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Fire Behavior Travel Blog
The purpose of this “Fire Behavior Travel Blog” is to allow you to communicate with other Fire Behavior Conference attendees in regard to your travel itinerary and to pool transportation logistics resources from your destination airport to and from Sandestin.
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CONFERENCE
OVERVIEW
This
conference focuses on the fire environment. It willl provide attendees
with the latest innovations in wildland fire science, examples of
successful and maybe not so successful management practices, and
current and potentially future wildland fire policy. The conference
program includes presentations by internationally respected experts
in wildland fire as well as workshops, a staff ride and a prescribed fire event.The site
of the conference, the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort is located
in the Florida Panhandle, an area rich in wildland fire history
and practice.
CONFERENCE
OUTLINE
The
program includes:
- Smoke management, including: Fire Detection by Satellite, Profiles across the US and the Ventilation Index, The Regulatory Environment, Regional Planning, Ground-Based Fire Reporting, Smoke Monitoring, Smoke Simulation and Prediction Systems and Smoke Model Evaluation
- Trends
in the art and science of wildland fire behavior and environment.
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Case studies, successes and failures, learning opportunities.
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New concepts and research that have yet to be implemented.
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The roles fire environment tools play in decision support systems.
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Techniques integrating fire environment and landscape tools.
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Fire environment analysis and risk assessment.
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Emerging issues related to fire environment.
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Computer modeling tools.
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International experiences.
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Advances in field tools and techniques.
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Workshops.
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Staff ride (limited to 160 participants).
- Prescribed Fire Event (limited to 20 participants).
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Vendor displays.
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