The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rickbeil, Hermosilla, Coops, White, Wulder
Fire regimes are changing throughout the North American boreal forest in complex ways. Fire is also a major factor governing access to high-quality forage such as terricholous lichens for barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus). Additionally, fire alters forest…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bowman, Williamson, Abatzoglou, Kolden, Cochrane, Smith
Extreme wildfires have substantial economic, social and environmental impacts, but there is uncertainty whether such events are inevitable features of the Earth’s fire ecology or a legacy of poor management and planning. We identify 478 extreme wildfire events defined as the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Naughton
The proposed project will quantify the effects of hazardous fuels treatments on suppression costs of subsequent wildfires. Spatial econometric models of daily fire suppression costs will be estimated to determine if and to what spatial and temporal extent hazardous fuels…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Leis, Greene
Grassland conservation efforts in the central United States are challenging because much of the land is privately held. The Patch Burn-Grazing Working Group was formed by a small group of professionals in an effort to share information and resources related to the practice of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pons, Rost
There is an intense debate on the extraction and use of fossil fuels, linked to the dramatic consequences that their combustion has on climate. This debate was at the heart of the recent Paris Convention on Climate Change, with an increasing number of organizations and countries…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, York, Christie, McCarthy
1) Increased incidence of landscape fire and pollinator declines with co-extinctions of dependent plant species are both globally significant. Fire can alter species distributions, but its effects on plant–pollinator interactions are poorly understood so its present and future…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ebel, Moody
We collected soil-hydraulic property data from the literature for wildfire-affected soils, ash, and unburned soils. These data were used to calculate metrics and timescales of hydrologic response related to infiltration and surface runoff generation. Sorptivity (S) and wetting…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ning, Sun
Forests absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and also can release it back into the atmosphere through natural disturbances and management activities. In this study, the impact of different carbon policies on a landowner's management decisions is analyzed at the stand…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Russell-Smith, Monagle, Jacobsohn, Beatty, Bilbao, Millán, Vessuri, Sánchez-Rose
Savannas constitute the most fire-prone vegetation type on earth and are a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Most savanna fires are lit by people for a variety of livelihood applications. ‘Savanna burning’ is an accountable activity under the Kyoto Protocol, but…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jiang, Rastetter, Shaver, Rocha, Zhuang, Kwiatkowski
To investigate the underlying mechanisms that control long-term recovery of tundra carbon (C) and nutrients after fire, we employed the Multiple Element Limitation (MEL) model to simulate 200-yr post-fire changes in the biogeochemistry of three sites along a burn severity…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Higuera, Duffy, Hu
Boreal forests and arctic tundra cover 33% of global land area and store an estimated 50% of total soil carbon. Because wildfire is a key driver of terrestrial carbon cycling, increasing fire activity in these ecosystems would likely have global implications. To anticipate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Pierce
This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency modeling team proposes to provide expertise related to smoke emissions, modeling, and transport to support the design of future field studies focused on fire behavior. As part of that commitment, we plan to model all of the pre-burn…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Linn
The physics-based models FIRETEC and WFDS have been used to simulate a number of field experiments involving fire in wildland fuels. These models work by simulating the coupled physical processes driving fire behavior including the drying and thermal degradation of vegetation,…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kochanski, Fournier, Jenkins, Mandel
Recent advancements in fire-atmosphere modeling have increased the number of physical processes integrated into the coupled models. This greater complexity allows for more comprehensive representation of the complex interactions between the fire and the atmosphere; however, as a…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski
This proposal responds to JFSP FON #16-04 Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, Task 4: Smoke Emissions, Chemistry, and Transport. Over the past decade, significant progress has been gained in characterizing the composition, transport, and processing of wildland fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Clements
The FASMEE FON requests proposals from individuals seeking to serve as discipline leads for the development of the FASMEE study plan. We propose to serve as co-discipline leads for plume development and meteorology for this endeavor. The proposal outlines what data are needed to…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Butler, Hao, O'Brien, Schroeder
The radiation field - resolved in time and space and encompassing an entire burn unit - and the convective field that can be derived from it are essential kinds of evaluation data for fire models and input data for smoke models. The primary challenge of the Fire Behavior and…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Keane, Loudermilk, Parsons, Prichard, Seielstad, Skowronski
The assumption of homogeneous fuel beds that underlies most fire spread models fundamentally limits their operational utility and future advancements in fire science, and imposes a significant disconnect between real fuels, which are highly heterogeneous, the inferences made…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kobziar
A presentation recorded at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hiers
A presentation recorded at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stowe
A presentation recorded at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
A presentation recorded at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Morgan
A presentation recorded at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Varner
A presentation recorded at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES