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The theme of the symposium will be to share experiences, new techniques and technologies and/or changes in the areas of:

(1) impacts of weather and climate on wildfire;
(2) operational forecasting (short to long term) of fire weather for wild, prescribed, and fire use fires;
(3) model studies and development, including coupled fire-atmosphere models and mesoscale models;
(4) use and assessment of climate forecasts in fire management planning; (5) smoke and fire decision support tool development;
(6) techniques in smoke management and mitigation related to new NAAQS and haze standards;
(7) improvements to fire danger and fire behavior systems related to meteorology; and
(8) field studies of fire-atmosphere interactions.

Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 11 May 2009 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS for instructions).

An abstract fee of $90 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if the abstract is not accepted). Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) by mid July. Unlike at past conferences, no preprint CD-ROM will be prepared. However, authors of invited and accepted papers will still be asked to contribute to the web-based proceedings of the conference by submitting an extended abstract. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web. Instructions for formatting extended manuscripts for the preprint CD-ROM will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 7 October 2009 to AMS Headquarters.

For further program information contact either one of the Program Co-chairpersons:

Tim Brown, Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, NV 89512-1095 (tel: 775-674-7090; fax: 775-674-7016; e-mail: [email protected] or
Brian Potter, Forestry Sciences Lab, 400 N 34th St., Suite 201, Seattle, WA 98103 (tel: 206-732-7828; fax: 206¬-732-7801; e-mail: [email protected]). (1/0