Fire Continuum Conference: Preparing for the Future of Wildland Fire
May 21, 2018 at 04:20 pm EDT
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Exponent will be presenting at the Fire Continuum Conference, held in Missoula, Montana on May 21-24, 2018. The conference is co-hosted by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire. The conference scope encompasses both wildland fire science and management, and will explore the continuum from pre-fire forest management through post fire effects on ecology, and everything in between.
Dr. Erik Christiansen, Principal Engineer in Exponent's Thermal Sciences Practice, will be delivering a talk on the ignition of wildland fires titled 'Understanding Ignition: How One Spark Can Burn an Entire Forest.' The presentation will include a description of how wildland fires start, and includes the results of experiments that demonstrate the role of heat transfer in the ignition mechanism.
Dr. Alex Revchuk, Managing Engineer in Exponent's Environmental & Earth Sciences Practice, will be presenting on the effects of wildfires on surface water supplies and their subsequent treatment, in a talk titled 'Physicochemical Changes of Wildfire-Derived DOM & Precipitation Effects during First Year Recovery.' The presentation will focus on the timing of wildfires and successive precipitation that then drives water quality effects. The talk will conclude with some water treatment process strategies to reduce the occurrence of carcinogenic byproducts generated during the treatment of wildfire-impacted waters.
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