GFMC NEWS – INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE FIRE MEETINGS 2018-2023 AND ARCHIVE 1998-2017

Retrospectives and Reports of Past Meetings
Archived Announcements (1998-2017)

Note: For national and local meetings in the U.S.A. see the regularly updated calendar of the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF): https://www.iawfonline.org/events/

2024

7th Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference (15-19 April 2024, simultaneously in Boise, Idaho, U.S.A., Canberra, Australia, and Tralee, Ireland)

2023

• Aerial Firefighting North America 2023 (03-04 April 2023, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
• Wildfire Management Summit 2023 (25-26 April 2023, Sacramento, California, U.S.A.)
• 8th International Wildland Fire Conference (16-19 May 2023, Porto, Portugal)
• 2nd International Congress on Fire in the Earth System: Humans and Nature (4-8 July 2023, Granada, Spain)
• Aerial Firefighting Asia Pacific 2023 (02-03-04 August 2023, Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia)
• Aerial Firefighting Europe 2023 (16-17 October 2023, Athens, Greece)

2022

• Aerial Firefighting North America 2022 (21-23 March 2022, San Diego, California. U.S.A.)
• Fire Impacts at the Earth Surface Across Space and Time: Perspectives for Future Fire Management (28 March – 1 April 2022, Bad Belzig, Germany)
• Wildfire Management Summit 2022 (25-26 April 2022, San Francisco, California. U.S.A.)
• 3rd International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk (03-06 May 2022, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy)
• 1er Séminaire Algéro-Canadien sur la lutte contre les feux de forêts par des moyens aériens (First Algerian-Canadian Seminar on Aerial Forest Firefighting) (16 May 2022, online)
• Aerial Firefighting and Search & Rescue Europe (18-20 May 2022, Nîmes, France)
• EGU General Assembly 2022 (23-27 May 2022, Vienna-Austria)
• International Association of Wildland Fire – Fire & Climate : Impacts, Issues & Future (23-27 May 2022, Pasadena, California, U.S.A. and 6-10 June 2022 Melbourne, Australia)
• Fire Ecology Across Boundaries: Connecting Science and Management (4-7 October 2022, Florence, Italy)
• Wildland Fire Canada 2022 (31 October – 04 November 2022, West Edmonton, Canada)
• UK Wildfire Conference 2022: The Human Dimension (09-10 November 2022, Belfast, UK)
• IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research & 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit (11-18 November 2022, Coimbra, Portugal)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2022: The Role of Fire in the Earth System: Understanding Drivers, Feedbacks, and Interactions with the Land, Atmosphere, and Society (12-16 December 2022, San Francisco, California, USA)

2021

• EGU General Assembly 2021 (19-20 April 2021, Online)
• Cambio climático y gestión integral de incendios (five UNESCO webinars, between 1 and 28 September 2021, online)
• 4th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop (Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 4-8 October 2021)
• International Aerial Fire Fighting Conference Europe 2021  (12-13 October 2021, Tallinn, Estonia)
• Fire Ecology Across Boundaries: Connecting Science and Management (12-15 October 2021, Florence, Italy)
• Fire in the Earth System (3-7 November 2021, Valencia, Spain)
• ICAO Flying Forest Fire Fighting Dialogue (22 November 2021, Montreal, Canada; online)
• Strengthening Governance in Landscape Fire Management – European Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (26 November 2021, Matosinhos, Portugal)

2020

• Aerial Firefighting North America 2020 (4-5 March 2020, Sacramento, California, U.S.A.)
• 3rd International Smoke Symposium (20-24 April 2020, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A., and University of California, Davis, U.S.A.)
• EGU General Assembly (03-08 May 2020, Vienna, Austria)
• Numerical Wildfire 2020 (11-16 May 2020, Cargèse, Corsica, France)
• International Congress Fire in the Earth System (3-6 November 2020, Valencia, Spain)
• Fire x Fauna: Wildfire and prescribed fire effects on wildlife (16-20 November 2020, online) (PDF)
• Congreso para la prevención de incendios y gestión del territorio en entornos rayanos de la Red Natura 2000 (Concept Note Spanish) (Agenda – Spanish) Congress on fire prevention and land management in environments bordering the Natura 2000 Network (Concept Note English) (26 and 27 November 2020, Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre, Spain and Portugal, online)

2019

• Aerial Firefighting Europe 2019 (19-20 March 2019, Nimes, France)
• 2nd Emergency Management Leaders Forum (26-27 March 2019, Melbourne, Australia)
• EGU General Assembly (07-12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria)
• 6th Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference (29 April to 03 May 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., & Sydney, Australia, & Marseille, France)
• FlameWork International Prescribed Fire Seminar (06 May 2019, Mafra, Portugal)
• 12th EARSeL Forest Fires SIG Workshop (03-05 October 2019, Rome, Italy)
• Mitigating Wildfire Risks through Socio-economically Viable Landscape Approaches (14-15 October 2019, Madrid, Spain)
• 3rd Annual National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop (21-24 October 2019, Plymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
• Simposio Nacional Sobre Incendios Forestales (24-25 October 2019, La Nucía, Alicante, Spain)
• 7th International Wildland Fire Conference (28 October – 1 November 2019, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil)
• EWWF Wildfire Conference 2019 – Manage the Fuel- Reduce the Risk (Cardiff, UK, 20-21 November 2019)
• AGU: The Changing Face of Wildfires and Effects on Human Health (9-13 December 2019, San Francisco, California, USA)

2018

• Initiative for Global management of bIg fires through Simulation (IGNIS) Final Seminar (10 January 2018, Gardanne, France)
• TERRAenVISION Environmental Issues Today ( 29 January- 02 February 2018, Barcelona, Spain)
• Aerial Firefighting North America 2018 (12-14 March 2018, Sacramento, California, USA)

• National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop ( 26-29 March 2018, Reno, Nevada, USA)

• European Geosciences Meeting General Assembly 2018 (08-13 April 2018, Vienna Austria)

• The Fire Continuum Conference: Preparing for the Future of Wildland Fire (21-24 May 2018, Missoula, Montana, U.S.A.)

• ThinkForest event on the role of bioeconomy in controlling forest fires (29 May 2018, Madrid, Spain)
• Aerial Firefighting Asia Pacific 2018 (29 – 30 August 2018, Wollongong, NSW, Australia)
• Changing lives in a changing world (5 – 8 September 2018, Western Australia, Australia)
• The 2018 Australian Bushfire Building Conference & Community Forum (6-8 September 2018, Leura, New South Wales, Australia)

• VIII International Conference on Forest Fire Research (10-16 November 2018, Coimbra, Portugal)

• Meeting of the Silva Mediterranea Working Group on Forest Fire in conjunction with the EU Expert Group on Forest Fires (19-23 November 2018, Leon, Spain)

• Joint 15th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit and 5th Human Dimensions Conference (10-14 December 2018, Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.A.)
• AGU: Wildfires: Pushing the Limits of Predictability with Big Data, Big Models, and Machine Learning (10-14 December 2018, Washington, D.C., USA)