Collaborative Research Burns - The Future of Fire Science Friends of Fire

Learn all about collaborative research burns with James Furman, a Fire Management Specialist with the USDA Forest Service. James currently serves as Wildland Fire Subject Matter Expert for DoD’s environmental research programs and leads an Integrated Research Management Team (IRMT) to facilitate DoD-funded collaborative prescribed fire research campaigns. In this episode we discuss best practices for co-production of wildland fire science and the collaborative research burns hosted by the IRMT, as well as their benefits and how to prepare for and overcome potential challenges.

Data collected from IRMT-hosted research burns has contributed to tools such as QUIC-Fire, BurnPro3D, and FastFuels. Learn more about these tools, how they are developed and tested, and how they can be used to improve fire management practices from the Next Generation Wildland Fire Planning Tools Workshop: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg38mXDqkgvOsRqH37uLiH-dOgxmZBwgv&si=ilgk9H_fYeA7zg8v



The recorded presentations are available on our Southern Fire Exchange YouTube channel and include:

o Wildland Fire Modeling Opportunities and Challenges - Rod Linn

o Terrestrial LIDAR Scanning: QUIC-Fire Modeling of New Jersey Wildfire - Nick Skowronski

o FastFuels: 3D Modeling for Next-Generation Fire Management - Russell Parsons

o Using QUIC-Fire to Predict Fire Effects - Joe O-Brien

o WiFIRE Commons and BurnPro3D - Ilkay Altintas

o BurnPro 3D Demonstration - Kevin Hiers