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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Moseley, Nielsen-Pincus
Wildfire management requires significant institutional organization, a skilled workforce, facilities, and equipment. Sustaining this wildfire response capacity is critical to both agencies and fire-affected communities. Because fire suppression is seasonal and varies…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Fletcher, Jolly, Mahalingam, McAllister, Shotorban
After many years of research examining the ignition of wood and other cellulosic fuels, it is still unclear which modes of heat transfer will result in successful ignition of live wildland fuel particles. Thermal radiation can cause a fuel particle to pyrolyze to produce a…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Oswald, Ingalsbee
This conference will provide 1) high profile technology transfer for JFSP supported research, 2) highlight JFSP programs and projects, 3) opporfunities for special sessions on the JFSP programand JFSP supported projects, 4) ffSP supported student participation in all aspects of…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Naughton, Urbanski
An accurate, reliable wildland fire emissions inventory is likely the most important criteria in assessing the impacts of prescribed burning and wildfires on regional air quality and global climate. Significant progress has been made in the past ten years to develop fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Nowell, McCaffrey, Steelman
Failures in effective communication and coordination within the network of responding organizations and agencies during a wildfire can lead to problematic or dangerous outcomes. Although risk assessment and management concepts are usually understood with regards to biophysical…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Dupuy, Jolly, Linn, Mell, Pimont, Rigolot, deColigny
Accurate characterization of stand scale fuel treatment effectiveness is necessary before such treatments can be robustly considered at landscape scales. Fire behavior predictions are key components in evaluating fuel treatments, which may include a mixture of mechanical…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
There is a clear need for decision support systems that inform rangeland management strategies to reduce fire hazard and maintain ecological integrity. The RVS is improving that capability but offers outdated depictions of vegetation dynamics (BpS successional models).…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
The FVS is currently incapable of estimating succession, biomass and fuels of non-forested landscapes, yet decision support models such as the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS) require this information. In response, we propose development of the…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Fox, Gabor, Thomas, Ziegler
Managing wildland fire is an exercise in risk perception, sense-making and resilient performance. Risk perception begins with individual size up to determine a course of action, and becomes collective as the fire management team builds and continuously updates their common…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pyne, Mighetto
The USDA Forest Service and the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) propose to organize and host an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together environmental historians and scientists to discuss the historical dimensions of the wildland urban interface and its…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Third International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning and Policy: Common Problems and Approaches
Wildland fire management programs and fire suppression is multi-faceted, spanning intellectual disciplines and administrative boundaries. Planning and implementing fire management programs requires knowledge and experience in fire science, ecosystem ecology, fuel dynamics,…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
This initiative includes an adaptive three phase process to improve the delivery of new scientific information to specialist and decision makers.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Andrews, Hardy
Live fuel moisture plays an important role in wildland fire. There is a need for a complete information synthesis on live fuel moisture that fire managers can use in wildland fire planning and implementation activities. And a complete review is needed to identify areas where…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Andrews, Finney
Development of the BehavePlus fire modeling system and the FlamMap fire behavior analysis and mapping system and supporting technology transfer material was funded in part under JFSP project #98-1-8-02. After successful completion of that project, development of those systems…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Woodard
This conference will bring wildland fire managers, policy makers, community planners, and social scientist together to share information, foster the development of new research collaborations between and among fire managers and researchers across geographic and national borders…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hardy
1. Initial focus will likely be on energy transfer within heterogeneous and spatially non-uniform fuel beds; 2. As stated in the Framework, moisture dynamics in the combustion environment is a critical element demanding attention, and we expect the plan to phase in work directed…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Renschler, Perry, Saveland
This proposal is in response to Task 1: Extension of Technology Transfer Activities, as described in the JFSP Announcement for Proposals 2005-4. This proposal seeks continued funding to customize and deliver additional user-requested functionality of our currently JFSP-funded.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
The focused science delivery program proposes to investigate to what extent existing JFSP research is being incorporated into current environmental analysis related to fuels management projects for Federal land management agencies.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Miller
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) has provided a scientific basis for fire and land management since 1986. The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and National Wildfire Coordinating Group sponsored development of…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Lutes, Noble, Scott
A need exists for a simple computer program to determine surface and canopy fuel quantities (load, bulk density, depth) and qualities (fire behavior fuel model, fire-carrying fuel type) from a variety of fuel inventory data sources. In addition, fuel managers need help analyzing…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Evans
The Forest Guild will utilize its national network of foresters and natural resource professionals, along with federal, tribal, and local partners, to inventory and evaluate biomass removal case studies.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Foltz, Robichaud
Recent expansions in post-fire rehabilitation research have increased the knowledge base and opened the door to more informed decision making and successful post-fire rehabilitation efforts. Although there are many tools which have been developed to estimate peak flows and road…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Kovalev, Susott
The proposal addresses AFP 2004-1, Task 1. The goal of this project is to demonstrate and implement the most advanced technologies for measurements of smoke particulates in real-time. It will focus on obtaining and documenting critical, time-sensitive information on the three-…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi, Cronan, Huffman
This JFSP-funded project assessed the relationship between stand age and fire behavior in the black spruce forest type of interior Alaska. Forest canopy and substrate data were collected from sites representing a time sequence of stand age ranging from two to 227 years. These…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES