Fire Science News & Highlights
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
If you weren’t able to hear this talk in person, watch the video posted on Alaska Fire Science Consortium website: Linked Disturbance Interactions in South-Central Alaska: Implications for Ecosystems and People. For his MS Thesis, Winslow explored …
Monday, February 25, 2013
Fire in Alaska’s tundra ecosystems is getting more attention as a potentially important factor in climate change. A 5-yr US Arctic Research Program Plan just released by the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee specifically calls for investigatin…
Monday, February 18, 2013
Matt Jolly, PhD, from the USFS Fire, Fuel and Smoke Science Program, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory presented the webinar on December 20th. You can watch it on YouTube thanks to the Great Lakes Region Fire Consortium at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Jan Passek, USFWS Fire Specialist, and Heidi Strader, Weather Forecaster from the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center will demonstrate how to input daily weather observations used to calculate Fire Danger using WIMS–the Forest Service Weather I…
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Date: Thursday, December 20, 2012 Time: 10:00 – 11:30 AM (AK Time) Presented by: Matt Jolly, PhD Research Ecologist, USFS Fire, Fuel and Smoke Science Program Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory Live fuel moisture is measured frequently throughout th…
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Congratulations to our co-PI, Dr. Scott Rupp: IARC'S Scientist of the Month for March! PI, Dr. Sarah Trainor was February's Scientist of the Month!
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Fuel Moisture Sampling in Alaska
Get out and sample. Use these guides for Duff, Dead Grass and Live Fuel (Woody & Foliar) moistures.
