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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mölders, Kramm
As especially observed during the 2004 Alaska fire season, huge wildfires drastically alter land cover leading to a change in the dynamic (roughness length), radiative (albedo, emissivity), vegetative (vegetation type and fraction, stomatal resistance), thermal (soil heating,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belleau, Bergeron, Leduc, Gauthier, Fall
It is now recognized that in the Canadian boreal forest, timber harvesting activities have replaced wildfires as the main stand-replacing disturbance. Differences in landscape patterns derived from these two sources of disturbance have, however, raised concerns that the way…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abbott, Leblon, Staples, MacLean, Alexander
The goal of this study was to evaluate the potential use of RADARSAT-1 images to assess daily variations in dead fuel moisture over a northern boreal forest area, as parameterized by the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The study area was located in the south-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Jandt
From intro: 'The Arctic is currently exhibiting signs of rapid change which are especially pronounced in tussock tundra ecosystems. Factors known to be affecting these changes include wildfire, disturbance by caribou, global climate change and shrub expansion. These factors are…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hom, Clark, Van Tuyl, Cole, Skowronski, Pan, Somes
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Elliot, Pierson, Hall, Moffet, Ashmun
The decision of where, when, and how to apply the most effective post-fire erosion mitigation treatments requires land managers to assess the risk of damaging runoff and erosion events occurring after a fire. To aid in this assessment, the Erosion Risk Management Tool (ERMiT)…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Evers, Gravenmier, Eberhardt
Current efforts to improve the scientific basis for fire management on public lands will benefit from more efficient transfer of technical information and tools that support planning, implementation, and effectiveness of vegetation and hazardous fuel treatments. The technical…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document provides basic protocols to monitor and inventory Alaska fuels and/or fire effects. This protocol provides sampling guidance to meet common fire effects monitoring objectives; however, each project lead should consider how well this protocol meets specific project…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Calkin, Jones
The increased scrutiny of all wildfire related expenditures requires improvements in cost-benefit accounting systems including methods to assess values-at-risk downstream of burned areas. Working under very tight timelines, Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) teams are…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Martinson
This proposal responds to Task 1 of the second Announcement for Proposals (AFP) authorized by the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board in 2003, which calls for projects that would obtain time-sensitive information following wildland fire incidents related to the effects of…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Babbitt, Ferguson, Lahm, Ottmar, Sandberg, Susott, Yokelson
Project Objectives For at least 5 different major classes of fuels typically involved in residual smoldering combustion (RSC) and two different moisture content conditions dispersed over at least 10 different sites. Four of these will be in the western USA, 3 in the southeast, 2…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Brooks, Sutherland, Zouhar
Managers need to understand the scientific principles that drive the relationships between fire and invasive plants, and they need to know what aspects of fire-invasive issues are unique to their geographic regions. This project will (1) produce a General Technical Report in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
With the creation of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) came an expectation of the rapid and systematic delivery of solutions to the technical and scientific problems associated with planning for (including managing fuels), fighting, and recovering from wildfires. Although it…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bytnerowicz
Presenting state-of-science information and discussion of broadly defined air pollution and forest fire issues. Among others, the following topics will be discussed: effects of forest fires on air quality in the remote and urban-wildland interface forests; effects of forest…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Miller
The Fire Effects Planning Framework (FEPF), developed under the JFSP project #99-1-3-16, was formally completed in June 2004. Although all proposed technology transfer activities were completed, field managers, national and international fire planning organizations continue to…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Youngblood, McIver
This proposal seeks supplemental funding for the Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) Study, for the purpose of interdisciplinary and multi-site analyses. Initial funding for the FFS study was provided by the JFSP in March 2000, and has allowed full treatment implementation and data…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Gessler, Jain, Lannom, Robichaud, Ryan
We propose a rapid response project to collect fire behavior, fire effects, and fuels data from five 2003 active 2004 wildfires across the US. It is critical that field and remotely sensed data be collected soon (two weeks to the first growing season) after wildfires are burning…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone
This project aims to use data from the 2004 fires in Alaska to link pre-fire vegetation composition and soil conditions with patterns of burn severity and post-fire stand rehabilitation. The primary objective is to examine how variations in burn severity can influence patterns…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Babbitt, Ferguson, Vihnanek
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episodes for local residents and communities and causing…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Liljedahl, Hinzman, Busey, Yoshikawa
The Kougarok area, situated on the central Seward Peninsula, Alaska, experienced a severe fire in August 2002. This may be the only tundra fire where high-quality prefire (1999-2002) and postfire (2003-2006) active layer and meteorology measurements have been collected in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kushida, Isaev, Takao, Maximov, Fukuda
We evaluated the estimation of the area ratios of the land categories including the total-burn/wither and surface-burn areas following a wildfire in East Siberia. We obtained the land classification from 30-m resolution Landsat ETM+ image data and used it for evaluating the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin, Raish, Kent
From Publisher's website: Wildfire Risk follows from an increasing awareness among fire experts that relying on fire behavior models from the physical sciences to design a risk management program is no longer sufficient - and that simply increasing public knowledge related to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (PNW) completed a total of eight 3-day regional fuels workshops and six ½-day 'mini-workshops' that demonstrated the use of the Natural Fuels Photo Series, Digital Photo Series, Fuel Characteristic Classification System, and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Baker
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (PNW Research Station) and the Fire Chemistry Project (RM Research Station) have completed the data collection and modeling for fuel consumption and smoke emissions during wildland fires in boreal forested types in Alaska.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Hudak, Robichaud, Ryan
In this rapid response project, we have collected data on post-fire effects and pre-fire fuels and vegetation from 10 large fires that burned in 2003 and 2004. We use field and remotely sensed data collected during and soon after wildfires to quantify the interactions and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES