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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 76 - 100 of 106
Loboda
The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) designed by Michigan Tech (https://wfeis.mtri.org/) was used to estimate wildfire emissions and concentrations affecting populated areas across rural and urban Alaska. WFEIS is used by landscape, carbon, and air quality…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hunter, Robles
Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire can also come with costs, such as reduced…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Continuum Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire, was designed to cover both the biophysical and human dimensions aspects of fire along the fire continuum. This proceedings includes many of topics…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gaudet, Simeoni, Gwynne, Kuligowski, Bénichou
Post-incident studies provide direct and valuable information to further the scientific understanding of Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. Most post-incident studies involve data collection in the field (i.e. a 'research field deployment'). In this review, technical reports…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coop, Parks, Stevens-Rumann, Crausbay, Higuera, Hurteau, Tepley, Whitman, Assal, Collins, Davis, Dobrowski, Falk, Fornwalt, Fulé, Harvey, Kane, Littlefield, Margolis, North, Parisien, Prichard, Rodman
Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience. Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed sources, warmer and drier postfire climate, or short-interval reburning. A potential outcome of the loss of…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schleeweis, Moisen, Schroeder, Toney, Freeman, Goward, Huang, Dungan
National monitoring of forestlands and the processes causing canopy cover loss, be they abrupt or gradual, partial or stand clearing, temporary (disturbance) or persisting (deforestation), are necessary at fine scales to inform management, science and policy. This study utilizes…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kganyago, Shikwambana
This study analysed the characteristics of the recent (2018-2019) wildfires that occurred in the USA, Brazil, and Australia using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) active fires (AF), fire radiative power (FRP, MW) and burned area (BA) products. Meteorological…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Cascio, Nootz
This webinar from the APHA Center for Climate, Health and Equity discussed wildfire smoke and its public health impacts with a focus on health equity. Presenters:
Described the public health impacts of wildfire smoke.
Identified the ways in which climate change and health equity…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jiang, Yang, Liu, Qian, Zhang, Wang, Li, Wang, Lu
Aerosols emitted from wildfires could significantly affect global climate through perturbing global radiation balance. In this study, the Community Earth System Model with prescribed daily fire aerosol emissions is used to investigate fire aerosols’ impacts on global climate…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garner, Iwasko, Jewel, Charboneau, Dodd, Zontos
Weather fatalities for all age groups were examined for the period 1996–2018 using NOAA Storm Data. Vulnerabilities due to limited mobility that inhibited evacuation from a hazardous environment were observed for the very young and the very old. Those situations included heat-…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klimas, Hiesl, Hagan, Park
This review examines the impact of prescribed fire on the water quality variables (a) sediment load and (b) limiting macronutrients in forested environments globally. We aim to characterize the forested environments subject to prescribed fire, to discuss factors of the fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lasslop, Hantson, Harrison, Bachelet, Burton, Forkel, Forrest, Li, Melton, Yue, Archibald, Scheiter, Arneth, Hickler, Sitch
In this study, we use simulations from seven global vegetation models to provide the first multi‐model estimate of fire impacts on global tree cover and the carbon cycle under current climate and anthropogenic land use conditions, averaged for the years 2001‐2012. Fire reduces…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euskirchen, Timm, Breen, Gray, Rupp, Martin, Reynolds, Sesser, Murphy, Littell, Bennett, Bolton, Carman, Genet, Griffith, Kurkowski, Lara, Marchenko, Nicolsky, Panda, Romanovsky, Rutter, Tucker, McGuire
Assessments of climate‐change effects on ecosystem processes and services in high‐latitude regions are hindered by a lack of decision‐support tools capable of forecasting possible future landscapes. We describe a collaborative effort to develop and apply the Integrated Ecosystem…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stralberg, Arseneault, Baltzer, Barber, Bayne, Boulanger, Brown, Cooke, Devito, Edwards, Estevo, Flynn, Frelich, Hogg, Johnston, Logan, Matsuoka, Moore, Morelli, Morissette, Nelson, Nenzén, Nielsen, Parisien, Pedlar, Price, Schmiegelow, Slattery, Sonnentag, Thompson, Whitman
The vast boreal biome plays an important role in the global carbon cycle but is experiencing particularly rapid climate warming, threatening the integrity of valued ecosystems and their component species. We developed a framework and taxonomy to identify climate‐change refugia…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cascio, Rappold, Ward-Caviness
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air and Energy National Research Program is working to assess the impact and improve our understanding of air pollution morbidity and mortality in vulnerable populations, including individuals with cardiovascular disease. Exposure to…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Leonard
Grasslands occur on all of the continents. They collectively constitute the largest ecosystem in the world, making up 40.5% of the terrestrial land area, excluding Greenland and Antarctica. Grasslands are not entirely natural because they have formed and developed under natural…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since its inception in 1973, the National Silviculture Workshop (NSW) has brought together forest managers and researchers from across the USDA Forest Service, and more recently our university and other partners, to provide a forum for information sharing and science…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Trends and geographic patterns of change in vegetation phenology metrics and snowmelt timing from the MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data sets were analyzed across the state of Alaska for all wildfires that burned during the years 2004 and 2005.…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fillmore, Smith
This perspective serves as a preface to the Topical Issue of Fire and presents an opportunity, framed within the classic approach of a thought experiment, to discuss how a new wildfire governance framework may be created from the ground up, if it were unencumbered by any…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moeini, Tarasick, McElroy, Liu, Osman, Thompson, Parrington, Palmer, Johnson, Oltmans, Merrill
An objective method, employing HYSPLIT back-trajectories and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) fire observations, is developed to estimate ozone enhancement in air transported from regions of active forest fires at 18 ozone sounding sites located across North…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Celis, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Jean, Mack
Disturbances can interrupt feedbacks that maintain stable plant community structure and create windows of opportunity for vegetation to shift to alternative states. Boreal forests are dominated by tree species that overlap considerably in environmental niche, but there are few…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Aguado, Salas, García, Yebra, Oliva
Purpose
This paper reviews the most recent literature related to the use of remote sensing (RS) data in wildland fire management.
Recent Findings
Studies dealing with pre-fire assessment, active fire detection, and fire effect monitoring are reviewed in this paper. The analysis…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoecker, Higuera, Kelly, Hu
Boreal forest and tundra biomes are key components of the Earth system because the mobilization of large carbon stocks and changes in energy balance could act as positive feedbacks to ongoing climate change. In Alaska, wildfire is a primary driver of ecosystem structure and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vargo
As the threats of climate change become more immediate and persistent, there is a growing need for datasets to document the burden of climate-related events and exposures on human health over time. These data should be freely available, timely and long-running, spatially…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Hugny
In the summer of 2015, hundreds of forest fires burned across the state of Alaska. Several uncontrolled wildfires near the town of Tanana on the Yukon River were responsible for the largest portion of the area burned statewide. In July 2017, field measurements were carried out…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES