GFMC Calendar 2007

January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December 

January 2007

1-15 January 2007
Preparation of reports and projects:
Joint report of GFMC and European Center for Forest Fires (ECFF) / Council of Europe (CoE) to the 4th International Wildland Fire Conference “Vegetation Fire Smoke: Nature, Impacts and Policies to Reduce Negative Consequences on Humans and the Environment”

GEO Task No. DI-06-13 “Implementation of a Fire Warning System at Global Level”

9 January 2007
Work visit of the Co-Director of the EU / GTZ-Indonesia Forest Fire Management Project, Palembang (Sumatra), Mr. K.-H. Steinmann; GFMC.

17 January 2007
GFMC retreat; Hotel restaurant Dionysos, Freiburg-Guenterstal, Germany.

19 January 2007
GOFC-GOLD international telephone conference (J.G. Goldammer); AT&T.

21-23 January 2007
International consultation on impacts of fire and land use on soils with GFMC staff, Deborah A. Martin and John Moody (U.S. Geological Survey); GFMC

22 January 2007
Meeting of the Executive Board, German National Committee for Disaster Reduction within the UN-ISDR (Deutsches Komitee für Katastrophenvorsorge - DKKV) (J.G. Goldammer); Bonn, Germany.

24-25 January 2007
Prescribed burning operation in the frame of the Eurasian Fire in Nature Conservation Network / FIRE PARADOX / AfriFireNet / Working on Fire (A. Held, D. Kraus, S. Maisch, W. Mbongo); Drover Heide, Germany.

 

26 January 2007
Meeting at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt – DLR), German Space Agency, on an innovative global vegetation fire observation system / AUSBIRD (J.G. Goldammer); DLR, Bonn-Oberkassel, Germany.

28-31 January 2007
Meeting of Fire Paradox consortium members contributing to the module “Fire Policies and Practices Assessment”; GFMC.

 

29 January 2007
Work visit of Volkswagen Foundation; GFMC.

 

February 2007

1 February 2007
Mr Sundar P. Sharma, Assistant Soil Conservation Officer, Department of Water Induced Disaster Prevention (DWIDP), Kathmandu, Nepal, starting work as GFMC UNISDR Regional South Asia Wildland Fire Network officer; GFMC

2 February 2007
Mr. D. Kraus leaving for field work on fire effects in seasonally dry tropical ecosystems in the Nilgiris, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, India.

 

13-16 February 2007
Country - Led Initiative in support of the United Nations Forum on Forests “Multi Year Programme of Work of United Nations Forum on Forests: Charting the Way Forward to 2015” (J.G. Goldammer); Bali, Indonesia.

16 February 2007
GOFC-GOLD/GFMC presentation at the Forty-fourth session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) on “Use of Space Systems for Wildland Fire Early Warning, Monitoring and Decision Support in Wildfire Disaster Management” (by Johann G. Goldammer, Chris Justice [GOFC-GOLD Fire Monitoring and Mapping Implementation Team] and Giovanni Rum [GEO Secretariat]); UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA), Vienna, Austria.

19-23 February 2007
Symposium “Fire Ecology and Management in Indian Forests” and consultation on the foundation of the UNISDR Regional South Asia Wildland Fire Network (D.Kraus); Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.

 

27 February 2007
Joint meeting of GFMC, GOFC-GOLD, GEO Secretariat and WMO concerning the development of the “Global Early Warning System for Wildland Fire” (J.G. Goldammer); WMO, Geneva, Switzerland. 

March 2007

1 March 2007
Mr Michael Bruce, Manager Glen Tanar Estate and Managing Director Firebreak Services Ltd., starting work as GFMC officer responsible for the EUROFIRE project, a collaborative project of GFMC and CTIF in partnership with FIRE PARADOX; GFMC.

12-15 March 2007
18thSession of the FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO): Discussion of the non-legally binding Strategy to Enhance International Cooperation in Fire Management, including the (a) Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines; (b) Implementation Partnership; (c) Global Assessment of Fire Management; and (d) Review of International Cooperation in Fire Management (J.G. Goldammer); FAO, Rome, Italy.

14-15 March 2007
Prescribed burning operation in the frame of the Eurasian Fire in Nature Conservation Network / FIRE PARADOX (S. Eckert, D. Kraus, C. Scholz, M. Spielmann); Drover Heide, Germany.

 

18-21 March 2007
Regional Wildland Fire Consultation on the Development of a Strategy on International Cooperation in Wildland Fire Management in the Regional South East European / Caucasus Wildland Fire Network, coordinated by GFMC and the UNISDR Regional South East European / Caucasus Wildland Fire Network, hosted by Bulgaria (J.G. Goldammer); Sofia, Bulgaria.

Countries participating in the consultation included Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine

 

23-31 March 2007
Workshop on the Operationalisation of the Procedures of the Panel of ASEAN Experts on Fire and Haze Assessment and Coordination, supported by the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit, the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), EU-South Sumatra Forest Fire Management Project (EU-SSFFMP) (J.G. Goldammer); Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia.
 (Workshop lead by GFMC-UNEP/OCHA cancelled due to postponement of the workshop by two weeks)

26-27 March 2007
International Early Warning Programme (IEWP) Advisory Group Meeting, hosted by the UN/ISDR Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning, topics among other: Development of the Global Wildland Fire Early Warning System (J.G. Goldammer); Bonn, Germany.

27-31 March 2007
Fire Paradox prescribed burning operations and Fire Paradox / EuroFire consultations on fire management training in Western / Atlantic Europe (M. Bruce, D. Kraus, A. Held); Aberdeen / Glen Tanar, Scotland, UK.

 

April 2007

Most GFMC resources in April will be largely devoted to the preparation of the 4th International Wildland Fire Conference, Sevilla, Spain, 14-17 May 2007.

1 April 2007
New staff member, Ms. Leticia Koproski, Médica Veterinária, M.Sc. forest, PhD student in forest science at the Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, and Projeto Fogo Selvagem (Parque Nacional de Ilha Grande, PR/MS) and Projeto Fogo Selvagem (Parque Estadual do Cerrado, PR) starting work at GFMC, until March 2008; GFMC.

2-3 April 2007
Foundation meeting of the UNISDR Regional South Asia Wildland Fire Network (S. Sharma, J.G. Goldammer); Kathmandu, Nepal.

18 and 20 April 2007
Technical meetings of the EU-sponsored LIFE Rohrhardsberg project with a component on the use of prescribed fire in maintaining landscape and ecosystem structures in the Black Forest including habitat management of capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) and hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia) (J.G. Goldammer, D. Kraus, M. Spielmann); Freiburg region, Germany.

19-20 April 2007
Steering Committee meeting of the EuroFire project (European Wildland Fire Management Handbook, EU Leonardo da Vinci programme), a joint effort of GFMC and the Commission on Forest Fires, International Technical Committee for the Prevention and Extinction of Fire (CTIF), facilitated by Rural Development Initiatives (J.G. Goldammer, M. Bruce); London, UK.

20-21 April 2007
First prescribed burning experiments within the EU-sponsored LIFE Rohrhardsberg project. Testing the use of prescribed fire in maintaining landscape and ecosystem structures in the Black Forest including habitat management of capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) and hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia) (J.G. Goldammer, D. Kraus, M. Spielmann, A. Held); Yach/Rohrhardsberg, Germany.

 

24 April 2007
Stakeholder meeting for the introduction of prescribed burning in Ortenau County, Baden-Württemberg State (J.G. Goldammer); Ettenheim, Germany.

25 April 2007
Prescribed burning at GFMC experimental site (all GFMC staff); GFMC.

27 April 2007
GOFC-GOLD international telephone conference (J.G. Goldammer); AT&T.

 

May 2007

1-3 May 2007
33rd Session of the Conference of Directors of the United Nations University (UNU) (CONDIR33) (J.G. Goldammer); UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands.

4 May 2007
Meeting of Fire Paradox WP10.3 (Production of new training possibilities for fire professionals) and WP10.4 (Exchanges between prescribed burning and suppression fire practitioners) (D. Kraus, A. Held); Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité de Recherches Forestières Méditerranéennes, Avignon, France.

12-18 May 2007
4th International Wildland Fire Conference with meeting of the UNISDR Global Wildland Fire Network (J.G. Goldammer, S. Sharma, M. Bruce); Sevilla, Spain.

13 May 2007
Meeting of the Steering Committee and the International Advisory Board of the EuroFire project (European Wildland Fire Management Handbook, EU Leonardo da Vinci programme); meeting held as a side event of the 4th International Wildland Fire Conference (J.G. Goldammer, S. Sharma, M. Bruce); Sevilla, Spain.

19 May 2007
Meeting with UNEPGRID GRID Arendal Programme Director, UNEP Regional Office for Europe, Mr. O. Simonett, concerning future activities in fire management in the Caucasus Region; GFMC.

29 May 2007
Meeting of the Executive Board, German National Committee for Disaster Reduction within the UN-ISDR (Deutsches Komitee für Katastrophenvorsorge - DKKV) (J.G. Goldammer); Bonn, Germany.

 

June 2007

5-7 June 2007
First meeting of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction under the auspices of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) (J.G. Goldammer); UN, Geneva, Switzerland.

11-14 June 2007
EuroFire and Fire Paradox coordination meeting on competency-based fire management training in Europe (M. Bruce); Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain.

14 June 2007
Final Conference of the European Fire and Rescue Competence-based Project (FiReComp) with GFMC participation to establish links with the EuroFire and the Fire Paradox project on vocational training on a European level (D. Kraus); Amsterdam, Netherlands.

 GOFC-GOLD Fire IT international telephone conference (J.G. Goldammer, S. Sharma); AT&T.

18-21 June 2007
3rd FIRE PARADOX General Assembly (D. Kraus); Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

20 June 2007
Work visit of the representative of the "Conservation and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources" Program (a cooperation between the German Agency For Technical Cooperation and the Ministry for Nature and Environment of Mongolia), Ms. Bayartaa Nyamjav, to prepare joint field work in with Fire Paradox in Mongolia and Russia; GFMC.

21 June 2007
GOFC-GOLD international telephone conference (J.G. Goldammer); AT&T.

22 June 2007
Demonstration burning aimed at reconstruction of traditional slash-and-burn agriculture in the Black Forest (Reutebrennen) (all GFMC staff); Schiltach, Vorderlehengericht, Germany.

24 June - 1 July 2007
The 10th European Heathland Workshop with field excursion from Central to Northern Norway (D. Kraus); Trondheim, Bodø, Norway

28-29 June 2007
Fire Paradox coordination meeting on new training possibilities for fire professionals in Europe (M. Bruce); Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.

30 June 2007
MTV Campus Invasion with Wir Sind Helden, Moneybrother, Itchy Poopzkid and Turbostaat; in front of GFMC (GFMC out of operations / paralyzed between 30 June and first half of 1 July)

 

July 2007

2 July 2007
Work visit of Stefan M. Teusan, Teusan Forest Consulting, on cooperation in wildland fire research in Mongolia; GFMC.

6 July 2007
National wildland fire management coordination meeting with GFMC, German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), German Fire Services Association (Deutscher Feuerwehrverband), and the German National Committee for Disaster Reduction within the UNISDR (Deutsches Komitee für Katastrophenvorsorge - DKKV); GFMC.

11 July 2007
Opening of Special Exhibition “Unruhige Erde: Naturgefahren und ihre Risiken” (“Restless Earth: Natural Hazards and Risks”), Keynote Speech “Fire – Ecological Incident or Natural Disaster?” by J.G. Goldammer; Museum König, Bonn, Germany.

11-14 July 2007
Exhibition of the three Freiburg-based Max Planck Institutes (GFMC / MPI Chemistry, MPI for Foreign and International Criminal Law, MPI Imunobiology) within the 550th Anniversary of Freiburg University; Freiburg, Germany.

 

13 July 2007
GFMC Summer Party; GFMC Research Site.

15-17 July 2007
Expert Consultation Meeting on Wildfire Early Warning and Detection Systems (J.G. Goldammer), Lattakia, Syria.



Fires threatening the ecologically valuable pine forests (Pinus
halepensis, P. brutia) in the North of Syria and the South of Turkey are a challenge for border-crossing cooperation

 

Pine forest destroyed by a large wildfire in 2004

 


Breakout group in discussion on the future needs for a national fire management strategy

 

Fire danger warning sign and a local fire truck along a road in the forest region North of Lattakia.

 

 

23-27 July 2007
3° Simpósio Brasil-Alemanha „Desenvolvimento sustentavel“ (3rd Brasilian-German Symposion on Sustainable Development“, with GFMC contributions on International Cooperation on Wildland Fire Management“ and on „Ecological Aspects of Fire in the Cerrado State Park (PR), Brazil“ (by L. Koproski, Johann G. Goldammer , D. Kraus); Freiburg, Germany.

25-28 July 2007
International Meeting on “Reduction of Disaster Risk from Catastrophic Wildfires in the Chernobyl Irradiated Forests” under the auspices of the National Agricultural University of Ukraine, Yale University, GFMC / UNISDR (J.G. Goldammer); Kiev, Ukraine.



 Vice Prime Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk addressing the meeting

 

Discussion of a proposal to reduce release of radionuclide and airborne contamination by forest fires in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

 


Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor 4, covered by the sarcophagous

 

High wildfire hazard in a contaminated and insect-killed forest in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

 


Chernobyl scrap yard: Disposed helicopters and water tankers contaminated during the firefighting operation at the failure of Reactor 4

 

Chernobyl scrap yard: Disposed fire vehicles contaminated during the firefighting operation at the failure of Reactor 4

 

 

29 July - 1 August 2007
Deployment of GFMC staff to assess the wildfire situation in Kosovo and to coordinate fire response, on request by the UN and on behalf of the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit (A.C. Held); Prishtina, Kosovo.

 

August 2007

1-14 August 2007
GFMC mission to the project termination workshop “Lokakarya berbagi pengalaman, pengetahuan dan keterampilan dalam pengelolaan kebakaran hutan dan lahan” of the EU-GTZ-supported „South Sumatra Forest Fire Management Project” (Kerjasama teknis komisi Eropa – Pemerintah Indonesia) (J.G. Goldammer, A. Hoffmann); Palembang, Sumatera Selatan, Indonesia.



 Opening Ceremony of the workshop

Anja Hoffmann presenting the Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines

 

8 August 2007
GFMC in the Second Channel of Public German TV (ZDF) “Abenteuer Wissen” (“Adventure Knowledge”), 22:15-22:45h (GMT +1)

16-18 August 2007
Meeting of the Steering Committee of the EuroFire project (European Wildland Fire Management Handbook, EU Leonardo da Vinci programme) (C. Glaister, J.G. Goldammer, M. Jones, P. Bowers, M. Bruce, S. Maisch, D. Kraus, A. Held); GFMC.



EuroFire Team at work - photo by team member Claire Glaister (behind the camera)

 

19-26 August 2007
Fire assessment mission to Serbia in the frame of the UNISDR Regional Southeast Europe / Caucasus Wildland Fire Network (J.G. Goldammer, N. Nikolov, V. Jovanovic); Beograde, Vojvodina, Tara-Mitrovac, Vodena poljana, Kopaoniku, Vlasina, Serbia.



Forest area near Kopaonik National Park burned in August 2007

Firefighters managed to protect the hay from the wildfire


Backpack pumps made in Croatia are commonly used for fire suppression
and mop up

Hand tools in Tara National Park - ready to go


TV-based fire detection system in Vojvodinashume, Nature Reserve Banat

TV evaluation for location of fire starts

 

28 August – 2 September 2007
Fire assessment mission to Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on request by the UN and on behalf of UNDP, UNEP and the Joint UNEP/OCHA Environment Unit, in conjunction with the UNISDR Regional Southeast Europe / Caucasus Wildland Fire Network (J.G. Goldammer, N. Nikolov); Skopje, Macedonia.



Effects of a high-severity fire (24-26 July 2007) , which destroyed 500 ha of natural pine forest (Pinus nigra, P. sylvestris) near Berevo, Macedonia.

Macedonia suffered some damages by burned telephone and power lines, such as in Katlanova in July 2007.


A wildfire, which burned 2800 ha of forest (P. nigra) and other lands on 27-29 July 2007, also burned down several houses of an informal Roma settlement in the outskirts of Bitola, Macedonia. 178 persons were evacuated.

Unexploded ammunition (UXO) from WW I combat theatres at the Macedonian line of contact in 1917 is representing a severe threat to human safety. More than 70 explosions of artillery grenades occurred during the 2007 fires nearby Bitola, Macedonia; no casualties reported.


UNEP-OCHA-UNDP-GFMC Fire Mission Team meeting with local and regional forestry and disaster / crisis management authorities in Kocani, Macedonia, 29 August 2007.

UNEP-OCHA-UNDP-GFMC Fire Mission Team meeting with local and regional forestry and disaster / crisis management authorities in Ohrid, Macedonia, 29 August 2007.

 

September 2007

6 September 2007
GOFC-GOLD international telephone conference (J.G. Goldammer); AT&T.

13-20 September 2007
Mongolia field mission to prepare prescribed burning research plots in the frame of the Eurasian Fire in Nature Conservation Network (EFNCN) and Fire Paradox, and the development of a Mongolian-Russian-English Wildland Fire Terminology and a fire research programme and fire management training curricula at the Mongolian Agriculture University, Forestry Department, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the GTZ-Programme "Conservation and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources" (J.G. Goldammer, S. Teusan); Ulaanbaatar, Suchbaatar, Tunkel, Mongolia.

 

Mountain landscape near Tunkhel depleted of forests by illegal logging and wildfires.

Illegal logging truck leaving the already forest-depleted Khan Khentii Protected Area, Mongolia. Uncontrolled and non-sustainable logging is followed by wildfires that eliminate natural regeneration of larch and pine forests.


The town of Tunkhel, also called “Sawdust City”, is the center of processing illegally cut timber.

 

Khan Khentii Protected Area: Effects of illegal logging and wildfires are particularly detrimental on southern slopes, which dry out fast and human-set wildfires occur frequently

 


Award of the degree of Honorary Doctor of the Mongolian State University of Agriculture to Prof. Dr. Johann G. Goldammer (GFMC)

 

Meeting of the Joint GFMC, GTZ and Fire Paradox Group with the government authorities and researchers of Mongolia, at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (19 September 2007)

 

21 September 2007
Meeting of the German National Committee for Disaster Reduction (Deutsches Komitee für Katastrophenvorsorge - DKKV); Bonn, Germany.

Joint meeting with GFMC, DKKV, German Firefighters Association (Deutscher Feuerwehrverband) and @fire; Bonn, Germany.

 

October 2007

2-14 October 2007
Training Course on Community Based Fire Management (CBFiM) for Community Forest Users Group in the frame of the UNISDR Regional South Asia Wildland Fire Network, supported by the German Foreign Office, Task Force for Humanitarian Assistance (S. Sharma, D. Kraus); Chaukitole, Hetauda, Makawanpur, Nepal.

 

 

5-8 October 2007
Preparatory field work for prescribed burning operations in National Park "Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft" in the frame of the Eurasian Fire in Nature Conservation Network (EFNCN) (J.G. Goldammer); Hiddensee, Germany

Calluna vulgaris heathland on Hiddensee Island, endangered by abandonment of traditional mowing and grazing practices Calluna vulgaris heathland on Hiddensee Island, endangered by succession of birch, pine and juniper
Nature conservation expert group preparing the first prescribed burning experiment on heathlands on Hiddensee Island Fire scars in scattered old pine reveal the historic occurrence of heathlands fires on Hiddensee Island

 

7-9 October 2007
EuroFire project meeting (European Wildland Fire Management Handbook, EU Leonardo da Vinci programme) (C. Glaister, M. Bruce, S. Maisch, A. Held); Edinburgh, Scotland.

7-10 October 2007
Contribution to the 6th International Zoo and Wildlife Research Conference on Behaviour, Physiology and Genetics, Conservation Biology Section, on “Xenarthrans Attitudes During Wildfires in Brazil” (L. Koproski); Berlin, Germany.

10-13 October 2007
EuroFire planning meeting (European Wildland Fire Management Handbook, EU Leonardo da Vinci programme) (A. Held); Porto, Portugal.

AfriFireNet planning meeting for Mozambique and Angola activities (A. Held); Coimbra, Portugal.

15-16 October 2007
8th National Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction on “Disaster Risk Reduction in a Changing Climate”. German Committee for Disaster Reduction (Deutsches Komitee für Katastrophenvorsorge – DKKV) within the ISDR and Center for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction Technology (CEDIM), Karlsruhe University; public lecture by J.G. Goldammer «Klimawandel und Feuer: Sind die Wälder der Erde noch zu retten? Eine kritische Analyse weltweiter Waldbrände und Waldverbrennung unter dem Vorzeichen des Klimawandels» (J.G. Goldammer, L. Koproski); Karlsruhe, Germany.

20-23 October 2007
Training course “Use of Fire Suppression Hand Tools” at the Croatian Fire Service within the framework of the FAO TCP "National Strategy for Forest Fire Protection" (3-XII-CRO-201) (A. Held); Split, Croatia.

GFMC and Croatian partners exercising the use of fire for creating fire lines and suppression firing (counter fire)

 

25 October – 3 November 2007
Working on Fire / AfriFireNet Implementation meeting (A. Held); Nelspruit, South Africa.

Planning meeting of the National Organising Committee of the 5th International Wildland Fire Conference 2011 (A. Held); Sun City, South Africa.

28 October – 3 November 2007
 Foro Centroamericano sobre Manejo del Fuego: Incendios forestales una realidad en Centroamerica. GTZ Trifinio trilateral fire management project El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras (J. G. Goldammer); San Salvador, El Salvador.

Meeting with representatives of La Palma community, El Salvador: Discussions on principles and achievements of Community-Based Fire Management

 

November 2007

6-9 November 2007
Silvotecna 2007: Symposium “Incendios Forestales: Amenazas y Desafíos en un Escenario de Calentamiento Global” (J.G. Goldammer); Concepción, Chile.

12-16 November 2007
West Africa Regional Network (WARN) Meeting on Earth Observation and Environmental Change, in conjunction with the GOFC-GOLD Workshop on Requirements for Fire Early Warning Systems in Africa (J.G. Goldammer, A. Held); University of Ghana (Legon), Accra, Ghana.

Countries participating in the regional network meeting included representatives from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, supported by the Canadian Forest Service, GEO Secretariat, GFMC, GOFC-GOLD, JRC
 
Post-conference fire verification mission near Tamale, hosted by the Integrated Tamale Fruit Company (ITFC)

 

15 / 16 / 22 November 2007
Annual course "Fire Ecology in Ecosystems of the Tropics and Subtropics", Faculty for Forest and Environmental Sciences, Freiburg University (Germany), given by GFMC staff (J.G. Goldammer, D. Kraus, S. Maisch); Freiburg University, Germany.

22-23 November 2007
Training on fuel assessment methods (Cube method) on fuel breaks in the Luberon mountains with INRA (M. Spielmann, D. Kraus); Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Unité de Recherches Forestières Méditerranéennes, Avignon, France.

 

26 November 2007
Meeting of the Executive Board, German National Committee for Disaster Reduction within the UN-ISDR (Deutsches Komitee für Katastrophenvorsorge - DKKV) (J.G. Goldammer); Bonn, Germany.

28 November 2007
Stakeholder meeting of the EU-sponsored LIFE Rohrhardsberg project, concerning the component “Prescribed fire in maintaining landscape and ecosystem structures in the Black Forest including habitat management of capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) and hazel grouse (Tetrastes bonasia)” (D. Kraus, M. Spielmann); Simonswald, Germany.

 

December 2007

2-4 December 2007
Fire Management Actions Alliance Advisory Group meeting (J. G. Goldammer); FAO, Rome, Italy.
http://www.fao.org/forestry/site/35488/en/

3-7 December 2007
Fire Investigation Training: wildland fire origin and cause determination (D. Kraus); Pretoria, South Africa.

4-5 December 2007
UN OCHA Rosersberg Initiative Working Group Meeting (J. G. Goldammer); La Marsa, Les Côtes de Carthage, Tunisia.

5-7 December 2007
Paradox 10.3 Advisory Group meeting and Paradox – EuroFire coordination meeting (A. Held); Lisbon, Portugal.

7 December 2007
Annual course "Natural Hazards – Wildland Fire Hazards", Faculty for Forest and Environmental Sciences, Freiburg University (Germany), given by GFMC staff (J.G. Goldammer); Freiburg University, Germany.

11-19 December 2007
National Round Table on Fire Management, Nepal (J.G. Goldammer, S. Sharma); Kathmandu, Nepal.



A total of 52 participants from agencies, civil society , NGOs and international
 organizations attended the Round Table

16-17 December 2007
4th Meeting of the Regional Northeast Asia Wildland Fire Network (L. Kondrashov for J.G. Goldammer); Harbin, China.


Representatives from China, Mongolia, Russia and South Korea attended the 4th Regional Network meeting

18-20 December 2007
Fuel assessment with hemispherical photography in a Pinus sylvestris stand (M. Spielmann, D. Kraus); Breisach, Germany.

31 December 2007
GFMC greetings for 2008: Happy New Year to all colleagues, cooperators and especially the members of the Global Wildland Fire Network.
 

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