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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wright, Ottmar, Ferguson, Vihnanek
Research to quantify fuel consumption and flammability in shrub-dominated ecosystems has received little attention despite the widespread occurrence of fire-influenced, shrub-dominated landscapes across the arid lands of the western United States. While some research has…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Foote, Adams
These studies are taking place in Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest, and at the Wickersham fire site, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. At the Wickersham Fire site active layer thickness has been measured annually since 1971 in unburned black spruce stands and in black spruce stands that…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Joint Fire Science program funded a 3-year study to measure and model the forest floor consumption and sample flaming and smoldering emissions during wildfire and prescribed fires in the boreal forests of Alaska. During the summer of 2003, fuel consumption was measured at 5…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walstad, Reed, Doescher, Kauffman, Miller, Shindler, Tappeiner
Distance education, facilitated by modern telecommunications and computer technology, is revolutionizing delivery of college-level courses. In creating an interdisciplinary course on wildland fire, we learned that initial investments of at least $100,000 may be required,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wildfires burn millions of acres annually. Most burnt land can recover naturally, but a small percentage needs short-term emergency treatment to stabilize burnt land that threatens public safety, property, or ecosystems or longer-term treatments to rehabilitate land unlikely to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ferguson
The primary objective of this work is to assess the local, regional, and national risks to air quality and visibility from wildland fire. This will be done by generating and analyzing statistics of daily and nightly variability of surface wind, mixing height, and dispersion…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Valeo, Beaty, Hesslein
This brief paper indicates that forest fires may have short and longer term effects on runoff and thus, can influence trend studies on the response of watersheds to climate change. Twenty-two watersheds at the Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario were studied to view…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Timoney
The subhumid boreal forest of western Canada is different today from what it was 25 years ago. Before the 1950s, the main human impacts on this forest were agricultural expansion, escaped settlement fires, and high-grade logging. The latter half of the 20th century saw increased…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shibata, Petrone, Hinzman, Boone
The concentration of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and the contents of water-extractable organic carbon (WOC) and minerals were measured in moss and soils before and after a prescribed fire in interior Alaska to clarify the effect of the fire on the DOC dynamics in soil with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Prepas, Chen, Burke, Chanasyk, Smith, Putz, Gabos, Millions, Serediak
Water and phosphorus (P) exports during the peakflow season increased after a fire in early summer 1998 burned 89% of an upland watershed on the Boreal Plain of western Canada. The change in water export between pre- (1983) and post-fire (1998 to 2000) periods was higher in the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pilliod, Bury, Hyde, Pearl, Corn
Information on amphibian responses to fire and fuel reduction practices is critically needed due to potential declines of species and the prevalence of new, more intensive fire management practices in North American forests. The goals of this review are to summarize the known…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Perry, Bradford, Grout
We used stable isotopes of carbon in a growth-dependent tissue-turnover model to quantify the relative contribution of autochthonous and terrestrial energy sources to juvenile chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in five small boreal streams tributary to the upper Yukon…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perera, Schnekenburger, Baldwin, Boychuk, Yemshanov, Weaver
A scenario simulation model, the Boreal Forest Landscape Dynamics Simulator, a grid-based spatially explicit model, which uses georeferenced data for input (e.g., forest cover, climate, terrain), encapsulates spatial interactions within the model functions, and produces…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perera, Baldwin, Yemshanov, Schnekenburger, Weaver, Boychuk
Planning for old-growth forests requires answers to two large-scale questions: (1) How much old-growth forest should exist? and (2) where can they be sustained in a landscape? Stand-level knowledge of old-growth physiognomy and dynamics are not sufficient to answer these…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Neill, Kasischke, Richter
Postfire changes in the local energy balance and soil chemistry may significantly alter rates of carbon turnover in organic-rich soils of boreal forests. This study combines field measurements of soil carbon uptake and emission along a 140-year chronosequence of burned black…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nappi, Drapeau, Giroux, Savard
We studied snag use for foraging by Black-backed Woodpeckers (Picoides arcticus) one year after a fire in an eastern black spruce (Picea mariana) boreal forest in Quebec, Canada. We searched for signs of foraging (bark flaking and excavation holes) by Black-backed Woodpeckers on…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, MacPherson, Desjardins, Chen, Liu
Recent CO2 flux measurements from towers and aircraft (net ecosystem exchange by eddy covariance) and remote sensing/modeling (net primary productivity - NPP) following fire show that the regenerating boreal forest in western Canada has a low initial flux that increases with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Chen
The mapping of Canadian fires is a large effort supported by provincial, territorial, and federal agencies. Remote sensing techniques can aid in mapping, especially in remote areas and during busy fire seasons. The SPOT-VEGETATION (SPOT-VGT) sensor has previously shown promise…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Stam
The fire environment on Kenai Peninsula and in south-central Alaska has experienced significant changes due to the recent spruce beetle epidemic (Fastabend 2002). Firefighters and fire researchers do not have enough experience with wildland fires that occur in the dead-spruce/…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Key, Benson
From the website...'The Composite Burn Index (CBI): Objectives to correlate remote sensing data with observed fire effects require definition of burn severity, and a sampling strategy that matches recorded field characteristics to sensor capabilities. The Composite Burn Index (…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zouhar
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shannon, Butler
Temperature has been used extensively to characterize wildland fire behavior, intensity, and effects. The thermocouple has become one of the most used instruments to measure this quantity. Although the devices are inexpensive, convenient and easy to use, there can be significant…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS