Seminar Series Archive

The Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory has been hosting an annual seminar series since 1998. Learn more about the series and see the schedule for the upcoming season on the Seminar Series overview page.

On this page, search and browse recordings of previous seminars.

Slack & Scarcity in Wildfire Management
Matthew Thompson, RMRS Research Forester
How an evidence-based approach to community-focused wildfire education programs can put people at the center of wildfire solutions
James Meldrum, USGS
Community-focused programs, datasets, and planning resources for wildfire risk mitigation
Eva Karau, RMRS; Kelly Pohl, Director of Headwaters Economics
Transforming data into useful information for wildfire decision-making
John Hogland, RMRS Biological Scientist
Minding the Science-Practice Gap in the Wildfire Crisis Strategy
Dan Williams, Research Social Scientist, RMRS
A Strategic Framework for Planning, Mitigation and Response
Dave Calkin, RMRS Research Forester
A road map for supporting strategic risk reduction investments with land and fire management operations.
Kit O'Connor, RMRS Research Ecologist
Research Foundations of Analytics Supporting the Wildfire Crisis Strategy
Mark Finney, RMRS Research Forester and Karen Short, RMRS Research Ecologist
Contribution of Risk Science and Scenario Planning to Build the 2022 US Wildfire Crisis Strategy
Alan Ager, Retired RMRS Research Forester and Michelle Day, Research Assistant, RMRS
The Wildfire Crisis Strategy: How it started, how it’s going, and how RMRS science contributes
Greg Dillon, Fire Modeling Institute Director
Post-fire conifer regeneration in a changing climate
Kim Davis, RMRS Research Ecologist
The Mapping, Prioritization, and Public Participation (M3P) tool
Chris Armatas, USDA FS Research Social Scientist and Lee Cerveny, USDA FS Research Social Scientist
Mapping live and dead trees, fire responder hazard, carbon, and more with TreeMap, Snag Hazard, and FuelMap datasets
Karin Riley, RMRS Research Ecologist and Isaac Grenfell, RMRS Mathematician
Novel Use of Ultrasound for rapid field assessment of lung injury in fire fighters with wildland smoke inhalation 
Dr. Kenton Gregory, Director OHSU Center for Regenerative Medicine
Revised Fire Potential Index and Large Fire Probability Maps
Bob Burgan, retired USFS Research Forester; Haiganoush Preisler, retired USFS PSWRS Mathematical Statistician; Christopher Woody, Physical Scientist
Factors Influencing Risk During Wildfires: Contrasting Divergent Regions in the US
Erin Noonan-Wright, RMRS Fire Management Specialist