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

COFFEE BREAK

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

LUNCH BREAK

MON 17 NOV

REGISTRATION CONTINUES THROUGH THURSDAY, 20 NOVEMBER

SHORT COURSE/FIELD TRIP REGISTRATION

SUN 16 NOV

THUR 20 NOV

TUE 18 NOV

WED 19 NOV

Sun 16 Nov

Short Course Registration

Congress Registration

Ice Breaker Reception

Mon 17 Nov

Plenary Session 1

Opening Plenary Session

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

Papers:

9:00 AM

PL1.1

Welcome and Call to Order

Ronald E. Masters, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL

9:10 AM

PL1.2

Opening Remarks from the Florida State Forester

Michael Long, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL

9:25 AM

PL1.3

Welcome from AFE Representative

Jan Van Wagtendonk, AFE, El Portal, CA

9:35 AM

PL1.4

Welcome from TNC Representative

Jeff Hardesty, The Nature Conservatory's Global Fire Initiative, Gainesville, FL

9:45 AM

PL1.5

Welcome from AMS Representative

Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC

9:55 AM

PL1.6

Fire Ecology of the Recent Anthropocene (Keynote Address)

Johann G. Goldammer, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Global Fire Monitoring Center, Freiburg, Germany

Poster PDF (84.6 kB)

10:35 AM

PL1.6a

Coffee Break

1A

Fire and Fuels Management: Part 1 (TRACK I)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Frederic W. Adrian, US Fish & Wildlife Service

Papers:

11:00 AM

1A.1

Landscape level fire modeling

Charles W. McHugh, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT; and M. A. Finney and D. A. Stephen

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1A.2

Quantifying canopy fuels in conifer forests

Elizabeth Reinhardt, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and J. H. Scott and R. E. Keane

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

1A.3

Fuel loading in the Central Hardwoods

Jeremy J. Kolaks, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and B. E. Cutter, E. F. Loewenstein, K. W. Grabner, G. Hartman, and J. M. Kabrick

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (498.3 kB)

12:30 PM

1A.4

Comparative analysis of three silvicultural prescriptions and their effect on crown fire behavior in Southwestern ponderosa pine

Linda L. Wadleigh, USDA Forest Service, Williams, AZ; and C. W. McHugh

http://

Recorded presentation

1A.5

Fuel reduction projects in Southwest ponderosa pine forests

1:30 PM

1A.6

Fuel loading and potential fire behavior after selective harvest in coast redwood stands

Christopher A. Dicus, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (88.8 kB)

2:00 PM

1A.7

Fuel composition and consumption in subtropical South Florida slash pine forests

James R. Snyder, USGS, Ochopee, FL; and H. Belles, S. Koptur, M. S. Ross, and J. Sah

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

1A.8

Fuel Characteristic Classification System

Roger D. Ottmar, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and D. V. Sandberg, S. J. Prichard, and C. L. Riccardi

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (126.1 kB)

3:00 PM

1A.9

Fire Potential Rating for Wildland Fuelbeds

David V. Sandberg, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (157.8 kB)

3:30 PM

1A.2a

Lunch Break

5:00 PM

1A.6a

Coffee Break

1B

Fire Effects on Soils/Watershed (TRACK II)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Daniel G. Neary, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

11:00 AM

1B.1

Performance of high temperature heat flux plates and soil moisture probes during controlled surface fires

W. J. Massman, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Frank, S. M. Massman, and W. D. Shepperd

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.5 MB)

11:30 AM

1B.2

Effects of Prescribed Fire Intervals on Carbon and Nitrogen in Forest Soils of the Mogollon Rim, Arizona

Daniel G. Neary, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ; and S. T. Overby and S. M. Haase

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (261.8 kB)

12:00 PM

1B.3

Changes in nutrients and biomass immediately after a low-intensity prescribed fire in an uneven-aged loblolly pine stand

Jennifer J. Hooper, University of Arkansas, Monticello, AR; and H. O. Liechty and M. G. Shelton

Poster PDF (107.5 kB)

12:30 PM

1B.4

A 12-year post-fire assessment of soil conditions of the Dudefire in central Arizona

Alvin Leroy Medina, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ

1:00 PM

1B.5

Consequences and correlates of fire in wetlands

Gordon A. Fox, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and K. Hum, D. Brownlie, and M. Folk

Recorded presentation

1:30 PM

1B.6

Erosion after wildfires: what managers need to know

Peter R. Robichaud, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

1B.7

Post-wildfire Watershed Flood Responses

Daniel G. Neary, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ; and G. J. Gottfried and P. F. Ffolliott

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (189.3 kB)

2:30 PM

1B.8

Hillslope erosion following the Williams Fire on the San Dimas Experimental Forest, southern California

Peter M. Wohlgemuth, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

3:00 PM

1B.9

Runoff and erosion on a semi-arid grassland after a wildfire

Ginger B. Paige, USDA-ARS, Tucson, AZ; and J. J. Stone, D. P. Guertin, R. McGee, and H. Blumenfeld

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (327.2 kB)

3:30 PM

1B.2a

Lunch Break

5:00 PM

1B.5a

Coffee Break

1C

Ecosystem Restoration: Part 1 (TRACK III)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: MaryBeth Keifer, National Park Service

Papers:

11:00 AM

1C.1

The relative influences of prescribed burning and spatial and temporal variability on species composition in grasslands on Santa Cruz Island, California

Robert C. Klinger, University of California, Davis, CA

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1C.2

Second entry prescribed fires in Ponderosa pine and bear clover forests

Monica S. Buhler, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, CA; and K. J. Paintner

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Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

1C.3

Positive effects of prescribed fire on understory vegetation in mixed-conifer forests of the southern Sierra Nevada, CA (USA)

Karen Webster, National Park Service, Three Rivers, CA; and M. Keifer and R. Wills

Recorded presentation

12:30 PM

1C.4

Fire, forest change, and restoration at Grand Canyon

Peter Z. Ful�, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and J. E. Crouse, T. A. Heinlein, and W. W. Covington

1:00 PM

1C.5

A 12-year post-fire assessment of riparian habitat conditions of the Dudefire in central Arizona

Alvin Leroy Medina, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ

http://

Recorded presentation

1:30 PM

1C.6

Responses of long-unburned scrub on the Merritt Island/Cape Canaveral barrier island complex to cutting and burning

Paul A. Schmalzer, Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and T. E. Foster and F. W. Adrian

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (147.7 kB)

2:00 PM

1C.7

Remnant Fire Disturbed Montane Longleaf Pine Forest in West Central Georgia, USA

Robert Carter, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL; and A. Londo

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (19.1 kB)

2:30 PM

1C.8

Restoration and Management of South Florida Pine Rocklands with Fire: Fifty Years of Adaptive Management

Jeff H. Kitchens, Everglades National Park Fire Management, Homestead, FL; and R. A. Panko

Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

1C.9

Effects of fire season and frequency on the plant community of a restored tallgrass prairie

Thomas B. Bragg, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE; and N. D. Birks

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (108.0 kB)

3:30 PM

1C.2a

Lunch Break

5:00 PM

1C.5a

Coffee Break

1D

Collaborative Fire Planning (Special Session) (TRACK IV)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Ayn Shlisky, The Nature Conservancy

Papers:

11:00 AM

1D.1

The Role and Effectiveness of Prescribed Fire Councils in Fire Management

Zachary A. Prusak, Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program, Melbourne, FL

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1D.2

Collaborative partnerships and landscape-scale fire restoration on the Bayou Ranger District in the Interior Highlands of Arkansas, USA

McRee Anderson, The Nature Conservancy, Jasper, AR; and J. Andre, M. Morales, S. Simon, and T. Whitsell

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (234.7 kB)

1D.3

A collaborative scientific framework for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

12:30 PM

1D.4

Fire management and restoration plan in the Sierra de Manantl�n Biosphere Reserve, M�xico

Enrique J. Jardel P., Universidad de Guadalajara, Autl�n, Jalisco, Mexico; and R. Ram�rez-Villeda, F. Castillo-Navarro, and O. E. Balc�zar M.

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (267.9 kB)

1:00 PM

1D.2a

Lunch Break

1F

Fire Policy (TRACK VI)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: G. Thomas Zimmerman, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

11:00 AM

1F.1

Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy�Interagency Implementation Direction

Mark Beighley, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC; and T. Zimmerman

11:30 AM

1F.2

Fuel breaks for wildland fire management: a moat or a drawbridge for ecosystem fire restoration?

Timothy Ingalsbee, Western Fire Ecology Center, Eugene, OR; and R. Fairbanks

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

1F.3

Media coverage of the "Healthy Forests Initiative": an exercise in problem definition

William F. Griswold, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

12:30 PM

1F.2a

Lunch Break

Joint Session 1G

GIS/Remote Sensing: Part 1 (TRACK VII)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

Chairs: Skip Edel, Colorado State Forest Service; Dorothy Albright, USDA Foreest Service

Papers:

11:00 AM

J1G.1

Using NDVI to determine green-up date for the National Fire Danger Rating System

Paul M. Schlobohm, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID; and B. L. Hall and T. J. Brown

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (504.0 kB)

11:30 AM

J1G.2

Progress towards development of methods for evaluation of spatial fire potential indicators

Jon M. Graham, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and P. L. Andrews

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

J1G.3

Phoenix�the new Forest Service airborne infrared fire detection and mapping system

Paul H. Greenfield, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC; and W. Smith and D. C. Chamberlain

http://nirops.fs.fed.us

Poster PDF (380.5 kB)

12:30 PM

J1G.4

Operational Detection of Fires in Brazil with EOS, GOES and NOAA Satellites

Alberto W. Setzer, Center for Weather Forecast and Climatic Studies, S.J.Campos, SP, Brazil

Recorded presentation

1:00 PM

J1G.5

Measurement of the time-temperature and emissivity history of the burn scar for remote sensing applications

Robert Kremens, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and J. Faulring and C. C. Hardy

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (92.7 kB)

1:30 PM

J1G.6

Monitoring wildland fire activity on a national-scale with MODIS imagery

Brad Quayle, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Lannom, M. Finco, J. Norton, and R. Warnick

http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

2:00 PM

J1G.7

Wildfire Risk Data Collection Using Handheld GPS and GIS

Andrew W. Martin, South Alabama Regional Planning Commission, Mobile, AL

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

J1G.8

Facts and History of NWCG�s Geospatial Task Group

Susan Goodman, Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO

Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

J1G.9

ICS Fire Mapping Tools�A New Standard in Fire Mapping

John Varner, USDA Forest Service , Rocky Mountain Region, Encampment, WY

Recorded presentation

3:30 PM

J1G.2a

Lunch Break

5:00 PM

J1G.5a

Coffee Break

Joint Session 2

Fire and Atmosphere Interactions

Sponsors: (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress )

Chair: Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

11:00 AM

J2.1

Atmospheric Response and Feedback to Smoke Radiative Forcing from Wildland Fires

Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA

Poster PDF (369.1 kB)

11:15 AM

J2.2

Modeling interactions between fire and atmosphere in discrete fuel beds

Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. Winterkamp, C. Edminster, J. Colman, and M. Steinzig

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

11:30 AM

J2.3

Numerical Study of Effects of Atmosphere Temperature Profile on Wildfire Behavior

Chunmei Xia, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. Y. Hussaini, P. Cunningham, R. R. Linn, and S. L. Goodrick

Poster PDF (265.6 kB)

11:45 AM

J2.4

Simulations of wildfire incidents using coupled atmosphere-fire modeling

Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO

http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/fire/model/model_home.html

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

12:00 PM

J2.5

Comparison of 2-D wind fields and simulated wildland fire growth

Karl Zeller, USDA Forest Service, Ft. Collins, CO; and N. Nikolov, J. Snook, M. A. Finney, J. McGinley, and J. M. Forthofer

http://www.fs.fed.us/rmc/

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

12:15 PM

J2.6

Predicting surface winds in complex terrain for use in fire growth models

Jason M. Forthofer, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler, K. S. Shannon, M. A. Finney, L. S. Bradshaw, and R. Stratton

Poster PDF (881.6 kB)

12:30 PM

J2.7

Impact of released fuel moisture on atmospheric dynamics

Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI

Poster PDF (74.2 kB)

12:45 PM

J2.8

Analysis of space/time characteristics of errors in an integrated weather/fire spread simulation

Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and P. E. Dennison, F. M. Fujioka, D. R. Weise, and J. W. Benoit

http://

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

1:00 PM

J2.9

Infrared imagery applied for insights into wildland fire dynamics

Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO

http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/fire/fhtml/ff_home.html

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

1:15 PM

J2.10

Mobile Radar Observations of the Big Elk (2002) and Roberts (2003) Fires

Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO; and S. Weygandt

Poster PDF (958.0 kB)

1:30 PM

J2.4a

Lunch Break

3:00 PM

J2.10a

Coffee Break

2F

Social and Economic Aspects of Fire Management: Part I (TRACK VI)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Armando Gonzalez-Caban, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

2:00 PM

2F.1

Tourist knowledge, attitudes and reactions to fire situations in Florida

Brijesh Thapa, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and S. Holland and J. Absher

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

2F.2

Situational influences of acceptable wildland fire management actions

Katie C. Kneeshaw, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and J. J. Vaske, A. D. Bright, and J. D. Absher

Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

2F.3

What�s it look like? Public preference for fuels treatments after seeing on-the-ground fire and fire surrogate study treatments

Sarah M. McCaffrey, USDA Forest Service, Evanston, IL; and S. Stephens

Recorded presentation

3:30 PM

2F.4

Developing a model for impacts of fire on local and regional economies

Karen Lee Abt, US Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. P. Prestemon and T. P. Holmes

4:00 PM

2F.5

The Market Economics of Mechanical Fuel Treatments

Karen L. Abt, USDA Forest Service, Resarch Triangle Park, NC; and J. P. Prestemon, P. Ince, J. Barbour, R. Fight, and R. Rummer

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

2F.6

Economic value of improved deer hunting resulting from prescribed burning in southern California

Armando Gonzalez-Caban, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and J. B. Loomis, D. Griffin, E. Wu, D. McCollum, J. McKeever, and D. Freeman

http://C:\Documents and Settings\agc\My Documents\Presentaciones\Big Game Habitat Fire 2003 Orlando-FL.ppt

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (747.2 kB)

5:00 PM

2F.2a

Coffee Break

1

Mesoscale Meteorology I

Sponsor: 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair: Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

1.1

Comparison of Local Wind and Stability Fields with Synoptic-Scale Observations and Forecast Products at Fort Ord, California

3:45 PM

1.2

Utilizing a biophysical model of ecosystem-atmosphere exchange to improve fire danger assessment and mesoscale meteorological forecasts

N. Nikolov, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO; and K. F. Zeller

http://www.fs.fed.us/rmc/

Poster PDF (591.5 kB)

4:00 PM

1.3

A Model based Analysis of the Role of an Upper-level Front and Stratospheric Intrusion in the Mack Lake Fire

Tarisa K. Zimet, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. E. Martin

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

4:15 PM

1.4

Forecasting dry lightning in the western United States

Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. A. Ferguson and S. McKay

Poster PDF (110.3 kB)

4:30 PM

1.5

Low Level Jet Impacts on Fire Evolution in the Mack Lake and Other Severe Wildfires

Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and X. Bian, B. E. Potter, and W. E. Heilman

Poster PDF (91.5 kB)

4:45 PM

1.6

High Resolution Simulations of the Island-Induced Circulations for the Island of Hawaii during HaRP

Yang Yang, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and Y. L. Chen

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/MET/Faculty/mm5

Poster PDF (706.1 kB)

5:00 PM

1.7

A case study of sea-breeze convergence and lightning-initiated fire in Tampa Bay

Arlene G. Laing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and C. H. Paxton

http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~alaing/fire/5thfire2003_laing_1_7.pdf

Poster PDF (826.1 kB)

2D

Fire Regime Condition Class (Special Session) (TRACK IV)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: James Menakis, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

3:30 PM

2D.1

Fire Regime Condition Class: Scales and definitions

James Menakis, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and W. Hann, M. Miller, and D. Bunnell

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

2D.2

Implications for fire and fuels management

David Bunnell, USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

2D.3

Biodiversity and resource applications: Application of the fire regime condition class process to collaborative multi-scale land management planning in the Boston Mountains, Arkansas

Ayn J. Shlisky, The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, CO; and D. Zollner, J. Andre, and S. Simon

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (153.9 kB)

4:15 PM

2D.4

Applications in fire and fuels planning

Tim Sexton, National Park Service, Boise, ID

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

2D.5

Methods, dilemmas, and solutions

Wendel Hann, USDA Forest Service, Silver City, NM

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

2D.5a

Discussion

Joint Session 3E

Combustion Modeling: Part 1 (TRACK V)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

Chair: Barbara Bonefeld, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

3:30 PM

J3E.1

Core Fire Science Caucus

David V. Sandberg, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR; and C. C. Hardy, D. R. Weise, R. Rehm, and R. R. Linn

Poster PDF (119.7 kB)

4:00 PM

J3E.2

A new set of standard fuel models for use with Rothermel's spread model

Joe H. Scott, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and R. Burgan

4:30 PM

J3E.3

NEXUS 2.0: not just a spreadsheet anymore

Joe Scott, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT

5:00 PM

J3E.4

�Rabbit Rules��an application of Stephen Wolfram�s �new kind of science� to fire spread modeling

Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (672.7 kB)

Poster Session 1

Assessing and Predicting Climate Impacts on Landscapes II

Sponsor: 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice

Papers:

P1.1

Global Climate Model (GCM) projections of future mid-tropospheric flow and the relationship to future Canadian forest fire regimes

Walter R. Skinner, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada

P1.2

Using Climatic Anomalies to Forecast Wildfires in Pennsylvania

Barry C. Lambert, NOAA/NWS, State College, PA; and R. H. Grumm

Poster PDF (620.7 kB)

P1.3

Using a regional climate model to diagnose climatological and meteorological controls of wildfire in the western United States

Steve W. Hostetler, U.S. Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR; and P. J. Bartlein, J. O. Holman, A. M. Solomon, and S. L. Shafer

http://geography.uoregon.edu/fireclim/

Poster PDF (2.5 MB)

P1.4

Cross-project synergy in developing decision support tools for wildland fire management

Barbara Morehouse, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and T. J. Brown, G. Christopherson, M. Crimmins, G. G. Garfin, B. Orr, J. Overpeck, T. Swetnam, and S. Yool

Poster PDF (18.3 kB)

P1.5

The weather of large fires in the Canadian boreal forest

Brian D. Amiro, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and K. A. Logan, B. M. Wotton, M. D. Flannigan, J. B. Todd, B. J. Stocks, and D. L. Martell

Poster PDF (372.2 kB)

P1.6

Post-wildfire flash flooding: An analysis of Colorado wildfires and the North American monsoon from 1995�2002

S. Jeffrey Underwood, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL; and T. A. Thomas

Poster PDF (295.9 kB)

P1.7

Probabilistic Forecasts of Fire Occurrence

Haiganoush K. Preisler, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and J. W. Benoit, F. M. Fujioka, D. R. Brillinger, and R. E. Burgan

Poster Session 2

Fire and Atmosphere Interactions II

Sponsor: 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice

Papers:

P2.1

Numerical simulation of buoyant plumes from annular heat sources in a crossflow

Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and P. Cunningham, M. Y. Hussaini, C. Xia, and R. R. Linn

P2.2

Non-local chemistry implementation in HIGRAD/FIRETEC

Jonah J. Colman, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. R. Linn

Poster PDF (345.8 kB)

P2.3

MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF LARGE FOREST FIRE INITIATION

Valeri A. Perminov, Belovo Branch of Kemerovo State Univ., Belovo, Kemerovo, Russia

Poster PDF (102.0 kB)

Poster Session 3

Fire and Drought Indexes II

Sponsor: 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice

Papers:

P3.1

A risk index for mediterranean vegetation based on micrometeorological and ecophysiological measurements

Donatella Spano, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and T. Georgiadis, P. Duce, F. Rossi, A. Delitala, C. Dessy, and G. Bianco

Poster PDF (315.6 kB)

P3.2

Using surface renewal analysis to develop a fire risk index

Richard L. Snyder, University of California, Davis, CA; and D. Spano, D. Baldocchi, P. Duce, L. Xu, and K. T. Paw U

Poster PDF (426.5 kB)

P3.3

Enhancement of the National Fire Danger Rating System for the New Jersey Pine Barrens

Kenneth L. Clark, USDA Forest Service, New Lisbon, NJ; and J. L. Hom, W. Heilman, and J. Charney

Poster Session 4

Predictive Services and Operational Forecasting II

Sponsor: 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice

Papers:

P4.1

FX-Net, New Operational Technology for the Incident Meteorologist

Robert P. Nester, NOAA/NWS, Missoula, MT; and L. Vanbussem

P4.2

Improving Prescribed Burn Planning with NWS Digital Forecast Database Tools

Michael P. Murphy, NOAA/NWS, Rapid City, SD

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ifps/firewx.php?site=unr

Poster PDF (246.7 kB)

P4.3

Use of asynoptic upper-air data to improve fire weather forecasts at wildland fires

P4.4

Future of All-Risk Incident Meteorology

Margaret A. Querciagrossa-Sand, Northtree Fire International, Monterey, CA; and J. Stutler, S. Goldwater, and G. Bennett

Poster PDF (256.6 kB)

Poster Session 5

Mesoscale Meteorology III

Sponsor: 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice

Papers:

P5.1

Assessing the value of increased model resolution in forecasting fire danger

Jeanne Hoadley, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. Rorig, K. Westrick, L. Bradshaw, S. A. Ferguson, S. L. Goodrick, and P. Werth

http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/mm5case

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

P5.2

Evaluating fire-weather parameters predicted by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model

William Y. Y. Cheng, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh

P5.3

The Role of a Stratospheric Intrusion in the Evolution of the Double Trouble State Park Wildfire

Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and X. Bian, B. E. Potter, and W. E. Heilman

Poster PDF (437.9 kB)

P5.4

Application of the BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework to the Rex Creek Wildfire

Candace M. Berg, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. M. O'Neill, S. A. Ferguson, and J. W. Adkins

Poster PDF (784.0 kB)

Oral Sessions end for the day

Poster Session 2

Fire Effects

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Papers:

P2.1

Carabid community after prescribed burning in mediterranean regions

Luisa Ferreira Nunes, Escola Superior Agraria Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal

P2.2

Effects of fire and soil conditions on germination and seedling success of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) in northern Arizona forests

Barbara Satink Wolfson, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and T. E. Kolb, C. Hull Sieg, and K. M. Clancy

Poster PDF (41.2 kB)

P2.3

The relationship of stand structure in burned and unburned areas to dogwood (Cornus florida L.) survival in Great Smoky Mountain National Park

Eric J. Holzmueller, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and S. Jose and M. A. Jenkins

P2.4

Fire temperatures and effects on alien and native annual plants in the Mojave Desert

Matthew L. Brooks, USGS, Henderson, NV; and M. Trader

P2.5

Reduction of lichen habitat by wildland fire on the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

A. Morton, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK; and L. B. Saperstein

P2.6

The Phenology and Natural Regeneration of Two Native Pine Species in Subtropical Forest Burned Areas of Central Taiwan

Li-Ming Liang, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan; and M. Y. Chen

P2.7

True Mountain Mahogany Sprouting Behavior Following Fire

Li-Ming Liang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. N. Omi

http://

P2.8

Short-term responses in aspen regeneration for wildlife habitat in interior Alaska

Thomas F. Paragi, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK; and D. A. Haggstrom

P2.9

Delayed mortality: saguaro cacti are still dying 10 years after wildfire!

Marcia G. Narog, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and R. C. Wilson

http://

Poster PDF (190.0 kB)

P2.10

Surface Fires and Stem Mortality: Physical Connections

Anthony S. Bova, USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH; and M. B. Dickinson

P2.11

Long-term response of two exotic plant species following a wildfire in the Black Hills, South Dakota

Noah Barstatis, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ; and C. H. Sieg

P2.12

Fire severity classification: uses and abuses

Theresa B. Jain, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, Idaho, ID; and R. T. Graham

P2.13

The role of fire in tree mortality and regeneration in yellow pine (Pinus pungens, P. rigida, and P. virginiana) communities of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: preliminary results

Virginia L. McDaniel, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, TN; and N. L. Benzing

P2.14

The role of fire in maintaining Quercus montana and Q. marilandica communities at Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina

Virginia L. McDaniel, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, TN; and N. L. Benzing

P2.15

Seasonal changes in soil water repellency following wildfire in chaparral steeplands, southern California

Ken R. Hubbert, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and V. Oriol

http://https://createpdf.adobe.com/cgi-pickup.pl?LOC=en_US&CDS=3F667BA0-5619-10F726&LID=MUDSTUDS

Poster PDF (191.2 kB)

P2.16

Using a "fire cage" to test the response of Arabis johnstonii to fire

Jan L. Beyers, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and M. G. Narog, C. Sclafani, and C. Escobar

Poster PDF (216.6 kB)

P2.17

Pine regeneration following prescribed and wild fires: the role of seed dispersal by animals

Jennifer Briggs, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and S. B. Vander Wall

Poster Session 3

Fire and Landscapes

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Papers:

P3.1

Testing fire history methods: addressing sampling uncertainty

Megan L. Van Horne, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and P. Z. Ful�

P3.2

Stand structure after six years: effects of fire exclusion and prescribed fire on ridgetop forest composition and structure

Beth A. Blankenship, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and M. A. Arthur

P3.3

Community analysis of fire maintained pitcher plant bogs in the Little River Canyon National Preserve, Alabama, USA

Robert Carter, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL; and A. Londo

Poster PDF (66.5 kB)

P3.4

Effects of prescribed fire on light and canopy structure in an Appalachian hardwood forest on the Cumberland Plateau, KY

Stephanie Green, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and M. A. Arthur and D. L. Loftis

P3.5

The historical role and contemporary uses of fire in southern Appalachian ecosystems

Katherine J. Elliott, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto, NC; and J. M. Vose, T. L. Gragson, N. Cooley, T. Alcoze, and S. Oran

P3.6

Dormant-Season Prescription Fires to Reduce Hazardous Fuel Loads on the South Carolina Coastal Plain: a 40+ year Study

Joseph J O'Brien, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and D. Wade

P3.7

Monitoring the Effects of Fire in South Florida Ecosystems: Half a Century of Data

Jeff H. Kitchens, Everglades National Park Fire Management, Homestead, FL; and G. Hernandez and D. Reiner

P3.8

Spatio-Temporal Influences on Fire Behavior and Landscape Pattern on the Methow Ranger District, Washington State

Kori E. Buford, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; and M. J. Medler

P3.9

The seasonal cycle of wildfire and climate in the western United States

Patrick J. Bartlein, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; and S. W. Hostetler, S. L. Shafer, J. O. Holman, and A. M. Solomon

http://geography.uoregon.edu/fireclim/

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

P3.10

The effects of prescribed fire on herbaceous species and midstory density at Gulf Islands National Seashore: A Preliminary Evaluation

Lisa Marino McInnis, National Park Service, Tupelo, MS; and A. Ruth

P3.11

Correlates of tree mortality resulting from re-introducing fire to long-unburned longleaf pine forests

J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, FL; and R. D. Ottmar, J. J. O'Brien, J. M. Varner III, F. E. Putz, D. Gordon, and S. Ferguson

Poster Session 4

Ecosystem Planning and Management

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Papers:

P4.1

Using the probability of burning to plan for wildland fire use

Carol Miller, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula, MT; and B. Davis and A. Black

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

P4.2

FLorida Risk Assessment System

W. Carter Stone, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and J. Brenner, S. McLellan, and J. Karels

P4.3

Florida Risk Assessment Levels of Concern

W. Carter Stone, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and S. McLellan

P4.4

Wildland Fire Risk Hazard Value Analysis

Mark Grup�, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA; and M. Beasley

P4.5

Southeast Fire Ecology Partnership

Caroline Noble, National Park Service, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL; and B. Davenport, D. Brownlie, P. Seamon, and R. E. Masters

Poster Session 5

Fire Behavior

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Papers:

P5.1

Techniques and sampling strategies for comparing fires of different intensities

D. Kennard, USDA Forest Service, Auburn, AL; and K. Outcalt, D. Jones, and B. Estes

P5.2

Using FOFEM 5.0 to estimate tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke production and soil heating from wildland fire

Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT

Poster PDF (202.6 kB)

P5.3

Ignition behavior of live California chaparral leaves

Steven G. Smith, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; and J. D. Engstrom, J. K. Butler, L. L. Baxter, T. H. Fletcher, and D. R. Weise

Poster PDF (305.9 kB)

P5.4

Use of FVS/FFE in the Duck Creek UT. fuel management demonstration area

Edward E. Mathews, USDA, Missoula, MT

P5.5

Experimental study on fire behavior of live chaparral fuels

Lulu Sun, University of California, Riverside, CA; and X. Zhou, S. Mahalingam, and D. R. Weise

Poster PDF (315.6 kB)

P5.6

Fuels and Fire Behavior Vary by Fuel-Reduction Treatment and Landscape Position

Thomas A. Waldrop, USDA Forest Service, Clemson, SC; and H. H. Mohr and S. Rideout

P5.7

Fuel Moisture Estimation Model for a Deciduous Secondary Forest in Japan�A Comparison of Parameters under the Different Canopy

Koji Tamai, Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and Y. Goto

Poster PDF (402.0 kB)

P5.8

Analysis of algorithms for predicting canopy fuel

Katharine L. Gray, Fire Science Lab, Missoula, MT; and E. Reinhardt

Poster PDF (454.4 kB)

P5.9

Evaluating alternative methods for measuring fire intensity

Eric S. Menges, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL; and A. L. Wally and C. W. Weekley

P5.10

Characterization of smoke produced in controlled caribbean pine fires

P5.11

BehavePlus fire modeling system, version 2: Overview

Patricia L. Andrews, USDA Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT; and C. D. Bevins

http://www.fire.org

Poster PDF (264.2 kB)

P5.12

Fire intensity in natural and manipulated fuels during spring buring in mixed shrub woodlands

Tim Bradley, National Park Service, Whiskeytown, CA; and J. Gibson and W. Bunn

P5.13

Modeling post-frontal combustion in the FARSITE fire area simulator

Mark A. Finney, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. C. Seli and P. L. Andrews

http://www.fire.org

Poster PDF (193.8 kB)

P5.14

The Fire Research And Management Exchange System (FRAMES) and National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII): working together to build a foundation in support of wildland fire information and technology transfer

Jennifer Gaines, USGS, Denver, CO; and G. Gollberg

P5.15

Development and use of a 'Rapid Assessment Plot' to monitor thinning and Wildland Fire Use

Kara J. Paintner, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, CA; and M. S. Buhler and D. Buckley

P5.16

Characterization of flame radiant heat fluxes in shrubland fires

Miguel G. Cruz, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler and D. X. Viegas

P5.17

The Susceptibility of Forested Stands to Extreme Fire Behavior; an analysis in the northwest United States

Paul Fieldhouse, Stevensville Ranger Station, Stevensville, MT; and J. Dickinson

Poster Session 6

Social/Economic/Political Aspects of Fire Management

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Papers:

P6.1

The Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information

L. Annie Hermansen, USDA Forest Service, Gainesville, FL

P6.2

Instructing tomorrow�s practitioners today: prescribed fire training in university natural resource programs

Mark Melvin, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, Newton, GA; and K. McIntyre, D. Brownlie, F. Cole, and M. Wimberly

Poster PDF (46.8 kB)

P6.3

The 'Role of Fire in Alaska' curriculum

Karen A. Murphy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK; and E. Long

Poster Session 7

GIS/Remote Sensing

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Papers:

P7.1

A Coupled Model Approach For Assessing Fire Hazard at Point Reyes National Seashore: FlamMap and GIS

Erin K. Noonan, USDA Forest Service, Nevada City, CA

Poster PDF (196.2 kB)

P7.2

Fuel Model Stratification in Glacier National Park using Satellite Imagery and ground based Inventories

Caroline Lansing Noble, National Park Service, Tallahassee, FL; and J. van Wagtendonk

P7.3

Recent validation studies of the GOES Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) in North and South America

Joleen M. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Moreau, E. M. Prins, K. McClaid-Cook, and I. F. Brown

Poster PDF (324.6 kB)

P7.4

Compilation and Applications of Landsat-Based Historical Fire Atlases: Two Examples

Stephen M. Howard, SAIC and USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and R. A. McKinley

P7.5

GOES Wildfire ABBA applications in the Western Hemisphere

Christopher C. Schmidt, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. M. Prins

Poster PDF (210.8 kB)

P7.6

Characterizing Post-fire Vegetation Conditions and Trends Using Imaging Spectroscopy

Susan Goodman, Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO; and R. Kokaly, A. G. McAdams, L. Morath, R. Root, B. Rockwell, and M. McGann

P7.7

Factors affecting vegetation cover mapping for Landfire

James Vogelmann, SAIC and USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and C. Huang, B. Tolk, and Z. Zhu

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

P7.8

The hazard mapping system (HMS)�a multiplatform remote sensing approach to fire and smoke detection

Mark G. Ruminski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Simko, J. Kibler, D. McNamara, and T. Kasheta

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/hms.html

P7.9

Burn Severity Assessment using Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio and Composite Burn Index

Mark Grup�, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA; and K. Paintner and M. Buhler

Formal Poster Viewing and Vendor Reception

Poster Session 1

Wildland Fire Management

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Papers:

P1.1

A preliminary stereo photo guide for estimating canopy bulk density in conifer stands

Joe Scott, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and E. D. Reinhardt and O. E. Helmy

P1.2

Characterizing fuel before and after prescribed fire in an Appalachian hardwood forest on the Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky

Elizabeth Loucks, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and M. A. Arthur

P1.3

Predicting effectiveness of Nevada greenstrip fuel breaks: issues of establishment success and scale

Crystal A. Kolden, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

P1.4

Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels in the Americas

Roger D. Ottmar, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and R. E. Vihnanek and C. S. Wright

Poster PDF (15.7 kB)

P1.5

Evaluating opportunities and risks of wildland fuels management

Anne E. Black, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula, MT; and C. Miller and P. Landres

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

P1.6

Developing management options for fuel reduction in pine flatwoods of the Southeast

Kenneth W. Outcalt, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and D. K. Kennard

P1.7

Prioritizing fuel management activities using watersheds and terrain units

Mo Mislivets, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and D. Long

Poster PDF (420.1 kB)

P1.8

Wildland Urban Interface Hazard Reduction in Interior Alaska�Challenges, Partnerships and Success

Mary Kwart, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tok, AK

P1.9

Analysis of fuel type and vegetation structure for fire risk index development

Grazia Pellizzaro, CNR, Sassari, Italy; and C. Cesaraccio, C. Asunis, and C. Caria

Poster PDF (242.0 kB)

P1.10

Monitoring mechanical fuel reduction projects in ponderosa pine forests of Devils Tower National Monument and Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Cody L. Wienk, National Park Service, Hot Springs, SD; and A. D. Thorstenson and K. E. Rehman

P1.11

Potential fuel complexes, fire behavior, and fire management implications resulting from the fires of 2000 on the Bitterroot National Forest, Montana (Formerly paper 2A.7)

Tonja S. Opperman, USDA Forest Service, Bitterroot National Forest, Hamilton, MT; and T. Kelley

P1.12

Adaptive Fire Management, Applied Fire Ecology, and Fire Monitoring on the National Wildlife Refuges in the Southwest U.S. Region 2

Mark Kaib, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Albuquerque, NM; and J. Whitney

P1.13

The use of silviculture and prescribed fire to manage multi-aged lodgepole pine forests and reduce fuel loadings at the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest, Montana

Helen Smith, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and C. C. Hardy and W. McCaughey

Tues 18 Nov

2

Predictive Services and Operational Forecasting

Sponsor: 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair: Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

2.1

Predictive Services: A New Tool for Proactive Wildland Fire Management

Richard Ochoa, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (310.2 kB)

8:15 AM

2.2

ROMAN�Realtime Observation Monitoring and Analysis Network

Edward Delgado, Eastern Great Basin Coordination Center, Salt Lake City, UT; and T. Mathewson and J. Horel

http://www.met.utah.edu/roman

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (533.3 kB)

8:30 AM

2.3

Further Applications of ROMAN to Fire Weather

John Horel, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Splitt, J. Pechmann, and B. Olsen

http://www.met.utah.edu/roman

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (706.8 kB)

8:45 AM

2.4

High resolution diagnostics and short term prognostics in support of fire weather forecast operations at NWS Melbourne, FL

Peter F. Blottman, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and J. C. Pendergrast, S. M. Spratt, and D. W. Sharp

Poster PDF (241.8 kB)

9:00 AM

2.5

FX-Net, An Expandable Fire Weather Workstation

Sher W. Schranz, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Madine

http://www.fsl.noaa.gov

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (35.3 kB)

9:15 AM

2.6

FARSITE Weather Streams from the NWS IFPS System

Chris Gibson, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. Gorski

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (755.8 kB)

9:30 AM

2.7

Using short range ensemble model data in national fire weather outlooks

Sarah J. Taylor, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and D. R. Bright, G. Carbin, P. Bothwell, and R. Naden

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/taylor/srefams.htm

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (212.6 kB)

9:45 AM

2.8

New methods for providing high-resolution weather information to wildfire managers

Daran L. Rife, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. T. Warner, Y. Liu, and J. Coen

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (669.5 kB)

10:00 AM

2.8a

Coffee Break

2A

FIRE AND FUELS MANAGEMENT: PART 2 (TRACK I)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Steve Miller, St. Johns River Water Management District

Papers:

8:00 AM

2A.1

Development and application of fire behavior and fire effects models for the Southern Utah Fuel Management Demonstration Project

Donald G. Long, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and K. C. Ryan, R. Stratton, E. Mathews, J. Scott, and M. Miller

Recorded presentation

8:30 AM

2A.2

Understory fuel load and community changes associated with varying pinyon-juniper dominance and elevation

Alicia L. Reiner, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and R. J. Tausch, T. Brown, and R. Walker

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

2A.3

A Century of Fire and Land Management in the Southern Sierra Nevada

Thomas P. Holmes, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; and A. Westerling

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

2A.4

Long-term surface fuel accumulation in burned and unburned mixed-conifer forests of the central and southern Sierra Nevada, CA (USA)

MaryBeth Keifer, National Park Service, Three Rivers, CA; and J. van Wagtendonk

Recorded presentation

10:00 AM

2A.5

Inventory and classification of wildland fire effects in silviculturally treated vs. untreated forest stands of New Mexico and Arizona

Douglas S. Cram, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; and T. T. Baker, J. Boren, and C. Edminster

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (181.3 kB)

10:30 AM

2A.6

Report on the use of thinning and prescribed fire to conrol fuels and wildfire threat in young Douglas-fir/Ponderosa Pine plantations

Robert W. Gray, R. W. Gray Consulting, Ltd., Chilliwack, BC, Canada

Poster PDF (179.7 kB)

11:00 AM

2A.7

Paper move to Poster Session 1, new paper number P1.11

11:30 AM

2A.4a

Coffee Break

2B

Fire Effects on Flora: Part 1 (TRACK II)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Sue Grace, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

2B.1

Stem Mortality in Surface Fires. Part I, Tissue Response to Elevated Temperatures

Matthew B. Dickinson, USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (427.1 kB)

8:30 AM

2B.2

Stem mortality in surface fires. Part II, Experimental methods for characterizing the thermal response of tree stems to heating by fires

D. M. Jimenez, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler and J. Reardon

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (151.1 kB)

9:00 AM

2B.3

Stem Mortality in Surface Fires. Part III, Linking Stem Heating with Tissue Response for Planning Prescribed Burns

Joshua L. Jones, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; and B. W. Webb

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (131.6 kB)

9:30 AM

2B.4

Fuel characteristics and fire behavior predictions in native and old-field pinelands in the Red Hills Region, southwest Georgia

Kevin M. Robertson, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL; and T. E. Ostertag

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (90.8 kB)

10:00 AM

2B.5

Long-Term Seasonal Burning at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, North Florida: Changes in the Sandhill Plots After 23 Years

Jeff S. Glitzenstein, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL; and D. Streng and W. Platt

10:30 AM

2B.6

Fine fuel characteristics: differences among grass species and significance for prescribe fire management in longleaf pine forests

Sharon M. Hermann, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

11:00 AM

2B.7

The effect of season of fire on the recovery of Florida scrub

Tammy E. Foster, Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and P. A. Schmalzer

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (185.2 kB)

11:30 AM

2B.8

Prescribed fire effects in the Ozarks of Missouri: the Chilton Creek project 1996�2001

George W. Hartman, Missouri Department of Conservation, Columbia, MO; and B. Heumann

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

12:00 PM

2B.9

Twenty Five Years of Vegetation Development since the Baxter Fire of 1977

Erin D. Small, University of Maine, Orono, ME; and J. S. Wilson and A. J. Kimball

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

12:30 PM

2B.10

Fire in wetland habitats: A 4-year evaluation in Maryland

Conception Flores, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USGS, Princess Anne, MD; and D. L. Birch

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (800.6 kB)

1:00 PM

2B.11

Vegetation responses to fire created edges in a Douglas-fir/hardwood forest

Jacob J. Hanson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. D. Stuart

1:30 PM

2B.12

Vegetation recovery in the Biscuit Fire, Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon

Diane E. White, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Medford, OR; and T. Atzet and P. A. Martinez

2B.13

Postfire changes in understory composition in singleaf pinyon-juniper and Jeffrey pine alliances in the San Bernardino Mountains, California

2:30 PM

2B.14

Fire Ecology of the Mountain Pine, Pinus harwegii

Dante Arturo Rodr�guez Trejo, Universidad Aut�noma Chapingo, Chapingo, Edo. de M�xico, Mexico

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

3:00 PM

2B.4a

Coffee Break

3:30 PM

2B.7a

Lunch Break

5:00 PM

2B.10a

Coffee Break

2C

Ecosystem Restoration: Part 2 (TRACK III)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Christie Neill, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

2C.1

Effects of fire intensity on vegetative composition in Piedmont loblolly-shortleaf pine communities: Preliminary results of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study

Sandra Rideout, USDA Forest Service, Clemson, SC; and R. J. Phillips and T. A. Waldrop

Recorded presentation

8:30 AM

2C.2

Plant Community Response to Prescribed Fire and Thinning in the Southeast Missouri Ozarks

Erin R. McMurry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and R. M. Muzika, E. F. Loewenstein, K. W. Grabner, and G. Hartman

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

2C.3

Monitoring fuel consumption and mortality from prescribed burning in old-growth ponderosa pine stands in eastern Oregon

Clinton S. Wright, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and N. L. Troyer and R. E. Vihnanek

Poster PDF (60.2 kB)

9:30 AM

2C.4

Management of the endemic Rio Bravo Pine Savanna ecosystem, Belize, Central America

Darrell Novelo, Programme for Belize, Belize

Recorded presentation

10:00 AM

2C.4a

Coffee Break

Joint Session 6E

Combustion Modeling: Part 2 (Track V)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

Chairs: Patricia L. Andrews, USDA Forest Service Research; Jolie Pollet, USDI Bureau of Land Management

Papers:

8:00 AM

J6E.1

Fire spread around a forest clearing site in the Brazilian Amazonia

Jo�o A. Carvalho Jr., Universidade Estadual Paulista, Guaratinguet�, Brazil; and C. A. G. Veras, E. C. Alvarado, D. V. Sandberg, E. R. Carvalho, R. Gielow, and J. C. Santos

Poster PDF (135.1 kB)

8:30 AM

J6E.2

The influence of weather on combustion limits in a longleaf pine forest

Casey Anderson, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. A. Ferguson, M. Rorig, K. Heirs, S. McKay, M. Moore, D. Olson, D. Wright, C. Wright, R. E. Vihnanek, and R. D. Ottmar

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (219.4 kB)

9:00 AM

J6E.3

Fire spread in chaparral��go or no-go?�

David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and X. Zhou, L. Sun, and S. Mahalingam

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (725.7 kB)

9:30 AM

J6E.4

Preliminary height to crown base models for Giant Sequoia Groves

Samantha J. Gill, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA

Poster PDF (67.1 kB)

10:00 AM

J6E.5

Modeling fire risk in post fuels treatment areas

James T. Hutton, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Whiskeytown, CA; and T. S. Bradley

Recorded presentation

10:30 AM

J6E.6

The peripheral reduction in burn probability around recent burns in the boreal forest

Marc-Andr� Parisien, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and V. G. Kafka, J. B. Todd, K. G. Hirsch, and S. Lavoie

Poster PDF (225.8 kB)

11:00 AM

J6E.7

Neighborhood-scale Fire Spread

Ronald Rehm, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and D. Evans, W. Mell, S. Hostikka, K. McGrattan, G. Forney, C. Bouldin, and E. Baker

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (967.4 kB)

11:30 AM

J6E.4a

Coffee Break

Joint Session 4G

GIS/REMOTE SENSING: PART 2 (TRACK VII)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

Chairs: Joe Frost, USDA Forest Service; Ken Bottle, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

J4G.1

A Multivariate Approach to Mapping Forest Vegetation and Fuels Using GIS Databases, Satellite Imagery, and Forest Inventory Plots

Michael C. Wimberly, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. L. Ohmann, K. B. Pierce Jr., M. J. Gregory, and J. S. Fried

Poster PDF (1007.7 kB)

8:30 AM

J4G.2

Preliminary evaluation of vegetation change on a large prescribed burn in Alaska

Thomas F Paragi, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK; and D. D. Smart, G. T. Worum, and D. A. Haggstrom

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (239.5 kB)

9:00 AM

J4G.3

k-NN Mapping of Fire Fuel Parameters Using Satellite Imagery and Field Data from Forest Inventory Plots

Michael D. Fleming, SAIC, Anchorage, AK; and Z. Zhu and M. Hoppus

9:30 AM

J4G.4

Mapping Crown Fuels Using Lidar

Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, USDA Forest Service, Nevada City, CA; and B. Peterson, P. Hyde, R. Dubaya, C. Hunsaker, W. Walker, and L. Pierce

Recorded presentation

10:00 AM

J4G.5

Florida Fire Management Information System

Bill Beers, URS Corporation, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Brenner and S. Esner

Recorded presentation

10:30 AM

J4G.6

How Enhancements in GIS Technology Can Address Challenges to Wildland Fire Management

Jeff Baranyi, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Broofield, CO; and F. Dahl and J. Young

11:00 AM

J4G.4a

Coffee Break

Joint Session 5D

Risk Assessment and Decision Support (TRACK IV)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

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

J5D.2

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

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J5D.3

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

Recorded presentation

10:00 AM

J5D.4

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

Recorded presentation

10:30 AM

J5D.5

Florida's Communities At Risk

Susan McLellan, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Brenner

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (102.4 kB)

11:00 AM

J5D.6

A Scaleable System for Wildland Fire Risk Assessment and Fuels Management

James L. Smith, Space Imaging, Jacksonville, FL; and J. Coen

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J5D.7

The Fire Research And Management Exchange System (FRAMES) Tools Project: accessing, comparing, and developing wildland fire tools

Greg Gollberg, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and P. Morgan

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

J5D.8

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

J5D.9

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

J5D.10

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

Recorded presentation

1:30 PM

J5D.11

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

Recorded presentation

J5D.12

A fire load index for comparative analysis

2:30 PM

J5D.13

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

J5D.14

Identifying forests in need of fuel reduction and fire restoration

Bo Wilmer, The Wilderness Society, Seattle, WA; and G. Aplet

Recorded presentation

3:30 PM

J5D.4a

Coffee Break

4:00 PM

J5D.7a

Lunch Break

5:30 PM

J5D.10a

COFFEE BREAK

6F

Cultural Use of Fire (Track VI)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Peter F. Moore, Metis Associates

Papers:

8:30 AM

6F.1

Landscape analysis of Aboriginal fire management in Central Arnhem Land, north Australia

David M. J. S. Bowman, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Northern Territo, Australia; and L. Prior and A. Walsh

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

6F.2

Introducing the Kakadu Landscape Change Project: A multidisciplinary assessment of 50 years of landscape change in the tropical savanna region of northern Australia

Aaron M. Petty, University of California, Davis, CA; and D. Banfai, L. D. Prior, C. Lehmann, and D. M. J. S. Bowman

Recorded presentation

6F.3

Fire and Southeastern Amerindian culture

10:00 AM

6F.4

Anthropogenic or Lightning: Ignition Source of Pre-Euro-American Fire Regimes in the Southern Sierra Nevada?

Anthony C. Caprio, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, CA

6F.5

Problems and Prospects of Restoring An Ethnographic Landscape in Redwood National and State Park

11:00 AM

6F.5a

Coffee Break

3

Atmospheric Stability and Fire Behavior

Sponsor: 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair: Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

10:30 AM

3.1

Dynamics of fire plumes in vertical shear

Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick, M. Y. Hussaini, R. R. Linn, and C. Xia

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

10:45 AM

3.2

Numerical simulations of fire behavior in the presence of vertical wind shear

Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. R. Linn and J. Reisner

Poster PDF (466.0 kB)

11:00 AM

3.3

Using a simple parcel model to investigate the Haines Index

Mary Ann Jenkins, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. K. Krueger and R. Sun

http://ftp://ftp.met.utah.edu/pub/mjenkins/5sym/

Poster PDF (293.8 kB)

11:15 AM

3.4

Combining the Haines Index and turbulent kinetic energy for fire-weather predictions

Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and X. Bian, J. J. Charney, and B. E. Potter

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (384.5 kB)

11:30 AM

3.5

Effects of Near-Surface Atmospheric Stability and Moisture on Wildfire Behavior and Consequences for Haines Index

Ruiyu Sun, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. A. Jenkins

http://www.met.utah.edu/skrueger/homepages/rsun/animation.html

Poster PDF (203.8 kB)

11:45 AM

3.6

Relationship between atmospheric stability and area burned during the 1998 Florida wildfires

Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (290.0 kB)

12:00 PM

3.6a

Lunch Break

3C

Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical Environments (Track III)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Sarah Otterstrom, University of California

Papers:

10:30 AM

3C.1

Fire Regimes in Tropical Environments: An Overview

Ronald Myers, The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

3C.2

Tropical Fire Regimes of the Past

Kenneth H. Orvis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; and S. P. Horn, H. D. Grissino-Mayer, L. M. Kennedy, B. L. League, and J. H. Speer

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

3C.3

Fire as a recurrent disturbance event in the tropics: Current fire-return intervals, the influence of fuel loads and precipitation

Narendran Kodandapani, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and S. Raman and M. A. Cochrane

12:00 PM

3C.4

Tradeoffs between timber management and fire vulnerability

Geoffrey Blate, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and F. Putz

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (544.5 kB)

12:30 PM

3C.5

New fire regimes as spatial agents of land cover change in tropical landscapes: Lessons from the Amazon for natural resource management, conservation and sustainable development

Mark Cochrane, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI

Recorded presentation

1:00 PM

3C.6

Fire Use in Rural Tropics: Cultural Perspectives from Mesoamerica

Sarah Otterstrom, University of California, Davis, CA

Recorded presentation

1:30 PM

3C.7

Fire in Cerrado and Pantanal�Ecology and Management

Paulo C. Mendes Ramos, Brazilian Environment Institute, Bras�lia, Brazil

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (134.2 kB)

3C.8

Causes and effects of wildfire in a West African tropical forest region

2:30 PM

3C.9

Fire regimes in SE Asia and shifting cultivation, What? Who? Where? Still? Who Else?

Peter F. Moore, Metis Associates, East Ryde, NSW, Australia

Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

3C.10

Engaging communities in fire fighting initiatives in the Southern Pantanal

Erika Guimar�es, Conservation International do Brasil, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

Recorded presentation

3:30 PM

3C.11

Integrating Fire Ecology, Fire Science and Fire Management to Maintain and Restore Appropriate Fire Regimes in the Tropics

Ronald Myers, The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

3C.3a

Lunch Break

5:30 PM

3C.6a

Coffee Break

6:00 PM

3C.11a

Discussion

4F

Fire Education and Training (TRACK VI)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

11:30 AM

4F.1

Wildfire Training for Volunteer Fire Departments

Julie E. Shiyou-Woodard, South Alabama Regional Planning Commission, Mobile, AL

http://

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

4F.2

TEFF: The ten essential factors in firefighting

Patrick Withen, University of Virginia, Wise, VA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (89.9 kB)

12:30 PM

4F.3

Sparking Awareness in the Next Generation: Successful Results of the "Fire in Florida's Ecosystems" Teacher Training Program

Susan Marynowski, Pandion Systems, Inc., Gainesville, FL; and C. B. Denny and J. D. Brenner

Recorded presentation

1:00 PM

4F.4

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

4F.5

Fire ecology hypertext: a tool for synthesizing and distributing knowledge

Cynthia T. Fowler, USDA, Athens, GA; and D. Kennard and H. M. Rauscher

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

4F.6

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

4F.7

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

4F.8

Living on the Edge in Florida CD-ROM

James Harrell, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL

3:30 PM

4F.1a

Lunch Break

5:00 PM

4F.4a

Coffee Break

Joint Session 8

Smoke Management and Air Quality

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

Chairs: Susan M. O'Neill, USDA Forest Service; N. K. Larkin, JISAO/Univ. of Washington

Papers:

1:30 PM

J8.1

Adaptive Grid Modeling for Predicting the Air Quality Impacts of Biomass Burning

Alper Unal, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. T. Odman

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

1:45 PM

J8.2

COMBINING WILDFIRE EMISSIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY SMOKE EMISSIONS MODEL (CSEM) WITH A REGIONAL-SCALE AIR QUALITY MODEL

Michael G. Barna, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. G. Fox

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (171.9 kB)

2:00 PM

J8.3

A natural fire experiment in central Russia: meteorology, radiative and optical properties of atmosphere and resulting effects on sub-boreal forest plants

Nataly Ye. Chubarova, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; and N. G. Prilepsky, A. R. Riebau, A. W. Shoettle, R. Musselman, N. N. Uliumdzhieva, A. Y. Yurova, B. E. Potter, A. N. Rublev, P. Y. Zhmylev, and E. A. Karpuhina

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (187.2 kB)

2:15 PM

J8.4

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Wildland Fire Emissions over the U.S

Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA

Poster PDF (374.7 kB)

2:30 PM

J8.5

Real time high resolution fire/smoke signature prediction model in coastal chaparral

Joe Rawitzer, Fire Spec Systems, Carmel, CA

2:45 PM

J8.6

Recent results from PB-Piedmont�a model to simulate smoke on the ground at night

Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (704.3 kB)

3:00 PM

J8.7

The BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework (www.BlueSkyRAINS.org)

Susan M. O'Neill, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. A. Ferguson, J. Peterson, and R. Wilson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (243.0 kB)

3:15 PM

J8.8

Assessing accuracy of the BlueSky smoke modeling framework during wildfire events

J. Westbrook Adkins, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. M. O'Neill, M. Rorig, S. A. Ferguson, C. M. Berg, and J. L. Hoadley

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (593.1 kB)

3:30 PM

J8.9

On the origins of �Superfog��a combination of smoke and water vapor that produces zero visibility over roadways

Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA

Poster PDF (269.5 kB)

3:45 PM

J8.10

Smoke measurements during experimental field fires

Ana Isabel Miranda, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and J. Ferreira, J. Valente, P. Santos, J. H. Amorim, and C. Borrego

Poster PDF (490.0 kB)

4:00 PM

J8.11

A comparison of real-time particulate monitors for smoke management

Suraj Ahuja, U.S. Forest Service, Willows, CA; and T. Proctor, P. Padgett, and B. Plymale

4:15 PM

J8.12

Biomass burning of eucalypt savannas and respiratory illness in the Australian monsoon tropics

David M. J. S. Bowman, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Northern Territo, Australia; and F. H. Johnston

http://

4:45 PM

J8.6a

Coffee Break

Joint Session 7G

Wildfire Burn Severity Mapping (Special Session) (TRACK VII)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

Chair: Randy A. McKinley, USGS and SAIC

Papers:

1:30 PM

J7G.1

Supporting the Mapping Needs of Burned Area Emergency Response Teams with Satellite Imagery

Randy A. McKinley, USGS and SAIC, Sioux Falls, SD; and K. Lannom and A. Parsons

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J7G.2

Evaluating Fire Impacts with Landsat Data: A Comparison of Two Methodologies

Stephen M. Howard, SAIC and USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and A. Orlemann and C. H. Key

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

J7G.3

Data acquisition timing for burned area remote sensing and relationships to measures of burn severity

Carl H. Key, USGS, West Glacier, MT; and N. Benson, D. Ohlen, S. Howard, and Z. Zhu

3:00 PM

J7G.4

Using the Composite Burn Index to field validation meso-scale burn severity assessment

Nathan C. Benson, National Park Service, Homestead, FL; and C. Key

J7G.5

Assessment of burn severity in northern Arizona using Landsat ETM+ imagery and ground data

4:00 PM

J7G.6

Assessing Landscape Patterns of Fire Severity and Fire Regimes using Burn Severity Mapping for the Sierra Nevada, CA

Andrea E. Thode, University of California, Davis and US Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest, McClellan, CA; and N. Sugihara, L. Levien, and J. F. Quinn

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

J7G.7

Assessing Impacts of Scaling on Burn Severity Mapping and Derived Fire Effects

Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

J7G.8

Burn Mapping of Wildland Fires within Different Ecosystems Using Field Verified Satellite Data

Donald Ohlen, SAIC and USGS/EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD; and C. Key, N. Benson, and Z. Zhu

5:30 PM

J7G.3a

Coffee Break

6A

Incentives for Mitigation and Firefighting

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Papers:

3:30 PM

6A.1

Incentives for Intergovernmental Wildfire Hazard Mitigation and Enhanced Local Firefighting (formerly paper 5F.1)

Bruce McDowell, National Academy of Public Administration, Washington, DC

Recorded presentation

Sessions end for the day

Wed 19 Nov

Joint Session 9

Assessing and Predicting Climate Impacts on Landscapes

Sponsors: (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress )

Chairs: Beth L. Hall, DRI; Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

J9.1

Contemporary climate changes in high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere cause an increasing potential forest fire danger

Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight, R. R. Heim Jr., V. N. Razuvaev, B. G. Sherstyukov, and N. A. Speranskaya

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (569.5 kB)

8:15 AM

J9.2

Forest Fires and Climate in Alaska and Sakha: Forest Fires Near Yakutsk

Hiroshi Hayasaka, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Poster PDF (926.9 kB)

8:30 AM

J9.3

The impacts of climate on prescribed fire

Crystal A. Kolden, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (170.2 kB)

8:45 AM

J9.4

The Southwest Monsoon and the relation to fire occurrence

Charlene R. Mohrle, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. L. Hall and T. J. Brown

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (804.2 kB)

9:00 AM

J9.5

Characterizing extreme dry-spell and forest fire events in the province of Ontario, Canada

Jennifer L. Beverly, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and D. L. Martell

Poster PDF (200.0 kB)

9:15 AM

J9.6

Wildfire-Climate Interactions Across Southeast Arizona

Michael A. Crimmins, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. C. Comrie

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (503.4 kB)

9:30 AM

J9.7

A fire scenario builder for coarse-scale modeling of current and future fire effects

Narasimhan Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and D. McKenzie and S. M. O'Neill

Poster PDF (31.2 kB)

9:45 AM

J9.8

Characteristic Composite Charts Associated With Peak Fire Season In Vermont

Eric C. Evenson, NOAA/NWS, South Burlington, VT

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

10:00 AM

J9.9

Fire Danger Forecasts

John Roads, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and S. Chen, F. M. Fujioka, and R. Burgan

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

10:15 AM

J9.10

Long lead statistical forecasts of wildland fire suppression costs

Anthony L. Westerling II, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and K. Gebert, G. Jones, K. Abt, J. Prestemon, and A. Gershunov

10:30 AM

J9.11

Verification of ECPC�s fire climate and fire danger Forecasts

Hauss J. Reinbold, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown, J. O. Roads, and B. L. Hall

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.4 MB)

10:45 AM

J9.12

The 2003 National Seasonal Assessment Workshop: A Proactive Approach to Preseason Fire Danger Assessment

Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and T. Wordell, T. J. Brown, R. Ochoa, and B. J. Moorehouse

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (519.1 kB)

11:00 AM

J9.7a

Discussion

11:15 AM

J9.12a

Discussion

11:30 AM

J9.7b

Coffee Break

12:00 PM

J9.12b

Lunch Break

3A

Fire Management Programs (TRACK I)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Geoorge Custer, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

3A.1

Prescribed Burning by the Florida Park Service

Rosi Mulholland, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Apopka, FL; and P. E. Small and B. Blihovde

Poster PDF (106.4 kB)

8:30 AM

3A.2

The Florida scrub-jay fire strike team

Mary R. Huffman, The Nature Conservancy, Babson Park, FL; and S. C. Morrison, A. R. Peterson, and B. Pace-Aldana

9:00 AM

3A.3

Fire management in the inter-galatic interface or thirty years of fire management at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

Frederic W. Adrian, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Titusville, FL

Poster PDF (66.1 kB)

9:30 AM

3A.4

Fire management at Archbold Biological Station: Burning to promote heterogeneity, conservation, research, and education

Jeffrey T. Hutchinson, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL; and E. S. Menges, R. L. Pickert, and H. M. Swain

Poster PDF (359.7 kB)

10:00 AM

3A.5

Wildland fire in the Black Hills

Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and M. P. Murphy

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (251.3 kB)

10:30 AM

3A.6

Developing the Resource Advisor position at Yosemite National Park

Jun Kinoshita, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA; and K. Paintner

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

3A.7

Partnering with the Broadcast Meteorologist: An Innovative Science Approach to Informing the Public about the Dangers of Wildland Fires

Dave Jones, StormCenter.Com, Ellicott City, MD

11:30 AM

3A.4a

Coffee Break

12:00 PM

3A.7a

Lunch Break

3B

Fire effects on Flora: PART 2 (TRACK II)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Sue Grace, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

3B.1

Managing grasslands for multiple objectives using prescribed fire

David Engle, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and S. D. Fuhlendorf, T. G. Bidwell, J. Weir, T. Tunnell, and R. Hamilton

Recorded presentation

8:30 AM

3B.2

The Effect of Fire Severity on Early Development of Understory vegetation Following a Stand Replacing Wildfire

G. Geoff Wang, Clemson University, Clemson, SC; and K. J. Kemball

Poster PDF (328.8 kB)

9:00 AM

3B.3

Spatial heterogeneity in fire temperature: causes and consequences for plant diversity

Monique E. Rocca, Duke University, Durham, NC; and D. L. Urban

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

3B.4

Fire effects assessment using FIA data in the northern and central Rocky Mountains

Theresa B. Jain, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, Idaho, ID; and R. Their and W. Michael

Recorded presentation

10:00 AM

3B.4a

Coffee Break

Joint Session 10D

Landfire (Special Session) (TRACK IV)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

Chair: Melanie Miller, USDI Bureau of Land Management

Papers:

8:00 AM

J10D.1

LANDFIRE: A nationally consistent and locally relevant interagency fire, fuels, and risk assesment

Matthew G. Rollins, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. E. Keane, Z. Zhu, J. Menakis, W. Hann, and A. Shlisky

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (224.7 kB)

8:30 AM

J10D.2

Developing the spatial programs and models needed for implementation of the LANDFIRE Project

Robert E. Keane, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and M. Rollins and R. Parsons

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (225.6 kB)

9:00 AM

J10D.3

Biophysical Settings -- linking landscape patterns to ecophysiological processes

Lisa Holsinger, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. Parsons, M. Rollins, E. Karau, and A. Keyser

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J10D.4

A Repeatable Consistent National vegetation Mapping strategy

Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and J. Vogelmann and C. Huang

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

10:00 AM

J10D.5

Preliminary Landfire vegetation products in the Wasatch Range-Uinta Mountain area of Utah

Chengquan Huang, USGS and SAIC, Sioux Falls, SD; and J. Vogelmann, B. Tolk, and Z. Zhu

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (357.0 kB)

10:30 AM

J10D.6

Predictive Mapping of Fire Regimes

Russell A. Parsons, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. E. Keane and M. G. Rollins

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

J10D.7

Potential Management Applications of the LANDFIRE Products

Donald Long, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and M. Rollins and W. Hann

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J10D.4a

Coffee Break

12:00 PM

J10D.7a

Lunch Break

4B

Invasive Plants and Fire (TRACK II)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Steve Sutherland, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

4B.1

Comparison of fuels in invaded and uninvaded forest stands in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic U.S

11:00 AM

4B.2

Effects of fuel treatments, post-fire rehabilitation treatments and wildfire on establishment of invasive species

Molly E. Hunter, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. N. Omi, E. J. Martinson, G. W. Chong, M. A. Kalkhan, and T. J. Stohlgren

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

4B.3

Fuels, fires, invasions and some effects of active management in the Eastern Rockies

Erik J. Martinson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and G. W. Chong, M. E. Hunter, M. A. Kalkhan, P. N. Omi, and T. J. Stohlgren

12:00 PM

4B.4

Wildfire and weeds in the northern Rockies

Steve Sutherland, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT

12:30 PM

4B.5

Using fire to manage invasive plants

Matthew L. Brooks, USGS, Henderson, NV; and C. M. D'Antonio and D. A. Pyke

Recorded presentation

1:00 PM

4B.3a

Lunch Break

Joint Session 11

Fire and Drought Indices

Sponsors: (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress )

Chairs: Richard Ochoa, Bureau of Land Management; Larry S. Bradshaw, U.S. Forest Service

Papers:

1:30 PM

J11.1

Development of a statistical validation methodology for fire weather indices

Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and S. L. Goodrick and T. J. Brown

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (24.4 kB)

1:45 PM

J11.2

Drought Indexes as Indicators of Fire Activity

Patricia L. Andrews, USDA Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J11.3

A comparison of precipitation and drought indices related to fire activity in the US

Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (272.5 kB)

2:15 PM

J11.4

Validating the Overwintering Effect on the Drought Code in Elk Island National Park

Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and S. Otway

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (171.7 kB)

2:30 PM

J11.5

Independent field verification of a next-generation model for dead fuel moisture

J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson Jr., and R. R. Bensch

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.6 MB)

2:45 PM

J11.6

A comparison of 3 models of 1-hr time lag fuel moisture in Hawaii

David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and F. M. Fujioka and R. M. Nelson Jr.

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

3:00 PM

J11.7

The Validity of the Keetch/Byram Drought Index in the Hawaiian Islands

Klaus P. Dolling, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and P. S. Chu and F. M. Fujioka

http://

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (318.0 kB)

3:15 PM

J11.8

A Climatological Study of the Keetch/Byram Drought Index in the Hawaiian Islands

Pao-Shin Chu, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and K. P. Dolling and F. M. Fujioka

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

3:30 PM

J11.9

Exhausting relative greenness: Inaccurate Fire Potential Index for Florida?

Carter Stone, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick and D. E. Hanley

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (633.1 kB)

3:45 PM

J11.10

National standardized energy release component (ERC) forecasts

Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown, L. S. Bradshaw, W. M. Jolly, and R. Nemani

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (244.1 kB)

4:00 PM

J11.6a

Coffee Break

4A

Managing Fire in the Wildland/Urban Interface (TRACK I)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Doug Voltolina, Florida Division of Forestry

Papers:

1:30 PM

4A.1

Characteristics and location of the wildland-urban interface in the United States

Susan I. Stewart, USDA Forest Service, Evanston, IL; and V. C. Radeloff and R. B. Hammer

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (426.2 kB)

2:00 PM

4A.2

Common Factors Affecting the Social Acceptance of Fuel Management Techniques

Greg Winter, Paul Schissler Associates, Bellingham, WA; and C. Vogt and J. Fried

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

4A.3

Creating defensible space in the urban-wildland interface: a comparison of perceptions of seasonal and full�time residents

Alan D. Bright, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. T. Burtz

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (45.4 kB)

3:00 PM

4A.4

Managing fire in the urban interface of interior Alaska

Dale A. Haggstrom, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

3:30 PM

4A.5

Islands of fire: meeting the wildland urban interface challenge in the Florida Keys

Chris Bergh, The Nature Conservancy, Summerland Key, FL

Recorded presentation

4A.6

Fuel management through crushing and burning

4:30 PM

4A.7

Fire Gels- breakthrough technology for structure protection in the WUI

John B. Bartlett, Barricade International, Inc., Hobe Sound, FL

5:00 PM

4A.3a

Coffee Break

4C

Fire History/Fire Regimes: PART 1 (TRACK III)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Ellis Margolis, University of Arizona

Papers:

1:30 PM

4C.1

Holocene fire reconstructions from the northwestern U.S.: an examination at multiple time scales

Cathy Whitlock, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; and P. J. Bartlein, J. Marlon, A. Brunelle, and C. J. Long

http://http:\\geography.uoregon.edu\envchange

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (594.1 kB)

2:00 PM

4C.2

Mean Fire Return Intervals as Indicators of Change in Boreal Siberia

Amber J. Soja, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse Jr. and H. H. Shugart

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

2:30 PM

4C.3

Climatic influences on fire regimes in the Lake Tahoe Basin

Alan H. Taylor, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and M. Beaty

Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

4C.4

Reconstructing spatiotemporal patterns in fire regimes from fire-scar and tree-origin data in southwestern ponderosa pine forests

Peter M. Brown, Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research, Ft. Collins, CO; and R. Wu

Recorded presentation

3:30 PM

4C.5

A comparison of fire regime characteristics reconstructed from fire scar data and mapped fires in a frequently burned Arizona wilderness

Calvin A. Farris, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. H. Baisan and T. W. Swetnam

4:00 PM

4C.6

Fire effects on forest spatial patterns in the Arizona sky islands

Mary C. Henry, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

4C.7

Fire history and need for fuel management in mixed Douglas fir forests of the Klamath-Siskiyou region, northwest California and southwest Oregon, USA

Jay C. Lininger, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

Poster PDF (662.3 kB)

5:00 PM

4C.3a

Coffee Break

1E

Fire Behavior Applications (TRACK V)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chairs: Charles W. McHugh, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Robert C. Seli, USDA Forest Service Research

Papers:

1:30 PM

1E.1

Flammability of native understory species within pine flatwood and hardwood hammock ecosystems

Anna L. Behm, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and M. L. Duryea, A. J. Long, W. C. Zipperer, and C. K. Randall

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

1E.2

Landscape fragmentation and fire vulnerability in primary forest adjacent to recent land clearings in the Amazon arc of deforestation

Ernesto C. Alvarado, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. V. Sandberg, J. Andrade de Carvalho Jr., R. Gielow, and J. C. Santos

Poster PDF (840.6 kB)

2:30 PM

1E.3

Measuring the Effectiveness of Fuel Treatments in Changing Fire Behavior and Effects During Wildfires

Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, USDA Forest Service, Nevada City, CA; and D. Sapsis, S. Husari, L. Hood, B. Bahro, C. Neill, D. C. Lee, and B. Butler

Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

1E.4

Seasonal changes in selected combustion characteristics of ornamental vegetation

David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and R. H. White, S. Frommer, F. C. Beall, and M. Etlinger

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (905.5 kB)

3:30 PM

1E.5

Probability of Spotfires During Prescribed Burns

John R. Weir, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

1E.6

Fire Modeling and Weather Analysis on the White Mountain National Forest

Rick D. Stratton, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and T. Brady

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

1E.7

Fire behavior and fire seasonality in the Washington Cascades

Michael Medler, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; and K. E. Buford

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

1E.3a

Coffee Break

1G

NASA's Application Program: Remote Sensing Input to Decision Support Systems for Fire Prediction and Management

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Bruce Davis, NASA

Papers:

1:30 PM

1G.1

WASP� A high performance multi-spectral airborne imager for wildland fire detection and monitoring

Donald McKeown, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and J. Cockburn, J. Faulring, R. Kremens, D. Morse, H. Rhody, and M. Richardson

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

1G.2

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles�New Frontiers

Steve Wegener, NASA/AMes Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

2:30 PM

1G.3

Use of NASA Earth Observing System Data to Monitor Active Fires and to Develop SensorWeb Decision Support Systems

Robert A. Sohlberg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

3:00 PM

1G.4

The Use of Remote Sensing Technologies to Support Fire Suppression and Rehabilitation

Thomas J. Bobbe, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT

3:30 PM

1G.3A

Coffee Break

4:00 PM

1G.4A

Discussion

5B

Fire effects on wildlife (TRACK III)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: R. Todd Engstrom, The Nature's Conservancy

Papers:

2:30 PM

5B.1

Effects of fire on the biota of high-elevation lakes in the Oregon Cascade Range

Robert E. Gresswell, USGS, Corvallis, OR; and G. L. Larson, E. A. Deimling, C. D. McIntire, R. L. Hoffman, and W. J. Liss

Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

5B.2

Wildfire in the southwstern USA: effects on fishes

John N. Rinne, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (31.5 kB)

3:30 PM

5B.3

Landscape analysis of moose distribution relative to fire history in Interior Alaska

J. A. Maier, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Ver Hoef, A. D. McGuire, R. T. Bowyer, L. B. Saperstein, and H. Maier

4:00 PM

5B.4

Wildfire effects on bird abundance in a mixed-severity fire regime: Treating fire severity as a continuous variable

Nathaniel E. Seavy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and J. D. Alexander, C. J. Ralph, S. Janes, and S. Norman

4:30 PM

5B.5

Response of mixed Douglas-fir / Tanoak forests to different fire intensity/severity levels: implications for terrestrial salamanders and their habitats

Donald J. Major, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and T. C. Edwards

5:00 PM

5B.1a

Coffee Break

4

Mesoscale Meteorology II

Sponsor: 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair: Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

4:30 PM

4.1

Validations of the NCEP MSM Coupled with the NOAH LSM over the Hawaiian Islands

Yi-Leng Chen, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. X. Zhang, S. Y. Hong, K. Kodama, and H. M. H. Juang

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/MET/Faculty/rsm

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (719.4 kB)

4:45 PM

4.2

An initial analysis of relationships between 2- and 10-minute averaged winds at 10, 6, and 1.8 meters: implications for fire behavior and danger applications

Larry S. Bradshaw, U.S. Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and E. Petrescu and I. Grenfell

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (471.6 kB)

4.3

Fire weather network analysis for British Columbia

5:15 PM

4.4

Lightning detection for Forestry use in Florida

Deborah E. Hanley, AWS Truepower, LLC, Albany, NY

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (547.0 kB)

Sessions end for the day

Symposium and Congress Banquet

Lecturer: Henry Lewis, University of Alberta

Thurs 20 Nov

Joint Session 12

Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke

Sponsors: (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress )

Chair: Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

J12.1

Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke�FCAMMS: A National Paradigm for Wildland Fire and Smoke Management

Allen R. Riebau, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC; and D. G. Fox

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

8:30 AM

J12.2

A consortium for comprehensive mesoscale weather analysis and forecasting to monitor fire threat and support fire management operations

Karl Zeller, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO; and J. McGinley, N. Nikolov, P. Schultz, B. Shaw, S. Albers, and J. Snook

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (256.8 kB)

8:45 AM

J12.3

Real-Time Mesoscale Model Forecasts for Fire and Smoke Management: 2003

Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice, Seattle, WA

Poster PDF (672.2 kB)

9:00 AM

J12.4

The California and Nevada Smoke and Air Committee (CANSAC)�An interagency partnership to meet decision-making needs

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV; and F. M. Fujioka and C. Fontana

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

9:15 AM

J12.5

The Southern High-Resolution Modeling Consortium�a source for research and operational collaboration

Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and S. L. Goodrick and Y. Liu

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (608.5 kB)

9:30 AM

J12.6

National Fire Plan�Eastern Area Modeling Consortium: Research, product development, and partnerships

Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and B. E. Potter, J. J. Charney, and X. Bian

Poster PDF (328.4 kB)

9:45 AM

J12.6a

Discussion

10:00 AM

J12.6b

Coffee Break

5A

Wildland Fire Use (Special Session) (Track I)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chairs: G. Thomas Zimmerman, USDA Forest Service; Wayne Cook, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

5A.1

Wildland Fire Use�Evolution of a Program of Managing Wildland Fires for Resource Benefits

G. Thomas Zimmerman, USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM; and R. Lasko

9:00 AM

5A.2

Historical Wildland Fire Use: Ponderosa pine forest structure after a 25-year experiment in restoring fire regimes in southwestern landscapes

Zack Holden, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and P. Morgan and M. Rollins

9:30 AM

5A.3

Economic and Political Dimensions of Wildland Fire Use

Lisa A. Dale, The Wilderness Society, Denver, CO

10:00 AM

5A.4

Fire Use Management Teams�Meeting Organizational Needs of Managing Long-Duration Wildland Fires

Wayne Cook, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and G. T. Zimmerman

10:30 AM

5A.5

Guidelines for Planning and Implementing Wildland Fire Use�Update of the Wildland and Prescribed Fire Management Policy Implementation Procedures Reference Guide

G. Thomas Zimmerman, USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM

11:30 AM

5A.6

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, A Nontraditional Approach to Fire Management

Fred Wetzel, Okefenokee NWR, Folkston, GA

http://

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

5A.7

Wildland Fire Use Gila National Forest, NM 2003�The Future is now

Paul F. Boucher, Gila National Forest, Silver City, NM

Recorded presentation

12:30 PM

5A.3a

Coffee Break

1:00 PM

5A.5a

Lunch Break

6B

Fire Effects on Insects and Disease (TRACK II)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Sharon M. Hood, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

6B.1

Are root infecting fungi indicators of ecosystem stress following prescribed fire?

William J. Otrosina, USDA, Athens, GA; and S. S. Sung, B. T. Sullivan, S. J. Zarnoch, and C. H. Walkinshaw

Recorded presentation

8:30 AM

6B.2

Association of wildfire with long-term tree health and numbers of pine bark beetles and their associates in Florida

James Hanula, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens, GA; and J. Meeker, D. Miller, and E. Barnard

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

6B.3

Douglas-fir beetle attack and tree mortality following wildfire

Sharon M. Hood, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and B. Bentz and K. C. Ryan

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (242.2 kB)

5C

FIRE HISTORY/FIRE REGIMES: Part 2 (Track III)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Rosalind Wu, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

5C.1

Anthropogenic fuel alteration and changes in spatial fire behavior in a southeastern pyrogenic ecosystem

Brean W. Duncan, Dynamac Corp., Kennedy Space Center, FL; and P. A. Schmalzer

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

8:30 AM

5C.2

Reexamining the role of lightning in the landscape of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Dana Cohen, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, TN; and B. Dellinger

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

5C.3

Human influence on fire disturbance in northern Wisconsin

Brian R. Sturtevant, USDA Forest Service, Rhinelander, WI; and D. T. Cleland

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (302.7 kB)

9:30 AM

5C.4

Fire and spruce bark beetle disturbance regimes on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Edward E. Berg, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Soldotna, AK; and R. S. Anderson and A. D. De Volder

Recorded presentation

10:00 AM

5C.5

Fire history of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Shasta County, California

Scott L. Stephens, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and D. L. Fry

Recorded presentation

10:30 AM

5C.6

Fire history of mixed conifer forests in Yosemite National Park

Andrew E. Scholl, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and A. H. Taylor

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

5C.7

Fire history and stand scale dynamics of mixed conifer forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin

Matthew Beaty, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and A. H. Taylor

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

5C.8

Fire history of Lava Cast Forest, Central Oregon

Karen B. Arabas, Willamette University, Salem, OR; and E. R. Larson and K. S. Hadley

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

5C.9

Spatial distribution of the potential effects of wildfires under the intermediate disturbance hypothesis in a Mexican forest ecosystem

J. German Flores G., Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agricolas y Pecuarias, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (902.5 kB)

12:30 PM

5C.4a

Coffee Break

1:00 PM

5C.7a

Lunch Break

3D

Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration (Track IV)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Russell T. Graham, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

8:00 AM

3D.1

Fuels planning: Science synthesis and integration. An interagency research/management partnership to support the Ten-Year Fire Plan in the Dry Forests of the Interior West

Russell T. Graham, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID; and S. M. McCaffrey

Recorded presentation

8:30 AM

3D.2

Social Concerns Related to Wildfire Fuels Treatments

Pamela Jakes, USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, St. Paul, MN; and S. C. Barro

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

3D.3

Environmental Consequences

Elaine Kennedy Sutherland, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and A. Black, W. Elliot, M. Miller, D. Neary, D. Pilliod, P. Robichaud, and S. Sutherland

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

3D.4

Paying for fuel treatments: Fire Science Synthesis - Economic and Utilization Team

R. James Barbour, USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR; and R. Fight

Recorded presentation

10:00 AM

3D.5

Fuels planning: managing forest structure to reduce fire hazard

David L. Peterson, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. C. Johnson, J. K. Agee, T. B. Jain, D. McKenzie, and E. D. Reinhardt

Poster PDF (450.0 kB)

10:30 AM

3D.4a

Coffee Break

5F

Social and Economic Aspects of Fire Management: Part 2 (TRACK VI)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Papers:

8:00 AM

5F.1

Paper has been moved to session 6A (Track 1), new paper number 6A.1

7B

Fire Effects Monitoring (TRACK II)

Sponsor: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Chair: Duncan C. Lutes, Systems for Environmental Management

Papers:

9:30 AM

7B.1

FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System

Duncan C. Lutes, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and R. E. Keane, J. F. Caratti, C. H. Key, N. C. Benson, S. Sutherland, and L. J. Gangi

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (267.7 kB)

10:00 AM

7B.2

Fire Ecology Assessment Tool�Monitoring Wildland Fire And Prescribed Fire for Adaptive Management

Timothy Ogden Sexton, National Park Service, Boise, ID

Recorded presentation

10:30 AM

7B.3

Comparing scale and assessment methodologies in fuels management

Maria C. Moreno, University of North Texas, Denton, TX; and D. Barry

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

7B.4

A review of error associated with thermocouple temperature measurement in fire environments

K. S. Shannon, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (93.1 kB)

11:30 AM

7B.1a

Break

Panel Discussion 1

Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

Chair: Timothy J. Brown, DRI

Papers:

10:30 AM

J4G.6

How Enhancements in GIS Technology Can Address Challenges to Wildland Fire Management

Jeff Baranyi, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Broofield, CO; and F. Dahl and J. Young

Lunch Break

Open Discussion with Panel Discussion: Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services

Plenary Session 2

Closing Plenary Session

Sponsors: (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress; and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology )

Chair: Timothy J. Brown, DRI

Papers:

3:30 PM

PL2.1

Understanding Tropical Fire Regimes: Research Needs, Management Implications

Sally Horn, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

4:00 PM

PL2.2

Temperate Ecosystems

Scott Stephens, University of California, Berkeley, CA

4:30 PM

PL2.3

Forest Fire Research in the Boreal Zone: Current Status and Future Direction

Brian Stocks, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and E. S. Kasischke, D. J. McRae, S. G. Conard, A. D. McGuire, J. G. Goldammer, M. D. Flannigan, B. D. Amiro, A. I. Sukhinin, and G. A. Ivanova

5:00 PM

PL2.4

Closing Remarks

Tim Brown, DRI, Reno, NV

Plenary Session 2: Browse by Day

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Thursday, 20 November 2003

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Sunday, 16 November 2003

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Monday, 17 November 2003

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