Join the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab for their 2024/2025 webinar series every Thursday at 11AM Mountain Time
"Feedback from policymakers, land managers, and researchers led the Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI) to form the ReSHAPE program. ReSHAPE compiled and displayed existing data on forest treatments and wildfires at a national scale. We have developed the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG) and are engaging relevant audiences to facilitate use of the tool. We understand that collection and use of data on the effects of treatments has lacked cohesion, and therefore have built a decision support tool which is user-friendly, collaborative, and open access. Through our research programs we are looking to gain feedback on the usability of the tool and better understand how we can meet the wildfire risk reduction goals that we set. The research program areas are: 1) CONNECT, using social science to advance understanding and practice of collaborative and collective decision-making, 2) Biophysical Effects, evaluating the effects of forest treatments on wildfire behavior, and 3) Data Science, to assess large datasets, such as those used in TWIG.
At this key juncture, the ReSHAPE program is actively facilitating the understanding and use of TWIG, gathering feedback from Beta testers, and inviting conversation on the initial information from our research programs."
This event is part of a series:
Fire Lab Seminar Series
The Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory has been hosting an annual seminar series since 1998. Hour-long seminars are presented by Fire Lab employees and other researchers from throughout the world. Seminars cover current research and management about the natural world from a broad range of disciplines, but most seminars usually have a wildland fire theme. The Fire Lab Seminar Series provides a platform for researchers and managers to present their work in an environment that encourages critical thought, the free exchange of ideas, and knowledge discovery. For more information, visit the Fire Lab Seminar Series page.