11th Southern African Fire Network (SAFNet) Meeting

11th Souther African Fire Network (SAFNet) Agenda

Day 1: Wednesday, 28 July 2021 (Recording)
Time (SAST)	Event/Activity	Presenter	Session Facilitator
10:00 - 11:00	A word of thanks from SAFNET	Ntando Nondo	Ntando Nondo
	Overview and latest News on GOFC-GOLD Fire	David Roy, Martin Wooster, Jesus San-Miguel
	SAFNET report back from 10th SAFNet meeting in Kruger National Park 2018	Chenay Simms – RSA, SANParks
	Report back from Miombo meeting (3-4 June 2021)	Natasha Ribeiro, Sally Archibald
11:00 - 11:30	Virtual coffee/tea break with breakout rooms for meet, greet & network
Session 1: Fire Research and Projects in the SAFNET Region – Recent Updates
11:30 - 13:00	Burning Plots in Kruger National Park	Tercia Strydom – RSA, SANParks	Karen Steenkamp
	Current status of AFIS and new developments	Riaan van der Dool – RSA, CSIR
	Community-based Fire Management and REDD+. Where to from here?	Val Charlton – RSA
	Mapping paleofire studies from southern Africa's grassy ecosystems: implications for management	Abraham Dabengwa – RSA, Wits University
	Friend or Foe? The potential role of media framing social perspectives on fire	Izak Smit – RSA, SANParks
	Could CO2-induced changes to C4 grass flammability aggravate savanna woody encroachment?	Sarah Raubenheimer – RSA, Rhodes University
13:00 - 13:45	Virtual lunch break with breakout rooms for meet, greet & network
Session 2: Re-igniting the Southern African Fire Network
13:45 - 15:30	Miombo steering committee presentations		Navashni Govender
	Reflections on Fire Management Networks – Enduring and Not So	Peter Moore – Italy, FAO
	Facilitated breakaway groups – Ideas, measures, and action items for re-igniting SAFNET
	Feedback from breakaway group
15:30 - 15:45	Virtual coffee/tea break with breakout rooms for meet, greet & network
Session 3: Fire Research and Projects in the SAFNET Region – Recent Updates
15:45 - 17:30	Update on savanna burning emissions abatement research in Botswana and Zambia	Jeremy Russell Smith – Australia	Ntando Nondo
	The role of humans, climate, and vegetation in the complex fire regimes of north-east Namibia	Glynis Humphrey – RSA, University of Cape Town
	Variability in savanna fire emission factors	Roland Vernooij – Netherland, Vrije University
	Africa burned area product generation and validation with Landsat- 8, Sentinel-2 and commercial Planetscope imagery	David Roy – USA, Michigan State University
	National and sub-national burned area assessment information for fire activity reporting and carbon inventories from the internet based Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS)	Luigi Boschetti – USA, University of Idaho

Day 2: Thursday, 29 July 2021 (Recording)
Time (SAST)	Event/Activity	Presenter	Session Facilitator
Opening Session: 11th SAFNet Meeting
10:00 - 10:15	Welcome 2nd day of the SAFNET meeting		Navashni Govender
	Re-cap of outcomes from breakaway groups on Day 1
Session 4: International Fire Research and Projects
10:15 - 11:45	Recent developments in the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS)	Jesus San-Miguel – Italy, Joint Research Centre	Tercia Strydom
	CEOS Wildfire Pilot – Why and What for Whom?	Peter Moore – Italy, FAO
	FREM Geostationary Fire Emissions product	Martin Wooster – UK, Kings College
	Developing a strategic approach to fire information management in a large national park in West Africa	Gernot Rucker– Germany, Zebris
	Global prescribed burn records to help understand the future pressures of climate change on management opportunities	Matthew Jones – UK, University of East Anglia
11:45 - 12:00	Virtual coffee/tea break with breakout rooms for meet, greet & network
Session 5: SAFNet’s future
12:00 - 13:15	Discussion on collaborative opportunities and projects based on outputs from Day 1 break away session		Sally Archibald
13:15 - 14:00	Virtual lunch break with breakout rooms for meet, greet & network
Session 6: SAFNet administration and governance structures
14:00 - 15:45	Election of SAFNet steering committee members		Chenay Simms
	Website	Chenay Simms – RSA, SANParks
	SAFNet Administration
15:45	Closing of meeting

Meeting start date

07/28/2021

Meeting end date

07/29/2021

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