February Flare Up 2026: NSERC Canada Wildfire Strategic Network - Week 1

Описание: February Flare Up is back, and this year we’re spotlighting research from the NSERC Canada Wildfire Strategic Network: Preparing Canadians for Changing Wildfires.

In this session, we introduce the Network and share some of the successes before diving into the first two featured projects.

Topics covered in Week 1:
Brief network overview with Mike Flannigan (Network Lead)
Research spotlight: A weakened diurnal weather cycle leads to longer burning hours in North America with Kaiwei Luo (Postdoc, University of Alberta)
Research spotlight: Stand and fuel structure following jack pine budworm defoliation in North American boreal forest with Zackary Shakeri (Postdoc, University of Toronto)

More from Canada Wildfire: canadawildfire.org/webinarsandcourses

Links and speaker contact:
Link to Kaiwei's paper: Drought triggers and sustains overnight fires in North America): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Kaiwei's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaiwei-lu...
Kaiwei's Email: [email protected]
Zackary's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/z-shakeri-a20344133

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0:00 Welcome to February Flare Up with Karen Blouin
1:40 Introduction to the NSERC Canada Wildfire Strategic Network with Mike Flannigan
15:49 A weakened diurnal weather cycle leads to longer burning hours in North America with Kaiwei Luo
39:07 Q&A period with Kaiwei and Karen
46:23 Stand and fuel structure following jack pine budworm defoliation in North American boreal forest with Zackary Shakeri
1:04:01 Q&A period with Zackary and Karen
1:08:53 Open Q&A and closing comments

Recorded on February 6, 2026

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