Welcome to the Fire Management Systems Laboratory site
University of Toronto
Faculty of Forestry
News and Events
"IAWF Awards Fire Science Scholarship to Kelsy Gibos" September 16, 2009
Canadian Operational Research Society Honours David Martell June 26, 2009 Toronto
CORS-INFORMS 2009 Joint International Meeting June 14-17, 2009 Toronto
Wildfire in Natural Systems: Vulnerability, Impacts, and Response May 24-27, 2009 Toronto
Workshop on Fire Spotting April 23-34, 2009 Faculty of Forestry
Lambton Park Prescribed Burn April16, 2009
David Martell presented a paper entitled "The Boreal Forest Region of Canada: An Operational Research Perspective" in the CIRRELT /MITACS Seminar series at the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT), in Montreal, March 20, 2009.
Graduate Student Assistantships in the Firelab
We are seeking graduate students to participate in the following research projects.
Experienced Fire Personnel Interested in Graduate School?
For information concerning forest fire management graduate school opportunities, click here
In the media
It's forest fire season: David Martell is interviewed by Paul Fraumeni. June30, 2009
Visions of Fire - CBC Radio, November 25, 2008
David Martell joined Stephen Pyne in the CBC feature program VISIONS OF FIRE. In this two day series program, Martell summarized the fire prediction, landscape management, fire escape, initial attack system, detection system management and the ideas of ecosystem benefits.
New Partnership with Canadian Forest Service
The University of Toronto and Canadian Forest Service (CFS) recently partnered to develop a program in physical fire science based at the Faculty of Forestry at the University. This program focuses on research related to forest fire behaviour and the development of enhancements to the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS). read more
The Fire Behaviour Knowledge Base (FBKB) is now being hosted at fbkb.ca.
About Us
The staff and students associated with the Fire Management Systems Laboratory in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto study the impact of fire in boreal forest ecosystems and use operational research methods and information technology to develop decision support systems for fire and forest managers.
