October 5

 

Plenary Session: Fire Management in Canada Today and Tomorrow - The Director's View

Ralph Wheeler - Ontario Fire Director: State of Wildlife Policy  >> Download presentation

Walter Fanning - Nova Scotia Fire Director: Challenges and Opportunitie  >> Download presentation

Brian Simpson - British Columbia Fire Director: British Columbia's Wildfire Reality  >> Download presentation

 

Plenary Session: On the Fireline - Chair: Kris Johnston

 

Chuck Bushey - On the Fireline: Past, Present and some Emerging Trends  >> Download presentation

Thomas Garvey - Out of the Box and Into the Fire: How Product Innovation is Possible by Design  >> Download presentation

Dennis Hulbert - Organizational Culture in Aviation Fire Suppression: A Lessons Learned Overview of Emerging Issues and Challenges in a Multi-Agency Aviation Fire Suppression Program  >> Download presentation

 

Concurrent Sessions on the Fireline

 

Safety, Risk and Organizational Culture - Chair: Tim Greer

Darren Toner - An Occupational Health and Safety Journey >> Download presentation

Tim Greer - HIgh Reliability Organizations and a Culture of Mindfulness >> Download presentation

Greg Baxter - Firefighter Survival Zones >> Download presentation

Larry Freemont - Protecting a Gold Mine from Wildfire “Lessons Learned” >> Download presentation

Bob Bale - Overtraining for High Reliability: Increasing Organizational Resilience >> Download presentation

 

 

Fuels and Fire Behaviour - Chair: Bill Droog

Al O’Connor - Climate Change and Weather Damaged Fuels: Challenges to Ontario Fire Management Staff >> Download presentation
Dave Schroeder - Fire Behaviour in Insect Damaged Stands >> Download presentation

Susan Kidnie - Southern Ontario Tallgrass Prairie >> Download presentation

Jonathan Large - Fire Behaviour in Mulched Fuel Types >> Download presentation

Anne-Claude Pepin - Predicting Fire Behaviour in Shrub Vegetation Assemblage >> Download presentation

 

New and Emerging Technology - Chair: Jim Thomasson

Daniel Moser - A Comparative Analysis of Mark III Water Pump Carriage Systems >> Download presentation

Katie Godfrey - Kestrel Pocket Weather Meters on the Fireline >> Download presentation

Richard Wilson - Moisture Matters! Wiltronics >> Download presentation

Aaron Tweedy - SEI Industries: Leader in Ignition Technology for Aerial & Ground Prescribed Burning >> Download presentation

Tetyana Andriychuk - Night-Vision Aided Aerial Forest Fire Detection: Experience in a Control Test Grid >> Download presentation

Dennis Hulbert - Wildfire Warfare: Night Ops

 

October 6

Plenary Session In the Response Centre - Chair: Cordy Tymstra

 

Keynote Speaker

Tim Brown - Centering a U.S. Wildlife Response - Perspsectivesonn the Second Decade of the 21st Century >> Download presentation


Concurrent Sessions: In the Response Centre

 

Fire Weather Forecasting and Fire Occurrence - Chair: Mick Rice

Mick Rice - Meteorological Case Study for Strong Winds Observed on 3rd April 2010

Normand Gagnon - Ensemble Forecasting at the Canadian Meteorological Centre >> Download presentation
Kerry Anderson - Extended-range Fire Weather Products within the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System >> Download presentation

Daniel Poirier - Challenges Facing the use of Mid-range Meteorological Ensemble Models to Develop Wildland Fire Management Decision-supporting Tools >> Download presentation

 

New Information Technology and Systems - Chair: Susan Reany-Iskra

Franco Nogarin - SPARCS 2010: Spatial Precipitation and Risk Calculation System

Peter Englefield - Advancement in GIS-based Fire Modeling Applications >> Download presentation

Steve Sakiyama - BlueSky Western Canada Smoke Forecasting System Pilot Project >> Download presentation

Colin McFayden - Digital Wildfire Reporting: OPS Ideas & Innovation Fund Project >> Download presentation

Susan Reany-Iskra - Precision Information Environments Concept

 

The Future of Resource Sharing - Chair: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor - Canadian Fire Resource Demand System >> Download presentation

Dennis Brown - Resource Sharing in Canada: CIFFC Perspective >> Download presentation

Graham Gordon - Resource Sharing An Agency Perspective >> Download presentation

Brian Stocks - Forest Fire Management Resource-Sharing in Canada: The Need for an Expanded & More Effective Capability >> Download presentation

 

Zoning and Appropriate Response - Chair: David Milne

Philippa Rodrigues and Rick Moore - Development of an Integrated Wildland Fire Economic Framework for Alberta >> Download presentation

Vera Lindsay - Values at Risk: The Spatial Precipitation and Risk Calculation System >> Download presentation

David Milne - Yukon Fire Zone Policy and the Minto Mine Fire of 2010: A Case Study >> Download presentation

 

Keynote Speaker

Sophie D'Amours - Canada's Shift from Forest Management to Value Chain Management

 

Plenary Session: On the Landscape - Chair: Bill de Groot

Rick Sneeuwjagt - Management of Fire in Southwest of Western Australia

Alan Westhaver - Landscape Fire Management Canada’s National Parks >> Download presentation

 

Concurrent Sessions: On the Landscape

Forest Communities in the Fire-Prone Forest - Chair: Paul Maczek

Lyle Gawalko - British Columbia's Strategic Wildfire Prevention Program >> Download presentation

Adam Gossell - FireSmart Landscapes: Safer Communities & Healthier Forests >> Download presentation

Colleen Mooney - Fuelbreak Effectiveness in Canada’s Boreal Forests: A Synthesis of Current Knowledge >> Download presentation

Rick Sneeujagt - Lessons Identified from Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission Inquiry into Black Saturday Bushfires >> Download presentation

Brad Hawkes - Effectiveness Monitoring of Fuel Treatments >> Download presentation

 

Fire in Parks and Wilderness Areas - Chair: Mike Etches

Dave Heaman and Lisa Solomon - Ontario Parks Fire Management Planning: Two Different Parks Distinct Plans >> Download presentation
Beth McEwen and Jennifer Gibb - Oak Savannah Restoration in Toronto: A Progress Report >> Download presentation

Jed Cochrane - Using Landsat Images to Determine Burn Severity in Western Canadian Landscapes >> Download presentation

Leonardo Cabrera - Fire History, Ecology and Management in Point Pelee National Park >> Download presentation

 

Fire in the Commercial Forest - Chair: David Martell

David Andison - The Healthy Landscape Approach to Landscape Management Planning >> Download presentation

Karl Peck - Consideration of Forest Management Values During Escaped Fire Priority Setting >> Download presentation

Dave Schroeder - Industry and Wildfire Management >> Download presentation

Dave Manol - Fire in the Commercial Forest “An Incident Commander’s Perspective” >> Download presentation

 

Remote Sensing of Fire Prone Landscapes - Chair: Tim Lynham

Nancy French - The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System: A Web-base Regional Scale Approach to Mapping Fire Emissions in North America >> Download presentation

Brian Simpson - Characterizing Boreal Forest Fuels with Operational Airborne LiDAR Data >> Download presentation

Justin Podur - Incorporating a Spread Event Model Defined by MODIS Hot Spots into Fire Growth Modeling >> Download presentation

Doug McRae - Insights on the Statistical Variability of Experimental Fire Behaviour Data Using Airborne-Infrared >> Download presentation

Tim Lynham - The Fire Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting System (FireMARS) in Support of National Forest Carbon Accounting >> Download presentation

 

October 7

 

Concurrent Sessions: Fire Management and the Fire Community in the 21st Century

Building Community and Public Engagement - Chair: Adam Gossell

Bonita McFarlane and Tara McGee - Lessons Learned: Engaging Homeowners and Neighbourhoods in Wildfire Mitigation >> Download presentation

Rob Harris - Beyond Brochures: Using Social Marketing to Reduce Human Caused Wildfires

Alan Westhaver - Lessons in Gaining Public Acceptance of Wildfire Mitigations: A Field Perspective >> Download presentation

 

Understanding Risk and Uncertainty - Chair: Judi Beck

Hayley Hesslin - Evaluating the Role of Geospatial Technology in Risk Reduction

Al Tithecott - Risk Management in Operational Fire Management >> Download presentation

Paul Kovacs - The Emerging Role of Insurance in Wildfire Risk

Brian Stocks - Emerging Trends/Issues in Global Fire Management: Implications for Canada? >> Download presentation

 

Systems Approach to Fire Management - Chair: Mark Johnston

Mike Flannigan - Forest Fire Activity in Canada During the 2030s to 2050s >> Download presentation
Juha Metsaranta - Fire, Forest Management, and the Carbon Dynamics of Canada’s Managed Forest over the 21st Century >> Download presentation

Lyle Gawalko - Fire, Fuel, and Carbon Management in Fire-Prone Forests >> Download presentation
Norma Griffin - A Balancing Act

 

Plenary Session: Fire Management and the Fire Community in the 21st Century - Chair: Paul Ward

Peter Fuglem - Who is the Fire Community? >> Download presentation

Tim Sheldan - Forest Fires in Canada: The Federal Government's Changing Role >> Download presentation

 

Closing Remarks