Note: NO Office Hour in July, August
September 27, 1 pm (ET) | REGISTER
A picture is worth a thousand words: How IFTDSS is changing the look of fuels planning Wildfire Exposure Assessment for Three Boreal Communities in Alaska
Kim Ernstrom, Fire Application Specialist - Wildland Fire Management RD&A - National Park Service; Wendy Detwiler, Bre Schueller, Fire Application Specialist(s) - Wildland Fire Management RD&A - USDA Forest Service
The Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) has been in action with the support of LANDFIRE data since 2017. We have a user base of just over 4000 accounts and continue to hear how IFTDSS is being used in the field in a variety of innovative ways. Projects that have leveraged IFTDSS include; Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP), Prescribed Fire Plans, Risk Assessments, NEPA Analyses and many more. We will take the hour to showcase a few of the success stories where IFTDSS has helped streamline the fuels planning work of fire managers and in many cases demonstrated how simple, map-based analysis and graphics provide powerful images to support this very important work.
October 25, 1 pm (ET) | REGISTER
Wildfire Exposure Assessment for Three Boreal Communities in Alaska
Robert Zeil, Free Agent Fire Analyst (FBAN/LTAN/SOPL) & Jennifer Schmidt, Associate Professor of Resource Management & Policy, University of Alaska, Anchorage
In effort to account for and accommodate climate change and the increase in disturbance frequency, we have used a 31-year history of land cover change to calibrate hazard and exposure assessments in 3 important communities in the far north, Anchorage and Fairbanks in Alaska as well as Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory. We plan to discuss data used, methods applied, and important results. LANDFIRE products were used provide guidance for fuel characteristics and to evaluate land cover characteristics in urban areas.
December 6, 1 pm (ET) | REGISTER
