Wildland fire Canada 2010
The Wildland Fire Canada 2010 conference is the inaugural conference in what aims at becoming a biennial event focussed on forest fire management in Canada. The unique program will provide a balance between presentations from forest fire managers and the scientific community.
The goal is to provide a venue for fire managers to exchange best practices with other fire managers and communicate emerging needs and issues to scientists while at the same time providing an opportunity for scientists to present new research and models directly to forest fire managers as well as other scientists from a number of disciplines.
The program at Wildland Fire Canada 2010 will examine fire management from emerging issues and best practices on the fire line to strategic policy making and building the fire management community for the new era we face in the 21st century. Through this approach, the aim is to engage fire crews and front line managers, policy planners, and scientists involved in all aspects of wildland fire management in Canada in oral presentations, poster presentations, and in facilitated discussions.
Themes and session topics
Oral presentations and posters are sollicited on the following general themes and session topics:
Theme 1: At the fire line
- Safety, risk and organizational culture
- Fuels and fire behaviour
- New and emerging technologies on the fire line
- Aviation
Theme 2: In the response centre
- Fire weather forecasting and fire occurrence
- New information technology and systems
- The future of resource sharing
- Zoning and appropriate response
Theme 3: On the landscape
- Forest communities in the fire-prone forest
- Fire in parks and wilderness areas
- Fire in the commercial forest
Theme 4: Fire management and the fire community in the 21st century
- Building community/public engagement and understanding
- Understanding risk and uncertainty in decision making
- A systems approach to fire management