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Interested in improving fire and smoke modeling systems, join the NWCG Smoke Committee for a webinar focused on FASMEE - Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, hosted by The Nature Conservancy. 

This webinar will review the objectives and progress of the multi-agency FASMEE project. The primary objective of FASMEE is to gather observational data needed to evaluate and advance fire and smoke modeling systems.

The project has two phases.  Phase 1 is ongoing and the main deliverable will be a comprehensive study plan that will include sampling methodology, safety, logistics, data management and a detailed budget.  Discipline leads for (1) fuels and consumption, (2) fire behavior and energy, (3) plume dynamics and meteorology, (4) emissions and chemistry, and (5) model simulation have been selected and are assisting in identifying observational data to be collected and in the drafting of the study plan.  

Phase 2 is a field data collection campaign that is expected to begin in the fall of 2018 and extend through 2021. During this phase, data is proposed to be collected on 4 to 8 large (>200 hectares) operational prescribed burns located on the Fishlake and Kaibab National Forests in the southwestern United States and on Fort Stewart and the Savannah River Site in the southeastern United States.  The sites have heavy fuel loads and will be burned under prescriptions that will create a relatively high intensity fire.  

Presenters will be:  Roger Ottmar, Sim Larkin, Tim Brown, and Nancy French

Please see the webinar flyer for WebEx connection details.

 

Event Details

Oct 6 2016, 11am - 12pm