As managers face the challenges presented by ever-larger fires, a changing climate, increasingly unusual fuel conditions and fire weather, the existing fire and smoke modeling systems used in decision making need new data sources. The largest coordinated fire research project to date, FASMEE, is a nationwide, multi-agency effort advancing fire and smoke science and modeling capabilities and introducing new technology to help land managers increase the use of managed fire, improve firefighting strategies, enhance smoke forecasts, and better assess carbon stores and fire-climate interactions. Adam Watts, a research biological scientist with the Pacific Northwest Research Station and leader of its Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, discusses the experiment in this July 2023 installment of the PNW SciCast Webinar series.P