Weather affects wildland fires at scales frommultiseasonal precipitation patterns and anomalies, through synoptic and mesoscale weather patterns, to convective scale motions including fire-induced winds. This work analyzed the first day’s growth of the 2012 High Park fire, which occurred in Colorado’s Front Range during widespread drought and an unseasonal June windstorm, assessing to what exte...

The whole, that which is compounded out of something, is one, not like a heap, but like a syllable. Now the syllable is not its elements; ba is not the same as b and a, nor is flesh the same as fire and earth (for when these are separated the wholes, i. e. the flesh and the syllable, no longer exist, but the elements of the syllable exist, and so do fire and earth); the syllable, then, is somet...

The increasing capabilities of robot systems enable new fields of practical applications for individual robots as well as multi-robot systems. But for some application scenarios like a fire or earthquake disaster current robots are still too limited to act fully autonomously in the disaster area. To overcome these limitations we consider a heterogeneous team of humans and robots complementing e...

This manuscript presents analysis of measurements and modeling of vertical distributions of aerosols during post El-Nino fire season. There is no doubt that vertical distributions of aerosols are of great importance and large uncertainties exist due to lack of measurements and thus poorly constrained model results. The authors claim that their results are significantly different from other prev...

We describe the odorant binding proteins (OBPs) of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, obtained from analyses of an EST library and separate 454 sequencing runs of two normalized cDNA libraries. We identified a total of 18 putative functional OBPs in this ant. A third of the fire ant OBPs are orthologs to honey bee OBPs. Another third of the OBPs belong to a lineage-specific expansio...

Ecosystems driven by wildfire regimes are characterized by fire size distributions resembling power laws. Existing models produce power laws, but their predicted exponents are too high and fail to capture the exponent's variation with geographic region. Here we present a minimal model of fire dynamics that describes fire spread as a stochastic birth-death process, analogous to stochastic popula...

The following firefighter problem on a finite graph G = (V,E) was introduced by Hartnell at the conference in 1995 [3]. Suppose that a fire breaks out at a given vertex v ∈ V . In each subsequent time unit, a firefighter protects one vertex which is not yet on fire, and then fire spreads to all unprotected neighbours of the vertices on fire. (Once a vertex is on fire or gets protected it stays ...

This manuscript presents analysis of measurements and modeling of vertical distributions of aerosols during post El-Nino fire season. There is no doubt that vertical distributions of aerosols are of great importance and large uncertainties exist due to lack of measurements and thus poorly constrained model results. The authors claim that their results are significantly different from other prev...

The fire ant Solenopsis invicta and its close relatives display an important social polymorphism involving differences in colony queen number. Colonies are headed by either a single reproductive queen (monogyne form) or multiple queens (polygyne form). This variation in social organization is associated with variation at the gene Gp-9, with monogyne colonies harboring only B-like allelic varian...