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February Flare Up 2026: NSERC Canada Wildfire Strategic Network - Week 1

February Flare Up is back, and this year we’re spotlighting research from the NSERC Canada Wildfire Strategic Network: Preparing Canadians for Changing Wildfires. In this session, we introduce the Network and share some of the successes before diving into the first two featured projects. Topics covered in Week 1: Brief network overview with Mike Flannigan (Network Lead) Research spotlight: A weakened diurnal weather cycle leads to longer burning hours in North America with Kaiwei Luo (Postdoc, University of Alberta) Research spotlight: Stand and fuel structure following jack pine budworm defoliation in North American boreal forest with Zackary Shakeri (Postdoc, University of Toronto) More from Canada Wildfire: canadawildfire.org/webinarsandcourses Links and speaker contact: Link to Kaiwei's paper: Drought triggers and sustains overnight fires in North America): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158... Kaiwei's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaiwei-lu... Kaiwei's Email: kaiwei@ualberta.ca Zackary's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/z-shakeri-a20344133 ---------------------- 0:00 Welcome to February Flare Up with Karen Blouin 1:40 Introduction to the NSERC Canada Wildfire Strategic Network with Mike Flannigan 15:49 A weakened diurnal weather cycle leads to longer burning hours in North America with Kaiwei Luo 39:07 Q&A period with Kaiwei and Karen 46:23 Stand and fuel structure following jack pine budworm defoliation in North American boreal forest with Zackary Shakeri 1:04:01 Q&A period with Zackary and Karen 1:08:53 Open Q&A and closing comments Recorded on February 6, 2026 #podcast #wildfire #sciencecommunication #scicomm #wildfirescience #CanadaWildfire