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• WMI Team meets in Sequoia National Park, CA, Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2008
  
  
  
  
• WMI sponsors the International Journal of Wildland Fire's special issue on fire climatology
  International Journal of Wildland Fire, Fire Climatology in the western United States, Volume 17(1), Feb. 2008
  Abstracts and full text versions of the papers are available on the IJWF's website.
• WMI Team meets in Pingree Park, CO, Sept 24-27, 2007
  
  Meeting notes (Word document)
  WMI 2007 proposal notes (Word document)
• Dave Peterson Receives International Scientific Achievement Award
  David L. Peterson has spent most of his career studying the complex subalpine ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest and the effects of environmental stressors, such as fire and climate change, on these systems. Peterson recently received the 2005 Scientific Achievement Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) for his research findings and publishing achievements. He has published 160 scientific articles and three books about his primary research findings in fire ecology, mountain ecology, and climate change.
  
  The award was presented in August during the 22nd World Congress of the IUFRO in Brisbane, Australia. The IUFRO promotes forest science cooperation by uniting more than 15,000 scientists in about 700 member organizations in 110 countries.
  
  Peterson’s international activities with IUFRO and other organizations include participation in working groups on air pollution effects in forests, climate change, and natural resource monitoring. He is currently developing quantitative guidelines for fuel treatment in dry forests of western North America. He is also a principal investigator for the Western Mountain Initiative, a scientific consortium focused on climate change effects in mountain ecosystems.
  
  Peterson is a research biologist at the USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station and a professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. He joined the Forest Service in 1980 after earning a Ph. D. from the University of Illinois.
• Dan Fagre Receives Top Honor from National Park Service
  Dan received the National Park Service Director's Award for Natural Resource Research on March 15, 2005, at the George Wright Society biennial conference in Philadelphia. Dan was selected for the honor because of his ability to perform excellent scientific studies, resulting in significant publications, his ability to "outreach" to the park staff and visitors, and his penchant for collaboration with other researchers and managers in the Rocky Mountain region. View press release (pdf).