Project Grant 80NSSC22K1731

This $499,463 cooperative agreement awarded by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232) aims to equip agency partners and stakeholders with insights to inform carbon storage management strategies in the boreal forests of interior Alaska. The project will synthesize geospatial data with machine learning and use a process-based landscape model to analyze how forest carbon distribution, fire risk, and recovery...

This is a Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program. The $305,077 award to the University of Washington, with a subcontract to Portland State University, will fund a 2-year project titled "Assessing and Projecting Post-Fire Transitions and Reburn Dynamics in the Western Cascades." The project aims to develop new applied science for anticipating and understanding the capacity of forests in...

This $429,216 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232) aims to investigate how previous managed wildfires influenced the extent, severity, and management tactics used on recent uncontrolled wildfires in the southern Sierra Nevada. The project has six key objectives: (1) identify the environmental factors that led to recent wildfires either burning over or stopping at the boundaries of...

This $889,209 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to enhance understanding, prediction, and management of wildfires. The lead awardee, the University of California Irvine, will: 1) develop a large public dataset of fire-related environmental observations to support machine learning and reproducible wildfire research, 2) advance innovative spatiotemporal machine learning models to understand and predict wildfire spread,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) Project Grant award of $176,388 to Oregon State University (OSU) aims to quantify the production of pyrogenic carbon (charcoal) during wildfires in the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest region and examine how this altered carbon affects soil carbon cycling during ecosystem regeneration. The study will leverage a unique dataset on the 2023 Lookout Fire in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest to (i)...

The University of California, Davis will use a $120,000 cooperative agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop wildland urban interface (WUI) fire simulation models and evacuation strategies. The research will leverage data from California's 2018 Camp Fire to simulate fire hardening and evacuation scenarios for different community archetypes through agent-based modeling, fire dynamics modeling, and evacuation modeling within a semantic framework. This is...

This $650,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program is supporting the development of the PyreCAst platform, an advanced fire forecasting tool. The goal is to enhance wildfire prediction and risk management capabilities through probabilistic modeling that provides more reliable and detailed forecasts of fire behavior. The project aims to integrate cutting-edge...

This two-year, $180,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds research into the impacts of forest fires on soil carbon biogeochemistry and the forest carbon cycle under a changing climate. Dr. Fettrow of Ardmore, Pennsylvania will investigate how forest fires alter belowground soil carbon levels and biogeochemistry. The researcher will determine the magnitude of soil carbon loss during fires and how post-fire soils and carbon storage are changed. Integrated laboratory and field...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award, with ID L24AC00320, is funded by the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), which is managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region. The $618,218 award will fund a 5-year study conducted by Northern Arizona University to advance the understanding of how wildfire affects carbon cycling in boreal forest ecosystems with deep organic soils. The research aims to characterize carbon stores, fluxes, and the risk of...

This $636,200 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, through the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), will support research to address knowledge gaps about the effective duration and impacts of fuel reduction treatments (mechanical thinning, prescribed fire) in mixed-conifer forests across the interior Pacific Northwest. The project will leverage existing data from the Fire and Fire Surrogates study that was burned in subsequent...