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| Tuesday 11 March | |
| 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. | Registration and Reception, Ramada Hotel |
| Wednesday 12 March | |
| 7:45 a.m.-8:15 a.m. | Registration (with Coffee & Tea, Bagels, etc.) |
| 8:15 a.m.-8:20 a.m. | Introductory Remarks: Dr. M. Yousuff Hussaini, Florida State University |
| 8:20 a.m.-8:30 a.m. | Welcoming Address: Dr. Lawrence Abele, Provost, Florida State University |
| Session 1 (Chair: P. Cunningham) | |
| 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. | Keynote: Jim Karels, Florida Division
of Forestry "Current and Future Issues and Needs for Forestry in Florida and the Southeast US" |
| 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. | Mark Finney, USDA Forest Service "Fire Behavior Models: Successes & Required Improvements" |
| 9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. | Francis Fujioka, USDA Forest Service "A Random Characterization of Deterministic Fire Spread" |
| 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 (Chair: S. Goodrick) | |
| 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | Jim Brenner, Florida Division of
Forestry "Fire Behavior in Florida and the Southeast United States" |
| 11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | Dale Wade, USDA Forest Service "Open Questions in Fire Behavior Research" |
| 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Kozo Saito, University of Kentucky
"Fire Whirls" |
| 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session 3 (Chair: M. Finney) | |
| 1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | Al Riebau, USDA Forest Service "Research Directions for Wildland Fire and Air Quality for USDA Forest Service: Managing Fire with New Techniques for Data Gathering, Computer Modeling, and Data Visualization" |
| 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. | Ronald Myers, The Nature Conservancy
"A Collaborative Effort to Reduce the Conservation Threat of Altered Fire Regimes Around the Globe: The Nature Conservancy's Fire Initiative" |
| 2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | Dar Roberts, University of California,
Santa Barbara "Applications of Remote Sensing to Wildland Fires" |
| 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session 4 (Chair: F. Fujioka) | |
| 3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | Charlie Paxton, NOAA/National Weather
Service "The Interactive Forecast Preparation System - A New Method of Fire Weather Forecasting" |
| 4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | Scott Goodrick, USDA Forest Service
"High-Resolution Weather Modeling for Forestry in the Southeast" |
| 4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Gary Achtemeier, USDA Forest
Service "High-Resolution Weather Modeling and Forestry Smoke: The Potential for New Problems to Solve" |
| Thursday 13 March | |
| 8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. | Coffee & Tea, Bagels, etc. |
| Session 1 (Chair: M. Y. Hussaini) | |
| 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. | Keynote: Andrew White, Los Alamos National Laboratory "High-Performance Computation and Crisis Forecasting" |
| 9:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. | Rodman Linn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Physics-Based Models for Wildland Fire Behavior" |
| 9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. | Ronald Rehm, Building and Fire Research
Laboratory, NIST "Physics-Based Modeling of Wildland-Urban Intermix Fires" |
| 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 (Chair: D. Wade) | |
| 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | David Weise, USDA Forest Service
"Current Fire Behavior Research in Live Fuels in California" |
| 11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. | David Keyes, Old Dominion University "Parameter Estimation in Empirical Models of Wildland Firespread" |
| 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Olivier Séro-Guillaume, LEMTA,
CNRS, France "Presentation and Comparison of Different Types of Physical Models" |
| 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| Session 3 (Chair: R. Linn) | |
| 1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | Jean-Luc Dupuy, INRA, France "Numerical Simulations of Fire Propagation through a Mediterranean Vegetation Using a Physics-Based Model" |
| 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. | Chunmei Xia, Florida State University "Effects of Vegetation Drag and Fuel Type on Fire Spread Using a Physics-Based Model" |
| 2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | Albert Simeoni, University of Corsica,
France "From Fundamental Knowledge on Forest Fires to Behavioural Description and Prediction" |
| 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| Session 4 (Chair: A. Riebau) | |
| 3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | Janice Coen, National Center for Atmospheric
Research "Coupled Atmosphere-Fire Modeling" |
| 4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | Jon Reisner, Los Alamos National
Laboratory "Use of the Newton-Krylov Approach in Simulating Catastrophic Events such as Wildfires or Hurricanes" |
| 4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Philip Cunningham, Florida State
University "Vorticity Dynamics of Buoyant Plumes in a Crossflow" |
| 6:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. | Dinner, Location TBA |
| Friday 14 March | |
| 8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. | Coffee & Tea, Bagels, etc. |
| 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. | Poster Session |
| 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Panel Discussion Topic I: How can operational forestry benefit from research? Topic II: How to address the issues arising from discussion of Topic I? Moderator: Andy White Panel: Scott Goodrick, Rod Linn, Ron Myers, Al Riebau, Dale Wade, Jim Karels, David Weise, Phil Cunningham, Ronald Rehm |
| 12:00 p.m. | End of Workshop |