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Welcome to the Global Wildfire Collective! We are so glad you’re here! I’m Robin Jones, the Executive Director of Conservation Biology Institute (CBI). Please take a moment to introduce yourself!

Hola a todos! I’m Alexandra Syphard at CBI and the GWC. Looking forward to lots of great discussion here. :fire: :leafless_tree: :evergreen_tree:

Welcome to the Global Wildfire Collective! We are so glad you’re here! I’m Robin Jones, the Executive Director of Conservation Biology Institute (CBI). Please take a moment to introduce yourselves!

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Hi everyone. I’m Hamish Clarke at the University of Melbourne, interested in all things fire, fire management and climate change. My group is FLARE Wildfire, and I write at Future Fire

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Welcome Hamish! Feel free to invite your colleagues from FLARE Wildfire to join as well. The more, the merrier!

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thanks Robin! Is there a trick to inviting, or should i just send them a link to the forum?

Hi Hamish! Great to see you on here. :fire:

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Hamish, you can send a link to the forum and they can create an account here. Thanks.

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Hi everyone, I am Janys and I have been working in projects about bioeconomy and socio-economic analysys in tropical forest. I´m happy to be here !

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Welcome, Janys! Your insights will be valuable here!

Welcome Janys! Happy to have you join!

Hi everyone! I’m Jesse Sprague, founder of Echospectra, a mapping platform built for wildfire investigation. We focus on structured, offline-first field capture for fire investigators, along with fire risk and impact analysis tools.

My background is at the intersection of technology and fire — I’m passionate about building tools that help diagnose and prevent wildfires, and I’m especially interested in how better data collection in the field can improve our understanding of fire behavior and inform smarter policy.

Excited to be part of this community and looking forward to learning from everyone here. Happy to chat about fire investigation technology, spatial data, or anything else fire-related. Feel free to reach out!

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Welcome @echospectra-1 ! Glad to have you here!

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Thanks @Robin.Jones! Was anyone here at WIC25 in Porto?

I believe @szimmermaker and @asyphard were there. And Fantima Tedim, who is a GWC charter member- but I don’t believe she has joined the discussion forum yet.

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Hi Hamish. I am currently working with a colleague of yours at FLARE, Alex, on some research related to wildfire investigations. Hopefully this is a start to diving into additional research behind fire pattern indicators and ignition causes.

Hey Shawn, imagine seeing you here! @asyphard - I am not sure we have met but I look forward to the opportunity.

Hi Jesse, Thank you so much for joining us here and nice to meet you. We would love to hear your thoughts and ideas, or questions, and look forward to it!

G’day, nice to meet you. sorry for the delay, feel free to email me directly to continue the chat, i’m a bit more responsive there.