This conceptual framework for understanding the career development process defines career development as a continuous process of matching individual characteristics with organizational role requirements. Responsibility for achieving effective matching rests both with individuals and with organizations. The relative emphasis on individual efforts and organizational efforts over different phases of the career development process as a function of changing individual needs and role requirements. Summaries of research projects undertaken in the Professional Development Research Program are included in this report and present the 'evolution of a self-development/career planning technique incorporating these processes: (1) structured forecasting, by which individuals can identify potential gaps between present skills and role requirements and probable future role requirements, (2) goal setting and goal

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are unable or unwilling to change will depend on a better under-standing of the complex relationships between fire, vegetation the third National Climate Assessment (<www.globalchange.gov/ ncadac>; Melillo et al., 2014). The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is in many ways the United States ’ analog to assessments generated by the IPCC. The NCA is mandated by the US Global Change Research Act of 1990, §106. It is a periodic assessment, pre-pared at least every four years, of the effects of global change on the natural environment, including land and water resources and biological diversity. The assessment is also mandated with benefits of active forest and fire management activities, such as thinning and prescribed fire. e general struc-the fore es in clim nd a synt burning) on ecosystem services (e.g., C sequestration, fire impacts on water quantity and quality, air quality impacts, and biodiver-sity). The temporal scale for the assessments will approximate the next 50 years. We limited the temporal scale for two reasons. First, climate scenarios become more uncertain as models project farther in the future. Second, the next several decades are critical, and can be dynamic, from a management perspective. Many forest plans require an Adaptive Management approach, whereby the Forest Ecology and Management 327 (2014) 265–268 lab an.e lThe papers contained in this special issue were crafted to pro-vide scientific input on the topic of climate, fire, and forests into what is known about the consequences of various management approaches (e.g., suppression, fuel treatments including prescribedand climate. 2. A call for assessment Each of the following articles follows the sam ture, including: a description of the region and are considered, a discussion of projected chang how these are likely to impact fire and forests,