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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Moreno-Ruiz, García-Lázaro, Arbelo, Riaño
Alaska’s boreal region stores large amounts of carbon both in its woodlands and in the grounds that sustain them. Any alteration to the fire system that has naturally regulated the region’s ecology for centuries poses a concern regarding global climate change. Satellite-based…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keefe, Wempe, Becker, Zimbelman, Nagler, Gilbert, Caudill
In this paper, we provide an overview of positioning systems for moving resources in forest and fire management and review the related literature. Emphasis is placed on the accuracy and range of different localization and location-sharing methods, particularly in forested…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden
Prescribed fire is one of the most widely advocated management practices for reducing wildfire hazard and has a long and rich tradition rooted in indigenous and local ecological knowledge. The scientific literature has repeatedly reported that prescribed fire is often the most…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kumar, Picotte, Peterson
This work presents development of an algorithm to reduce the spatial uncertainty of active fire locations within the 1 km MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS Aqua and Terra) daytime detection footprint. The algorithm is developed using the finer 500 m reflective…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bakhshaii, Johnson
One of the first significant developments in wildfire modeling research was to introduce heat flux as wildfire line intensity (kW·m–1). This idea could be adapted to using weather station measurements, topography, and fuel properties to estimate rate of fire spread, shape, and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alaska Wildland Fire Information is a web application designed to provide users with an interactive mapping interface that displays data relevant to wildland fires in Alaska. Examples of the wildland fire-specific data available from this web application include fire locations,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The RSG! Program tenets help residents be Ready with preparedness understanding, be Set with situational awareness when fire threatens, and to Go, acting early when a fire starts.
Year: 2011
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Parkinson
The Fire Behavior Subcommittee of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Fire Environment Committee undertook development of this poster to provide a job aid to visually and succinctly tie the fire environment components together in one place to compliment and reinforce fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martinuzzi, Allstadt, Pidgeon, Flather, Jolly, Radeloff
Public lands provide many ecosystem services and support diverse plant and animal communities. In order to provide these benefits in the future, land managers and policy makers need information about future climate change and its potential effects. In particular, weather…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moya, Certini, Fulé
Although fire is an intrinsic factor in most terrestrial biomes, it is often perceived as a negative disturbance that must be suppressed. The application of successful fire prevention policies can lead to unsustainable fire events for ecosystems adapted to a specific fire regime…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loomis, Sanchez, González-Cabán, Rideout, Reich
This paper reports the results of two hypotheses tests regarding whether fuel reduction treatments using prescribed burning and mechanical methods reduces wildfire suppression costs and property damages. To test these two hypotheses data was collected on fuel treatments, fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Butler, Page, Freeborn
Wildland firefighters in the United States (US) are exposed to a variety of hazards while performing their jobs in America’s wildlands. Although the threats posed by vehicle accidents, aircraft mishaps and heart attacks claim the most lives (Figure 1), situations where…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Butler
Since the introduction and adoption of a centralized suppression-oriented wildland firefighting paradigm in the US wildland firefighters have been employed to protect and manage various natural and human resources. Both wildland fire scientists and firefighters have long noted…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Part of the new Research Task List, this is a document of products delivered based upon the Research Task.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Horizon scanning is a method for detecting and interpreting the implications of emerging issues and other signals of change, both within and outside of an organization or field. Anticipating possible changes that may affect an organization is a first step toward strategic…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York, Jandt
A three-day workshop was held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks April 4-6, 2017. The interagency, international workshop was hosted by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) with funding from the NASA Applied Sciences Program to bring sciences users and producers together…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dotson, Carroll
Is the risk of death the same when implementing "planned events"? What do the numbers we have as well as some specific events have say about that? Travis Dotson will provide prescribed fire practitioners a few specific elements to consider related to this topic and lessons…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bär, Michaletz, Mayr
Heat injuries sustained in a fire can initiate a cascade of complex mechanisms that affect the physiology of trees after fires. Uncovering the exact physiological mechanisms and relating specific injuries to whole‐plant and ecosystem functioning is the focus of intense current…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gwynne, Ronchi, Bénichou, Kinateder, Kuligowski, Gomaa, Adelzadeh
Wildland‐urban interface (WUI) fire incidents are likely to become more severe and will affect more and more people. Given their scale and complexity, WUI incidents require a multidomain approach to assess their impact and the effectiveness of any mitigation efforts. The authors…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Keeley
Wildfires are often perceived as destructive disturbances, but we propose that when integrating evolutionary and socioecological factors, fires in most ecosystems can be understood as natural processes that provide a variety of benefits to humankind. Wildfires generate open…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Zhang, Li, Cochrane
Smoke aerosols released from biomass burning greatly influence air quality, weather, and climate. The total particulate matter (TPM) of smoke aerosols has been demonstrated to be a linear function of fire radiative energy (FRE) during a period of biomass burning via a smoke…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Miller, Moore
Organized by the Alaska Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee. Presented by Eric Miller, Chris Moore, and Robert (Zeke) Ziel.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
During a wildfire, it's not uncommon to have all three types of fire. The proportion of each type, however, can vary greatly day to day or even minute to minute depending on fuel, topography, and weather conditions. Fuel, topography, and weather drive a fire's behavior, and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Metcalf, Miller, Buma, McWethy, Metcalf, Ratajczak, Nelson, Chaffin, Stedman, McCaffrey, Schoennagel, Harvey, Hood, Schultz, Black, Campbell, Haggerty, Keane, Krawchuk, Kulig, Rafferty, Virapongse
Resilience has become a common goal for science-based natural resource management, particularly in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes. Integrating varying perspectives and definitions of resilience is a complex and often unrecognized challenge to applying…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
Key message: The collective analysis of a relatively large number of wildfire observations documented in conifer forests, dry eucalypt forests and temperate shrublands revealed that the forward rate of fire spread is roughly 10% of the average 10-m open wind speed, provided both…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES