using high-resolution weather data to predict fire spread using the FARSITE simulator—a case study in California chaparral
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and S. C. Chen, P. J. Riggan, C. Jones, B. W. Butler, and F. M. Fujioka |
| 9:00 AM | 8.3 | The structure and evolution of terrain-induced meteorological features influencing the Alberta and Mack Lake wildfire environments
Brian J. Miretzky, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. E. Martin and B. Potter |
| 9:15 AM | 8.4 | Determining carbon emissions from Siberian fires using the Canadian and Russian Fire Danger Rating Systems
Douglas J. McRae, Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada; and J. Z. Jin, Y. Q. Yang, S. P. Baker, S. G. Conard, B. J. Stocks, and A. I. Sukhinin |
| 9:30 AM | 8.5 | Mercury emissions and dispersion from the 2007 south Georgia wildfires
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and Y. Liu, R. J. DiCosty, M. A. Callaham, and J. A. Stanturf |
| 9:45 AM | 8.6 | Exploratory study of energy distribution and evolution for wildfires
Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday 2007, Wingwood
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Thursday 2007, The Turrets
Session 9 Improvements to Fire Danger and Fire Behavior Systems II |
Chair: J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK
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| 10:30 AM | 9.1 | A model for estimating evapotranspiration of natural ecosystems
R. L. Snyder, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and D. Spano, C. Sirca, V. Bacciu, and P. Duce |
| 10:45 AM | 9.2 | A model to predict red flag warning days
Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and G. W. Carbin |
| 11:00 AM | 9.3 | Spatial/temporal analysis of fire spread modeling errors
Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and C. Jones and P. J. Riggan |
| 11:15 AM | 9.4 | Development and implementation of a uniform national verification system for the 7-day significant fire potential product
Hauss J. Reinbold, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| 11:30 AM | 9.5 | Stochastic modeling of fire at daily time steps from mesoscale meteorology
Donald McKenzie, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and N. K. Larkin, S. O'Neill, R. Norheim, and J. S. Littel |
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| 11:45 AM-1:15 PM, Thursday 2007
Lunch Break |
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| 1:15 PM-2:45 PM, Thursday 2007, The Turrets
Session 10 Forecasting |
Chair: Rick Ochoa, National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, ID
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| 1:15 PM | 10.1 | Fire Danger Applications of NCEP's Downscaled CFS Forecasts
J. Roads, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and P. Tripp, H. M. H. Juang, J. Wang, S. Chen, and F. Fujioka |
| | 10.2 | Critical fire weather events during the Australian summer fires of 2006-7
Graham A. Mills, BMRC, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| 1:30 PM | 10.2A | Eight years of seasonal climate forecasting for the wildfire management community
Klaus E. Wolter, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO |
| 1:45 PM | 10.3 | Significant Errors in Numerical Weather Predictions Prior to the New Year's Day 2006 Southern Plains Wildfire Outbreak
T. Todd Lindley, NOAA/NWSFO, Lubbock, TX; and M. R. Conder and G. P. Murdoch |
| 2:00 PM | 10.4 | A meteorological composite of the 2005/06 wildfire outbreaks in the Southern Plains
T. Todd Lindley, NOAA/NWSFO, Lubbock, TX; and J. L. Guyer, G. P. Murdoch, S. R. Nagle, K. Schneider, and G. Skwira |
| 2:15 PM | 10.5 | Using the BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework in Decision Support for Landscape-scale Prescribed Burn Operations
Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and R. Solomon, C. Krull, and J. Peterson |
| 2:30 PM | 10.6 | Predicting fire weather severity using seasonal forecasts
Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and P. Englefield and R. Carr |
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| 2:45 PM-3:15 PM, Thursday 2007, Wingwood
Coffee Break |
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| 3:15 PM-4:45 PM, Thursday 2007, The Turrets
Workshops Session 1 Directions in Fire and Forest Meteorology Research |
Moderator: Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada
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| 4:45 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday 2007, The Turrets
Joint Session 3 Symposium Closing (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact Forest Science Working Team) |
Presiders: Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA
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| Friday, 26 October 2007 |
| 8:30 AM-12:30 PM, Friday 2007
Breakfast with Tour of Acadia National Park (tickets available until 12 noon Wednesday October 24) |
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