BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9571d95875be3749f37a8ec4e8b71d0f CATEGORIES:Polar Conferences, Meetings and Events CREATED:20161101T074608 SUMMARY:Workshop on Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science LOCATION:Fairbanks\, Alaska DESCRIPTION:Workshop on Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science April 4-6, 2017 University of Alaska Fairbanks\nThis is to alert this comm unity of an upcoming workshop on the application of remote sensing to borea l and arctic wildfire management, organized by the Alaska Fire Science Cons ortium April 4-6, 2017 in Fairbanks, AK.\nPlease see https://www.frames.gov /partner-sites/afsc/events/previous-events/workshops/2017-rs-workshop/  to submit abstracts and travel support requests. Please distribute widely.\nBa ckground and objectives: With support from NASA, the Alaska Fire Science Co nsortium (AFSC) is organizing an international workshop to advance remote s ensing tools and data for operational and scientific applications by high n orthern latitude fire ecology and management communities. Participants will include interagency fire managers as well as scientists with an interest i n remote sensing and a variety of disciplines.\nTopics of interest include: \nPotential fire risk: Can remotely sensed data (e.g., daily snow extent, o thers) estimate spring soil moisture and surface and subsurface fuel moistu re and fuel conditions, and thus provide critical inputs for fuel moisture indices used to predict fire danger and risk?\nNear real-time fire behavior : Which remotely sensed data are best and most timely for fire detection, p lume tracking of fire emissions, fire behavior modeling, mapping of flaming fronts, fire intensity, active fire perimeters, and response for ongoing f ires?\nPost-fire effects: Can we improve analytical methods for remotely se nsed data to assess fire severity, consumption/CO2 balance, active-layer ch anges, and successional trajectories of high latitude vegetation communitie s?\nThe outcomes of this workshop are expected to include co-developed inve stigations into new management and scientific uses of remote sensing data,  increasing the scientific foundation and operational efficiency of northern fire management; improving understanding of climate-induced changes in nor thern fire regimes and ecosystem components and potential feedbacks to the global climate system; and leading to expanded application and use of remot ely sensed data for fire management and fire science in high latitudes.\nAF SC will publish workshop proceedings, including presentation abstracts, res ults, and consensus recommendations. This project is a contribution to the< a href="http://www.iarpccollaborations.org/teams/Wildfires"> Interagency Ar ctic Research Policy Committee’s Wildfire Collaboration Team. Please se e Intensification of Wildfire in High Latitudes: Research Priorities to Hel p Fire Managers (images/sultanbaeva/Fire-in-high-latitudes-research-priorit ies_1.docx) and Satellite and Airborne Fire Sensor Systems for Ar ctic Wildfire Observations for additional background.\nGuide for author s: Abstracts of up to 500 words for both oral and poster presentations are welcome. The deadline to submit abstracts is November 15, 2016. To submit a bstracts, click here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDS9ldxjHrF p06E2IjOxzEfxAa7jz10zNZx9O5M0CWPhZO0w/viewform).\nApplications for travel s upport: Limited funding is available to offset selected presenters’ travel expenses, with priority given to students and other young investigators. Ap plications for travel support are available here and are due November 15, 2016.\nAssociated trainin g opportunity: With sufficient interest, NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Trai ning (ARSET) (http://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/) project and/or Short-term Prediction Research and Transistion Center (SPoRT) will offer an optional day of hands-on training for int egrating NASA Earth Science data into wildland fire science, decisionmaking , and management. Please indicate your interest in this opportunity on the submission form.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Workshop on Remote Sensing in Borea l/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science April 4-6, 2017 University of Alas ka Fairbanks

This is to alert t his community of an upcoming workshop on the application of remote sensing to boreal and arctic wildfire management, organized by the Alaska Fire Scie nce Consortium April 4-6, 2017 in Fairbanks, AK.

Please see https://ww w.frames.gov/partner-sites/afsc/events/previous-events/workshops/2017-rs-wo rkshop/  to submit abstracts and travel support requests. Please distri bute widely.
Background and objectives: With support from NASA, the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) is organizing an inter national workshop to advance remote sensing tools and data for operational and scientific applications by high northern latitude fire ecology and mana gement communities. Participants will include interagency fire managers as well as scientists with an interest in remote sensing and a variety of disc iplines.

Topics of interest incl ude:

Potential fire ris k: Can remotely sensed data (e.g., daily snow extent, others) esti mate spring soil moisture and surface and subsurface fuel moisture and fuel conditions, and thus provide critical inputs for fuel moisture indices use d to predict fire danger and risk?
Near real-time fire behavio r: Which remotely sensed data are best and most timely for fire de tection, plume tracking of fire emissions, fire behavior modeling, mapping of flaming fronts, fire intensity, active fire perimeters, and response for ongoing fires?
Post-fire effects: Can we improve ana lytical methods for remotely sensed data to assess fire severity, consumpti on/CO2 balance, active-layer changes, and successional trajectories of high latitude vegetation communities?

The outcomes of this workshop are expected to include co-develop ed investigations into new management and scientific uses of remote sensing data, increasing the scientific foundation and operational efficiency of n orthern fire management; improving understanding of climate-induced changes in northern fire regimes and ecosystem components and potential feedbacks to the global climate system; and leading to expanded application and use o f remotely sensed data for fire management and fire science in high latitud es.

AFSC will publish workshop proceedin gs, including presentation abstracts, results, and consensus recommendation s. This project is a contribution to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee’s W ildfire Collaboration Team. Please see Intensification of Wildfire in High Latitudes: Research Priorities to Help Fire Managers and Satellite and Airborne Fire Sensor Systems for Arctic Wildfire Observat ions for additional background.

Guid e for authors: Abstracts of up to 500 words for both oral and poster presen tations are welcome. The deadline to submit abstracts is November 1 5, 2016. To submit abstracts, click here.

Applications for travel s upport: Limited funding is available to offset selected presenters’ travel expenses, with priority given to students and other young investigators. Ap plications for travel support are available here and are due November 15, 2016.

Associated training opportunity: With sufficie nt interest, NASA’s Applied Remote Se nsing Training (ARSET) project and/or Short-term Prediction Research and Transistion Center (SPoRT)< /a> will offer an optional day of hands-on training for integrating NASA Ea rth Science data into wildland fire science, decisionmaking, and management . Please indicate your interest in this opportunity on the submission form.

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