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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Endsley, McCarty
New media are increasingly used to capture ambient geographic information in multiple contexts, from mapping the evolution of the Tahrir Square protests in Egypt to predicting influenza outbreaks. The social media platform Twitter is popular for these applications; it boasts…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier, Nikolov
Most of climate change is understood in terms of global-scale warming caused by carbon dioxide released from anthropogenic combustion of fossil fuels. Climate models predict slow but steady warming over the next five to ten decades. Developing fire and smoke management…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The International Smoke Symposium was held in Hyattsville, Maryland at the University of Maryland University College, USA, October 21-24, 2013. The objective of this symposium was to bring together air quality, fire, and smoke specialists from the research community, non-…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams
[from the text] In an era when preparedness budgets have never been higher, when cooperation between partners has never been better, when predictive models have never been more sophisticated, and when technological support has never been more available we are suffering from the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Large fires or 'megafires' have been a major topic in wildland fire research and management for over a decade. There is great debate regarding the impacts of large fires. Many believe that they (1) are occurring too frequently, (2) are burning abnormally large areas, (3) cause…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Duffy, Chipman, Rocha, Young, Kelly, Dietze
Anthropogenic climate change may result in novel disturbances to Arctic tundra ecosystems. Understanding the natural variability of tundra-fire regimes and their linkages to climate is essential in evaluating whether tundra burning has increased in recent years. Historical…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Neoh, Bong, Muhammad, Itoh, Kozan, Takematsu, Yoshimura
Peatlands have experienced large scale changes due to extensive deforestation for logging, conversion to agro-industrial plantations, and frequent peat fires. The adverse effects of peat fires can lead to long-term impacts on invertebrate biodiversity in the peatland ecosystem.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Narita, Harada, Saito, Sawada, Fukuda, Tsuyuzaki
The recovery of tundra vegetation and the depth of permafrost thaw were observed on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, the site of a wildfire in 2002. The study compared the vegetation in burned and adjacent unburned tundra from 5 to 10 years post-fire. The effects of the fire on the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yashwanth, Shotorban, Mahalingam, Weise
The ignition of woody wildland fuel modeled as a one-dimensional slab subject to various modes of heating was investigated using a general pyrolysis code, Gpyro. The heating mode was varied by applying different convective and/or radiative, time-dependent heat flux boundary…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report on the major insect and disease conditions of the Nation's forests represents the 63rd annual report prepared by the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The report focuses on the 20 major insects and diseases that annually cause…
Year: 2015
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
Rasker
Wildfires pose a growing threat to many communities. As more development occurs near wildfire-prone lands, there is a growing need to reduce risk through improved land use policies and tools.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The true cost of wildfires is much higher than the public is aware of, and much higher than currently accounted for by government assessments. These costs have increased significantly in the last decade, impacting taxpayers and multiple levels of government. The cost of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are an ongoing concern where there is dry, hot weather. During a wildfire, people throughout the surrounding area may suffer the effects of forest fire smoke. If you have respiratory problems such as asthma, emphysema and bronchitis or a chronic heart disease, we urge…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Realmuto, Dennison, Foote, Ramsey, Wooster, Wright
The investigation of high-temperature natural phenomena, such as wildland fires and active lava flows, is a primary science objective for the proposed Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) mission. Current planning for HyspIRI includes a mid-infrared (MIR) channel centered at…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rein
In this article, I give an overview of the recent contribution of Finney et al. (1) to our understanding of how wildfires spread by providing its scientific context and also by putting forward the possible impact on the field.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sullivan, Cruz
Understanding the potential behavior of a wildfire is critical to ensuring the safety of those people in its path, either fighting it or fleeing from it. This is especially critical when unexpected behavior occurs that can entrap firefighters in a life-threatening situation.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Over 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt established the U.S. Forest Service to manage America's 193-million acre national forests and grasslands for the benefit of all Americans. Today, that mission is being consumed by the ever-increasing costs of fighting fires. This…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, McCune, Roland, Stehn
Questions: Popular methods to analyse community-trait-environment relationships constrain community patterns by trait and environment relationships. What if some traits are strongly associated with community composition but unrelated to environmental variables and vice versa? We…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Conkling
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rodriguez-Franco, Haan
Surveys were collected to assess Forest Service (FS) resource managers' perceptions, attitudes, and informational needs related to climate change and its potential impacts on forests and grasslands. Resource managers with three background types were surveyed. All participants…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Service is accountable for sustaining the Nation's forest and grassland resources on behalf of the American people. To make our efforts transparent to the people we serve, we regularly develop, publish, and implement a 5-year strategic plan designed to guide our…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Our cover story "Same as It Ever Was" explores how our traditional solution of ordering "more stuff" doesn't really work. A new approach-that confronts the hard question "Is 'safe' even possible?"-is proposed.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Long
When planning a prescribed fire or other fire management project, how often does this question cross your mind: How will the fire impact a particular animal or plant species? Or maybe the question is even broader: What do we know about the general biology and ecology of a…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Our cover story "Risk, Gain, and Loss: What are We Willing to Accept?" explores several key questions, including: "Do we have acceptable losses in wildfire?" In our One of Our Own feature, hotshot captain Alanna English answers the question: "Have you ever had a 'dumb' fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES