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Applications are now open for the 2019 Women-in-Fire Training Exchange (WTREX)! The WTREX will be held at the Tall Timbers Research Station just outside of Tallahassee, Florida, from March 18-29, 2019. We welcome applicants of all genders, nationalities, and levels of fire experience!
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SERDP ESTCP DoD’s Environmental Research Programs
The SERDP FY 2020 solicitation was recently released. Researchers from Federal organizations, universities, and private industry can apply for SERDP funding via the appropriate solicitation below. All submissions must be in response to a Statement of Need (SON) associated with the solicitation.
Continue ReadingHurricane Florence: A Special Call for Quick Response Grant Proposals
The Quick Response program is a National Science Foundation-supported program that provides small grants to help eligible researchers travel to disaster-stricken areas to collect perishable data. The program promotes social science and interdisciplinary innovation in disaster research and prioritizes novel areas of study that require the collection of ephemeral data. Graduate students and researchers new to the field are encouraged to apply.
From September 24 to October 8, proposals to collect data related to Hurricane Florence will be collected. All proposals will be evaluated simultaneously at the close of this window. Notification of funding decisions will be made by October 16, 2018.
Continue ReadingThe Hot-Dry-Windy Index: A New Fire Weather Index
WJON News
A St. Cloud State University professor along with the U.S. Forest Service has created a new tool that could help better forecast wildland fires.
Here’s how forests rebounded from Yellowstone’s epic 1988 fires – and why that could be harder in the future
The Conversation Academic rigor, journalistic flair
This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the 1988 Yellowstone fires – massive blazes that affected about 1.2 million acres in and around Yellowstone National Park. Their size and severity surprised scientists, managers and the public and received heavy media coverage. Many news reports proclaimed that Yellowstone was destroyed, but nothing was further from the truth.
PRESCRIBED BURN ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FROM WILDLAND RESTORATION INTERNATIONAL
Assistance available to landowners in the counties of Levy, Alachua, Putnam, Marion, Flagler, Volusia, Lake, Sumter, Hernando, Polk, Osceola, Manatee, Hardee, and Highlands.
Wildland Restoration International (WRI) is excited to announce prescribed burn assistance to landowners participating in USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) cost share programs. WRI is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help manage wildland fire for the benefit of people and wildlife. With three offices throughout the Florida peninsula, WRI has been assisting local landowners, public agencies, and other organizations with prescribed burning for several years. The organization has been awarded funding from the Endowment for Forestry and Communities to help landowners implement prescribed burning practices funded by the NRCS. WRI representatives are available to meet onsite with landowners to discuss their goals and assist with prescribed burn prescription and implementation.
Click here to contact WRI’s Fire Program Coordinator
Continue ReadingThe Community Protection Program Grant, Prepare for Wildfires: Prescribed Fire Grant
Texas A&M Forest Service offers grants to landowners to complete prescribed fires on private land. Each grant targets landowners in different priority areas across the state.
Continue ReadingWildfire Research Fact Sheet: Exterior Sprinkler Systems
Are exterior sprinkler systems an option for protecting a home during a wildfire, after residents have evacuated the property?
Click here to read this interesting 1 page article
How tweets can map a #wildfire
Social media could help monitor air pollution that physical monitors miss.
High Country News
In their study, published by the International Conference on Social Media & Society, Sachdeva and McCaffrey analyzed close to 39,000 tweets posted between May and September 2015 in California. They stripped the tweets to reveal their core subjects: smoke in the air, fallen ash, haziness, smell. By tagging the tweets with the location in which they were posted, the researchers created a verbatim map: a landscape of fire based on the people who experienced it. Their modeling proved accurate when compared to figures from air quality monitors.
Click here to read “Using Social Media to Predict Air Pollution during California Wildfires”
Continue ReadingWindNinja 3.4.0 Released!
This version introduces two new features related to the point initialization method in WindNinja.
- Weather station data can now be automatically fetched by WindNinja for use in point initialization runs. The weather station data are downloaded via MesoWest/SynopticLabs Web Services
- The point initialization option can now be used to simulate a time series. Each time step in the series is a separate WindNinja simulation
Click here to see the WindNinja Tutorial 3 for more details regarding these new point initialization options. This version also includes several color blind-friendly color schemes for Google Earth output.
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