A Multi-Modal, Life Cycle Approach to Risk and Crisis Communication
Risk and crisis communication models have evolved over recent decades with a shift from command-and-control, top-down, linear approaches...
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Kamloops UAV-based Hyperspectral / LiDAR Data Acquisition
This project aims to acquire a unique, advanced, high-dimensional dataset of forest canopy cover using a remotely piloted aircraft system...
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Bulkley Valley Research Centre (BVRC) Fire Research and Extension Program
Bulkley Valley Research Centre (BVRC) Fire Research and Extension Program Wildfire Fuels and Fire Regimes in B.C. This ‘fire research and...
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Psychological Health and Safety in Wildland Firefighting
The current project aims to guide the BC Wildfire Service to accomplish three major objectives relating to psychological health and...
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Exploring the Health Impacts of Occupational Exposure to Wildland Fires for Personnel
Exploring the Health Impacts of Occupational Exposure to Wildland Fires for Wildland Firefighters and Related Personnel: a Scoping Review...
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Development of an Atmospheric Instability Index for Use in Alberta
Create a fire behaviour danger index based on atmospheric instability for use in Alberta. The relationship between the vertical structure...
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Modelling Initial Attack Containment Success: a Tool to Support Initial Attack Dispatching Decisions
This project focuses on dispatching, particularly building machine learning models to predict IA success. Previous studies have used...
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The Influence of Fire Legacy and Severity on Post-Fire Carbon Cycling
This study will evaluate the post-fire carbon cycling under alternative fire history and fire severity to better understand the response...
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Characterization of In-Stand Weather
New surface fire spread models in the enhanced Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) will be driven explicitly by...
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Development of Thresholds and Triggers to Establish a Provincial ‘Code Red’ State of Preparedness
This project will investigate various input metrics such as the current and forecasted fire load, fire size, and fire perimeter to build...
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Early Event Detection for Spring Wildfires
Teleconnections are recurring large-scale anomaly patterns of pressure and circulation. The correlation of teleconnection climate...
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Inversion Breakdown Analysis
Different wind models will be assessed with respect to their added value for fire behavior prediction. These models will be applied to...
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Characterization of Large Escaped Spring Wildfires in Alberta
This project will characterized seventy-four wildfires in May from 1990 to 2016 that were both initial attack (IA) escapes and being held...
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Experiments, Machine Learning, and Regression Analysis on Wildfire Suppression Expenditures
The project aims to analyze how wildfire suppression operation expenditures can be explained by various factors, including environmental...
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Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Wildfire Suppression in Alberta
Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Wildfire Suppression in Alberta: Identifying Sources of Suppression Efficiency Alberta's priority...
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