AFE Student and Early-Career Connections

The goal of this regular zoom meeting is to provide a space for student and early career professionals to meet, to get better connected as a community, and to be inspired by a diversity of leaders from centers of fire excellence, including academic, management, international, and NGOs. 

Upcoming Meetings

October 20, 11am PDT

To start off the fall semester, National SAFE Officers invite all SAFE chapters to join us and share news and upcoming activities for the year. Register Here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcOyprDgiH9MuRlVqYX-Ua1UMQfmcvg4k

Past Meetings

May 16: Joint Fire Science Program
Joint Fire Science Program leaders share an overview of their research funding and science delivery activities, including the Fire Exchange Networks and Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) awards. GRIN recipients share insights on applying for grants, examples of how the grant funds were used to expand their projects, and research and career-related outcomes.

April 18: Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
Learn about the Missoula Fire Science Lab history (www.firelab.org) and its relation to other USFS labs and management. Live fire behavior demo and fire experiments for better understanding of the fundamental physics of fire. Learn about novel techniques used in fire ecology data collection and analysis. Find out about other work at the lab and job opportunities.

March 7: Yosemite National Park
Dan Buckley FMO and other staff members will tell us about their spectacular fire careers, where they started, and what they do now to help manage fire and conservation at Yosemite National Park.