5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Session 4F: Fire Education and Training (TRACK VI)

Tuesday, 18 November 2003: 11:30 AM-5:30 PM
Chair:  Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, USDA Forest Service
Papers:
  11:30 AM
Wildfire Training for Volunteer Fire Departments
Julie E. Shiyou-Woodard, South Alabama Regional Planning Commission, Mobile, AL

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  12:00 PM
TEFF: The ten essential factors in firefighting
Patrick Withen, University of Virginia, Wise, VA

  12:30 PM
  1:00 PM
FireWords: an annotated, illustrated electronic glossary of wildland fire science terminology
Joe Scott, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and E. D. Reinhardt

  1:30 PM
Fire ecology hypertext: a tool for synthesizing and distributing knowledge
Cynthia T. Fowler, USDA, Athens, GA; and D. Kennard and H. M. Rauscher

  2:00 PM
Burning Issues: Partners in Fire Education—"Fire Literacy for a Fire Wise World," Part 1: Developing an Interactive CD-Rom and Distribution Strategy
David E. LaHart, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and G. O. Dawson, J. Chapman, and J. Owens

Poster PDF (332.6 kB)
  2:30 PM
Burning Issues: Partners in Fire Education—Implementation in Two Land Management Units
Jennifer A. Chapman, National Park Service, Point Reyes Station, CA; and K. Antunez, D. E. LaHart, and J. Owens

Poster PDF (410.3 kB)
  3:00 PM
Living on the Edge in Florida CD-ROM
James Harrell, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL

  3:30 PM
Lunch Break

  5:00 PM
Coffee Break