Wildfire research spans a range of time scales from antecedent pre-fire conditions (e.g., drought, fuel evolution), to the interactions of fire and weather during the actual event, to post fire impacts and recovery (e.g., burnscar, air quality, ecological).
The ICAMS Committee on Research and Innovation (CoRI) is sponsoring (on behalf of all ICAMS committees) an initial cross-agency workshop to initiate a discussion on wildfire research and products. The goal of this workshop is to present current agency activities and identify opportunities for cross-agency collaboration that would benefit from future investments. The overall objective is to advance meteorological services to better support wildland fire preparedness and response. This 3-hour workshop will have high-level presentations from many federal agencies to provide an initial overview of what activities in the wildfire/fire weather sphere are being done by each agency. The discussions from this initial workshop will inform and help shape the agenda for a second workshop (in early May/dates TBD), which will include breakout groups to allow more detailed discussion on topics identified from this first workshop.