ISSUES
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Verdant Fire Case Study.....Kiera Macauley
PyroLife project kicks off: an ambitious Innovation Training Network on wildfires..... Celia Conde & Dr.Cathelijne Stoof
Strategic planning at CIFFC:the next three years.....Maria Sharpe
From books to blaze, and back again:Gaining a well-rounded education in fire management.....Kate Bezooyen
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Canada's Blueprint for wildland fire science.....Chris Stockdale and Stacey Sankey
Wildfires will only get worse unless we learn how to live with them.....Lynn Johnston, Alan Cantin, Joshua Johnston, Natasha Jurko, and Mike Flannigan
Caribou Lake Fire Case Study: Focus on weather.....Maria Sharpe
WildFireSat:A new Canadian wildfire monitoring satellite system on the horizon.....Joshua Johnston and Helena van Mierlo
NSERC Connect: Building a Wildfire Management Network.....Mike Flannigan
To leave or not to leave: Understanding indigenous experience of evacuation in Canada.....Tara McGee
Global fire challenges in a warming world.....François-Nicolas Robinne
National Smoke Forum - Ottawa, November 2019.....Ginny Marshall
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Exploring mulching treatment intensity: Productivity trials and fire behaviour.....Steve Hvenegaard
Wildfires will only get worse unless we learn how to live with them.....Mike Wotton and Mike Flannigan
A proposed experimental methodology for assessing the effects of biophysical properties and energy content on live fuel flammability.....Oleg Melnik
Not the new normal: an AI approach to BC wildfires.....Matt Toner
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What's on tap for the 2018 wildfire season ..... Mike Flannigan
Pelican Mountain FireSmart Fuel Management Research Site ..... Dave Schroeder
Current research on Canada’s interface areas ..... Lynn M. Johnston
Windrow burning in aspen - can we shift burning to the fire season? ..... Greg Baxter
Ember Award for Excellence in Wildland FireScience, 2017 Recipient: Brian Stocks ..... MikeWotton, Mike
Flannigan and Bill de Groot
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The 2017 Canadian Wildfire Season ..... Mike Flannigan
Appropriate response - Ontario’s strategic approach to wildland fire ..... Colin McFayden and Den Boychuk
Building a Blueprint - a renewed future for wildland fire science in Canada ..... Stacey Sankey
Return to Flame: Reasons for Burning in Lytton First Nation, British Columbia ..... Michael Lewis, Amy Christianson and Marsha Spinks
Edmonton smoked in by BC wildfires, July 19-20, 2017 - a case study ..... Dan McLennan and Al Pankratz
Gradual landscape anthropization and its effect on the pyrogeography of Alberta ..... François-Nicolas Robinne
Interpolating daily precipitation to improve fire danger rating in Alberta, Canada: which methods are best?
..... Xinli Cai
An early warning system for forecasting human-caused fire activity using satellite-observed greenness ..... Paul
Pickell, Nicholas Coops, Colin Ferster, Chris Bater, Karen Blouin, Mike Flannigan and Jinkai Zhang
Canadian Partnership for Wildland Fire Science Second Biennial Wildfire Science and Technology Retreat ..... Dan
Thompson
Wildland Fire Canada 2016 award winners
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Introducing the Canadian Partnership for Wildland Fire Science ..... Mike Flannigan
PyroCb: A Volcano-like Firestorm Sending Smoke into the Stratosphere ..... Mike Fromm
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre - Roles and Activities ..... Kim G. Connors
Wildfire Remote Sensing Workshop, 20 – 22 June 2017 in Montreal, Québec ..... Helena van Mierlo
Moisture Changes from Sprinkler-watering ..... Devon Barnes, Greg Baxter, and Eric Miller
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The Fort McMurray Wildfire: By the Numbers ..... Mike Flannigan, and Cordy Tymstra
Departed Fire Regime Conditions from Historical References are Raising Concerns in Southern Alberta
..... Marie-Pierre Rogeau
Impact of the 2010 Russian Wildfires on Moscow’s Air Quality ..... David Lavoué and Aika Davis
Comprehensive FireSmart® Implementation: More than Just Forest Fuel Management ..... Kelly Johnston
FireWork – A Canadian Operational Air Quality Forecast Model with Near-Real-Time Biomass Burning Emissions ..... Radenko Pavlovic, et al.
Fire Behaviour Observations from a Significant Mountain Wildfire in West Central Alberta ..... Kelsy Gibos
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Letters From the Editors ..... Al Pankratz and Mike Flannigan
Living with Fire: Prevention Helps, but Large Wildfires are Inevitable ..... Mike Flannigan and Mike Wotton
The Edmonton PM10 event - July 16, 2014 ..... Blair Morrow, Brian Luzny and Al Pankratz
Ventilation Forecasting ..... Al Pankratz
Increasing Wildfire Growth Modelling Decision Support Using Ensemble Weather Forecasts Over the Province of Alberta, Canada ..... Brett Moore
Ensemble Lightning Prediction Models for Alberta, Canada ..... Karen Blouin
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A Report on the Halifax National Smoke Forum, October 14, 2014 ..... Steve Sakiyama, Al Pankratz, Brian Simpson and Kerry Anderson
The Northwest Territories Up In Smoke: the summer of 2014 ..... Al Pankratz, Da ve Fox and Matt Seaboyer
Integrative Wildland Fire & Smoke Modeling: Case Study of a Labrador Smoke Plume Reaching Greenland ..... David Lavoué
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Preliminary Agenda - National Smoke Forum, Halifax , October 10, 2014
Towards Establishing a National Forum on Smoke Forecasting in Canada ..... Brian Stocks
Stereoscopic Retrieval of Smoke Plume Heights and Motion from Space-Based Multi‑angle Imaging, Using the MISR INteractive eXplorer (MINX) ..... David Nelson and Ralph Kahn
Wildfire Smoke from Start to Finish ..... Al Pankratz, David Lavoué and Aika Davis
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Synoptic Atmospheric Transport of Wildfire Smoke Plumes to Greenland ..... David Lavoué
Wildland Fire Canada 2012 Conference - Part 1 ..... Al Pankratz
Wildland Fire Canada 2012 Conference - Part 2 ..... Peter Murphy
Wildland Fire Canada 2012 Conference - Part 3 ..... Brian Stocks
Manitoba Health-Office of Disaster Management’s Emerging Work on the Wildland Fire Smoke Portfolio ..... Barbara Crumb and Darlene Oshanski
BlueSky Canada - Part 1 ..... Steve Sakiyama
BlueSky Canada - Part 2 ..... Kerry Anderson
BlueSky Canada - Part 3 ..... Roland Stull and Roland Schigas
BlueSky Canada - Part 4 ..... Jed Cochrane
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Photographs of the 2011 Slave Lake Fire ..... Kevin Parkinson
Megafires: Reality or Hype? ..... Al Pankratz
AQHI Event over the Southern Prairies, Sept. 9-11, 2011 ..... Justin Shaer
The Western Canada BlueSky Wildfire Smoke Forecasting System: Continued Development, Evaluation and Operation ..... Steve Sakiyama
Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science ..... Mike Flannigan
Evaluation of the BlueSky Smoke Forecasting System and Its Utility for Public Health Protection in BC ..... Jiayun Yao
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Identification of Smoke Plumes from Satellite Images ..... Victoria Wan, Charmaine B. Dean, W. John Braun, and Sarah Henderson
Photo Essay: Smoke Over Southern British Columbia, July 30, 2010 ..... Al Pankratz, Liz Pankratz
The Great Alberta Smokeout of 2010 ..... Blair Morrow, Curtis Mooney, and Al Pankratz
Forest Fire Smoke in Saskatchewan during the Summer of 2010 ..... David Lavoué
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Canadian Wildland Fire Conference 2010 Report ..... Al Pankratz
International Conference on Open Burning and the Arctic: Summary and Conclusions ..... David McCabe, Elena Kobets, and conference participants
Forecast Support to BORTAS-A (2010): Predicting Forest Fire Smoke Plumes over Nova Scotia ..... David Waugh et al.
The Western Canada BlueSky Wildfire Smoke Forecasting System Pilot: A Successful Launch ..... Steve Sakiyama
Quebec Wildfires Spread Smoke to Eastern Canada and New England ..... David Lavoué
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Conference Notes: AWMA ACE 2010 ..... Al Pankratz
Fuel-type mapping for the CWFIS: Past, Present, and Future ..... Brian Simpson, Peter Englefield, and Kerry Anderson
Impact of the 2003 Forest Fires on Air Quality in Western Canada ..... David Lavoué
Air Quality Sampling during 2003 Prescribed Burns in Banff National Park; Part 2 ..... Brian Wiens
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Quantifying wildfire emissions across North America with the Wildland Fire Emissions Information System ..... Nancy HF French
Modelling the Interannual Variability of Black Carbon Emitted from Boreal and Temperate Wildland Fires ..... David Lavoué
Fire Emissions in Central Siberia ..... Douglas J. McRae, Susan G. Conard, Steve P. Baker, Yuri N. Samsonov and Galina A. Ivanova
The ARCTAS Intensive Ozonesonde Network Study (ARC-IONS) ..... David W. Tarasick, Anne M. Thompson and Samuel J. Oltmans
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Prometheus: the Canadian Wildland Fire Growth Simulation Model ..... Neal McLoughlin
Black Carbon Records of 19th Century North American Fire Emissions in Greenland Ice Cores ..... David Lavoué
Air Quality Sampling during 2003 Prescribed Burns in Banff National Park: Part 1 ..... Brian Wiens
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ARCTAS: The Perfect Smoke ..... Amber J. Soja, Brian Stocks, Paul Maczek, Mike Fromm, Rene Servranckx, Merritt Turetsky and Brian Benscoter
The International Workshop on Advances in Operational Weather Systems for Fire Danger Rating ..... Michael Brady
Wildfire Smoke Forecasting for British Columbia and Alberta: The Bluesky Western Canada Extension Pilot Project - Update on Progress ..... Steve Sakiyama
Calculating Canadian Wildfire Emissions for Historical Analysis and Air Quality Forecasting Purposes ..... David Lavoué
Revisiting the 1950 Great Smoke Pall ..... Robert Field
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A Smoke Forecasting System for British Columbia and Alberta: The BlueSky Western Canada Extension Pilot Project ..... Steve Sakiyama
Fire Smoke and Human Health ..... Sarah Henderson and Michael Brauer
Agricultural Burning in Manitoba ..... Andrew Nadler
Where There's Fire, There's Smoke ..... Kerry Anderson
Biomass Burning Plumes Observed with the Dalhousie Raman Lidar ..... Thomas J. Duck, Lucy Crawford, Jonathan Doyle, Steve Beauchamp, and Ray Hoff