The
5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference offers a forum where past experience and lessons learned are documented, current work showcased, and emerging ideas/technology presented to provide a strong foundation that will facilitate setting a course to the future that addresses and responds to developing challenges locally, regionally, and globally.
The conference objectives are:
· To create a forum where presenters and participants can integrate across disciplines.
· To describe lessons learned and discuss development of innovative and contemporary fuels management programs that reduce risks to communities and improve/ maintain ecosystem health.
· To document fire environment trends as benchmarks for future challenges and program planning and implementation.
· To raise awareness of the diversity of approaches, issues and ideas in wildland fire management.
· To showcase and promote development of innovative management and research ideas.
· To foster new collaborations among managers, researchers, firefighters, residents, communities, businesses, educational institutions and others in different regions and countries.
Over 500 participants in Portland and over 300 in Melbourne from emergency services, state, federal and local government, industry, NGOs, research and education are expected to attend.
All attending authors and presenters must register and pay for this conference when their abstracts have been accepted. The Conference Committee, by accepting an abstract, is not responsible to pay any expenses (travel, accommodations or daily allowance) associated with presenting an individual or joint authored presentation. Authors and presenters agree to present their submissions on the time and date identified by the organizing committee.
