FFS Research Forester Dr. Emily Heyerdahl, Missoula, presented invited seminars on her research on climatic and topographic drivers of fire history in the Inland Northwest at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Malmo, Sweden and at the Polish Forest Research Institute in Białowieża, Poland, as well as serving as an external examiner at the defense of Ewa Zin. After the defense, Dr. Zin and her major professor, Dr. Mats Niklasson, took Emily to their fire history field research sites in the Białowieża Forest, which spans the border between Poland and Belarus, one of the largest and bestpreserved lowland forests in temperate Europe.