Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group 2022 Alaska Interagency Spring Operations Meeting

The Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (AWFCG) will convene the 2022 Spring Operations meeting online only the week of March 21-25. The complete agenda can be found on the meeting's website. The meeting is open, and registration is not required.

• Mon through Wed morning: planning sessions for the Alaska Incident Management Teams (IMT),
• Wed afternoon through Fri: sessions for Agency Administrators and Fire Management Officers (AA/FMO)

Fire science content organized by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) will be coordinated with related management discussions during the AA/FMO sessions, including:

Wed, March 23: focus on fire weather and climate

• 15:15 - Welcome and Introductions, AFSC news and updates (Alison York, Mitch Burgard, Sarah Trainor, AFSC)
• 15:30 - Fire Weather, Predictive Services, Seasonal Outlooks (Heidi Strader, Eric Stevens, Chris Moore, AICC)
• 16:00 - BUI Forecast for fire season 2022 (Cece Borries-Strigle, UAF)
• 16:20 - Lightning Projects (Uma Bhatt, UAF)
• 16:40 - Fire and Climate: AK CASC post-doctoral fellowships (Chris Waigl, Adam Young, UAF)

Thurs, March 24: science you can use

• 09:45 - News you can use (Randi Jandt, AFSC)
• 10:30 - GIS and Alaska Known Sites Update (Jennifer Jenkins, GIS and Data management committee)
• 11:00 - Shovel Creek Story map (Zav Grabinski, AFSC)

Fri, March 25: focus on fuels

• 13:00 - Fuels, RX, and Prevention (Darren Finley, Casey Boespflug, Beth Ipsen, Dan Govoni, Fuels and Wildland Fire Prev/Educ committee)
• 13:45 - Statewide exposure metric (Jen Schmidt, UAA, Chris Moore, AICC)
• 14:25 - AK Geospatial Council Vegetation Maps (Timm Nawrocki, AGC, Lisa Saperstein, FWS)

Presentations listed above will be recorded and archived on the AFSC website.