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Project ID: 04-4-1-34

Year: 2004

Date Started: 07/13/2004

Date Completed: 09/28/2007

Title: An Internet Based Portal for Fire Science and Management in the Southern Region

Project Proposal Abstract: The proliferation of fire technology, research, data, and publications across the fire community makes the process of identifying and synthesizing the best available fire science into fire management challenging and sometimes impossible. Even with the increasing ease of delivering valuable tools and information useful for fire planning in digital formats, they exist across dozens of websites and locations. Managers cannot efficiently identify research products, compare them to similar efforts, or determine suitability for their management application. This often leads to ineffective application of research tools and duplication of efforts. We propose to address this issue by developing the Internet based Southern Fire Portal that identifies, acquires, analyzes, synthesizes, packages, and delivers wildland fire data, information, tools, and technologies developed by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), National Fire Plan (NFP) and other key regional products and tools from state agencies, universities, and non-governmental organizations. The Southern Fire Portal boundaries coincide with those for the Southern Geographic Area Coordination Center (GACC). This effort builds on concepts developed through the Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES), the USGS National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), the Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science (ESFS), and the Tall Timbers Research Station E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database (TTRS Database). Results will include (1) data and tools (2) metadata, (3) state-of-the-knowledge literature syntheses (4) an index of publications, (5) a fire thesaurus, and (6) a strategy for integrating content.

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	Cynthia T. Fowler	Forest Service	SRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Athens GA
Co-Principal Investigator	John K. Hiers	US Air Force	Eglin Air Force Base
Co-Principal Investigator	Deborah K. Kennard	Forest Service	SRS-GW Andrew Forestry Sciences Lab
Co-Principal Investigator	Ron Masters	Tall Timbers Research Station
Federal Cooperator	Jennifer Gaines	USGS-Geological Survey	BRD-Water Science Center-CO

Project Locations

Consortium

Appalachian

Oak Woodlands

South

There are no project locations identified for this project.

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
	218	Refereed Publication	Using Hyperdocuments to Manage Scientific Knowledge: The Prototype Encyclopedia of Southern Appalacian Forest Ecosystems
	217	Refereed Publication	The Encyclopedia of Southern Applacacia Forest Ecosystems: A Prototype of an Online Scientific Knowledge Management System

Supporting Documents

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