ARBEITSGRUPPE FEUERÖKOLOGIE / GFMC LEHRE / UNIVERSITY TEACHING
GFMC-Kurse in Feuerökologie und Feuer-Management
GFMC Teaching in Fire Ecology and Fire Management
Die Arbeitsgruppe Feuerökologie / Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) bieten jährlich seit 1975 Kurse in “Feuerökologie und Feuer-Management” für Studierende an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg an (Fakultät für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen; zuvor Fakultät für Forst- und Umweltwissenschaften; zuvor Forstwissenschaftliche Fakultät) und durch Gastvorlesungen an anderen Fakultäten der Universität Freiburg und deutschlandweit an.
Details der jährlichen Veranstaltung an der Universität Freiburg werden auf der Website des Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) angekündigt:
Übersicht von Kursen in Freiburg und international:
Rückblick
Die Lehre in Feuerökologie und Feuer-Management an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg blickt auf die 1970er Jahre zurück – Beispiele in Form von Ankündigungen und Übersichten von Vorlesungen und Seminaren bzw. Ergebnisse von Seminaren:
- 1974: Feuer – ein ökologischer Faktor (Essay)
- 1975/76: Waldschutz Seminar (Wintersemester 1975-1976)
- 1977: Forstschutz und Habitat-Management (Essay)
- 1977: Seminar Feuerökologie (Meteorologie und Geographie, Universität Freiburg)
- 1978: Feuer-Management, Vorlesung Forstschutz II (Sommersemester 1978)
- 1982/83: Feuer-Management, Vorlesungen Forstschutz II (Sommersemester 1982 und 1983)
- 1986: Workshop Feuerökologie (24.-26. November 1986)
- 1987: Workshop Feuerökologie und Feuer Management (Programm)
- 1987: Workshop Feuerökologie und Feuer Management (Ergebnisse) (PDF, 28 MB)
- 1993: Seminar Feuerökologie (9.-10. Oktober 1993)
- 1994: Arbeitsbericht GFMC und Diplomanden / Doktoranden Arbeitsgruppe Feuerökologie „Feuer in der Umwelt“ (PDF, 25 MB)
- 2002: Kurs Waldbrand an der ETH Zürich (11.-23. April 2002) (PDF, 3.8 MB)
- Kurs Waldbrand – ETH Zürich und GFMC (11.-13. April 2002)
- 2008: Hot Topics and Burning Issues: Fire as a Driver of System Processes – Past, Present, and Future (PhD course organized jointly by Wageningen University, Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) / Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and United Nations University (30 March to 5 April 2008)
Selected Visual Impressions of Seminars and Field Training
A few snapshots of seminars and field training are exemplary:
Fire Ecology Seminar with students of the Faculty for Forest Sciences, Freiburg University, at Mathislemühle Field Station (1993)
Fire Ecology Seminar with students of the Faculty for Forest Sciences, Freiburg University, at Mathislemühle Field Station (1995)
Fire Ecology Seminar with students of the Faculty for Forest Sciences, Freiburg University, at Mathislemühle Field Station (1997)
Fire Ecology Seminar with students of the Faculty for Forest Sciences, Freiburg University, at Mathislemühle Field Station (1999)
Training of students of the Faculty for Forest Sciences, Freiburg University, in preparation of the formation of the “Freiburg Hotshots” – a group of students specialized in fire management. First training course with GFMC, U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Aerial Forest Fire Center of Russia “Avialesookhrana” (GFMC, 2000).
Training of the “Freiburg Hotshots” at Freiburg Fire Department (GFMC / Freiburg Fire and Rescue Service, 2000)
Training of the “Freiburg Hotshots” with GFMC partner HELOG (GFMC, 2000)
Demonstration of “Freiburg Hotshots” and GFMC partner HELION PROCOPTER at the First German Forum on Disaster Preparedness (Erstes Forum Katastrophenvorsorge, GFMC, 29-30 September 2000)
Demonstration of “Freiburg Hotshots” at the First German Forum on Disaster Preparedness (Erstes Forum Katastrophenvorsorge, GFMC, 29-30 September 2000)) – with the Media, the Director of GFMC and the Chair of the German Committee for Disaster Risk Reduction (Norbert Blüm)
Freiburg Hotshots at exchange training with Avialesookhrana, Russia (summer 2000)
Freiburg Hotshots at exchange training with BLM in the USA (summer 2000)
Field training of students of the Faculty for Forest Sciences, Freiburg University, in prescribed burning in land management in Kaiserstuhl viticulture region (2001)
Campus Invasion at the 550th Anniversary of Foundation of Freiburg University – at GFMC Site (30 June 2007)
Field lecture for students of the meanwhile re-designated Faculty for Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg University, in the community forest of Freiburg, Forest Ranger District Günterstal, affected by a forest fire on 31 July 2020 (26 November 2020) (see Notfallvorsorge Nr. 1/2021)
View outside of Freiburg: GFMC training of students of the Federal University of the State of Parana (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil) in the frame of GFMC’s Prescribed Burning Programme 1980-1982.
View outside of Freiburg: GFMC training of students of the National University of Life Sciences of Ukraine and the Regional Eastern Europe Fire Monitoring Center (REEFMC) in the use of prescribed fire for reducing wildfire hazard in pine forests (see narrative of activities of the Regional Eurasia Wildland Fire Network).
History: In the 1970s and 1980s the precursor institution of GFMC – the Fire Ecology Research Group at the Institute of Forest Zoology, Faculty for Forest Sciences, Freiburg University – offered training for students in obtaining the hunting license including practical shooting (snapshot of 1985).
© Photos: GFMC.