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Project ID: 05-4-1-07

Year: 2005

Date Started:

Date Completed: 10/09/2007

Title: Meeting Interagency Fire Program Management Standards Needs with Science-Based, Work-Shop and On-Line Academic Courses: An Innovative Technology Transfer Approach

Project Proposal Abstract: We propose a 2-year research project to develop and deliver three, three-credit, 400-level, academic, technology transfer courses to each be taught twice in workshop and web format. The course content will be collected and synthesized from 10 specific JSFP, NFP and WO projects, and from related science and practice. The three, 3-credit courses are 1) Science-Based Fuels Management Planning, 2) Assessing Fire Effects and Burn Severity, and 3) Fuels Inventory and Mapping. The courses are specifically designed to meet the new Interagency Fire Program Management Standards for professional GS-0401 Fire Management Specialist positions. Common threads across all courses include bringing 'science and tools' to bear on fire and fuel issues through readings, discussion and applied projects, learning from and discussing issues and techniques with scientists and experts, hands-on field applications, and learning how to access and synthesize the scientific literature. All courses will require managers to apply the research to projects from their home agency job. In addition to developing the courses, we will also conduct a needs assessment for the fire programs that will identify additional 'science and tools you can use' content that should be synthesized and organized into modules/courses for transfer through future educational programs to fire and fuel managers and other personnel. In year 1, the content, pedagogy, and instructors for the three courses will be assembled and then the three courses will each be taught twice in a two-week intensive workshop format. In year two, the three academic courses will be converted to a web format in order to provide greater access to students and to potentially increase the rate and quality of learning. Our research addresses JSFP AFP 2005-4 Task 1, which calls for extending technology transfer activities beyond the conclusion of successful current, or recently completed, JFSP funded projects or other applicable wildland fire research and Task 2, which calls for producing readily understandable and useable information synthesis or transfer products on key topics of critical interest to the fire and fuels management community.

Principal Investigator: Penny M. Morgan

Agency/Organization: University of Idaho

Branch or Dept: Department of Forest Resources

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Roger D. Ottmar	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances
Co-Principal Investigator	Elaine K. Sutherland	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Federal Cooperator	Lisa Garrett	University of Idaho	Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources

Project Locations

Consortium

Northwest

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Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	6481	Refereed Publication	Evaluation of Linear Spectral Unmixing and NBR for Predicting Post-Fire Recovery in a North American Ponderosa Pine Forest
	2972	Refereed Publication	Remote Sensing Techniques to Assess Active Fire Characteristics and Post-Fire Effects
	9347	NonRefereed Publication	Production of Landsat ETM + Reference Imagery of Burned Areas Within Southern African Savannahs: Comparision of Methods and Applications to MODIS
	8876	NonRefereed Publication	Remote Sensing for Prediction of One-Year Post-Fire Ecosystem Condition
	2975	NonRefereed Publication	Panel Discussion: Challenges and Recommendations for the Mapping of Fire and Post-Fire Effects

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