October 7

 

Welcome and Conference Introduction

 

Keynote: Keith Barr “The Miramichi fire of 1825”

 

Keynote: Yan Boucher “Historical Fire Regime and Ecosystem-based Forest Management”

 

Highlighted Speaker: Ken Strahan “Emergency Management Post-Black Saturday: Attitudes and Behaviour of Individuals in Bushfire prone Areas”

 

Concurrent Sessions

 

Natural Resources - Chair: Barry Geddes

Gregory Nowacki - Mapping Pyrophilic Percentage Across the Northeastern United States Using Witness Trees, with Focus on Four National Forests

Robert Walker - Fire Management in the Greater Victoria Water Supply Area: Balancing Risk, Water Quality and Landscape Restoration in a Regional Drinking Water Supply Area

Sonja Leverkus - Conserving Biodiversity Through Shifting Mosaics

Dave Schroeder - Development of a Canadian Fuel Management Database

Steven Hvenegaard - Measuring Equipment Productivity in Forest Fuel Treatments

David Patriquin - A Rare, Fire-Dependent Pine Barrens at the Wildland-Urban Interface of Halifax

 

 

History - Chair: Martin Giradin

Justin Waito - A Multi-Millennial Fire History from the Southern Boreal Forest of Central Canada Reconstructed from Tree-rings and Lake Sediments Charcoal Records

Eric Earle - Historical Pattern of Natural Disturbances in the Forests of Newfoundland

Rick Kubian - Characterizing the Mixed-Severity Fire Regime of the Kootenay Valley, Kootenay National Plan

Emma Davis - Using a Multi-Proxy Approach to Characterize the Historical Fire Regime of Jasper, AB, During the Late Holocene

Cecile Remy - Vegetation Dynamics and Biomass Burning in Canadian Boreal Forest: An insight from Lacustrine Deposits
Lori Daniels -Historic Fire Regimes of the Western Canadian Cordillera

 

Reception

 

Banquet

 

Awards

 

October 8

 

Keynote: Monica Emelko “Forests, Wildfire, and Drinking Water Security: A Mandate for Active Source Water Protection”

 

Keynote: Matt Davies “Fire Regime on Temperate Peatlands - Why We Worry About Moss”

 

Concurrent Sessions:

 

Risk - Chair: Dan Thompson

Anne-Claude Pepin - Fire Behaviour in Shrubland Fuel Type

Uldis Silins - Management of Wildfire Risk in Forested Regions of Alberta to Downstream Municipal Drinking Water Treatment

Dan Perrakis - Validating Fire Behaviour in Mountain Pine Beetle Attacked Stands in British Columbia

Alice A. Ou - An Example of Extreme Fire Behaviour Associated with a Dry Cold Front Passage: The 2012 Zama Wildfire Complex in Northwestern Alberta

Elisabeth Beaubien - With Leaves Comes Rain! Predicting the End of Spring Fire Season

Ellen Whitman - Integrating Fire and Climate Refugia in Forest Management

Didier Davignon - Performance Analysis of FireWork for Summer 2013 and Summer 2014 Using Surface Observation over the USA and Canada

Steve Sakiyama - BlueSky Canada Wildfire Smoke Forecasting System

Brigitte Leblon - Developing Improved Predictions of Organic Layer Fuel Moisture with Satellite Radar in Boreal Ecosystems for Fire Danger Assessment

Joshua Johnston - Measuring Byram’s Fire Intensity from Infrared Remote Sensing Imagery

Gavin Hough - Vision Systems for Wildfire Detection

 

Keynote: Bruce Shindler “Building Partnerships, Building Trust”

 

Panel Discussion: David Martell, Judy Beck, Bruce Shindler, Ray Ault

 

Society - Chair: Amy Christianson

Michael Lewis - Return to Flame: A Case Study of Aboriginal Burning and its Implication in Lytton, British Columbia

Val Charlton - Transitioning from FireWise to LandWorks: Fire Adapted Communities in South Africa
Timothy Brown - Extremes in Fire: The Intersection of Climate, Fuels and People

 

Kitchen Party

 

October 9

 

Keynote: Judy Beck “Strategic Directions in Canadian Wildland Fire Management to 2020”

 

Concurrent Sessions

 

Society - Chair: Amy Christianson

Shayne Mintz - East to West, North to South: NFPA Resources Cover Fire Safety
Toddi A. Steelman - Best Practices in Public Communications on a Wildfire

Molly Mowery - Wildfire Partners: How to Engage Homeowners in Taking Meaningful Action

Steve Taylor - Coarse-scale Assessment of the Canadian Wildand Urban Interface

 

Accountability - Chair: Stephanie Maragna

Cordy Tymstra - Extremes in Fire: The Intersection of Climate, Fuels and People

Brian Stocks - Trends in Wildland Fire Load and Fire Management Expenditures in Canada 1970-2012

Brian Simpson - A Climate Change Action Plan for Wildfire Management in British Columbia

Colin McFayden - Analyses Supporting Ontario’s Proposed Wildland Fire

Kris Johnson - A Review of the Wildland Fire Behaviour Specialist Course: 1995 -2014

Den Boychuk - Problems with Performance Measures for Wildland Fire Management

Marie-Pierre Rogeau - Fire Regimes, Dynamics at the Ecotone Between the Mountain and Foothills Landscapesof Southern Alberta

Dan Perrakis - Use of wildfire photographs for validating fire behaviour models

Daniel Poirer - Performance Indicators for the Wildfire Prevention Program

Kelly Johnston - FireSmart: Local Solutions for a National Priority

Colin McFayden - A Decision Support System for Daily Aerial Detection Planning in Ontario

Mike Tucker - Risk-based Wildfire Management Planning at the Lac La Biche Fire Centre, Alberta

Hardi Shahadu - Adaptive Fire Management in Western Canada: The Role of Innovation in Institutional Adaptiveness and Resiliency

 

Concluding Remarks