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Joint Action Group for the National Wildland Fire Weather Needs Assessment12 Oct 2006, 12:30 – 4:30 EDT
Cochairs: Dr. Al Riebau, Mr. Eli Jacks
OFCM: Lt. Col. Dave Andrus
Telecon # 888-391-6569, pass code 55381# GoToMeeting https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/490110788, ID is 490-110-788
Agenda
Welcome and administrative remarks Approve record of actions from last meeting Review goals, timeline, and open action items GOES DCS operational requirement update 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management
Congress session plans Fire Congress survey question discussion Open discussion Plans for next meeting Review of new action items
Welcome and Administrative Remarks Welcome!
Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Samuel P. Williamson
Administrative remarks Attendance roster Facility information GoToMeeting use
Primary Goal
The Western Governors urge NOAA to: • Complete a National Needs Assessment
Report, by NOAA’s Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, of federal, state and local fire managers needs for weather information in their wildfire and prescribed fire decision making processes and a framework to meet those needs by the NWS and Predictive Services.
JAG-Established Goals
Comprehensive assessment of weather and climate needs of providers and users in their wildland fire and fuels management activities
Assessment of provider agency capability to deliver weather and climate information to fire managers and other users
Raise the critical nature of fire weather to a new level of community awareness
JAG-Established Functional Areas Data collection, integrity, processing and archival Fire weather research and development Forecast products and services Modeling, prediction, and data assimilation Information dissemination and technologies Education, training, outreach, partnering and
collaboration User response, decision support, and resulting user
impacts Funding and human resource considerations Socioeconomic impacts
Timeline
Oct 12 -- Update members and refine Fire Congress questions Oct 31 -- JAG update to FENWT meeting in Athens, GA Nov 8 -- Deadline for Fire Congress survey development Nov 14 -- JAG panel at 3rd International Fire Congress Nov 30 -- Deadline for responses to Fire Congress surveys Dec 7-8 -- Meeting to review responses, frame assessment
issues and agree to assessment reportables Jan -- JAG drafts assessment report Feb 1 -- Deadline to submit draft assessment to editor Mar-Apr -- Revise report based upon editor comments Apr 18 -- JAG meeting to review final publication pre-print Jun 10-12 -- Findings and recommendations presented to WGA
Action Item Update (1/2)
Action 06-1.3 Assessment Functional Areas – Gathering information. Status: Done
Action 06-2.2 Assessment Functional Areas – Gathering Information. Part II. Status: Done
Action 06-3.1 Workshop for Stakeholders’ Review Status: Session established during 3rd International Wildfire
Ecology and Management Congress. Topics and speakers identified. Short survey being developed for use during the session.
Action Item Update (2/2)
Action 06-3.3 Assessment Information Gathering Tool (amendment to 06-2.1). OFCM will review the functional area documents and
produce a draft of the “survey” or “questionnaire.” This tool will incorporate the changes provided at the meeting, along with the clarification of positions from Action 06-3.2.
Status: Done
GOES DCS Operational Requirement Update Mr. Charles Kazimir, NIFC, BLM, DOI
3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress Session
Mr. Bob Dumont, OFCM
Fire Congress Survey Questions Strategy
Design a short survey for participants and make available to other fire weather stakeholders
Focus survey on primary and established JAG goals Keep survey short enough to encourage voluntary
completion with short turn-around time Phrase questions clearly, so that respondents can
reasonably answer intended questions Phrase questions positively so that respondents are
encouraged to respond without negatively impacting associates
Phrase open-ended questions to encourage thoughtful and meaningful responses
Open Discussion (1/3)
Appoint functional area lead agents and teams for survey question refinement. Final questions needed by 8 Nov.
Additional survey distribution plans
Open Discussion (2/3)
NWS briefing at next JAG meeting Available NWS fire weather products and services Fire weather products and services issues NWS is
currently aware of due to previous outreach and customer feedback
Predictive Services briefing at next JAG meeting Available PS fire weather products and services Fire weather products and services issues PS is
currently aware of due to previous outreach and customer feedback
Open Discussion (3/3)
Document requirement for GOES DCS data flow within the data functional area
Plan to provide draft report to editor by 1 Feb Functional area drafts Misc draft topics
Document job descriptions of common fire duties Others?
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Next Meetings
3rd International Wildfire Ecology and Management Congress (13 - 17 Nov) Panel discussions, 14 Nov Survey distribution and collection
JAG Meeting, 7-8 Dec at OFCM Briefings from NWS and PS on their products and
services, to include their assessment of wildland fire community products and service needs
Review brief analysis of survey responses Partition assessment work throughout JAG
New Action Items
Agenda
Welcome and administrative remarks Approve record of actions from last meeting Review goals, timeline, and open action items GOES DCS operational requirement update 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management
Congress session plans Fire Congress survey question discussion Open discussion Plans for next meeting Review of new action items