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

Joint Session 5D: Risk Assessment and Decision Support (TRACK IV)

Tuesday, 18 November 2003: 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Chair:  J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base
Papers:
 
J5D.1
Bridging the Gap—A Practitioner’s Approach to Mid-scale Air Quality Assessments for Land Management Planning

  9:00 AM
Optimizing Prescribed Burning Policies to Minimize the Economic Impacts of Wildfire in Florida
D. Evan Mercer, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. P. Prestemon, D. T. Butry, and J. M. Pye

  9:30 AM
Spatial Modeling Tools for Prioritizing Limited Prescribed Fire Resources
J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, FL; and J. H. Furman and S. C. Laine

  10:00 AM
Fire Management Decision Support System at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA
J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, FL; and J. H. Furman and W. Gooding

  10:30 AM
Florida's Communities At Risk
Susan McLellan, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Brenner

  11:00 AM
  12:00 PM
Web-based Mapping Applications in Response to Wildland Fires
Elizabeth L. Lile, USGS, Denver, CO; and C. Inbau

http://www.geomac.gov

Poster PDF (714.1 kB)
  12:30 PM
Evaluating designs for fuel management projects: application of a multi-attribute framework
Donald G. MacGregor, MacGregor-Bates, Inc., Eugene, OR; and C. Dammann and J. Anderson

Poster PDF (169.8 kB)
  1:00 PM
Western Fire Ignition and Area Time Series Cross-Sectional Models
Jeffrey P. Prestemon, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; and D. T. Butry, K. L. Abt, T. P. Holmes, D. E. Mercer, and J. M. Pye

  1:30 PM
Assessing the ecological implications of FireSmart forest management
Ana C. Espinoza, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and W. Cui and D. L. Martell

http://www.firelab.utoronto.ca

 
J5D.12
A fire load index for comparative analysis

  2:30 PM
An Event-Frame Model for Decomposition and Reconstruction of Large-Fire Decision Processes
Donald G. MacGregor, MacGregor-Bates, Inc., Eugene, OR; and A. Gonzalez-Caban

Poster PDF (143.0 kB)
  3:00 PM
Identifying forests in need of fuel reduction and fire restoration
Bo Wilmer, The Wilderness Society, Seattle, WA; and G. Aplet

  3:30 PM
Coffee Break

  4:00 PM
Lunch Break

  5:30 PM
COFFEE BREAK