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RESEARCH THEMES

AVIATION AND WILDFIRe
CHEMICALs

QUANTIFYING AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS IN RELATION TO WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION
Research Highlights

•  Cost-benefit assessments of aviation operation

•  Program reviews for aircraft and infrastructure

•  Standardized testing for wildfire chemicals

Related Posts
Assessing the feasibility of night-time heli-tanking operations using night-vision imaging systems (NVIS)
Aviation research seminar, knowledge transfer
Comparative performance testing of long-term fire retardants used in wildfire operations

Community Protection and fire Behaviour

UNDERSTANDING WILDFIRE INTERACTIONS WITH FOREST AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS
Research Highlights

•  Efficacy and effectiveness of fuel treatments to reducing wildfire risk

•  Relative risk profiles of different building materials and property characteristics under varying wildfire exposure

Related Posts
Wildfire research to evaluate the effectiveness of fuel treatments
Assessing fuel treatment effectiveness. A case study of the Long Lake Wildfire encroachment on the community of Rainbow Lake, Alberta
Effectiveness of stand-cleaning as a forest fuel treatment, observations in a jack pine stand at the Fort Providences research site

WILDFIRe DETECTION

EVALUATING PERFORMANCE OF WILDFIRE DETECTION SYSTEMS
Research Highlights

•  Assessments of success rate, location accuracy, reporting efficiency, and system availability

•  Earlier and reliable wildfire smoke detection versus false alarm rates

Related Posts
Performance metrics for evaluating wildfire detection systems
Alberta wildfire detection challenge. Operational demonstration of six wildfire detection systems
5th Wildfire Detection Workshop summary

Equipment Evaluation

NEW AND CURRENT PRODUCT TESTING FOR ENHANCED WILDFIRE TOOLKITS
Research Highlights

•  Evaluation of new technology against current state of practice

•  Value-added product testing using operation field trials and empirical data collection

Related Posts
Satellite-controlled wildfire pumps: technology scan and user survey
Evaluating the fire ignition potential of all terrain vehicles in Alberta forests
Choosing a high-volume water delivery system for ground-based supression, project update

Wildfire RESILIENCE

UNDERSTANDING FOREST AND COMMUNITY RECOVERY FOLLOWING WILDFIRE INTERACTIONS
Research Highlights

•  Structure-ignition and ember transmission

•  Wildland urban interface interactions with wildfire

•  Long-term forest health and ecosystem function

Related Posts
Experimental burning in fuel-treated stands (2001-2020)
Effectiveness of forest fuel management, a crown fire case study in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Jasper wildfire, community impact research

Experimental Forests

Experimental Forests

To create consistent and recurring opportunities for success, we are a partner at several research sites. The research sites allow for multi-organizational collaboration with execution on many projects simultaneously. The research sites allow for prescribed burns to test different vegetative treatments and their response while burning under varying weather conditions.

This allows for the expansion of knowledge surrounding community protection, firefighter safety, aviation, and technology. Furthermore, having access to areas that can be burned in 95th percentile fire weather conditions allow researchers to study conditions that are challenging for wildfire suppression efforts.

To learn more about these research sites through a virtual tour.

Fort
Providence
& Enterprise

NORTHWEST
TERRITORIES

PARTNERSHIPS

• Alberta Wildfire
• British Columbia Wildfire Service
• Government of Northwest Territories
• Canadian Forest Service
 •FireSmart Canada
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• Swansea UK
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC)

Est. 2001

395 hectares

Northwest Territories Virtual Tour
RESEARCH FOCUS

•  Fuel treatment efficacy
•  Structure ignition
•  Firefighter safety
•  Water delivery
•  Spotting

Pelican
Mountain

Alberta

PARTNERSHIPS

• Alberta Wildfire
• Alberta Pacific Forest Industries
• Bigstone Cree First Nation
• Canadian Forest Service
• McMaster University
• University of Alberta
• FireSmart Canada
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• University of Lethbridge
• University of Toronto
• Canada Wildfire

Est. 2015

90 hectares

Pelican Mountain Virtual Tour
RESEARCH FOCUS

•  Fuel treatment efficacy
•  Suppression efficacy
   (crews, aerial, sprinklers, chemicals)
•  Equipment testing

Harvey Lake

British Columbia

PARTNERSHIPS

• British Columbia Wildfire Service

Est. 2022

36 hectares

RESEARCH FOCUS

•  Flammability of chipped fuels
•  Fuel treatment efficacy
•  Post-burn documentation

Trout Brook Lake

NEW BRUNSWICK

PARTNERSHIPS

•  New Brunswick dept. of  Natural Resources and Energy
•  The province of Nova Scotia
• Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC)
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

Est. 2025

1100 hectares

RESEARCH FOCUS

•  Advancing the Fire Behaviour Prediction system in the Acadian Forest

•  Fire behaviour in post-hurricane and blow-down-fuels