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Summer 2016
NEWSLETTER
Featured Note
2017 JFSP Potential Research Topics
Potential topics directly and indirectly support the three goals of the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (“Cohesive Strategy”):
- Resilient Landscapes
- Fire Adapted Communities
- Safe and Effective Wildfire Response
FON 1 - Primary
- Landscape fuel treatment as a fire management strategy
- Effects of wildfire as a treatment
- Post-fire recovery
- Fire effects on herbaceous species, shrubs, and seed banks
- Validating mesoscale, atmospheric boundary prediction models and tools
FON 2 - Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) award
FON 3 - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE)
For specific details, view the full announcement on the JFSP website!
*Investigators should not contact the JFSP Office or Governing Board members seeking further
information on these topics. No further information will be released until the FONs are formally
posted.
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Beyond hazardous fuels: Managing fire for social, economic, and ecological benefits
November 28-December 2, 2016 at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Arizona.
Registration is OPEN and we are still accepting proposals to hold attached meetings during the conference.
Field trips and workshops are now posted on the website, roundtable session is in the works, and plenary speakers will soon be shared!
Travel grants will be available (through SWFSC and AFE) and anyone is eligible to apply ( deadline October 28, 2016). AFE is also offering TREE grants for students with a deadline of September 30, 2016. |
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Piñon-Juniper Symposium
October 12-14, 2016 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Natural Heritage New Mexico.
Registration for the conference is $50 and must be completed ahead of time and paid by credit card. Cost for the field trip is $10, which includes transportation and lunch.
To assist with planning logistics, please contact jwoodsmith@gmail.com, if you are attending.
A hotel block is being held at the Sheraton Albuquerque Airport. Call 505-843-7000 or 800-227-1117, or book online here. Identify group as "Piñon-Juniper Symposium."
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WTREX- Women in Wildfire
Deadline to APPLY is July 31st for
October 17-28 WTREX!
Hosted by the Northern California Prescribed Fire Council and partners:
Women have important talents and perspectives, and that they can play a critical role in advancing fire problem solving together with men.
Both women and men are invited to explore the growing role of women in fire management, while conducting prescribed fire operations designed to advance their formal qualifications in wildland fire management and enhance their understanding of fire ecology and effects, communications and outreach, prescribed fire policy and planning, and more.
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