Conferences
10–13 May 2022, Alghero (Sardinia, Italy)
International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk
General information
After the successful ICFBR Conferences in 2011 and 2015, we are glad to announce the third edition of the International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk (ICFBR2022), which will be held in Alghero (Sardinia, Italy) from 10 to 13 May 2022! The conference will also include a Special Session on Remote Sensing and Fires, under the patronage of EARSEL’s Special Interest Group on Forest Fires.
ICFBR2022 is organized in the framework of the “MED-Star” Project (“Strategies and measures to reduce wildfire risk in the Mediterranean area”), funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the Italy-France Maritime Program 2014-2020.
The Conference is organized by the Institute of BioEconomy of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IBE, Sassari) and the Department of Agriculture of the University of Sassari.
The aims of the Conference are to present advancements in wildfire research and to involve scientists, researchers, experts and policy makers whose activities are focused on different aspects of wildfires and their impacts.
Further information regarding the Conference is provided at: http://www.icfbr2022.it
For other information or details feel free to contact us at [email protected]
Key topics:
- Wildfire Behavior
- Wildfire Spread Modeling
- Wildfire Danger, Exposure and Risk
- Remote Sensing and Wildfires
- Weather, Climate and Wildfires
- Forest Fuels and Wildfires
- Fire Ecology
- Wildfires at WUI
- Sustainable Development
- Project on Wildfires
- Climate Change Mitigation
Invited Speakers:
Alan Ager, USDA Forest Service (USA)
Ana Miranda, University of Aveiro (Portugal)
Juli Pausas, Spanish National Research Council (Spain)
Alexandra Syphard, Sage Insurance Holdings LLC (USA)
Marta Yebra, Australian National University (Australia)
Organizing Committee:
Pierpaolo Duce, Bachisio Arca, Grazia Pellizzaro, Michele Salis, Valentina Bacciu (CNR-IBE)
Donatella Spano, Costantino Sirca (UNISS)
Scientific Committee:
Bachisio Arca, CNR-IBE (Italy)
Margarita Arianoutsou, University of Athens (Greece)
Davide Ascoli, University of Turin (Italy)
Valentina Bacciu, CNR-IBE (Italy)
Christophe Bouillon, INRAE (France)
Tim Brown, Desert Research Institute (USA)
David Caballero, Meteogrid (Spain)
Dave Calkin, USDA Forest Service (USA)
Emilio Chuvieco, University of Alcalá (Spain)
Marco Conedera, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest (Switzerland)
Stefan Doerr, Swansea University (England)
Paulo Fernandes, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (Portugal)
Mark Finney, USDA Forest Service (USA)
Paolo Fiorucci, CIMA Foundation (Italy)
Mike Flannigan, University of Alberta (Canada)
Ioannis Gitas, Aristotle University Thessaloniki (Greece)
Marielle Jappiot, INRAE (France)
Matt Jolly, USDA Forest Service (USA)
Nikos Koutsias, University of Patras (Greece)
Enrico Marchi, University of Florence (Italy)
Domingo Molina-Terren, University of Lleida (Spain)
José Manuel Moreno, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Marc André Parisien, Canadian Forest Service (Canada)
Grazia Pellizzaro, CNR-IBE (Italy)
Trent Penman, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Owen Price, University of Wollongong (Australia)
Pete Robichaud, USDA Forest Service (USA)
Michele Salis, CNR-IBE (Italy)
Paul Santoni, University of Corsica (France)
Costantino Sirca, University of Sassari (Italy)
Fantina Tedim, University of Porto (Portugal)
Marj Tonini, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
Ricardo Trigo, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Cristina Vega-Garcia, University of Lleida (Spain)
Olga Viedma, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
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