Schedule for: 17w5145 - Forest and Wildland Fire Management: a Risk Management Perspective

Beginning on Sunday, November 5 and ending Friday November 10, 2017

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, November 5
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, November 6
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Station Manager (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 09:05 Opening remarks by the workshop Organizing Committee (TCPL 201)
09:05 - 09:40 Wally Born: Fire management in Alberta (TCPL 201)
09:40 - 10:15 Aaron Pawlick: Fire management in British Columbia (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break and Informal Discussions (TCPL Foyer)
10:45 - 12:00 Perspectives on research priorities panel discussion, chaired by Al Tithecott with panelists: Wally Born, Rob McAlpine and Aaron Pawlick/BC Representatives (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 13:50 David Martell: A forest and wildland fire management analytics framework (TCPL 201)
13:50 - 14:25 Colin McFayden: Appropriate response and decision making (TCPL 201)
14:25 - 15:00 Neal McLoughlin: Alberta wildfire risk management – analysis to implementation (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:15 Group Photo (TCPL Foyer)
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break and Informal Discussions (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 17:00 Discussion/Roundtable/Panel Discussion (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, November 7
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Mikael Rönnqvist: Calibrated Route Finder: Improving the Safety, Environmental Consciousness, and Cost Effectiveness of Truck Routing in Sweden (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:15 Discussion (TCPL 201)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:45 - 11:10 Yu Wei: Building operations research models to improve our ability to address uncertainties in wildland fire management (TCPL 201)
11:10 - 11:35 Matthew Thompson: Optimizing fire management strategies on the basis of risk and control opportunities (TCPL 201)
11:35 - 12:00 Jeremy Fried: Modeling Stand Level Fuels Management Effectiveness and Economic Feasibility at Landscape Scale in the U.S.: a Forest Inventory Informed Approach (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Kate Larson: The Strengths and Limitations of Game Theory for Fire Management (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Mark Crowley: Fighting Fire with AI: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Modelling and Decision Making in Wildfire Management (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 16:00 David Martell: Prescriptive analytics to inform forest and wildland fire management (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:15 Colin McFayden: Discussant (TCPL 201)
16:15 - 17:00 Open Discussion (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, November 8
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Matt Davison: Some Financial Risk Management Ideas which may be Applicable to Issues in Wildland Fire (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Jennifer Beverly: Fire risk assessment – reflections on complexity, meaning and scale (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Cordy Tymstra: Enhanced situational awareness of spring wildfire danger in Alberta (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Cristina Vega-Garcia: Fire occurrence prediction applications for improved wildfire risk management in Spain (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, November 9
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Steve Cumming: Towards a hierarchical model of the joint distribution of annual fire counts and fire sizes. (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Lori Daniels: 2017 Wildfires in British Columbia: Causes, Consequences and Solutions (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Patrick James: The influence of cumulative spruce budworm defoliation on the probability of ignition (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:45 - 11:30 Xianli Wang: Mapping fire risk in Canada: from landscape to national scale (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Steve Taylor: Predicting Severe Wildfire Occurrence in Canada (TCPL 201)
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:15 Geoff Cary: An Australian and international modelling perspective on quantifying mitigation of wildfire risk (TCPL 201)
14:15 - 15:00 Ellen Whitman: Landscape patterns of burn severity in the boreal forest (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Frederic Schoenberg: Did your model account for earthworms? (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Brett Moore: Probabilistic Prometheus Fire Growth Simulation Using Ensemble Weather Forecasts (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Discussion (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, November 10
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:30 Rob McAlpine: Closing discussion and planning for future collaboration (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)