Fire Community Database Network

The fire community database network is a collective effort to create a repository that will compile datasets associated with satellite images of wildfire, as well as numerous natural and experimental sites scattered around the globe to accelerate progress on fire research and management. We invite researchers and managers interested in contributing to this effort to subscribe and join us.

Motivation

Fires are projected to become larger, more intense, and increasingly severe in many areas of the globe as a response to climate and environmental changes. Understanding the complex ways fire influences feedbacks between land and the atmosphere is timely and essential for future climate projections. To facilitate studies across the scientific community focused on fire and its effects, there is a need for a central archive of relevant and accessible data from sites affected by fires. These data are critical to enable synthesis and new insights, design of site-level experiments, and advancements in predictive Earth System models.

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Network Objectives

We plan to schedule monthly meetings to discuss the different ways we can bring together fire scientists and managers to create a repository for environmental data associated with burned sites.

To connect experimentalists, managers, and modelers around the globe interested in evaluating the impacts of fire on terrestrial ecosystems
To discuss strategies for a fire science repository in ecological, environmental, and Earth sciences through regular meetings
To create, host, and maintain a fire database/repository

Media Resources

The fire database network was established during a virtual workshop held on September 1-2,2021. The event was hosted by ORNL’s Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate and the Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists, and co-organized by Drs. Fernanda Santos and Jiafu Mao. You can also check out the agenda of the past workshop by clicking here.

Contact

Join Us!
Stakeholders from national laboratories
and universities are invited to attend

Contacts:
Fernanda Santos
Jiafu Mao