-Global change and wildland fire activity
- Data acquisition - permanent sample plot network
- Decision support systems for allowable cut effect
- Development of a jack pine budworm decision support system for Ontario
- Aquatic ecotoxicology - Neem
- Aquatic responses to forestry practices
- Environmental chemistry - research, assessment and modeling
- Forest regeneration assessment using high-resolution CIR digital camera imaging
- Knowledge benchmarking and meta-Analysis for Allowable Cut Effect (ACE)
- Investigation of forest fire behavior and impacts
- The physical processes of surface and crown fire behavior
- Remote sensing and fire effects
- Ice storm recovery of privately owned managed forest lands
- Impact of acid deposition on the biogeochemistry of jack pine forests
- Monitoring forest health - Ontairo
- Canadian Ecology Centre Forestry Research Partnership
- Forest succession studies under natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes
- Physiology and environmental fitness
- Red crossbills as landscape indicators of old
forest ecosystems
- Effects of herbaceous and woody competition on white pine growth and quality
- Effects of vegetation management practices on aspen wood quality
- Vegetation management alternatives
- Vegetation management strategies
- Infrastructure management: The Black Sturgeon Boreal Mixedwood Research Project
- Ontario Model Forest Network
- Technology transfer of Forestry Research Partnership results
- Biodiversity of old growth white pine
- Biodiversity issues in southern Ontario forests
- Effects of inten0sive forest management on biodiversity at multiple scales
- Marten (Martes americana) as indicators and umbrella species in eastern boreal forests
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| Principal Collaborators: | CFS, Aviation and Forest Fire Management Branch |
| Project Leader(s): | B. Mike Wotton |
| Address: | Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 |
| Phone: | (705) 541-5541 |
| E-mail: | mwotton@NRCan.gc.ca |
Abstract:
Objectives:
To determine and attempt to model the physical mechanisms governing surface
and crown fire initiation and propagation through laboratory and field
experiment. To develop a diurnal fine fuel moisture model to replace the
existing component of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System.
Location:
Northwest Territories
Key Deliverables:
Innovations- on-site weather, in stand flame temperature and wind flow
measurements during International Crown Fire Modeling Experiment, Northwest
Territories; develop multi-day fire growth model for modeling escaped
fire area burned, costs, and tracking of suppression effort, as an addition
to LEOPARDS; flame temperature measurements during boreal mixedwood experimental
fires in Central Ontario; flame temperature and fire behavior measurements
for experimental fires at Lac Duparquet, Quebec; in stand vertical flame
temperature measurement and fire behavior documentation during the FROSTFIRE
experiment in Alaska; develop models for the prediction of lighting fires
in the boreal zone. Proceedings Report- temperature variation in vertical
flames from a surface fire. Book- submit a draft for a book chapter to
editors. Report- lightning and forest fire occurrence in northwestern
Ontario.
Expected Benefits:
Sources of Funding:
Climate Change and Fire Research Network
Other Collaborators:
Paul Ward, Aviation and Forest Fire Management Branch, OMNR, Territorial
Forest Fire Centre, Northwest Territories
Nature of Other Collaborators' Involvement:
Fire suppression, flight time, fire line construction, flight time
Links to Internet Sites:
http://nofc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.html
