International Journal of Wildland Fire update

             

The most recent issue of the International Journal of Wildland Fire is volume 19, issue 7. All IAWF members have free online access to all IJWF abstracts and articles via the IAWF Web site. The IJWF publishes new and significant papers that advance basic and applied research concerning wildland fire. The IJWF attracts papers on a broad range of wildland fire issues and has an international perspective since wildland fire plays a major social, economic and ecological role around the globe.

This issue's featured paper is, "Obituary: Andi Lavender Koonce, 1951-2010," by Co-Editor-in-Chief Susan Conard. Dr. Conard, a retired member of the U.S. Forest Service and a former member of the IAWF Board, writes poignantly about Dr. Koonce's life and her many contributions to wildland fire, especially her role during the early formative years of the IAWF and the IJWF.

This most recent issue includes the following research in addition to the featured paper:

• "The economic cost of adverse health effects from wildfire-smoke exposure: a review," Ikuho Kochi, Geoffrey H. Donovan, Patricia A. Champ and John B. Loomis

• "Firebrands and spotting ignition in large-scale fires," Eunmo Koo, Patrick J. Pagni, David R. Weise and John P. Woycheese

• "The validity and utility of MODIS data for simple estimation of area burned and aerosols emitted by wildfire events," Sarah B. Henderson, Charles Ichoku, Benjamin J. Burkholder, Michael Brauer and Peter L. Jackson

• "Using fuzzy C-means and local autocorrelation to cluster satellite-inferred burn severity classes," Zachary A. Holden and Jeffrey S. Evans

• "Southern African fire regimes as revealed by remote sensing," S. Archibald, R.J. Scholes, D.P. Roy, G. Roberts and L. Boschetti

• "A climatologically based long-range fire growth model," Kerry Anderson

• "Future climate affects management strategies for maintaining forest restoration treatments," Corinne Diggins, Peter Z. Fulé, Jason P. Kaye and W. Wallace Covington

• "Meteorological conditions and wildfire-related house loss in Australia," Raphaele Blanchi, Chris Lucas, Justin Leonard and Klara Finkele

• "'SINAMI': a tool for the economic evaluation of forest fire management programs in Mediterranean ecosystems," Francisco Rodréguez y Silva and Armando González-Cabán

• "Optimal management of Pinus pinaster in Galicia (Spain) under risk of fire," María Pasalodos-Tato, Timo Pukkala and Alberto Rojo Alboreca

• "The effect of fire on birds of mulga woodland in arid central Australia," Adam J. Leavesley, Geoffrey J. Cary, Glenn P. Edwards and A. Malcolm Gill

• "Development of calibration algorithms for selected water content reflectometry probes for burned and non-burned organic soils of Alaska," Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez, Gordon C. Garwood, Kevin Riordan, Benjamin W. Koziol and James Slawski

• "Spectral analysis of charcoal on soils: implications for wildland fire severity mapping methods," Alistair M.S. Smith, Jan U.H. Eitel and Andrew T. Hudak

• "Thermodynamic structure of a grass fire plume," Craig B. Clements

• "Post-fire regeneration strategies and flammability traits of California chaparral shrubs," Peter D. Cowan and David D. Ackerly