Final Call for Special Sessions, Oral and Poster Papers for the 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
to be held at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, Destin, Florida, March 26-30, 2007. The Conference is hosted by the International Association of Wildland Fire and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group - Fire Environment Working Team.
The theme of the Conference is “The Fire Environment – Innovations, Management, and Policy.” It will provide attendees with the latest innovations in wildland fire management practices – success stories as well as lessons learned, collaboration opportunities, cutting edge advances in wildland fire science, current and potential future wildland fire policy.
Major sponsors are the Joint Fire Science Program, NWCG Fire Behavior Committee, Fire Danger Committee, and Fire Weather Committee, National Predictive Services Group, Fire/Air Issues Coordinating Group, National Interagency Fuels Coordinating Group, USFS Washington Office Research, National Weather Service, Florida Division of Forestry and USAF Eglin Air Force Base.
Integrated into this 2007 Conference is the Joint Fire Science Program Annual Primary Investigator Meeting where cutting edge research results will be presented. A full-length track on Wildland Fire Smoke Management will address the latest regulations, challenges, strategies, and tools to assist the fire practitioner and planner.
For additional information please visit: http://www.emmps.wsu.edu/fire.behavior/ . Information will continually change, and you can subscribe to updates from any page linked from the home page.
We invite abstracts for oral and poster papers in any one of the 25 topic areas related to the fire environment. Deadline for submitting oral and poster papers is November 30, 2006. Submitters are asked to identity a topical category for their abstract, which we will use to organize papers into sessions. All abstracts will be reviewed, and notification of acceptance will be made by January 15, 2007. A final agenda will be available on the web by the end of January.
We encourage your participation in the 2 nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference. There is a high degree of interest being expressed in this event from all over the world.
Please contact Wayne A. Cook, Co-Chair , USFS-RMRS Fire Science Lab, wcook@fs.fed.us or Bret W. Butler, Co-Chair USFS-RMRS Fire Science Lab, bwbutler@fs.fed.us , if you have questions about the Conference.
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