Webinar: A Landscape Perspective on Fire & Invasive Species in Hawaiʻi
As part of Hawai‘i Invasive Species Awareness month, Dr. Clay Trauernicht will focus on the grass-fire cycle at the landscape scale to describe the scale of the challenge at hand, the contributions of historical and social change, and examples of how people are working together to deal with it.
Weed Fire Risk Assessment Tool: a Hands-On Webinar for Land Managers & Owners
University of Hawaiʻi’s Kevin Faccenda and Dr. Clay Trauernicht Wildland Fire Specialist will introduce how certain invasive plants promote wildfire in Hawai‘i and how the new Weed Fire Risk Database analyzes 360+ weed species for their fire-promoting traits.
Webinar: When Climate Change and Invasive Species Intersect
University of Hawaiʻi’s Kevin Faccenda and Kelsey Brock will present on the process of identifying fire-promoting invasive plants and their impacts in Hawaiʻi via the new tool: the Weed Fire Risk Assessment.
Presentation: Guam’s Wildfire Outlook (2022)
Christine Fejeran, Guam Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Soil Resources Division describes the wildfire threats to ecosystems and people on Guam, the on-going education challenges, and hopes for the future.
Presentation: Wildland Considerations–A Hawai‘i Island Firefighter’s Perspective
Eric Moller, Deputy Chief of Hawai‘i County Fire Department shares his perspective of the changing fire regimes in Hawai‘i, current challenges and how we can help.
Webinar: Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping
Rachael Cleveland will demonstrate the utility of a decision support tool called Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) which enables all stakeholders to create a "mental map" that can capture and compute the impacts of various decision-making scenarios on important resources. Land managers will learn how the FCM software works and its application to a wildfire group…
Talk Story Tuesdays: Grazing to Reduce Blazing
What: In this Pacific Fire Exchange talk story Q&A session, we round up the latest research, past and present for managers and landowners wanting to understand more about how our four-legged friends (goats, sheep, cows, etc.) if managed properly can help reduce blazing and wildland fire. Where: virtual Who: This month's science share out and…
Webinar: Mythbusters! Wildfire myths in Hawai`i
As part of Hawai‘i Invasive Species Awareness month, Elizabeth Pickett focus on wildfire myths in Hawaii.
Talk Story Tuesdays: Grazing to Reduce Blazing Part II
WATCH PART 1 TALK STORY WATCH PART II TALK STORY DOWNLOAD THE GRAZING TO REDUCE BLAZING FACTSHEET What: In this Pacific Fire Exchange talk story Q&A session, we round up the latest research, past and present for managers and landowners wanting to understand more about how our four-legged friends (goats, sheep, cows, etc.) if managed…
Talk Story Tuesdays: Informing Contemporary Wildfire Science from Historical Hawaiian Language Newspapers
Dr. Clay Trauernicht fire & ecosystems scientist with UH Mānoa Cooperative Extension and Dr. Alyssa Anderson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center will present wildfire in Hawai‘i in the context of Hawaiian language 19th century "nupepa" (newspaper), as well as the historical landscape changes of the 20th century.