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Registration link for all 2026 Office Hours: https://tnc.zoom.us/meeting/register/8g82Cz9jTb6H-oRjgL6F9A

January 28 – Coordinating Smoke Management: Insights from Albany, Georgia’s Pilot Project
Speaker: Holly Nowell, PhD, Smoke Science Program Director, Tall Timbers
Partner Organization: Tall Timbers
Recording link: https://youtu.be/2aA8TXirlpk

February 25 - Contrasting LANDFIRE with Fractional Vegetation Cover Data (RCMAP and RAP)
Speaker: Matt Rigge, Ecologist, USGS EROS & Sara McCord, RAP Lead, Research Ecologist, ARS
Partner Organization: EROS
Recording link: https://youtu.be/1pnzh_cfw_8

March 25 – Fire Needs Assessment 101: Connect Historical Ecosystems, Vegetation, and Fire Regimes
Speaker: Sarah Hagen, Senior Spatial Ecologist, TNC, LANDFIRE
Partner Organization: The Nature Conservancy
Recording link: https://youtu.be/iq9Eau3gHiU

April 29 - From Data to Decisions: What's New with Wildfire Risk to Communities
Speakers: Kelly Pohl, Associate Director, Headwaters Economics
Greg Dillon, Director of the Fire Modeling Institute, USDA Forest Service
Partner Organization: Headwaters Economics

May 27 - EcoMap 2025 - An update to the Forest Service's National Hierarchy of Ecological Units
Speakers: Sarah Anderson, Ecologist, USDA Service; Joanne Baggs, Landscape Ecologist, USDA Forest Service; Estella Smith, Geospatial Ecosystem Specialist, USDA Forest Service
Partner Organization: USDA Forest Service
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June 24 - Fire Regimes, BpS, and Decision Support with LANDFIRE
Speakers: Rua Mordecai, Coordinator, Southeast Conservation Blueprint, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; & Cara Joos, Natural Resources GIS Programmer/Analyst, U.S. Forest Service Contractor, Pacific Planning Services Group
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August 26 - TBD
Speakers: Russell Parsons, Ph.D., Research Ecologist, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory; Sam Hillman, Senior Applied Fire Scientist – Fuel Assessment, Policy and Planning, Forest, Fire and Regions, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, Victoria State Government, Australia; Mark A. Finney, Ph.D., Research Forester, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
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September 30 - LANDFIRE Compared: Synergies with various Ecosystem Classification Systems
Speaker: Ayn Hunt, PhD, Oregon State University
Partner Organization: Forest Landscapes Program - Institute for Natural Resources
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October 28 - TBD
Speaker: Greg Dillon, Director, Fire Modeling Institute, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
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December 2 - LANDFIRE Fuels Process
Speaker: Ryan McCliment, LANDFIRE Fire Behavior Specialist, TSSC
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