Projects
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2000-present
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FireWorks is an educational program about the science of wildland fire, designed for students in grades 1-12.
FireWorks provides students with interactive, hands-on materials to study wildland fire… moreContact(s): Courtney Johnson, Ilana Abrahamson
2013-present
Experimental evidence now shows that flame impingement is required for ignition of fine fuel particles responsible for the spread of wildland fires. However, the characteristics of the non-steady flame zone that produce convective heating of fuel… moreContact(s): Mark Finney
2003-present
FlamMap is a fire analysis desktop application that runs in a 64-bit Windows Operating System environment. It can simulate potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.), fire growth and spread and… moreContact(s): Charles McHugh, Mark Finney
1990-2010
Evaluating the ecological benefits of wildfire by integrating fire and ecosystem simulation models
The accumulation of canopy and surface fuels, coupled with a general warming of the climate, have contributed to an increase in the frequency,… moreContact(s): Eva Karau
1995- present
FOFEM
FOFEM (a First Order Fire Effects Model) is a computer program for predicting tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke production, and soil heating caused by prescribed fire or wildfire.
First order fire effects are those that concern the… moreContact(s): Duncan Lutes
2013-2016
Analyzing the ‘Spring Dip’ in Foliar Moisture Content and Its Relationship to Crown Fire Activity in the Great Lakes
Both firefighters and fire scientists have observed a period of peak crown fire activity in the Great Lakes area during spring when… moreContact(s): Matt Jolly
2017 - present
ForSys - Scenario planning model for multi-objective restoration and fuel management planning
ForSys is a flexible platform for exploring landscape management scenarios and optimizing decisions in terms of where and how to achieve landscape… moreContact(s): Alan Ager, Michelle Day
2013-2014
Within the Fort Huachuca military installation in southeastern Arizona, there are 11 Protected Activity Centers (PACs) identified for the threatened Mexican Spotted Owl. The PACs include a variety of vegetation types including multi-storied conifer… moreContact(s): LaWen Hollingsworth
2016-2020
Exploring surface and canopy fuel characteristics at the particle, layer, and fuelbed levels across major forest ecosystem types of the US northern Rocky Mountains.
The research project FPARDY (Fuel PARticle DYnamics), is a multifaceted study to… moreContact(s): Russell Parsons, Sarah Flanary
2007-present
Quantitative wildfire risk analysis requires complete geospatial coverage of fire impact probabilities and sizes. Wildfire simulation is the primary means of estimating these, including the frequency distribution of large fire events. FSim simulates… moreContact(s): Karen Short, Mark Finney
2014-2017
Examining fuel particle heat exchange experimentally and through the use of numerical modeling.
Modelers of wildland fire spread have assumed how fuel particle heat exchange occurs during fire spread without the benefit of experimental evidence.… moreContact(s): Mark Finney
2016 - present
The Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Monitoring (FTEM) application collects data that documents the effectiveness of fuel treatments on wildland fire behavior when a wildland fire intersects with a previously applied hazardous fuels reduction treatment… moreContact(s): Brianna Schueller
2006-present
FuelCalc is a desktop software application for determining changes in surface and crown fuel loading after thinning, pruning, piling and/or prescribed fire.
Ground, surface, and canopy fuel characteristics serve as essential inputs to computer… moreContact(s): Duncan Lutes
2020-present
We are developing a product and methodology that allows rapid assessment of fuels and potential fire hazard in forests impacted by the non-native balsam woolly adelgid (BWA) to better protect and improve the health of western America’s high-… moreContact(s): Russell Parsons, Sharon Hood
2011-present
Current operational fire behavior models are empirically based on fire spread through surface fuels and do not describe heating and combustion processes. Current physical models describe fire spread processes; however, the fire spread processes of… moreContact(s): Mark Finney, Sara McAllister
2014 - 2023
Research-ready compilation of all-hazards operational data 1999-2020. These situation-reporting data can be used to relate large-fire activity to weather, fuel treatment activities, firefighting response, and a range of socioeconomic impacts.
ICS-… moreContact(s): Karen Short
2006-
An integrated study investigating effects of mastication fuel treatments on fuel and fire behavior.
Many land management agencies are exploring a wide variety of fuel treatments to lower fire intensities and severities and to restore ecosystems to… moreContact(s): Jim Reardon, Pamela Sikkink
2014-2017
Fine particulate matter, also called PM2.5, is an air pollutant with significant public health impacts that is regulated under the federal Clean Air Act and is the primary air pollutant of concern across much of the western United States. PM2.5… moreContact(s): Shawn Urbanski
2002-2004
Researchers have worked to assess the impacts of biomass reduction in high-risk areas such as the wildland/urban interface where treatments are intended to minimize the risk of wildfire behavior, allow for more effective suppression, and reduce… moreContact(s):
2016 - present
The Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based application designed to make fuel treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective. IFTDSS provides access to data and models through one simple user… moreContact(s): Brianna Schueller
2010-present
Wildland fires are a common global ecosystem disturbance and they spread through a combination of living and dead vegetation. Historically, research on fuel ignition and fire behavior characteristics has focused on dead fuels that are easily… moreContact(s): Matt Jolly
2017-present
Lodgepole pine-dominated forest is the third most extensive forest type in western North America, covering 15 million acres in the western United States. Over much of this extensive range, surprisingly little is known about historical fire regimes.… moreContact(s): Sharon Hood
1999-2018
Using Silvicultural Treatments and Prescribed Burning to Restore Multi-aged Lodgepole Pine Forests
Lodgepole pine is one of the most widely distributed conifers in North America. The adaptations of lodgepole pine to severe, stand-replacement fire–… moreContact(s): Sharon Hood
2013 - present
This project examined natural and human drivers of wildfires in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl explosion.
This project investigated the issue of radionuclide resuspension from wildland fires in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear power… moreContact(s): Alan Ager, Michelle Day
2016 - present
Long-term restoration synergies between wildfire and forest management on fire frequent landscapes.
Our objective was to examine whether accelerated management can maintain or promote desired ecological conditions under potential future fire… moreContact(s): Michelle Day