April Public Lecture Flyer, 2022

A Burning Question: What can long-term datasets teach us?

By Justin Welty, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center

• Long-term datasets are critical to our understanding of many factors that affect the natural world and its flow of goods and services to human communities.
• Until recently, reading available, high-quality, long-term data were lacking for wildland fires and land management activities. 
• "Big data" are important in natural resource management. Two examples are the Combined Wildland Fire Dataset and the Land Treatment Digital Library.
• There is a great need to make these long-term datasets available and more accessible to researchers, resource managers, and the public. 

April 28th, 2022 at 6PM PDT.

Resource Links:

Land Treatment Digital Library Website: https://ltdl.wr.usgs.gov

Land Treatment Digital Library Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P98OBOLS

Land Treatment Exploration Tool: http://usgs.gov/ltet

Combined Wildland Fire Dataset Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZXGFY3