CIFFC National Fire Management Conversations (Archive)
Our committee members identify topics of national interest and host these sessions to bring fire management practitioners and researchers together. For years, we have hosted these 1-hour conversations between October and March and they have evolved to include participants from the US, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand.
Presented by: the CIFFC Research and Innovation Integration Committee which has diverse membership of CIFFC member agency wildland fire management practitioners, Canada Wildfire, FPInnovations and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium.
April 3, 2025
Firesight - Improve Your 2025 Wildfire Predictions
Jonathan Reimer (Emergency Programs Manager, CRD) | Marc Koehler (Superforecaster, Good Judgement)
March 14, 2025
**Hosted by Canada Wildfire**
Fire Weather Forecasting
Brett Soderholm (Fire Weather Forecaster, BCWS) | CIFFC Meteorology Working Group
November 13, 2024
Students of Fire: Wildland Fire and Aircraft
Emily Hope (University of Toronto) | Simin Rahmani (Western Sydney University) | Kaiwei Luo (University of Alberta)
April 24, 2024
Preparing for the 2024 Wildland Fire Season
Dr. Mike Flannigan (TRU) | Scott Tingley (NS) | Todd Nessman (BC)
March 27, 2024
Leveraging Non-Technical Skills in Emergency Management
Dr. Peter Hayes | Central Queensland Institute
February 28, 2024
Students of Fire: IA Effectiveness
Frédéric Brunet (Laval University) | Kennedy Korkola (University of Toronto)
January 31, 2024
Managing Wildland Fire: Insights from Incident Commanders
Hugh Murdoch (BC) | Todd Lynch (AB) | Jane Park (PC) | James McKinnon (NS)
November 29, 2023
Indigenous Evacuations: Jurisdiction and Collaboration
Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson | Dr. Tara McGee | Michelle Vandevord
Fran Byers | Paul Courtoreille
November 1, 2023
Students of Fire: Fuels
Jen Baron (UBC) | Tristan Skretting (UofL) | Kate Kitchens (UBC) | Sylvain Gagnon (UofQ)
April 26, 2023
Forward Rate of Growth Sensors (FROGS)
Kris Johnson | Senior Emergency Response Officer, Yukon
Yanik Freeman | Owner, Advanced Sensor Research Ltd.
March 22, 2023
What Firefighters Need to Know About Pyrocumulonimbus Clouds
Musa Kilinc | Fire Behaviour Analyst, Australian Country Fire Authority (CFA)
February 22, 2023
Wildfire Sat
Dr. Joshua Johnston | Forest Fire Research Scientist, CFS
January 25, 2023
Indigenous Fire Practitioners
Alex Zahara | Senator Peter Beatty | Walter Beatty | Solomon Carriere | Robin McLeod
November 23, 2022
Students of Fire
Nikki Manwaring, TRU | Chris Rodell, UBC | Melanie Wheatley, UofT
October 19, 2022
Integrating Strategic Risk into Fire Management Operations
Kit O'Connor, USDA Research Ecologist
April 27, 2022
Next Generation Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System and Overwintering Drought Code
Dr. Mike Wotton | Chelene Hanes
March 30, 2022
Canadian Fire Behavior Specialists Panel Discussion
Tanya Letcher | Normand Lacour | Matthew Johnson
February 23, 2022
Giving Voice to Cultural Safety of Indigenous Wildland Firefighters in Canada
Dr. Natasha Caverley | Joe Gilchrist | Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson
January 31, 2022
FIREHAWK: Web Platform For Wildfire Rapid Risk Evaluation
Dr. Jonathan Boucher, Wildfire Research Scientist, Canadian Forest Service