Team Coordination

One person should be selected for this role on the basis of their understanding of the FETM modeling objectives (for example, to evaluate alternative fuel treatments in EIS), their overall understanding of the FETM model, and their ability to direct a diverse team of resource specialists.  Primary responsibility for selecting FETM team members and coordinating team activities.  Responsible for coordinating team meetings, including one or more workshops to define FCCs and to populate effects matrices.  Primary responsibility for assembling and documenting inputs, assumptions, and modeling results in final technical report.

Fire Planning

Primary responsibility for obtaining PCHA and IIAA database files for the analysis area of interest.  Primary responsibility for running HAIA and determining breakpoint spread components used to characterize the fire weather classes in FETM.  Primary responsibility for obtaining information on large, wind-driven fires within and surrounding the analysis area.  This information will be used to develop the potential fire size versus rate of spread curves (by fuel category) in FETM.  Primary responsibility for reviewing economic inputs and outputs in FETM. 

Vegetation Composition and Disturbance Effects¹

A team of vegetation specialists should be selected on the basis of their knowledge of the qualitative and quantitative structure of vegetation communities that occupy the analysis area of interest, the disturbances (both natural and managed) that affect those communities, and the known or probable effects of those disturbances.  Primary responsibility for developing FCCs and characterizing impacts of management policies (that is, developing treatment schedules and management practice effects matrices) and natural succession matrix.

Fire Ecology

Primary responsibility for populating three fire effects matrices and providing feedback to the vegetation specialists on the suitability of the FCCs for characterizing fire effects.

Air Quality

Primary responsibility for reviewing the emissions estimates for wildland fire by fire weather class.

Data Entry

Primary responsibility for entering data into FETM.  This is a fairly tedious task, requiring 3 to 5 days for a typical analysis area.

Programming and Data Analysis

Primary responsibility for assembling output data in format that facilitates the analysis.  FETM provides numerous output tables and reports, but often customer-defined tables are needed.  Use of Excel or Quattro-Pro macro script language (VBA) is highly recommended.