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Forest fire is a commonly occurring phenomenon in all ecosystems around the world. It has numerous short- and long-term effects on the ecosystem. Intensive research has made it easy for one to analyze the changes made in the soil system. However,…
Author(s): Rahul Datta
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Mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) causes extensive tree mortality in whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm) forests. Previous studies conducted in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Douglas), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga…
Author(s): Curtis A. Gray, Chelsea Toone, Michael J. Jenkins, Sarah E. Null, Larissa L. Yocom
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It is difficult to detect forest fires in complex backgrounds owing to the many interfering factors in forest fire smoke. In this paper, a novel method that combines Time Domain Robust Principal Component Analysis (TRPCA) and a Two-Stream Composed…
Author(s): Xiaohu Qiang, Guoxiong Zhou, Aibin Chen, Xin Zhang, Wenzhuo Zhang
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Indigenous communities in the Pacific West of North America have long depended on fire to steward their environments, and they are increasingly asserting the importance of cultural burning to achieve goals for ecological and social restoration. We…
Author(s): Jonathan Long, Frank K. Lake, Ron Goode
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The current COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of healthcare systems worldwide. When combined with natural disasters, pandemics can further strain an already exhausted healthcare system. To date, frameworks for quantifying the…
Author(s): Emad M. Hassan, Hussam Mahmoud
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Wildfires pose a significant challenge to the natural and the built environments, as well as the safety and economic well-being of the communities residing in wildfire-prone areas. The electric power grid is specifically among the built environments…
Author(s): Ali Arab, Amin Khodaei, Rozhin Eskandarpour, Matthew P. Thompson, Yu Wei
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im Gumm: I have the privilege of talking to Leslie Weldon and Holly Krake about psychological safety in general and, in particular, an article that Holly led in writing called “The Big Quiet.” Leslie, let’s start with you: What comes to mind when we…
Author(s): Jim Gumm
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The Fireshed Registry is an interactive geospatial data portal providing access to data describing past, present, and future trends regarding wildfire exposure to communities and forest and fuel management. The registry employs a nested spatial…
Author(s): Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day, Chris Ringo, Cody Evers, Fermin Alcasena-Urdiroz, Rachel M. Houtman, Michael Scanlon, Tania Ellersick
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wo years ago, the crew of the Po- larstern, a German icebreaker frozen into Arctic sea ice, shot a green laser up into the night. The beam’s reflected light was meant to help researchers study icy winter clouds. Instead, the beam encountered…
Author(s): Paul Voosen
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Changing climatic conditions prompt concerns about vegetation response to disturbance under future compared to past conditions. In this long‐term study, we examined soil climate and vegetation differences at lower, mid, and upper elevations in two…
Author(s): Bruce A. Roundy, Jeanne C. Chambers
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Wildfire emissions affect downwind air quality and human health. Predictions of these impacts using models are limited by uncertainties in emissions and chemical evolution of smoke plumes. Using high-time-resolution aircraft measurements, we…
Author(s): Brett B. Palm, Qiaoyun Peng, Samuel R. Hall, Kirk Ullmann, Teresa L. Campos, Andrew J. Weinheimer, Denise D. Montzka, Geoffrey S. Tyndall, Wade Permar, Lu Hu, Frank Flocke, Emily V. Fischer, Joel A. Thornton
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The wildland firefighter exposure and health effect (WFFEHE) study was a 2-year repeated-measures study to investigate occupational exposures and acute and subacute health effects among wildland firefighters. This manuscript describes the study…
Author(s): Kathleen M. Navarro, Corey Butler, Kenneth Fent, Christine Toennis, Deborah Sammons, Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas, Kathleen A. Clark, David C. Byrne, Pamela S. Graydon, Christa Hale, Andrea F. Wilkinson, Denise L. Smith, Marissa C. Alexander-Scott, Lynne E. Pinkerton, Judith Eisenberg, Joseph W. Domitrovich
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Fire is a natural element that has important effects on society, economy and environment. It is a critical element of many ecosystems, but when uncontrolled is the cause of the destruction of many socio-economic systems. These uncontrolled fires (…
Author(s): Lea Wittenberg, Paulo Pereira
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The fire plume height (smoke injection height) is an important parameter for calculating the transport and lifetime of smoke particles, which can significantly affect regional and global air quality and atmospheric radiation budget. To develop an…
Author(s): Ziming Ke, Yuhang Wang, Yufei Zou, Yongjia Song, Yongqiang Liu
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Aims:Fire regimes are key drivers of ecosystem dynamics and are changing worldwide. Uncertainty about how fire history affects responses to individual fires hampers predictions of fire impacts on important ecosystem functions such as C cycling. Thus…
Author(s): Ingrid J. Slette, Alannah Liebert, Alan K. Knapp
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Fire whirls are a particular case of flame behaviour characterized by a rotating column of fire driven by intense convective heating of air close to the ground. They typically result in a substantial increase in burning rate, temperature, and flame…
Author(s): Maryam Ghodrat, Farshad Shakeriaski, David James Nelson, Albert Simeoni
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1. Spatial connections between habitats are important to allow movement of organisms across heterogeneous landscapes with diverse disturbances and management. Similarly, species providing functional connections between subnetworks of species…
Author(s): Laura A. Burkle, Laura J. Heil, R. Travis Belote
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We used a value of information approach to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of using satellite imagery as part of the Burn Area Emergency Response (BAER), a US federal program that identifies imminent post-wildfire threats to human life and safety…
Author(s): Richard Bernknopf, Yusuke Kuwayama, Reily Gibson, Jessica Blakely, Bethany Mabee, T. J. Clifford, Brad Quayle, Justin Epting, Terry Hardy, David C. Goodrich
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While managed fire often produces clear changes in aboveground functional diversity, we know little about how fire affects belowground fauna and their mediation of biogeochemical processes. Because soil micro- and mesofauna, particularly nematodes,…
Author(s): Anita Antoninka, Kara Gibson
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Computational natural wildfire simulation is a computing-intensive process. The process is also challenging because of the need to integrate data with wide spatial and temporal variability. Our study sought to simulate rapidly spreading natural…
Author(s): Bishrant Adhikari, Chen Xu, Paddington Hodza, Thomas A. Minckley
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