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Featured Research Brief: The "Zombie" Fires of 1942
This AFSC research brief looks at early Alaska fire history from the 1940s. The "Zombie" Fires of 1942 is a historical narrative of an exceptional fire event related to the Alaska Railroad, including an early description of a holdover fire burning over winter.
Featured Fire Science Highlight - EPSCoR Boreal Fires Team: Remote Sensing for the AK Fire Season
Figure: Inter-annual comparison of snow cover extent in Alaska
This AFSC Fire Science Highlight spotlights new remote sensing products, such as accessible mapping of daily snow cover extent and fire danger ratings and highly focused fire-detection algorithms. The products aim to provide data that can be integrated into existing systems facilitating direct applications for users.
AFSC is funded by the Joint Fire Science Program and is part of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
