PROJECT SUMMARY: BECAUSE OF EPISODIC UNCONTROLLED FIRES WITHIN DRAINED PEAT-SWAMP FORESTS INDONESIA IS RANKED THE 4TH LARGEST CO2EMITTER OVER THE LAST HALF CENTURY. THE FORMER 1 MILLION HECTARE MEGA RICE PROJECT (MRP) DESIGNED TO CONVERT EXTENSIVE PEAT LANDSINTO FARM LANDS IS A MAJOR EMISSIONS SOURCE. DEEP ORGANIC SOILS STORING VAST AMOUNTS OF CARBON ARE NOW BEING LOST TO DECOMPOSITIONAND COMBUSTION. THE 120 000 HA KALIMANTAN FORESTS AND CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP (KFCP) REDUCED EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATIONAND FOREST DEGRADATION (REDD+) PROJECT IS WITHIN THE FORMER MRP. IN COLLABORATION WITH THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT S FORESTRYRESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (FORDA) WE WILL DEVELOP A PROTOTYPE PEAT-FIRE EMISSIONS MODULE FOR KFCP TO INCORPORATE INTOTHE INDONESIAN NATIONAL CARBON ACCOUNTING SYSTEM (INCAS). THIS CAPACITY WILL ENABLE ANNUAL QUANTIFICATION OF FIRE-RELATED EMISSIONS.OUR RESEARCH PROJECT WILL UTILIZE LANDSAT AND MODIS DATA AND PRODUCTS TO QUANTIFY LAND COVER CHANGES BURNED AREA AND ESTIMATE THETIMING OF FIRE ACTIVITY. WE WILL INCORPORATE TRMM DATA FOR RELATING PRECIPITATION HISTORY TO THE TIMING OF OBSERVED WATER TABLE CHANGESTHAT IMPACT PEAT-FIRE ACTIVITY AT KFCP. WE WILL INTEGRATE SATELLITE DATA WITH EXISTING AERIAL KFCP LIDAR (2007&2010) AND PROPOSEA REPEAT LIDAR COLLECTION DURING THE STUDY TO PROVIDE QUANTIFIED TEMPORAL TOPOGRAPHIC CHANGE MAPS TO VALIDATE OUR MODELED RESULTSOF FIRE-RELATED PEAT CONSUMPTION. THIS PROJECT WILL LEVERAGE THE EXTENSIVE AND ONGOING DATA COLLECTION EFFORTS FOR HYDROLOGY FUELS LAND USES AND FIRE OCCURRENCE AT KFCP WITH OUR INITIAL FIELD WORK AND LABORATORY TESTING OF REGIONAL PEAT COMBUSTION AND EMISSIONCHARACTERISTICS TO PROVIDE GUIDED FIELD TESTING OF BACKGROUND AND FIRE-RELATED CARBON EMISSION RATES AND TYPES (E.G. METHANE CO2 CO PARTICULATES OTHER) DURING EL NINO AND NON-EL NINO YEARS AS AVAILABLE. THROUGH GROUNDBREAKING EMISSIONS FIELD SAMPLING OFIN-SITU SMOLDERING SURFACE SHALLOW (<20 CM) AND DEEP (>20 CM) PEAT FIRES WITH ON-SITE GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY FOR QUANTIFYING REACTIVESPECIES WHOLE AIR SAMPLING FOR PRECISE LAB MEASUREMENTS OF NON-REACTIVE GASES AND SIMULTANEOUS FILTER SAMPLING OF PARTICULATES WEWILL CREATE COMPREHENSIVE AND PERTINENT EMISSIONS FACTORS (EFS) THAT WILL BE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT FOR ASSESSING THE HEALTH IMPACTS ANDTOTAL GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL (GWP) OF THESE EMISSIONS. IN OUR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE CHAINS OF SOCIALAND BIO-PHYSICAL EVENTS LEADING TO THESE DEEP-PEAT FIRES INTEGRATING FIRE SCENE ANALYSES WITH SOCIAL DATA TO DESCRIBE WHEN WHERE HOW AND UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS FIRES WITHIN KFCP HAVE OCCURRED SO THAT MORE EFFECTIVE MITIGATION STRATEGIES CAN BE DEVELOPED IN THEFUTURE. ACCURATE ACCOUNTING OF PEAT-FIRE CARBON EMISSIONS REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING HOW THEIR PRESENCE DEPTH OF BURNING AND SPREADRATES RELATE TO THE INTERPLAY OF CLIMATE WEATHER LAND USE LAND COVER DRAINAGE STATUS DISTURBANCE HISTORY FIRE TYPE PEAT DEPTH ANDCOMPOSITION. MODELING THIS PHENOMENON REQUIRES DEFINING 1) THE ANNUAL SURFACE AREA BURNED 2) THE AVAILABLE FUEL FRACTION (BURNABLE)AT EACH LOCATION THROUGH TIME AND 3) THE AMOUNT OF FUEL CONSUMED PER UNIT AREA. WE WILL IMPLEMENT A MODELING APPROACH THAT INITIALLYUSES EXISTING DATA ON THE PEAT HYDROLOGY CLIMATE LAND COVER BURNED AREA TIMING OF IGNITIONS AND FUEL LOADS TO STOCHASTICALLY PROVIDEPEAT FIRE PROBABILITY AND PARAMETERIZE DEPTH AND AREA BURNED FROM THE 2007 LIDAR DATA. THIS INITIAL MODEL WILL BE USED TO PROJECT THEEXPECTED AREA TYPE AND DEPTH OF BURNING FROM 2007-2011 AND THEN CHECKED AGAINST THE 2011 LIDAR DATA SET TO REFINE CALIBRATION OF THEMODELED PARAMETERS. THE THIRD MODELING PHASE WILL PROVIDE MONTE CARLO ESTIMATES OF TYPE DEPTH AND AREA OF BURNING WITH EMISSIONSQUANTITATIVELY WEIGHTED BY APPROPRIATE EFS DERIVED FOR SURFACE SHALLOW AND DEEP PEAT SMOKE AMOUNTS THAT WILL BE VALIDATED USING THEPROPOSED THIRD LIDAR DA