Sentences with phrase «wildland fire science»

«The warmer the Earth gets, the more fire we get, and the more fire we get, the more greenhouse gases we get,» says Mike Flannigan, director of the Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Concerns about peat fires worsening climate change Mike Flannigan, director of the University of Alberta's Western Partnership for Wildland Fire Science who was not involved with the analysis, said it's important to note that wildfires are a part of northern boreal forests» ecology.

Additional funding was provided by NASA through a NNH11ZDA001N - FIRES applied wildland fire sciences award.

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And the European Union stopped funding basic science related to fire dynamics and wildland - urban interface fires almost a decade ago, focusing instead on applied technological projects and more general research on natural disasters.

(S. Ferguson, A. R. Dahale; B. Shotorban; S. Mahalingam; D. R. Weise, «The role of moisture on combustion of pyrolysis gases in wildland fires,» Combustion Science and Technology, 185: 435 - 453, 2013; and Yashwanth, B.L.; S. Ferguson; B. Shotorban; S. Mahalingam; D. R. Weise, «Numerical investigation of influence of moisture content on thermal behavior of heated wood,» Paper 070FR - 0208, presented at the 8th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, May 19 - 22, 2013)

This newsletter contains articles on the following: 2016 as a record - warm year for the province, recent PCIC research on Fraser River Basin climate impacts, recent Data Portal upgrades, Director Francis Zwiers's keynote at the Wildland Fire Canada Meeting and recognition as a highly - cited researcher, a staff profile on Megan Kirchmeier - Young, our Pacific Climate Seminar Series, PCIC's contributions to the AGU Fall Meeting and Northwest Climate Conference, the most recent Science Brief, staff changes and recent papers by PCIC staff and affiliates.