IAWF Board announces changes
The IAWF Board of Directors welcomes several new members who have a wide diversity in both wildland fire backgrounds and geographic representation.
Adam Gossell is from Edmonton, Canada, and works for Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Wildfire Management Branch, Wildfire Prevention Section, and has served as the group's FireSmart Program Coordinator. He also has a background in fire suppression and has supervised a Helitack Type 1 Wildfire Unit and was a Provincial Wildfire Science Forester.
Dan Neary hails from Flagstaff, Arizona, where he works for the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station as a research soil scientist, studying watershed and soil impacts of prescribed fires and wildfires around the world. He has also taught at NARTC and is a member of the Northern Arizona Zone Incident Management Team MEDL.
Jean-Charles Valette is from Avignon, France, and works for the Research Team "Fire Physics and Ecology" (Equipe Physique et Ecologie du Feu) in the Research Unit "Ecology of Mediterranean Forests" (Unité de Recherches Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes) of the National Institute of Agricultural Research. He works primarily in wildland fire suppression, prevention and equipment.
Gavriil Xanthopoulos (Greece) and Tim Dolan (United States) have retired as IAWF board members, having both reached their term limits. We thank them for their time and service.
In addition, Mikel Robinson of Missoula, Montana, has been selected IAWF executive director after working with the IAWF as a conference coordinator for the last five years. She will be transitioning into the job over the next few months as the IAWF's international headquarters moves from Birmingham, Alabama, to Missoula.
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