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| | What is the Southwest Fire Science Consortium? The consortium provides opportunities for managers, scientists, and policy makers to interact and share science in ways that can effectively move new information to management practices. We seek to link the academic community and the management community in educating future fire professionals with up-to-date science as well as practical experience. For background information click here.
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2012 Southwest Fire Ecology Conference The Association for Fire Ecology, in association with Humboldt State University and the Southwest Fire Science Consortium, announces an Association for Fire Ecology Southwest Regional Conference "Fire Landscapes, Wildlife & People: Building Alliances for Restoring Ecosystem Resilience"
Conference description: This conference will engage researchers, decision makers, and practitioners across disciplines in friendly roundtable discussions on key issues, informed by scientific and practitioner talks and panel debates. We will address fire's role in restoration of watersheds and wildlife habitats, and in sustaining ecosystem services for future generations, with a focus on the fire-adapted ecosystems of the North American Greater Southwest. Anyone interested in the fire ecology and the general ecology of this area should plan to attend.
Conference Travel Stipends Available Through the Southwest Fire Science Consortium!
Complete the travel stipend application and submit to
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by December 9, 2011. Any member of the fire community may apply for a travel stipend. Travel award notification will be sent by January 15, 2012.
Peer Learning: Prescribed Burn Archive
We will be working with FRAMES on developing a searchable database containing prescribed fire burn plans across the Southwest. Our goal is to provide examples of prescribed fire burn plans that managers can learn from because while agencies may have archives of past burn plans, it is often difficult to share or access these across a range of agencies and organizations. By sharing successful burn plans or those that did not turn out so well managers can learn from each other and we can archive some on-the-ground experience. Burn plans will be able to be searched and tied to spatial attributes.
If you have a burn plan that you're particularly proud of or that you feel others can learn from please send it along with information below to the SWFSC coordinator.
Requirements:
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Your implemented burn plan- electronic copy is preferred, snail mail is fine if electronic is unavailable
- Latitude/Longitude (min/max)
- Datum
- 1 paragraph summary of lessons learned from this particular fire
- Optional- a map of the burn area in pdf or jpg format.
- Photos from the burn
Thank you in advance for providing valuable information to help us all learn more about prescribed fire.
Top Ten Southwest Fire Management Science Searches
The Southwest Fire Science Consortium has partnered with FRAMES to help fire managers access important fire science information related to the Southwest's top fire management issues. This website provides access to data, documents, websites, projects, and tools pertaining to these ten critical areas of interest:
• fire and climate change
• fire and invasive species
• fire and threatened or endangered species
• fire season
• fire severity and patch size
• fuel treatments
• prescribed fire
• Southwest fire history
• webinars
• wildlife and fire
Click here to explore targeted resources on these topics from the FRAMES Resource Catalog.
How you can help
The SWFSC is constantly looking for ways to improve dissemination of fire science information. Through support from the Joint Fire Science Program, the consortium can fund 2-3 workshops/field trips per year at a rate of up to $8,000 per workshop or field trip. In addition, we have funding available to create webinars, Wildfire Lesson Learned stories, and Ecological Restoration Institute Working papers.
Workshops/field trips
We have funding available to sponsor workshops or field trips. We can sponsor already planned activities or assist in development of new ideas. If you have an idea for a workshop or field trip please let us know. Fill out a workshop proposal form and return an electronic copy to
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Other Outlets
We have funding available to create more webinars and Wildfire Lessons Learned stories. In addition, we are teaming up with the Ecological Restoration Institute to develop short working papers on specific topics of interest. We are looking for suggestions for topics for all of these activities. If you have a topic you'd like to see covered in one of these formats, please let us know. Fill out a proposal form and return and electronic copy to
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. More details are available on this form.
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Check out the Fire Research And Management Exchange System (FRAMES), Technology in Support of Wildland Fire Research and Management. The goal of FRAMES is to provide a systematic method of exchanging information and transferring technology between wildland fire researchers, managers, and other stakeholders in order to make wildland fire documents, data, tools, and other information resources easy to find, access, distribute, compare, and use. The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is currently working with FRAMES a searchable database of burn plans and our top ten document searches.
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Contact Us
Consortium Coordinator: Barb Satink Wolfson, Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry, 928-523-1148,
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Consortium Principal Investigator: Dr. Andi Thode, Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry
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