Collaborators
One of our key goals is to encourage and facilitate collaboration on fire-related research questions among academics, practitioners, decision-makers, and government agencies. To that end, we have developed partnerships with many organizations, including:
Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Center 
We have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding MOU) with Australian collaborators at the Bushfire Cooperative Research Center (BCRC). The MOU states: BCRC and CFRO agree that they share common interests and that there will be mutual benefit from close collaboration and joint ventures in training, research, program development, and the exchange of students, faculty, and staff.
Both parties have agreed that the following cooperative ventures will be pursued:
- student, faculty, and staff exchange;
- collaborative research activities in areas of mutual interest;
- cooperative program development;
- international research opportunities; and
- opportunities for joint and/or complementary funding for collaborative activities.
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California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection 
We are currently collaborating with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection/Fire and Resources Assessment Program to develop, among other activities, an "urban porosity index". The goal of this project is to identify and characterize "burnability" for wildland-urban interface/intermix regions in California. The end result of this effort is a map that will be incorporated into the Fire Hazard Severity Zone map updating project that the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is currently undertaking.
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Geospatial Innovation Facility 
We collaborate with the UC Berkeley Geosptial Innovation Facility on a variety of research and outreach projects. Current collaborations include the Fire Information Engine Toolkit project and the Global Fire Partnership.
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Lawrence Livermore National Lab 
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a Department of Energy institution specializing in managing the energy needs of the nation. We are partnering with LLNL’s Engineering Division, which has numerous capabilities that can be applied to challenges in the wildland-urban interface. These capabilities include:
- Analytic assessment of stakeholder informational needs
- Real-time weather and coordination of high-level responses
- Modeling of critical infrastructure
- Global climate change modeling
- During-fire activities
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The Nature Conservancy 
We have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Nature Conservancy to continue work on the Global Fire Partnership (GFP). The GFP is a collaborative project between The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the World Conservation Union (IUCN), and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The objective of the project is to complete a global assessment of native fire regimes that can be used in decision-making related to biodiversity conservation. CFRO is helping to refine the assessment methodology and to carry out related outreach efforts by co-organizing and participating in a series of workshops.
The first workshop, co-hosted by CFRO and the Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) at UC Berkeley, brought together fire ecology and management experts from Canada, the United States, and Mexico to review the first phase of assessment data for the ecoregions across North America. An ongoing goal of this work is to identify the physical parameters that drive fire regimes at various spatial scales, thus providing an over-arching framework for integrating additional information from scientific experts and other sources. Synthesized information will then be extended to users through a custom webGIS interface, recently developed by CFRO staff and hosted by the GIIF, that can be accessed from anywhere in the world.
