2016 National Smoke Forum

The 2016 National Smoke Forum was held in Kelowna, British Columbia on October 28, 2016 in association with the Wildland Fire Canada conference.

The theme of the 2016 Forum was Emergency and Health Management.

The Forum was an opportunity to discuss the importance of wildfire smoke, review the current technology and tools that help inform decision making, discuss the policies and issues related to smoke impacts, and suggest plans for projects and organizations to address smoke issues in the future.

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Presentations

All presentations were webcast and recorded. Clicking on a presentation link will open a viewer which will play both the recorded video and the presentation slides.

Welcome & Forest Fire Smoke Review
K. Anderson & S. Henderson (59 min)

Exposure Assessment

Particulate Monitoring Methods - Past, Present and Future
W. McCormick (21 min) Smoke Forecasting Tools
K. Anderson & D. Davignon (42 min)
Tools - Making Data Useful
S. Larkin (37 min)

Interventions

Individual Level Interventions to Reduce Wildfire Smoke Exposures
T. Kosatsky for P. Barn (34 min) Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program
P. Lahm (32 min)
Wildland Fire Smoke - Methods to Reduce Community Exposure in Manitoba
B. Crumb & J. Chiarotto (26 min)

Case Studies

The Summer of Smoke
C. Howard (31 min)
Indigenous Peoples and Wildfire Smoke
A. Christianson & W. Delorme (30 min)
BC Wildfire Smoke Event of 2015 - Ministry of Environment Perspectives
C. Walsh (26 min)

Final Remarks
K. Anderson (7 min)

Posters

The BlueSky Canada Playground - K. Anderson, W. McCormick, B. Simpson & C. Walsh