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Global Wildfire Collective
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We facilitate scientific & strategic collaboration among scientists, national policymakers, communities & firefighters to enable wildfire resilience.
https://globalwildfirecollective.org/
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Reminder! Register to join us for next week’s fire modeling webinar!
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SAVE THE DATE! 🔥 Join us Dec 2 at 12 PM PST for Matching Models to Objectives: A Showcase of Four Fire Modeling Approaches featuring Drs. Gollner, Scheller, Lucash & Syphard. Learn how leading scientists use and evaluate fire modeling tools.

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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This #GivingTuesday, help the Global Wildfire Collective keep wildfire data free 🌍🔥 Your gift supports open data, workshops, and on-the-ground action to build resilient communities worldwide. 🎯 DONATE LINK IN BIO
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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This #GivingTuesday, help keep the Global Wildfire Collective’s open data free 🌍🔥 Your gift supports our Spatial Data Gateway, local workshops, and on-the-ground solutions to protect communities and landscapes.

DONATION LINK IN BIO!
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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🌍 This #GivingTuesday, support open science with a gift to CBI. Your donation keeps Data Basin free & drives work that strengthens pollinator habitats, recovers endangered species, and protects giant sequoias. Invest in a healthier planet. #Consbio #ConservationScience

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November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This #GivingTuesday, help us reach $10K to keep our open Spatial Data Gateway free and continue to expand on-the-ground impact - workshops, local stakeholders, and solutions for resilient communities worldwide. 🌍🔥

DONATE TODAY
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November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society studies how wildfires start, spread, & affect people & ecosystems and work with practitioners and mentor emerging researchers. Learn more: globalwildfirecollective.org/our-partner-institutions/
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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SAVE THE DATE! 🔥 Join us Dec 2 at 12 PM PST for Matching Models to Objectives: A Showcase of Four Fire Modeling Approaches featuring Drs. Gollner, Scheller, Lucash & Syphard. Learn how leading scientists use and evaluate fire modeling tools.

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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New demo video alert!

Learn how to navigate and use the Global Wildfire Collective Spatial Data Gateway, an open-access hub for wildfire-related spatial data.

Watch the demo:
youtu.be/Hte2HOyXVwg

Explore the Gateway:
globalwildfirecollective.databasin.org

#WildfireData #OpenScience #FireEcology
Global Wildfire Collective Spatial Data Gateway Demo
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October 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Our Global Wildfire Collective Spatial Data Gateway is here! Intended for sharing wildfire-related data, maps, models, tools, and publications.

Explore now!
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#GlobalWildfireCollective #ConsBio #DataBasin #FireData #WildfireData #Wildfire #Fire #FireResearch
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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From publications to news features, explore all the highlights in the News & Publications section on our website.
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#GlobalWildfireCollective #GWC #GWCCharterMember #ConsBio #Wildfire #WildfireResearch #WildfireRecovery #GlobalChange #FireManagement
October 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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We’re proud to share that Dr. Alexandra Syphard spoke on NPR about the Roadless Rule and wildfire risk. She highlighted how roads can boost suppression access but also raise ignitions and fire risk. Listen here: n.pr/3Y6O1E7
#Wildfire #FireEcology #GWCCharterMember @dramalamujer.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Meet our new Charter Member, Dr. Saeedeh Eskandari! A project manager at RIFR, she applies remote sensing & GIS to wildfire prediction, forest management, and climate impacts across Iran, Turkey & beyond. Author of Fire in Iranian Forests (2025).
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September 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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In Cundinamarca, Colombia, the first Indigenous Forest Brigade is safeguarding Cerro Majuy. They prevent biodiversity loss & promote sustainable practices, lead emergency wildfire response, and train continuously in fire management, first aid & conservation.

Read more:
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August 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Dr. Arindam Roy contributes expert scientific leadership and advice across the Clean Air Fund’s grant making, strategy design, monitoring, evaluation and learning, donor proposals & external influencing.
#GlobalWildfireCollective #GWCCharterMember #ConsBio #Wildfire #WildfireResearch #GlobalChange
July 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Trent is a fire risk modeler in all aspects of bushfire management. His work covers a range of theoretical & applied aspects of bushfire behavior & management. The main focus of his research being management expenditure to reduce the risk of fire impacts on people, property & the environment.
July 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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ISFMI works in collaboration with partner governments for the delivery of Indigenous Fire Management implementation projects. Indigenous peoples’ rights and interests as leaders of their own futures is at the forefront of the Initiative’s concerns.
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July 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Dr. Mike Flannigan’s primary research interests are fire & weather/climate interactions & the potential impact of climatic change, lightning-ignited forest fires, landscape fire modeling & interactions between vegetation, fire, & weather.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Universidad de La Frontera’s #mission is to cultivate & transfer knowledge in various fields & #cultural domains. It recognizes, promotes, & integrates the #worldview of its #indigenous peoples, promoting #respect and equitable #development.
July 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Markristian Madariaga Pareja is an agroforestry engineer and certified forest firefighter with specialized training under NWCG standards, with more than 10 years of experience as a volunteer firefighter and more than 7 years dedicated to the integral management of forest fire risk in Peru.
July 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Universidad del Rosario provides a solid ethical, humanistic and scientific education that - together with research and suitable teaching - allows this community to educate people who act for the benefit of society, with a maximum sense of responsibility.
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July 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Meet our charter member, Dr. Jon Fink!

Established in 2019, Co-PI Dr. Jonathan Fink directs the Cascadia Wildfire and Urban Smoke Working Group, which has hosted more than 118 webinars and multiple symposia to advance science-policy exchanges that are available on YouTube.
July 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Meet our partner organization, @ungrd.bsky.social!

UNGRD directs the implementation of disaster risk management, taking into account sustainable development policies, and coordinates the operation and continuous development of the National System for Disaster Prevention and Response (SNPAD).
July 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Meet our charter member, Dr. Johan Sjöström!

Johan (PhD physics, 2010) is a senior research scientist at RISE since 2011. His research is focused on wildfires, their ignition, behaviour and consequences to society.

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July 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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The CR2 Center for Climate Science and Resilience is a research center that brings together researchers from the social and natural sciences to generate knowledge about climate science and resilience.

To learn more about our partner organizations, visit globalwildfirecollective.org/our-partners/
July 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Meet our charter member, Dr. David Bowman!

Professor David Bowman is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and the Director of the transdisciplinary Fire Centre at the University of Tasmania, where he holds a research chair in Pyrogeography and Fire Science.
July 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM