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The schedule is updated - May 31, 2007

Special sessions: Spring 2007 Fires

Special sessions: Lessons Learned

Hyatt has extended Block Rate until May 14th

New Sessions: Georgia Fires [download]

Early registration has been extended through May 8, 2007.

Reminder: the Hyatt special hotel rate expires on May 7th.

Call for Papers has been issued. [Download]

Invitation letter has been issued. [Download]

The International Journal of Wildland Fire has agreed to publish a 2007 EastFIRE Conference Special Issue.

 

 

 

Invitation

The 2007 EastFIRE Conference will be held from June 5 through June 8 , 2007 at George Mason University, Fairfax Campus, VA (near Washington, D.C.).

The Conference Theme is "Climate-Demographics-Management -- The 21st Century Fire Triangle". 116 Presentations are scheduled in Plenary, Concurrent, and Poster Sessions in addition to four Panel Sessions. The Full Schedule is listed below.

Conference attendance will provide attendees with an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge of the most current thinking on the impact of climate and demographic change on 21st Centurt fire management. It will also provide attendees with the opportunity to participate in setting the agenda for research, management, and policy approaches for meeting the challenges inherent in change of the scale envisioned.

Leaders from the fire management, policy and science community will exchange information and ideas on how to plan for the combined challenges of climate and demographic change. We encourage all those with an interst in fire management, particulary in the eastern United States, to join what we expect will be a lively and information rich three and a half day Conference.  

Major products of this conference include publication of a peer-reviewed special journal issue(s). All papers presented will be included in both a printed proceedings document and as PDFs on a CD ROM for all registered conference attendees. All conference poster sessions will have published abstracts included in the proceedings.

Important Dates

May 8, 2007

Early Registration Deadline

May 14, 2007 The Hyatt special hotel rate expires.
June 5 - 8, 2007 2007 EastFIRE Conference
June 8, 2007 Submission of Extended Abstracts

Schedule

1. 2007 EastFIRE Conference Sessions

Click here [download 1] [download 2] for information on the special sessions.

Registration Desk Open 8:00 am Tuesday June 5 through Friday June 8. All conference sessions will be held in the George W. Johnson Center.

Date
Events
Tuesday June 5, 2007
9:00 - 9:15 am Opening Ceremonies
9:15 – 10:45 am P1.1  Setting the Science Stage
11:00 -12:00 am P1.2  Setting the Policy and Management Stage
1:30 – 3:00 pm A1.1 NOAA Fire Weather I
  B1.1 Fuels, Fire Danger and Behavior I
  C1.1 Modeling I
1:30 – 5:00 pm Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Special Session I
(Room 162, Research Building I)
3:30 – 5:00 pm A1.2 NOAA Fire Weather II
  B1.2 Fuels, Fire Danger and Behavior II
  C1.2 Modeling II
5:00 - 7:00 pm Opening Reception and Poster Viewing
Wednesday June 6, 2007
9:00 – 10:40 am P2.1 Climate, Remote Sensing and Modeling
11:00 – 12:30 am P2.2 Applying Science and Technology
1:30 – 3:00 pm A2.1 LANDFIRE I
  B2.1 Fuels, Fire Danger and Behavior III
  C2.1 Multi-Disciplinary
1:30 – 3:00 pm Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Special Session II
(Room 162, Research Building I)
3:30 – 5:00 pm A2.2 LANDFIRE II
  B2.2 Remote Sensing I
  C2.2 Smoke & Air Quality I
5:15 - 6:00 pm Fire in Fairfax County by Karen Washburn, Historian
6:00 - 8:00 pm Conference Hosted Social and Poster Viewing
Thursday June 7, 2007
9:00 – 10:30 am P3.1 Science Program Needs I
11:00 – 12:30 am P3.2 Science Program Needs II
1:30 – 3:00 pm A3.1 Social & Economic
  B3.1 Remote Sensing II
  C3.1 Smoke & Air Quality II
3:30 – 5:00 pm A3.2 Science Delivery
  B3.2 Remote Sensing III
  C3.2 Smoke & Air Quality III
5:00 – 6:00 pm 2007 Fires Special Session I (Gold Room, Johnson Center)
5:00 – 7:00 pm 2007 Fires Special Session II (Room 163, Research Building I)
Friday June 8 , 2007
9:00 - 12:00 am Panel Sessions
  Science Overview Panel
  Management & Policy Overview Panel
  Education & Training Overview Panel
  Future Directions Panel

2. Full Schedule

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Plenary Sessions
P1.1 Title: Setting the Science Stage
  Chair: Susan G. Conard
  P1.1.1 Title: Climate Change and Eastern Forests: Nature and timing of potential impacts for fire management    
    Speaker: Ronald Neilson    
  P1.1.2 Title: Housing growth in the wildland urban interface: Trends and projections for the East    
    Speaker: Susan I. Stewart    
  P1.1.3 Title: Water Cycle Variability, Change, and prediction in the Eastern United States    
    Speaker: Paul Houser    
P1.2 Title: Setting the Policy & Management Stage
  Chair: Erik Berg
  P1.2.1 Title: Setting the Policy & Management Stage State Fire Management    
    Speaker: Mike C. Long    
  P1.2.2 Title: Federal Fire Management    
    Speaker: Crittenden    
  P1.2.3 Title: GAO Prespectives on Federal Wildland Fire Management Activities    
    Speaker: Steve Gaty    
  P1.2.4 Title: National Wildland Fire Weather Needs Assessment -- Preliminary Results    
    Speaker: Samuel Williamson and David S. Andrus    
       
*** Special Session: Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Special Session I    
  Chair: Paula Nasiatka    
   
P2.1 Title: Climate, Remote Sensing and Modeling
  Chair:   John Hom    
  P2.1.1 Title: Climate Change, Remote Sensing and Monitoring from Space    
    Speaker: Anthony C. Janetos    
  P2.1.2 Title: Recent advances in remote sensing and modeling tools
to better estimate climate change impacts on current and future US wildfire severity
   
    Speaker: Steven G. McNulty    
  P2.1.3 Global to local scale atmospheric hazard (weather & dispersion) modeling    
    Speaker: Zafer Bobeyi    
P2.2 Title:       Applying Science and Technology    
  Chair: John Stanturf    
  P2.2.1 Title: Firewise communities -Putting fire and social science
research to work
   
    Speaker: Michele Steinberg    
  P2.2.2 Title: The southern group of state foresters southern wildfire risk assessment    
    Speaker: John Miller    
  P2.2.3 Title: LANDFIRE: Landscape fire and resource management planning tools project    
    Speaker: Henry Bastian    
  P2.2.4 Title: Overview of the national fire consortia for advanced modeling of meteorology and smoke (FCAMMS)    
    Speaker: Warren Heilman    
       
*** Special Session: Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Special Session II    
  Chair: Paula Nasiatka    
       
P3.1 Title:       Science Program Needs I    
  Chair: Stan Coloff    
  P3.1.1 Title: Southern U.S. View    
    Speaker: Peter J. Roussopoulos    
  P3.1.2 Title: Climate - Demographics - Management: The 21st Century Fire Triangle from a Northern U.S. View    
    Speaker: Roy Patton    
  P3.1.3 Title: Forest Service National View    
    Speaker: Jim Reaves    
  P3.1.4 Title: The Progress on Forest Fire Research Using Satellite Data    
    Speaker: Stocks    
P3.2 Title:       Science Program Needs II    
  Chair: George Pouliat    
  P3.2.1 Title:    
    Speaker: Berg    
  P3.2.2 Title: Burning from Wilderness to the Wildland Intergalatic Interface    
    Speaker: Fred Wetzel    
  P3.2.3 Title: A Climate of Change - An Overview of NASA's Applied Sciences Program    
    Speaker: Teresa Fryberger    
  P3.2.4 Title: US EPA and NOAA's signed a Memorandum of Agreement on Cooperation in Forecasting Air Quality Partnership    
    Speaker: Gary Foley    
P4.1 Panel:  Science Overview    
  Chair:  Peter J. Roussopoulos    
         
P4.2 Panel:  Management & Policy Overview    
  Chair:  Chuck Bushey    
         
P4.3 Panel:  Education & Training Overview    
  Chair:  David Wong    
         
P4.4 Panel:  Future Directions    
  Chair:  Susan I. Stewart    
         
         
Poster Sessions/ Reception    
1
Hawbaker Housing density and wilderness fire management    
2
Charney Objective Boundary Detection in the Eastern United States – Sea-Breeze and Coastal Fronts, and Back-Door and Side-Door Cold Fronts    
3
Cui Indices for comparing geometry of simulated forest fire patches    
4
Callaham Fire frequency effects on soil microarthropod community composition in longleaf pine flatwoods    
5
Tamai The water budget model of litter layer to estimate the Inter-daily change estimation of forest fire hazard map    
6
Liu Radiative and Climatic Response to Prescribed Burns in the Southeast    
7
Tolk Quality Assessment of LANDFIRE Vegetation Products    
8
Bian Using a Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model to Predict Microscale Smoke Transport and Dispersion from Wildland and Prescribed Fires    
9
Skowronski Evaluation of Historic NFDRS indices as predictors of hazardous fire weather in the New Jersey Pine Barrens    
10
Zeng Seasonal variation of fires in the Southeastern United States: MODIS Fire Counts vs the Emission Inventory    
11
Zhang Progress in Studying Forest and Grassland Fire by using Remote Sensing, ecological model and Climate information in China    
12
Fan Use of a Binary Logistic Regression Technique With MODIS data to Model Forest Fire Prediction    
13
Lutes Developing an interagency fire ecology monitoring tool: Integration of FEAT and FIREMON    
14
Kim Climate Changes and Wildfire Activity in Eastern U.S.    
15
Key Considerations for Remote Sensing on Southeastern Burns    
16
Kellndorfer Forest Height and Biomass Estimation from SRTM, Landsat ETM+, and Forest Inventory and Analysis Data    
     
Concurrent Sessions    
Concurrent Session Tracks:    
 
  1. NOAA fire weather
  2. Fuels, fire danger and behavior
  3. Modeling
  4. LANDFIRE
  5. Multi-disciplinary research
  6. Remote sensing
  7. Smoke & air quality
  8. Social & economic research
  9. Science deivery
   
       
A1.1 Title: NOAA Fire Weather I    
  Chair: Heath Hockenberry    
1
Fiona Horsfal    
Informed and Critical Use of NOAA Climate Outlook and Scenario Products for Fire Planning and Mitigation in the Eastern United States    
2
Heath Hockenberry    
A Review of 2006 Fire Weather Support – A Record Year    
3
Phillip Manuel    
Experiences at the Sawtooth Complex – The IMET Perspective    
4
Heath Hockenberry    

A Journey Down Under: NOAA's Support for Australia's 2007 Fire Season

   
5
Gene Petrescu    
A new automated NFDRS forecast system    
       
B1.1 Title: Fuels, Fire Danger & Behavior I    
  Chair: Stan Coloff    
1
Aaron Stottlemyer    
Burning and mastication as fuel reduction treatments in beetle-killed stands: effects on ectomycorrhizal inoculum potential    
2
Ross Phillips    
Restoration of Southern Appalachian Mixed-Oak Forests Using Fuel Reduction Techniques: Is It Really Working?    
3
Scott Goodrick    
Numerical Simulations of the Fireflux Field Experiment    
4
Craig Clements    
Fire-Induced Winds and Turbulence Observed during the FireFlux Experiment    
       
C1.1 Title: Modeling I    
Chair: John G. Lyon    
1
Joseph Charney    
Simulations of Two-Dimensional Dry Convective Plume Modes    
2
Jun Wang    
Air Quality and Climate Impacts of Smoke Aerosols from Central American Biomass Burning    
3
Wenbin Cui    
A Comparison of Algorithm Performance in Forest Fire Growth Models    
4
Zhen Wang    
A Fast Approach to 3D Flame Visualization    
5
Matthew Dickinson    
Process modeling of first order fire effects: science and application    
       
A1.2 Title: NOAA FireWeather II    
  Chair: Eli Jacks    
1
Eli Jacks    
Current NOAA Processes to Improve Services    
2
Sher Schranz    
Future Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Support of Firefighting Operations    
3
Pedro Restrepo    
The joint NOAA/USGS Debris-Flow Forecasting System    
4
Phillip Bothwell    
Innovative Lightning Forecast Guidance    
5
Jim O'Sullivan    
  The Operational Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) - A New Means of Obtaining Integrated Weather Observations in NOAA    
       
B1.2 Title: Fuels, Fire Danger & Behavior II    
  Organizer: John Hom    
1
David Peterson    
Assessing the effectiveness of erosion control treatments after wildfires: experimental and monitoring approaches    
2
Joseph Charney    
The Impact of Atmospheric Conditions Aloft on Fire Weather and Fire Behavior Prediction in the Eastern United States    
3
Warren Heilman    
Combined Haines Index and Turbulent Kinetic Energy Patterns and Trends over the Northeastern U.S.    
4
John Hom    
  Implementing a graphical and predictive National Fire Danger Rating System for New Jersey    
5
Duncan Lutes    
  Integration of FEAT and FIREMON: An interagency fire ecology monitoring tool    
       
C1.2 Title: Modeling II    
  Chair: Jun Wang    
1
George Pouliot    
Development of a Biomass Burning Emissions Inventory by Combining Satellite and Ground-Based Information    
2
Gary Achtemeier    
A Fire Spread Model for Simulating Prescribed Burns    
3
Ronald Rehm    
A Simple Model for Wind Effects of Burning Structures and Topography on WUI Ground-Fire Propagation    
4
Scott Goodrick    
  Research Overview for the Southern High Resolution Modeling Consortium    
       
*** Special Session: 2007 Fires Special Session I    
  Chair: Hom/Qu/Stanturf    
       
A2.1 Title: LANDFIRE I    
  Chair: Matt Rollins    
1
Matthew Rollins    
LANDFIRE: a nationally consistent vegetation, wildland fire, and fuel assessment    
2
Birgit Peterson    
LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation and Structure Mapping: Southeastern Preliminary Mapping Methods and Results    
3
Kurtis Nelson    
LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Height Mapping: Potential New Data Sources for the East    
4
James Smith    
  LANDFIRE Vegetation Modeling in the Central, Northern and Southern Map Zones    
       
B2.1 Title: Fuels, Fire Danger & Behavior III    
  Chair: Ruixin Yang    
1
Bernard Parresol    
Estimating Canopy Fuel Parameters for Atlantic Coastal Plain Forests    
2
Robert Kremens    
Measuring Absolute Radiated Energy from Small Plot Experiments in Eastern Hardwood Fuels Using Dual Band IR Radiometry    
3
James Reardon    
Soil Moisture Dynamics and the Smoldering Combustion Limits of Pocosin Soils in North Carolina    
4
Scott Goodrick    
  Using Google Earth for Display of Fire and Smoke Information    
       
C2.1 Title: Multi-Disciplinary    
  Chair: Danny Lee    
1
David Chojnacky    
Combining remote sensing and FIA data to map forest-floor fire fuels    
2
Joseph O 'Brien    
Contrasting models of the interactions among overstory structure, fire and regeneration strategies in subtropical and tropical pine forests in the SE US and Caribbean Basin    
3
Joseph O 'Brien    
The interactions among fine scale heterogeneity in fuels, fire behavior and fire effects in a low-intensity surface fire regime    
4
Amber Soja    
A Methodology and Assessment of Estimating Area Burned in Near-Real-Time    
       
A2.2 Title: LANDFIRE II    
  Chair: Kris Lee    
1
Matthew Rollins    
Using biophysical settings and landscape modeling to characterize historical vegetation and fire regimes    
2
Kevin Ryan    
Modeling fuels for landscape-scale fire behavior and effects prediction    
3
Doug Havlina    
Hazardous Fuels and Restoration Planning Applications    
4
Zhiliang Zhu    
LANDFIRE Updating Technical Plan and Preliminary Results of Research    
       
B2.2 Title: Remote Sensing I    
  Chair: Steve Ambrose    
1
John Qu    
Fuel Moisture and Fire Danger Risk Mapping with EOS Measurements in the Eastern States    
2
Wanting Wang    
Statistic Analysis of Wildland Fire Characteristics in the Southeast United States    
3
Lin Li    
Retrieval of Vegetation Canopy Fuel Moisture Content from Hyperspectral Reflectance    
4
Lois Wardell    
Development of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Fire Monitoring and Research    
5
Xiaoyang Zhang    
  Estimates of Interannual Variations in Burned Areas Using GOES Instantaneous Fire Sizes    
       
C2.2 Title: Smoke & Air Quality I    
  Chair: Al Riebau    
1
Limei Ran    
Integrated Modeling of Forest Growth, Fire Emissions, and Air Quality and Its Climate Feedbacks    
2
Xiaoyang Zhang    
Near Real-time Monitoring of Biomass Burning Particulate Emissions (PM2.5) Using Multiple Satellite Data    
3
John Simko    

NOAA's Use of Satellite Imagery for Smoke Detection and Transport Model Initialization

   
4
HyunCheol Kim    
  Implementation of Satellite-Detected Wildland and Prescribed Fire Emissions in Daily Air Quality Forecast Systems    
       
A3.1 Title: Social & Economic    
  Chair: David Wong    
1
Paul Mitchell    
Developing A Prescribed Fire Insurance Liability Product: Actuarial Analysis of Survey Data    
2
Pamela Jakes    
Community Wildfire Protection Plans--Meeting the Objectives of HFRA?    
3
Rachel Brummel    
Social learning and the role of science in Community Wildfire Protection Planning    
4
Stephanie Grayzeck    
Defining the Wildland-urban Interface: How Local Government Becomes a Partner at the Table in Community Wildfire Planning    
       
B3.1

Title: Remote Sensing II

   
  Chair:Zhiliang Zhu    
1
Sanjeeb Bhoi    
Regeneration of Vegetation Index after Wild Land Fire    
2
Xianlin Qin    
National Forest Fire Danger Rating Prediction Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Techniques    
3
Swarvanu Dasgupta    
Soil Adjusted Live Fuel Moisture Estimations over Grasslands    
4
Wanting Wang    
  Multi-sensor Detection of Hurricane Caused Forest Fuel Loading Change in the Southeastern United States    
       
C3.1 Title: Smoke & Air Quality II    
  Chair: Shobha/ Kondragunta    
1
Tao Zeng    
Prescribed Fire Emission and the Impact on Air Quality over the Southeastern US in Spring    
2
David Williams    
Observation of Fire Smoke Plume Dynamics using Elastic LiDAR    
3
Jian Zeng    
An Automated GOES-12 Smoke Plume Detection and Tracking Algorithm for Air Quality Applications    
4
Yongqiang Liu    
A Sensitivity Study of Air Quality Simulation to Smoke Plume-Core Number    
       
A3.2 Title: Science Delivery    
  Chair: Brian J. Stocks    
1
William Sommers    
Planning for increased fire activity in the face of climate and demographic change – triage or risk assessment?    
2
Kenneth Clark    
Decision Support Tools to Optimize the Effectiveness of Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments    
3
Di Tian    
Air Quality Impacts from Forest Fires under Different Forest Management Practices    
4
Steve Van Tuyl    
The Eastern LANDFIRE Prototype – Lessons Learned    
5
Jesse Bishop    
  Mapping the Wildland-Fire Interface in the Eastern Landfire Prototype Region    
       
B3.2 Title: Remote Sensing III    
  Chair: John J. Qu    
1
Lingli Wang    
Soil Moisture Estimation with Multiple MODIS SRB Measurements    
2
Xianjun Hao    
Dead Fuel Moisture Content Estimation Using AIRS Measurements    
3
Jay Al-Saadi    
Global Near-Real-Time Estimates of Biomass Burning Emissions using MODIS Fire Detections    
     
     
       
C3.2 Title: Smoke & Air Quality 3    
  Chair: Yongqiang Liu    
1
Yong Xie    
Detection of smoke plume from forest fires using MODIS measurements    
2
James Szykman    
Comparison of CMAQ Derived Carbon Monoxide Columns with MOPITT Carbon Monoxide Data: Sensitivity to Wildfire Emissions    
3
Gary Achtemeier    
On a Method to Index Multiple-Core Updraft Smoke Plumes    
4
Gary Achtemeier    
  Effects of Smoke Moisture on Local Air Quality: Visibility and Superfog    
5
Sanjeeb Bhoi    
  Application of CMAQ Model for Prediction of Particulate Matter Emissions due to Wild Land Fire    
       
*** Special Session: 2007 Fires Special Session II    
  Chair: Hom/Qu/Stanturf    

 

 

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