Past Events

Science Delivery - Approaches and Influences on Success

The Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative is hosting a webinar with Vita Wright, Science Application Specialist at the Rocky Mountain Research Station and Principal Investigator for the Joint Fire Science Program’s Northern Rockies Fire Science Network.

Using fire and fuels management as an example, this two pronged webinar will cover current best practices for science…

Juniper Encroachment as a Public Health Issue

Topics to be discussed include:

• pollen allergenicity,
• Juniper pollen levels,
• pollen transport,
• pollen health impacts, and
• biology (growth and maturity, cone production, pollen release timing and duration).

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Introduction to state-and-transition simulation modeling of landscape vegetation dynamics

This two-day course provides a foundation for developing and running state-and-transition simulation models of landscape vegetation change using the ST-Sim software (www.syncrosim.com). The course covers state-and-transition simulation modeling concepts, how to use ST-Sim to create simple models of…

Establishing a National Methodology for Operational Mixing Height Determination

Presenters: Matthew Fearon, Desert Research Institute and Robyn Heffernan, National Weather Service

Mixing Height is important for assessing smoke dispersion for prescribed fires and wildfires. This webinar will review and explain the strengths and weaknesses of several tested methods for determining mixing heights. The webinar will include discussion of the innovative Turbulent Kinetic…

Using Unmanned Aerial Systems for Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring

In 2011 BLM funded a five year Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) pilot project within the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPRA). The NPRA was specifically selected due to its mandate of supplying national energy needs while protecting surface resources and its need to better incorporate resource management goals within a scientifically sound monitoring framework.  …

Adaptation & Mitigation for Working Forestlands: Challenges and solutions in the face of climate change

The Northwestern US provides a high level of current and potential sequestration of greenhouse gases- and forests may be a solution to mitigating emissions and sequestering carbon. This 1½ day workshop will detail the environmental and economic costs and benefits of management alternatives for forestland managers. In addition, it will address pathways and barriers to their adoption.  The…

Job Opportunity - Fire Technology Transfer Specialist

Duties:

• Guide, coordinate and support the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network.
• Identify new and emerging science and technology ready to be shared with the fire and fuels management community.
• Identify management needs, research questions, and technology needs for the Joint Fire Science Governing Board.
• Organize workshops, meetings, roundtables and field…

Job Opportunity

Wildland Fire and Forest Management Program Instructor opening at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, OR.

Fuels patterns and a fire following mountain pine beetle mortality in the climax lodgepole pine forests of southern central Oregon

The last of three webinars focusing on insects and fire, Dr. Dave Shaw and Michelle Agne, Department of Forest Engineering, Resources & Management at Oregon State University, will present on November 23rd - Fuels patterns and a fire following mountain pine beetle mortality in the climax lodgepole pine forests of southern central Oregon

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Fire effects: Restoration of watersheds & springs

This session will provide participants with information on trends in fire effects on watersheds, streams, and springs; offer tools to respond to these impacts before and after fires; and foster a discussion on next steps for restoration practitioners. The main focus will be on how land managers and restoration practitioners can foster resilience, restore ecological function, and ease…