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Bloem, Cullen, Abatzoglou, Mearns, Belval
Background: The rising occurrence of simultaneous large wildfires has put strain on United States national fire management capacity leading to increasing reliance on assistance from partner nations abroad. However, limited analysis exists on…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Belval, Bayham, Magstadt
Federal agencies responsible for wildland fire management face increasing needs for personnel as fire seasons lengthen and fire size continues to grow, yet federal agencies have struggled to recruit and retain firefighting personnel. While many have…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Peck, Seekins, Milakovic, Williams, Guinn
In 2023, fire managers on the San Juan National Forest in southern CO and their partners faced many of the same challenges they face every summer; however, this fire season, they chose to react differently. By embracing different ways of thinking…
Year: 2024
Type: Media
Albores, Buchholz, Ortega, Emmons, Hannigan, Lacey, Pfister, Tang, Worden
The wildfire season in the Western United States (U.S.) was anomalously large in 2020, with a majority of burned area due to lightning ignitions resulting in overall fire emissions of carbon monoxide (CO) in the Western region almost 3 times the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
James, Ansaf, Al Samahi, Parker, Cutler, Gachette, Ansaf
Wildfire risk has globally increased during the past few years due to several factors. An efficient and fast response to wildfires is extremely important to reduce the damaging effect on humans and wildlife. This work introduces a methodology for…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Crist, Belger, Davies, Davis, Meldrum, Shinneman, Remington, Welty, Mayer
Fire regimes in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems have been greatly altered across the western United States. Broad-scale invasion of non-native annual grasses, climate change, and human activities have accelerated wildfire cycles, increased…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Tinkham, Lad, Smith
Increasing global temperatures and variability in the timing, quantity, and intensity of precipitation and wind have led to longer fire season lengths, greater fuel availability, and more intense and severe wildfires [1]. These broad-scale shifts…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Belval, McCaffrey, Finney, Calkin, Greer
In the 2020 fire season, the fire management community developed and tested a wide range of new practices to meet challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. To better understand the effectiveness of different innovations and which should be…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Abatzoglou, McEvoy, Nauslar, Hegewisch, Huntington
The increasing complexity and impacts of fire seasons in the United States have prompted efforts to improve early warning systems for wildland fire management. Outlooks of potential fire activity at lead-times of several weeks can help in wildland…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Cullen, Prichard, Abatzoglou, Dolk, Kessenich, Bloem, Bukovsky, Humphrey, McGinnis, Skinner, Mearns
We apply a convergence research approach to the urgent need for proactive management of long-term risk associated with wildfire in the United States. In this work we define convergence research in accordance with the US National Science Foundation—…
Year: 2023
Type: Document