GC51E:
The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society Posters


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Session ID#: 53023

Session Description:
Anthropogenic and natural fires are an important component of the Earth system. Geographic location, fuel type, seasonality and intensity of fire largely determine the sign and magnitude of feedbacks on the Earth system. The aim of this session is to explore links between fire, vegetation, climate, and humans from the local to the global scale and determine how these interactions will change in a warming world. We encourage abstracts that explore the interactions of fires with the terrestrial biosphere and atmosphere using remote sensing, in situ observations, modeling, or an integrated approach with an emphasis on (1) impacts of fire on weather and climate, atmospheric chemistry and air quality, (2) the role of fires in the carbon cycle and ecosystem functioning, (3) the influence of humans on fire (and vice versa), and (4) the changing nature of fire over millennia, and predictions for the future.
Primary Convener:  Mika Tosca, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Conveners:  Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States, Guido van der Werf, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands and Xanthe J Walker, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mika Tosca, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Chairs:  Mika Tosca, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and Brendan M Rogers, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Xanthe J Walker, Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0468 Natural hazards [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Trade-offs between forage provisioning and soil-related ecosystem services after fire in shrub-encroached lands (346176)
Stefani Daryanto, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Bojie Fu, Beijing Normal University, Institute of Land Surface System and Sustainable Development, Beijing, China, Prof. Lixin Wang, PhD, Indiana University Indianapolis, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indianapolis, United States and Wenwu Zhao, Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China
Dynamics of lodgepole pine forests in fire-driven landscapes: past, present and future (354678)
Barrie Chileen, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States, Kendra K McLauchlan, Kansas State University, Department of Geography, Manhattan, KS, United States and Philip Higuera, University of Montana, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences College of Forestry and Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States
Seasonality of greenhouse gas fire emission factors in Brazilian Cerrado (359496)
Roland Vernooij, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Guido van der Werf, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands, Marco Borges, ICMbio, Rio da conceicao, Brazil and Marcos Giongo, Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Centro de Monitoramento Ambiental e Manejo do Fogo, Gurupi, Brazil
The contribution of wildland fire activity to nutrient deposition in the contiguous U.S.: Implications for vulnerable ecosystems (363863)
Shannon N Koplitz, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, Chris G Nolte, US EPA, Rtp, NC, United States, Robert Daniel Sabo, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Washington, United States and Chris Clark, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, United States
Workshop Outcomes: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Arctic/Boreal Wildfire Management and Science (365075)
Alison York, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Randi Jandt, Fire Ecologist, Alaska Fire Science Consortium, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Robert Ziel, Alaska Fire Science Consortium, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Workshop participants
Biophysical feedback of global forest fires on surface temperature (365975)
Zhihua Liu1, Ashley Ballantyne2 and Leila A Smith2, (1)University of Montana, Missoula, United States, (2)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
Assessing the shape accuracy of individual burn scars in the Western United States (369895)
Michael Laurence Humber, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Luigi Boschetti, University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, United States and Louis Giglio, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Temporal variation in soil carbon cycling in response to wildfire in the ReynoldsCreek Critical Zone Observatory, Idaho, USA (372351)
Kathleen A Lohse1, Nicholas R Patton2, Caleb Renner3, Alexandra G Rozin4, Joseph Thomas4, Bruce Finney5, Ruth Brooke MacNeille6, Kayla Gossner7, Zachary Van Orsdel4, Sophie Hill8, Jeremy A Facer3, Cody Durfee3, Ken Aho9, Mark S Seyfried10 and Frederick B. Pierson11, (1)Idaho State University, Biological Sciences, Idaho Falls, United States, (2)Idaho State University, Geosciences / Biological Sciences, Idaho Falls, United States, (3)Idaho State University, Geosciences, Pocatello, United States, (4)Idaho State University, Geosciences, Pocatello, ID, United States, (5)Idaho State University, Department of Geosciences, Idaho Falls, United States, (6)Idaho State University, Biological Sciences, Pocatello, ID, United States, (7)Idaho State University, Biological Sciences, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (8)Idaho State University, Biological Sciences, Pocatello, United States, (9)Idaho State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Pocatello, United States, (10)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, United States, (11)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States
The Impact of Spatial Resolution on Fire Emission Estimates: A 500-meter Fire Emissions Dataset for Africa (378024)
Dave van Wees, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Guido van der Werf, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
Future spread in meteorological drivers for western US wildfire activity using CMIP5 projections: implications for future wildfire abundance (381597)
Steven Brey1, Jeffrey R Pierce2, Emily V Fischer3 and Elizabeth A Barnes2, (1)Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Interactions Between Climate, Vegetation, and Fire in the Santa Monica Mountains: A Remote Sensing Analysis (382124)
Darby Levin and Jane E Dmochowski, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Global Validation of Geostationary Satellite Active Fire Products: GOES-16, HIMAWARI, and Meteosat Second Generation series (386845)
Joanne Hall1, Rui Zhang2, Wilfrid Schroeder3, Chengquan Huang4 and Louis Giglio2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA, NESDIS Office of Satellite and Product Operations, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
Empirical Characterization of Fire Regimes Across the Globe (392732)
William Walter Hargrove, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Hot Springs National, AR, United States, Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Steven P Norman, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC, United States and Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States
Investigating Smoke Emission Coefficients using MODIS Fire Radiative Energy and Smoke Aerosols (396707)
Xiaoman Lu1, Xiaoyang Zhang2, Fangjun Li2 and Mark A Cochrane3, (1)South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States, (2)South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), Department of Geography & Geospatial Sciences, Brookings, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Frostburg, MD, United States
Tropical Rainforest and Shifting Cultivation: Understanding the Role of Anthropogenic Fire throughout the Holocene in Tropical Rainforest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia (396955)
Lauren B B Hendricks1, Gusti Z Anshari2 and Daniel Girard Gavin1, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)Universitas Tanjungpura, Magister of Environmental Science, and Department of Soil Science, Pontianak, Indonesia
Organic Biomarkers of Fire in Tropical Australian Stalagmites of the Last Millennium (406764)
Rhawn Flavell Denniston, Cornell College, Geology, Mt. Vernon, IA, United States, Dr. Elena Argiriadis, PhD, Institute of Polar Sciences, Venice, Italy and Huong Quynh Anh Nguyen, Cornell College, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mt. Vernon, IA, United States
Vegetation Composition and Structure Strongly Drive Biomass Burning in Europe over the Holocene (411590)
Angelica Feurdean, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre BiK-F, Frankfurt, Germany and Central and Eastern Europe fire team
Carbon Consequences of Fire-regime Variability in Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests Over Millennia (413247)
Kristina Bartowitz, American Forests, Washington, DC, United States, Philip E Higuera, University of Montana, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States, Meredith Parish, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, Bryan N Shuman, University of Wyoming, Geology & Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States and Tara W Hudiburg, University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, ID, United States
Evaluating Fire Risk using the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) in the Northeastern United States under Future Climate Scenarios (432998)
Daniel Miller, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island, Department of Geoscience, Narragansett, RI, United States and Raymond S Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States
The Biogeochemical Consequences of Millennial-Scale Fire Activity in the Western U.S. (434202)
Kendra K McLauchlan, Kansas State University, Department of Geography, Manhattan, KS, United States, David P Pompeani, Kansas State University, Department of Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States, Barrie Chileen, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States, William John Calder, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States; University of Wyoming, Botany, Laramie, WY, United States, Bryan N Shuman, University of Wyoming, Geology & Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States and Philip Higuera, University of Montana, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences College of Forestry and Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States
Above and Belowground Carbon Emissions from Historical Fires Across Alaska and Canada (438450)
Stefano Potter1, Brendan M Rogers2, Xanthe J Walker3, Sander Veraverbeke4, Elizabeth Embury Hoy5,6, Jennifer Lynn Baltzer7, Scott J. Goetz8, Liza K. Jenkins9, Jill F Johnstone10, Evan S Kane11, Michelle C Mack3, Merritt R Turetsky12, Laura L Bourgeau-Chavez13 and Nancy H F French13, (1)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (3)Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (4)Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Global Science and Technology Inc Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Wilfrid Laurier University, Biology Department, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (8)Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (9)Michigan Technological University, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (10)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (11)Michigan Technological University, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, Houghton, United States, (12)Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, United States, (13)Michigan Technological University, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Houghton, MI, United States
Improving the National Emissions Inventory for Fires: The Impact of Industrial Sources in the MODIS Active Fire Product (440766)
George Pouliot, EPA, Office of Research and Development, Durham, NC, United States, Joanne Hall, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Louis Giglio, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and James Beidler, General Dynamics IT Inc, Research Traingle Park, United States
Wildfire-Vegetation-Climate Interactions in the Pacific Northwest Since the Last Glacial Maximum (442281)
Sarah L Shafer, US Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR, United States and Patrick J Bartlein, University of Oregon, Geography, Eugene, OR, United States
A Framework for Modeling the Radiative Forcing of Gaseous Emissions from Wildfires: Applications for Boreal North America (449503)
Michael Moubarak, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, United States, Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States, Sol Cooperdock, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Daniel Ward, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States and Stefano Potter, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States
Macrofossil and brGDGT evidence of forest state changes after fires and cooling in the Snowy Range, Wyoming since 6 ka (450570)
Andrew Flaim, University of Wyoming, Laramie, United States, Ioana Stefanescu, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, David Thomas Liefert, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States and Bryan N Shuman, University of Wyoming, Geology & Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
Redesigning for Research: Accessible Data Interaction with MISR Fire Plumes (450668)
Jarod Tristan Boone1, Mika Tosca2, Adrian Galvin3, Abigail Nastan4,5, David Schurman1, Pooja Nair3, Scott Davidoff6, Santiago Lombeyda7, Hillary Mushkin8 and Maggie Hendrie9, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (3)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Montana, Everett, WA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Space Science Institute, Planetary Science, Boulder, United States, (7)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (9)Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, United States
Using CALIOP Data to Determine MISR’s Lower Plume Detection Threshold (452297)
Olivia Nicole Durrett, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Angela Ivette Ceja, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA, United States, Mika Tosca, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, Abigail Nastan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael J Garay, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, David J Diner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Sebastian Val, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Recent changes in fire activity in Africa and their potential drivers (456953)
Maria Zubkova, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Luigi Boschetti, University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, United States and John T Abatzoglou, University of California Merced, Merced, United States
Determining Area Burned from GOES-16 for Use in Smoke Forecast Modeling (459067)
Sean M Raffuse, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Susan O'Neill, US Forest Service, Seattle, WA, United States, Amy Marsha, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Statistics, Seattle, WA, United States and Narasimhan K Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA, United States
Human behavior in global fire simulations (461167)
Keren Mezuman1,2, Susanne Bauer3,4 and Kostas Tsigaridis3,4, (1)Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (2)Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (4)Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, United States

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