Join us for a 2-day webinar series this fall. This event is free, open to all, and serves as a prelude to our in-person conference which is scheduled for Fall 2021. Each day will feature a panel of international fire scientists and managers, who will provide a short presentation. A question and answer session will follow the presentations.

Day 1, October 20: Impacts of COVID-19 on the 2020 Fire Season

• Cathelijne Stoof, Wageningen University, Netherlands
• Val Chalton, Landworks, South Africa
• Tomás Withington, Administración de Parques Nacionales de Argentina, Argentina
• Cristiano Foderi, University of Firenze, Italy
• Erin Belval, Colorado State University, USA

Day 2, October 21: Integration of Fire Ecology and the Bioeconomy into Wildfire Management

• Nicolas Faivre, European Commission, Belgium
• Marco Conedera, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland
• Rebecca Bliege Bird, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Esther Amoako, University of Development Studies, Ghana

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