Primary Convener:
Ryan Wade, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Convener:
Jacquelyn Shuman, Environmental Defense Fund
Aaron Piña, USDA Forest Service
Marcus Williams, USDA Forest Service

Early Career Convener:
Kelley Murphy, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Chair:
Ryan Wade, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Kelley Murphy, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Jacquelyn Shuman, Environmental Defense Fund

Fire impacts all parts of the earth system requiring integrated research and data from across disciplines representing the sub-surface, into fuels and the atmosphere. To address challenges with wildland fires, proactive fire management techniques can reduce risk, maintain ecosystem function, and minimize negative impacts. Increasing proactive fire management and the accuracy of forecasting for wildland fire and smoke trajectories is essential to achieving management goals. Fire behavior is a critical component incorporated into prescribed fire planning; with areas identified in advance, managers manipulate fire behavior through ignition patterns and interacting firelines to achieve outcomes and respond to weather conditions. Focusing on prescribed fire research and technologies, we will highlight multiscale characterization of vegetation structure and fuels and the collection of fine scale micrometeorological conditions and patterns of fire energy release, as well as tools for scenario testing and forecasting fire behavior and effects, including smoke lofting, trajectory and dispersion.

Index Terms
3390 Wildland fire model
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
0452 Instruments and techniques
4343 Preparedness and planning

Suggested Itineraries:
Disasters‚ Calamities and Extreme Events

Cross-Listed:
NH - Natural Hazards
SY - Science and Society
A - Atmospheric Sciences
GC - Global Environmental Change

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering