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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Blankenship
Powerpoint talk presented by Dr. Clay Blankenship, Universities Space Research Association (USRA)/NASA Short-Term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Soil moisture is a critical variable for agriculture and for predicting fire risk, and monitoring drought and water…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Kleinman, Goode, Fries, Hart
Investigations of compound disturbances that alter forest resilience (i.e., recovery time or trajectory) have escalated over the past two decades. We used a systematic approach to identify and describe the ecological consequences of discrete forest disturbance events involved in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hudson, Blunck
Spot fires caused by lofted embers (i.e. firebrands) can be a significant factor in the spread of wildfires. Embers can be especially dangerous near the wildland-urban interface (WUI) because of the potential for the fire to be spread near or on structures. This work sought to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Parisien, Dawe, Miller, Stockdale, Armitage
Wildland fire scientists and land managers working in fire-prone areas require spatial estimates of wildfire potential. To fulfill this need, a simulation-modelling approach was developed whereby multiple individual wildfires are modelled in an iterative fashion across a…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ziel, Moore, Lahm
The Advanced Fire Environment Learning Unit (AFELU) will host three speakers to talk about Predictive Services comparison tools (Robert Ziel, Alaska Fire Science Consortium), predicting fire behavior in Alaska (Chris Moore, Alaska Fire Service), and smoke tools (Pete Lahm, US…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Coffield, Graff, Chen, Smyth, Foufoula-Georgiou, Randerson
Fires in boreal forests of Alaska are changing, threatening human health and ecosystems. Given expected increases in fire activity with climate warming, insight into the controls on fire size from the time of ignition is necessary. Such insight may be increasingly useful for…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Overall, drought conditions had improved across the Southern Area Geographic Area over the past two years. During the spring of 2015 drought conditions began establishing across Southern Appalachian mountain states and steadily spread and increased in severity through the fall…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ernstrom, Hyde
Current and future development of IFTDSS and a demonstration of the Map Values feature that was added in Version 3.2.0.2.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Hessburg, Miller, Parks, Povak, Taylor, Higuera, Prichard, North, Collins, Hurteau, Larson, Allen, Stephens, Rivera-Huerta, Stevens-Rumann, Daniels, Gedalof, Gray, Kane, Churchill, Hagmann, Spies, Cansler, Belote, Veblen, Battaglia, Hoffman, Skinner, Safford, Salter
Before the advent of intensive forest management and fire suppression, western North American forests exhibited a naturally occurring resistance and resilience to wildfires and other disturbances. Resilience, which encompasses resistance, reflects the amount of disruption an…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Thompson, Wei, Calkin, O'Connor, Dunn, Anderson, Hogland
Purpose of Review: The objectives of this paper are to briefly review basic risk management and analytics concepts, describe their nexus in relation to wildfire response, demonstrate real-world application of analytics to support response decisions and organizational learning,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Most regions of the United States are projected to experience a higher frequency of severe droughts and longer dry periods as a result of a warming climate. Even if current drought regimes remain unchanged, higher temperatures will interact with drought to exacerbate moisture…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Rosen
More than ever, scientists are being asked to explain how their research is relevant to society and decision-making. This often requires them to navigate interactions with the media. In this webinar, journalist and scientist Dr. Julia Rosen will share expertise and insights…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

French, Prichard, Kennedy, Billmire
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has supported the development of a new resource for defining fuel loading across the variable landscapes of the US. The work entailed compiling existing data on fuel loadings categorized by Existing Vegetation Type (EVT). The data has been…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

York
Presented by: Alison York, Alaska Fire Science Consortium November 20th, 2019 Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th International Fire Ecology and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Brunson
Presented by: Ed Brunson, Joint Fire Science Program November 20th, 2019 Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th International Fire Ecology and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jandt
Presented by: Randi Jandt, Alaska Fire Science Consortium November 20th, 2019 Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Fire in the Last Frontier: 21st Century Fire Patterns, Behavior, and Pyroecology of North American Boreal Forests and Tundra presented as part of the 8th…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Baughman
Presented by: Carson Baughman, USGS, Alaska Science Center November 19th, 2019 Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Fire in the Last Frontier: 21st Century Fire Patterns, Behavior, and Pyroecology of North American Boreal Forests and Tundra presented as part of the 8th…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Loehman
Presented by: Rachel Loehman, USGS, Alaska Science Center November 19th, 2019 Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Fire in the Last Frontier: 21st Century Fire Patterns, Behavior, and Pyroecology of North American Boreal Forests and Tundra presented as part of the 8th…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Young
Presented by: Adam Young, Northern Arizona University November 19th, 2019 Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Fire in the Last Frontier: 21st Century Fire Patterns, Behavior, and Pyroecology of North American Boreal Forests and Tundra presented as part of the 8th…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Burton, Macdonald
Many of the world's forests are not primeval; forest restoration aims to reverse alterations caused by human use. Forest restoration (including reforestation and forest rehabilitation) is widely researched and practiced around the globe. A review of recent literature reveals…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire managers and resource managers have never been positioned as well as we are today to develop a common understanding of the role of fire in shaping the patterns of vegetation on the landscape.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cook, Sutton
From the text ... 'With an eye to what has been learned in the past, the wildland fire service can now meet the challenge of developing future leaders for an increasingly complex and high-tempo work environment..'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Calkin, Phipps, Holmes, Rieck, Thompson
From the text ... 'Reduced firefighter exposure to unnecessary risk during fire incidents continues to guide fire management decisions and anchors our actions.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Alexander
From the text ... 'The International Journal of Wildland Fire is aimed not only at the international wildland fire research community, but also at practioners and policymakers who have a requirement to ensure their policies and practices reflect the latest scientific evidence.…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Yablecki, Bibeau, Smith
We propose a community-based model of land management for pre-emptive action to reduce the risk of wildfires in small communities situated in forested areas. This proposed approach transfers the responsibility of wildland-urban interface administration to the local community,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS