The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) is pleased to announce that the program approved 6 proposals as part of the Primary Funding Opportunity Announcement for 2021. Principal investigators receiving the funding work at universities, federal agencies, and NGOs. The two task statements investigators and their teams will begin exploring this fall include: 1) Sources and distribution of human-caused ignitions and their relation to wildfire impacts The objective of this research is to inform effective fire prevention strategies by providing information on the spatial and temporal distribution of different human caused wildfire ignition sources and factors that lead to development of large wildfires. 2) Reducing damages and losses to valued resources from wildfire The objectives of this research are to: (1) understand the role of changing fuel conditions from active management and fire suppression operations on reducing wildfire-induced damages and losses to valued resources and (2) use gains in knowledge to evaluate wildfire risk assessments and inform the development of outcome-based metrics used to assess potential impacts (benefits, as well as damages and losses) of wildfire to valued resources. Click the list below to read more about the recipients.
For those interested, the Joint Fire Science Program recently opened it’s 2022 Funding Opportunity Announcements in three areas – Primary, GRIN and Regional Science Exchange. Please consider applying! More information below.
