Wildland Fire Canada 2010

wildland fire canada 2010 program schedule

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	Monday OCTOBER 4, 2010
830-1730	Open for meetings or pre-conference workshops
830-1730	830-530: CIFFC S&T (Kitchener 2) 830-530: CFS fire research network meeting (Kitchener 3)


1600-2000	Open for pre-registration (Outside the Trillium room)
1800-2000	1800-2000: Welcome reception: (Trillium Room on-main floor) Cash bar and light food

	TUESDAY OCTOBER 5, 2010
730-830	Continental breakfast [Grand Ballroom] + Registration (all day - for late arrivals)
830-840	Welcome and Introduction : Rob McAlpine,
840-900	Opening remarks by Ontario Minister of Natural Resources
900-1000	Opening Keynote: *Thomas Homer-Dixon* (tentative subject: Global perspectives and pressures on natural resource management in Canada)
1000-1030	Short break – refreshments
1030-1200	Plenary session: *Fire management in Canada today and tomorrow: the Director’s view* 1) *Ralph Wheeler* (Fire Director, Ontario), 2) *Walter Fanning* (Fire Director, Nova Scotia), 3) *Brian Simpson* (Fire Director, British Columbia) Discussion
1200-1300	Lunch [Grand Ballroom]

	TUESDAY OCTOBER 5, 2010
1300	Plenary session 1: *On the fireline* (Chair: *Kris Johnson* – NWT) Speaker 1: *Chuck Bushey* (IAWF) On the fireline: past and present and some emerging trends. Speaker 2: Thomas Garvey (Carleton University)Out of the Box and Into the Fire: How product innovation is possible by design Speaker 3: *Dennis Hulbe*rt (USFS-retired) Organizational Culture in Aviation Fire Suppression
1440-1500:	Short break- refreshments
1500-1700	Concurrent sessions: *On the fireline*
	*Safety, risk and organizational culture* *(Chair: Tim Greer, NB)*	*Fuels and Fire Behaviour* *(Chair: Bill Droog, OMNR)*	*New and emerging technologies* *(Chair: Jim Thomasson, FPInnovations)*
	*Darren Toner* - The AFFES Occupational Health and Safety Journey	*Al O’Connor -* Climate Change and Weather Damaged Fuels - Challenges to Ontario Fire Management Staff	*Daniel Moser*- A comparative analysis of mark 3 water pump carriage systems
			*Katie Godfrey* – The Kestrel Wx Station
	*Tim Greer* - Creating a Culture of Mindfulness	*Dave Schroeder* - Fire behaviour in insect killed stands	*Richard Wilson* – The Wiltronics fuel moisture meter
			*Aaron Tweedy*- Ground Based Ignition Devices
	*Greg Baxter* - Survival Zones	*Susan Kidnie* - Fire behaviour prediction in the Ontario tallgrass prairie	*Tetyana Andriychuk* - Night-Vision Device Aided Aerial Forest Fire Detection: Experience in a Controlled Test Grid
			*Franco Nogarin/Heidi Sezler-* Project FireEye
	*Larry Freemont- Beware of Goldmines (Presented by Paul Maczek)*	*Jonathan Large* - Fuel load changes and ignition potential of mulched fuel treatments	*Dennis Hulbert* - Helicopter Night Flying US Forest Service
			Open Discussion Period
	*Bob Bale* - Putting Mindfulness into Action: Overtraining to Achieve High Reliability	*Anne-Claude Pepin* - : Predicting fire behaviour in shrub vegetation assemblage

1730-1930	Poster session and Sponsors [Grand Ballroom]

	WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 6, 2010
730-830	Continental breakfast [Grand Ballroom] + Registration (all day: for late arrivals)
830-845	Plenary session: *In the response centre* Introduction to the session by chair, *Cordy Tymstra* (ASRD)
845-930	Speaker : *Tim Brown* (Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada) Centering a U.S. Wildfire Response – Perspectives on the Second Decade of the Twenty-first Century
930-945	Short break - refreshments
945-1130	Concurrent sessions: *In the response centre*
	*Fire weather forecasting and fire occurrence (Chair: Mick Rice - OMNR.)*	*New Information technology and systems* *(Chair: Susan Reany-Iskra, OMNR)*	*The future of resource sharing (Chair: Steve Taylor, CFS-Victoria)*	*Zoning and appropriate response (Chair: David Milne, Yukon Wildland fire Management)*
	*Mick Rice*- Meteorological Case Study for strong winds observed on 3rd April 2010	*Franco Nogarin* - SPARCS 2010: Spatial Precipitation and Risk Calculation System	*Steve Taylor* -Assessment and modeling of Canadian fire management resource demand	*Philippa Rodrigues/Rick Moore*- An integrated wildland fire economics framework for Alberta
	*Norman Gagnon*- Ensemble forecasting at the Canadian Meteorological Centre	*Peter Englefield -* Advancements in GIS-based fire modeling applications	*Dennis Brown* - Resource sharing in Canada: CIFFC perspective	*Vera Lindsay* - Values at risk in the NWT
	*Kerry Anderson*- Extended-range Fire Weather Products within the Canadian Wildland Fire Information System	*Steve Sakiyama* (Presented by Allen Pankratz) - BlueSky Western Canada Smoke Forecasting System	*Graham Gordon* - An agency perspective of resource sharing	*David Milne -* A case study: Yukon Wildland Fire Management Zonation Policy and the Minto Mine fire of 2010
	*Daniel Poirier* (presented by Kerry Anderson) - Challenges facing the use of Mid-range meteorological ensemble models to develop wildland fire management decision-supporting tools	*Colin McFayden -* FireHawk - Digital fire reporting from aircraft	*Brian Stocks* - Forest Fire Management Resource-Sharing in Canada
		*Susan Reany-Iskra*- VIDEO Presentation: Precision Information Environments Concept
1130-1140	Short break – refreshments
1140-1230	KEYNOTE 2: *Sophie D’Amours* (University of Laval), Canada’s shift from forest management to value chain management

	WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 6, 2010
1230-1330	LUNCH break – [Grand Ballroom]
1330-1445	Plenary session: *On the landscape* (Chair: *Bill DeGroot, CFS-Ontario) Speakers: 1) Rick Sneeuwjagt (Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia) Fire and Land Management in Western Australia 2) Al Westhaver(Parks Canada) Fire in Canada’s national parks Introduction to the concurrent sessions: Bill de Groot*
1445-1500	Short break
1500-1700	Concurrent sessions: *On the landscape*
	*Forest communities in the fire-prone forest (Chair: Paul Maczek, Sask. Env.)*	*Fire in parks and wilderness areas (Chair: Mike Etches, PC)*	*Fire in the commercial forest (Chair: Dave Martell, U. Of Toronto)*	*Remote sensing of fire prone landscapes* *(Chair: Tim Lynham, CFS)*
	*Lyle Gawalko* - Strategic Wildfire Prevention : British Columbia's Fuel Management Program	*Dave Heaman/Lisa Solomon* - Fire Management Planning; Two Different Parks Two Distinct Plans	*David Andison* - The Healthy Landscape Approach to Landscape Management Planning	*Nancy French* - The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System:
	*Adam Gossell*- Alberta’s FireSmart Program – FireSmart Landscapes Framework	*Dave Heaman/Lisa Solomon* (Part II)	*Karl Peck* - Consideration of Forest Management and Timber Supply Values during Escaped Fire Priority Setting	*Brian Simpson -* Characterizing boreal forest fuels with operational airborne lidar data
	*Colleen Mooney* Fuelbreak Effectiveness in Canada’s Boreal Forests	*Beth McEwen/Jennifer Gibb*- A Progress Report on Oak Savannah Restoration in Toronto	*Dave Schroeder -* Wildfire management and non-timber industrial land use	*Justin Podur* - Incorporating a spread event model defined by MODIS hot spots into fire growth modeling
	*Rick Sneeujagt* - The 2009 Victorian bushfires	*Jed Cochrane* - Using Landsat images to determine burn severity in western Canadian landscapes.	*Dave Manol* - Fire management on land that is used for industrial purposes – an Incident Commander’s perspective	*Doug McRae* - Insights on the statistical variability of experimental fire behavior data using airborne infra-red video.
	*Brad Hawkes* -Effectiveness Monitoring of Fuel Abatement Treatments in the southwest Yukon	*Leonardo Cabrera* - Fire Ecology, History and Management in Point Pelee National Park, Ontario Canada	Panel Discussion	*Tim Lynham* - Remote Sensing Tools for New Estimates of Fuel Consumption on Wildfires
1730-1900	Keg tapping [Grand Ballroom]

	THURSDAY OCTOBER 7, 2010
700-830	Continental breakfast [Grand Ballroom] 820: Introduction to the upcoming concurrent sessions : *Paul Ward*
830-1030	Concurrent sessions: *Fire management and the fire community in the 21st century*
	*Building community and public engagement (Chair: Adam Gossell, Alberta)*	*Understanding risk and uncertainty (Chair: J. Beck, CFS-Victoria)*	*Systems approach to fire management (Chair: Mark Johnston, Sask. Res. Council)*
	*Bonita McFarlane/Tara McGee* - Lessons Learned: Engaging Homeowners and Neighbourhoods in Wildfire Mitigation	*Hayley Hessln*- Evaluating the role of geospatial technology in risk reduction	*Mike Flannigan* - Forest Fire Activity in Canada during the 2030s - 2050s
	*Rob Harris* - Beyond Brochures: Using social marketing to reduce human caused wildfires	*Al Tithecott* - Risk Management in Operational Fire Management	*Juha Metsaranta* - Fire, forest management, and the carbon dynamics of Canada’s managed forest over the 21st century.
	*Alan Westhaver* - Lessons in Gaining Public Acceptance of Wildfire Mitigations: A Field Perspective from a Successful FireSmart Community	*Paul Kovacs*- The emerging role of insurance in wildfire risk	*Lyle Gawalko -* Fire, fuel, and carbon management: How to address the conundrum in fire-prone forests
		*Brian Stocks* - Emerging Trends/Issues in Global Fire Management: Implications for Canada?	*Norma Griffin/Dave Cleaveley* - A Balancing act
	Panel discussion	Panel discussion	Panel discussion
1030-1100	Short break- refreshments
1100-1215	Plenary session: *Fire management and the fire community in the 21st century* (Chair: *Paul Ward- OMNR) Speaker 1: Peter Fuglem* ( retired, Director BC Forest Protection) Who is the fire community? Speaker 2: Tim Sheldan (Director General, CFS-Edmonton) Forest fires in Canada: The federal government’s changing role
	Panel discussion: (participants to be announced)
1215-1230	Main Conference wrap up
1230-1330	LUNCH [Grand Ballroom]
1330-1730	Open for Workshops CCFM-WFMWG meeting (closed) FPInnovations- wildland fire operations research group Open meeting - research update and business meeting
	Optional Field Tour – Southern Ontario Ecological Prescribed Burning (participants must resister in advance for this field tour) [advance registration needed]

	Friday OCTOBER 8, 2010

830-1700	Open for workshops/meetings
830-1700	- Tallgrass Ontario Workshop (Nicole Galambos, OMNR) [registration] - CanFire workshop (Bill de Groot, CFS-Sault Ste Marie) - CCFM –WFMWG meeting and CIFFC Board meeting (closed)