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Project ID: 06-2-1-33

Year: 2006

Date Started: 07/07/2006

Date Completed: 12/07/2010

Title: Fuel Consumption and Smoke Emissions From Landscape-Scale Burns in Eastern Hardwoods

Project Proposal Abstract: Prescribed burning in eastern hardwood forests is becoming increasingly important for promoting forest health and reducing fuels at the same time that concerns about the impacts of fire emissions on regional airsheds, human health, and wildlife are increasing. This proposal seeks to estimate fuel consumption and smoke emissions from landscape-scale fires while bringing researchers and key players in the management community together to explore uncertainty in smoke management models and kick-start the development of statewide Smoke Management Programs (SMP's) for Ohio and Kentucky. SMP's are part of an accelerating national process mandated by Regional Haze Rules. Research and science delivery will focus on three related objectives designed to boost fire monitoring and smoke management capabilities in hardwood forests: calibrate airborne infrared (IR) imagery for estimating fuel consumption and fire behavior; estimate fuel consumption and smoke emission for landscape-scale, dormant-season prescribed burns; and conduct field visits and workshops with managers to characterize fuels, model smoke emissions, quantify model uncertainty, and develop SMP's. Sites where fuels and fires will be characterized in this study include undisturbed hardwoods, hardwoods heavily disturbed by an ice storm, and hardwood sites emerging from heavy pine mortality caused by a regional bark beetle outbreak. In order to quantify smoke management model uncertainty, fuel consumption and emissions will be estimated on the same burns for which managers will characterize fuels and model smoke production. Smoke production estimates will be made for landscape burns with (calibrated) airborne IR imagery and on-the-ground smoke monitoring equipment. Managers will be assisted in fuel characterization and smoke modeling by regional Air Resource Specialists and the developers of the fuel Photo Series, Fuel Characteristics Classification System (FCCS), and CONSUME. The Photo Series, FCCS, and CONSUME are tools widely used by managers in smoke management modeling.

Principal Investigator: Matthew B. Dickinson

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: NRS-Forest Health-Sustaining Forests

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Ann L. Acheson	Forest Service	WO-Air Quality Program
Co-Principal Investigator	Robert Kremens	Rochester Institute of Technology	Imaging Science
Collaborator/Contributor	Mike Bowden	Ohio	DNR-Department of Natural Resources
Collaborator/Contributor	Elizabeth J. Bunzendahl	Forest Service	Daniel Boone National Forest
Collaborator/Contributor	Roger D. Ottmar	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances
Collaborator/Contributor	Valerie Young	Ohio State University	Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Federal Cooperator	Michael T. Rains	Forest Service	NRS-Northern Research Station

Project Locations

Consortium

Appalachian

Level	State	Agency	Unit
STATE	OH	STATE	State Lands
STATE	KY	FED	Other Federal Lands

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
	9046	Refereed Publication	Fire Metrology:Current and Future Directions in Physics-Based Measurements
	9044	Refereed Publication	Beyond "Fire Temperatures": Calibrating Thermocouple Probes and Modeling Their Response to Surface Fires in Hardwood Fuels
	7860	NonRefereed Publication	Characterizing Smoke Emissions and Behavior of Landscape-Scale RX Fires in Ohio and Kentucky with Airborne and In-Fire Sensors and Field Sampling
	7907	Invited Paper/Presentation	Fire Behavior and Effects Monitoring
	9053	MS Thesis	Microclimatic and Topographic Controls of Fire Radiative Energy in Southeastern Ohio
	7162	Conference/Symposia/Workshop	Ohio & Kentucky Smoke Management Workshop and Training Session
	7903	Conference/Symposia/Workshop	Ohio & Kentucky Smoke Management Workshop and Training Session
	7905	Poster	Landscape Estimates of Heat Release from Prescribed Fires: Analysis and Calibration of Infrared Imagery from Aircraft
	7906	Poster	Landscape Estimates of Heat Release from Prescribed Fires: Analysis and Calibration of Infrared Imagery From Aircraft
	7908	Poster	Landscape Estimates of Total Heat Release and Fuel Consumption from Prescribed Fires: Analysis and Calibration of Sequential Infrared Images from Aircraft
	7909	Poster	Extraction of Active Fire Fronts from Airborne Time-Sequence Imaging of the Arch Rock Fire in Southeast Ohio
	7910	Poster	WASP-Lite Data Collection April 20, 2007: Tar Hollow, Kentucky
	7165	Training Session	Fuel Consumption and Smoke Emissions from Prescribed Burns in Mixed-Oak Forests
	7911	Progress Report	2007 Progress Report

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