Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, North & West Alaska CESU

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The USGS Alaska Science Center seeks to provide financial assistance to develop a full proposal for Alaska Fire Science Consortium technology transfer activities in Alaska. The fire research and management community in Alaska needs a formalized consortium to: 1) coordinate current science delivery efforts; 2) create a formal outreach mechanism for two-way communication between fire scientists and diverse fire and land managers; 3) provide an organized, centralized arena for effectively delivering available fire science information to fire managers; and 4) work with fire managers in an on-going forum to ensure that the science delivery and outreach mechanisms are both useful and usable. This consortium would include representatives from all sectors of the fire research and management communities and technological service providers (those providing web, mapping and teleconferencing/webinar capabilities).Alaska holds an unprecedented level of public responsibility for its land-based resources—70% of the state is under the jurisdiction of federal and state resource managers, including the nation’s largest National Wildlife Refuges, National Parks, and National Forests. Fire management in Alaska is multifaceted as federal and state land managers seek ways to manage fuels and fire to both improve community safety and meet multiple natural resource objectives. Distribution of information to fire and land managers poses a major challenge to effective fire science delivery.

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