Fire

Disturbance Science Topics

• Invasive Species
• Research to Support National Fire and Fuels Strategy 
• Climate Change and Events 
• Air, Water, Soils Pollution 
• Forest Fragmentation and Land Use Change 
• Market-induced Change to Forests 
• Monitoring and Assessment of Forest Health
• Fish and Wildlife Habitat and Viability

The Northern Research Station’s (NRS) Fire Research & Development Program is built upon the framework established by the USDA Forest Service’s Wildland Fire and Fuels Research and Development (WFFRD) Strategic Plan that outlines a national fire research and science application program to meet the needs of land managers, stakeholders, and other clients. The plan identifies five research and program delivery portfolio areas for organizing fire research and product development/delivery activities in the Agency. The NRS conducts research and develops/delivers new products within each of these portfolio areas to address both national and regional fire issues relevant to forest ecosystems in the Midwest and Northeast. The regional issues include relatively high rural human populations intermingling with forested systems; air-quality concerns related to the use of fire for fuels management; several ecosystems historically disturbed by fire now losing fire-dependent biodiversity after decades of fire exclusion; and some fire dependent ecosystems inhabited by citizens largely unfamiliar with fire risk and frequent disturbance.

• Physical
  Fire Science
• Ecological &
  Environmental
• Social
  Fire Science
• Integrated
  Fire & Fuels
• Program
  Delivery

Physical Fire Science

Science to improve our understanding of combustion processes, fuels, fire weather, fire behavior, and fire transitions.

• An Investigation of Lower-Tropospheric Meteorological Processes that Impact the Evolution of Wildland Fires
• Employing Ensemble Data Assimilation, Parameter Estimation, and Field Data to Improve Fire-Weather Predictions in Mesoscale Models
• Analyses of Fire-Induced Atmospheric Turbulence Regimes from Field Observations
• Development of a Canopy Model Suitable for Predicting Smoke Dispersion From Low-Intensity Forest Fires
• A Study of Climate Change and Land-Use Change Impacts on Fire Weather and Fire Behavior in the Eastern U.S. Using Regional Climate Models
• Do Fire-Atmosphere Interactions Through a Pine Canopy Mediate Fire Effects During Point-Ignition Firing Operations?
• Synoptic Climatologies for Fire Weather and Smoke Applications
• Fuels and Fire Behavior in Eastern Hardwoods
• Fuels and Fire Research in the New Jersey Pine Barrens

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https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/disturbance/fire/