Faculty Member of the FAHUTAN IPB Who Focuses on Forest Fires
The woman who wears veil focuses her research program on forest fires and forest disturbances. She is Ati Dwi Nurhayati, S.Hut, M.Si, faculty member of the Department of Silviculture, of the Faculty of Forestry of Bogor Agricultural University (FAHUTAN IPB). The woman who was born on 22 June 1977, competed her undergraduate program in FAHUTAN IPB, and her master's degree program at the same university on the forest science degree program of IPB, in 2002.
The female faculty member whose hobbies are traveling and swimming, was promoted as the lecturer in 2007. Previously, she had been an Assistant at the Forest Fire Laboratory since 2001. Many valuable experiences were obtained during her term as assistant in her previous post, she had managed to publish a number of articles for both national and international journals.
Related to her research interests focus on forest fires and forest disturbances, she has been part of several research teams, one of which was the research collaboration with South Dakota State University (SDSU), which was funded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In mid-2017, the FAHUTAN Forest Fire Sciences team of IPB obtained research grant funded by UNESCO on the impact of forest fires in the social, economic, and local communities.
"This study aims to look at the gases released during forest fires. It had quantified the amount of carbon stored and released through forests and wildlands that wildfires and deforestation are contributing more than expected to the greenhouse gas emissions. Apparently there are approximately 90 gas released. Of these 90 gases are very toxic to humans. From here we must prevent the occurrence of forest fires. Forest fire prevention is important because Indonesia suffers a multitude of human-caused blazes on a yearly basis "said Ati who also became the Student Commission at FAHUTAN IPB.
Ati is currently registered as staff member of the Regional Fire Management Resource Center (RFMRC) of South East Asia Region, in addition she often invited as resource person for extension. Ati had been one of authors of the book on "Forest Fire Prevention". Recently, she and a group of lecturers at the Forest Fire Department were invited as resource persons on the Training Course on Fire Hazards in Palangkaraya. (Wied)
