IAFSS permanent working group

Large Outdoor Fires & the Built Environment (LOF&BE)

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Our Next Speaker


Student Series No. 2

Time: Feb 8, 2022, 2 pm (London) 4 pm (Cape Town) 11 pm JST, 9 am EST

Registration site: https://forms.gle/YAiVHAkxEuhvw38e7


Speaker, Title, Abstract

*Natalia Flores Quiroz (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Fire Investigations in Informal Settlements https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yM5X2K7nL8no6kl7Abfd_fw9Jz8Twp9P/view?usp=sharing

*Simona Dossi (Imperial College London, UK), Statistical relationships between wildfire damage and building features in WUI fires https://drive.google.com/file/d/12ggfFjfm3fZoAXuAV03c8PnhmyDw9zdv/view?usp=sharing

*Ruben Dobler Strand, (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway) Improved home fire risk warnings using cloud based weather data services https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dk1bTC7o11be7bh6oa-r7EcAvqJR4YzE/view?usp=sharing

Upcoming Webinars:

March: David Rush "Improving the resilience of informal settlements to fire: the need for interdisciplinary research "

Register here: https://forms.gle/JiGSJspAQ6ZyVmo77


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