The 7th Southern Africa Fire Network (SAFNet) Workshop will be held in Caprivi, Namibia on 22-26th September 2008. The workshop, Towards Effective Regional Fire Management, Policies and Operations Status aims to foster more effective and appropriate fire management policies and practices in Southern Africa through the use of remote sensing, GIS and other geo-spatial information technologies....
The Global Palaeofire Working Group (GPWG) is one component of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme’s cross-project activity on fire. The aim of the GPWG is to explore the relationships between changes in fire regimes, climate, vegetation and human activities as documented by the palaeo-record. Since mid-2006 the group has engaged an international network of scientists to create a...
Landcover classification product aggregated to vegetation type from Neuenschwander dissertation Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics in response to flooding and fire in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Amy Neuenschwander's PhD dissertation for the University of Texas at Austin, assesses the spatio-temporal distribution of flooding and fire and their subsequent influences on
vegetation as...
With the first rains coming to Ngamiland these past few weeks and HOORC's Library garden full of the musical calls of African long tailed shrikes, the Okavango's dry season fires seem far in the past. Publication of Post-fire succession on savanna habitats in the Okavango Delta wetland, Botswana by Michael Heinl, Jan Sliva, HOORC researcher Mike Murray-Hudson and Budzanani Tacheba in a recent...
The Boteti river, outflow of the Okavango Delta, this year flowed beyond Makalamabedi where river flow had not been experienced for many years. A Hoorc team working on the ephemeral rivers project was present when the river progressed through the Makalamabedi area. The photographs shows the river advancing amid active fires in the valley . To help the progress of the flow, local farmers burned...
Small mammal responses to fire in the Okavango Delta : a PhD dissertation submitted to the University of Cambridge by Militsa Plavsic is the second dissertation coming from HOORC's project, Effects of different fire regimes on the vegetation in southern African savanna and floodplain ecosystems. Michael Heinl's dissertation, Fire regime and vegetation response in the Okavango Delta, Botswana...
In what may become a regular feature, we're starting up "Neighborhood Blotter" here at Carpetblog. Its success will depend on my neighborhood's capacity to be interesting.
As the owner of an old wood house, I have more than a casual interest in fires. So when my bedroom was filled with red and blue strobe lights from firetrucks at 5 am this morning, I got up out of bed almost as fast as I did when the terrorist cat woke up the Carpetdogs.
Because Turks cannot resist a spectacle -- from a minor car accident to a five alarm five -- the whole neighborhood was already standing in the street, commenting, speculating and selling. The television cameras were there, as was the Simitci (guy who sells which are sesame covered bread-rings called simits, the ubiquitous Turkish street food). Women...
Fire in the Okavango Delta April 2007
The 4th International Wildland Fire Conference was held in Sevilla, Spain, 14-17 May 2007 under the auspices of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Commission. The meeting brought together 1531 participants from 88 countries to discuss...