If you are interested in learning about recent developments and innovations in wildfire risk management and adaptive planning and you are welcome to attend the workshop / webinar reporting FIRE-RES innovations developed jointly by the team led by Prof. Andrés Weintraub at the Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería do Chile and ForChange team from Centro de Estudos Florestais of the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, November 11th at 11am UTC. Please register at https://forms.gle/tXmmCsmNi6dTyvNs7
Live participation will facilitate the exchange of knowlegde and information as well as networking by participate online https://zoom.us/j/91902081092?pwd=7pRgWeqr4jXGLzruUr7vG9aRjgk3Xx.1 – Meeting ID: 919 0208 1092, Password: 778976
If you want to know information about the speakers:
•Andrés Weintraub holds a Civil Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Chile and a PhD in Operations Research from University of California Berkeley. I have been an Academic of the Department of Industrial Engineering University of Chile for over 40 years. His main fields of research are natural resources, in particular forest management and logistics. It was a consultant for many years for the US Forest Service and the Chilean forest industry. For the latter we developed several management packages to support decisions in transportation and harvesting. These systems were also exported, won the very prestigious Edelman Award given by the US Society of Operations Research and Management Science. Andres has authored more than 100 papers published in indexed journals, many in the area of forest management and planning. In the last 8 years his work has concentrated in the problem of forest fires, supported by grants in Chile and Europe.
•Felipe La Barra: He is an Agricultural Engineer with a specialization in environmental management and a Master’s degree in Natural Resources. He is a specialist in remote sensing and geographic information systems with experience in forestry, wildfires, drought, climate change and livestock projects. He has experience coordinating research and application projects, as well as developing applied AI models. He is currently part of Fire2A, leading the data section and coordinating applied research projects.
•José Borges Ph.D. in Forest Sciences (U. Minnesota, USA), associate professor at the School of Agriculture (ISA), ULisboa. Coordinator of IUFRO Unit 4.04.04 Landscape Management Planning for Multiple Ecosystem Services and of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management (MEDFOR). Has 25+ years of higher education, research and outreach experience in forest and natural resources management planning methods and decision support systems in ISA and in international universities. Coordinator of the Adaptive Territorial Management work package of the H2020 project FIRE RES and co author of the Integrated Wildfire Risk Management Strategy for the EU: developing resilient landscapes and safer communities. Co-authored over 120 international peer-reviewed publications.
•Sérgio Fernández holds a Master’s degree in Forest Sciences and Natural Resource Management from the Universities of Padua (Italy) and Lisbon (Portugal), and is currently pursuing a PhD in Sustainable Land Use at ISA (University of Lisbon). Over the past two years, he has been engaged in research on participatory multi-criteria analysis to prioritize areas for fire suppression support. More recently, his work has focused on evaluating the applicability of fire simulators in forest management planning.
•Susete Marques Ph.D. in Forest Engineering (U Lisbon) and Assistant Researcher at the Forest Research Centre (CEF) of ISA-U Lisbon. Coordinator of IUFRO unit 3.04.01- Operations systems analysis and modeling. She works in the areas of fire risk and damage models, forest management planning, multiple criteria optimization and trade-off analysis. Principal investigator in ISA in 2 national research projects and active participation in 8 national and international projects (e.g., FCT, FP7, Cost, Marie Curie, H2020). Coordinator of Task 2.3 Designing resistant and resilient forested landscapes in the FIRE RES project. Co-author of 39 international peer/reviewed publications and 6 book chapters.