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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Byerly Flint, Champ, Meldrum, Brenkert-Smith
Negative imagery of destruction may induce or inhibit action to reduce risks from climate-exacerbated hazards, such as wildfires. This has generated conflicting assumptions among experts who communicate with homeowners: half of surveyed wildfire practitioners perceive a lack of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Santo, Huber-Stearns, Smith
This review paper synthesizes peer-reviewed empirical research published between 2010 and 2021 about wildland fire communication practices. Our goal was to systematically review and provide an overview of how wildland fire communication has been empirically studied, and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flores, Fox, Iverson, Venette, Conley, Jahn, Howes, Haire
The USDA Forest Service anticipated that COVID-19 outbreaks among fire management personnel would potentially impact the agency’s ability to maintain the readiness of the wildland fire system and to respond to large complex wildfires across the country. In response, the agency…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Vraga, Hessburg, Hurteau, Allen, Keane, Spies, North, Collins, Finney, Lydersen, Westerling
Recent intense fire seasons in Australia, Borneo, South America, Africa, Siberia, and western North America have displaced large numbers of people, burned tens of millions of hectares, and generated societal urgency to address the wildfire problem (Bowman et al. 2020). Nearly…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
Fire management in the United States is currently facing numerous challenges. While many of these challenges involve questions about how to increase pace and scale of fuels treatments and adapt to longer, sometimes year-round, fire seasons and more frequent extreme fires, there…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Rappold, Hano, Navarro, Phillips, Prestemon, Vaidyanathan, Abt, Reid, Sacks
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the actual fire, smoke can end up…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meddens
This presentation is part of the University of Idaho's College of Natural Resources, Natural Resources and Society Spring 2022 Invited Speaker Seminar Series.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
A synthesis for fire managers summarizes and interprets a body of information, presents its meaning in an objective, unbiased way, and describes its implications for decisionmakers. Following are suggestions for ways to strengthen syntheses on fire and on other natural resource…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Fox, Miller
Wildland fire management agencies manage wildland fires for resource benefit while protecting firefighter and public safety. Firefighting fatalities and property damaged by wildfires prompt reviews aimed at preventing similar accidents. The principles of high-reliability…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gabor
Unclear, ambiguous communication during a wildland fire can have serious consequences for firefighters' safety. This paper grounds its observations in media richness theory and the theory of communicative action. Radio is a less rich medium than video or face-to-face…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
This article builds on findings from a synthesis of fire social science research that was published from 2000 to 2010 to understand what has been learned more recently about public response to wildfires. Two notable changes were immediately noted in the fairly substantial number…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Culver
This study was an examination of the correlation between fire officers' emotional intelligence (EI) and their perceived leadership effectiveness. A review of the literature pointed out the need to further explore and understand the leadership effectiveness of fire officers, the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nowell, Steelman
Communication networks among responders are critical to effective coordination and information transfer across agencies active in a disaster response. Using the theory of embeddedness, we investigate how aspects of relational and institutional embeddedness influence the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steelman, McCaffrey, Velez, Briefel
The communication system through which information flows during a disaster can be conceived of as a set of relationships among sources and recipients who are concerned about key information characteristics. The recipient perspective is often neglected within this system. In this…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olsen
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES