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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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This website contains links to podcasts produced by the Wildland Fires Lessons Learned Center.
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The theme of our special 20th Anniversary Issue focuses on how we need to widen the definition of “survivor” of traumatic fire line accidents. We share the stories, insights, and lessons of four survivors of a line of duty wildland firefighter death. In doing so, we explore the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In this issue we provide an opportunity for two firefighters to share their experiences with things we don’t talk much about: gender and leadership as well as bias and diversity. In the cover story, Rachel Reimer, an Initial Attack Crew Leader in British Columbia, Canada, ties…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant, Kolden, Smith
Wildfire is an ever present, natural process shaping landscapes. Having the ability to accurately measure and predict wildfire occurrence and impacts to ecosystem goods and services, both retrospectively and prospectively, is critical for adaptive management of landscapes.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ellersick
USDA Forest Service R&D has been conducting research for many years with tribes and in Indian country and has collaboratively developed the USDA Forest Service Research and Development Tribal Engagement Roadmap (Tribal Engagement Roadmap) to help highlight and prioritize the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gray, Keane, Karpisz, Pedersen, Brown, Russell
A study by Keane and Gray (2013) compared three sampling techniques for estimating surface fine woody fuels. Known amounts of fine woody fuel were distributed on a parking lot, and researchers estimated the loadings using different sampling techniques. An important result was…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
National Weather Service Incident Meteorologists (IMET) provide onsite, tactical weather support for wildland fires and other incidents.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swaty
LANDFIRE products have become the toolbox for large landscape management, way beyond obvious applications to do with fire and fuels. From mapping arbuscular fungi to modeling scary cryptic zooid habitat, from tracking grizzly bears to protecting butterflies, from developing full…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hilton, Miller, Sullivan
Computational simulations of wildfires require a model for the two-dimensional expansion of a fire perimeter. Although many expressions exist for the one-dimensional rate of spread of a fire front, there are currently no agreed mathematical expressions for the two-dimensional…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xiao, Gollner, Oran
Fire whirls are powerful, spinning disasters for people and surroundings when they occur in large urban and wildland fires. Whereas fire whirls have been studied for fire-safety applications, previous research has yet to harness their potential burning efficiency for enhanced…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dash, Fraterrigo, Hu
Context: Wildfire activity in boreal forests is projected to increase dramatically in response to anthropogenic climate change. By altering the spatial arrangement of fuels, land-cover configuration may interact with climate change to influence fire-regime dynamics at landscape…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Allen, Franklin, Frelich, Harvey, Higuera, Mack, Meentemeyer, Metz, Perry, Schoennagel, Turner
Ecological memory is central to how ecosystems respond to disturbance and is maintained by two types of legacies – information and material. Species life-history traits represent an adaptive response to disturbance and are an information legacy; in contrast, the abiotic and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This site is the National Weather Service interface to requesting, filling, and monitoring spot forecasts issued by the Forecast Offices and National Centers.
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
This is a brief tutorial for the new National Spot Forecast Page. If you have any questions about this new page, be sure to contact your local National Weather Service forecast office.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rugg, Porth
Meeting the JFSP grant requirement for post-research data accessibility requires some planning. This webinar will review the two paths for satisfying the data requirement, discuss in detail what is needed for publishing research data through the Forest Service Research Data…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Detweiler
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar with University of Nebraska-Lincoln Assistant Professor Carrick Detweiler. The use of helicopter-based ignition has helped to increase the number of prescribed fire acres but the expense and complexity of air operations makes aerial ignitions…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Conklin, Lenihan, Bachelet, Neilson, Kim
MCFire is a computer program that simulates the occurrence and effects of wildfire on natural vegetation, as a submodel within the MC1 dynamic global vegetation model. This report is a technical description of the algorithms and parameter values used in MCFire, intended to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haase, Sanchez, Weise
A variety of techniques for collecting and processing samples to determine moisture content of wildland fuels in support of fire management activities were evaluated. The effects of using a chainsaw or handsaw to collect samples of largediameter wood, containers for storing and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Verrucci, Perez-Fuentes, Rossetto, Bisby, Haklay, Rush, Rickles, Fagg, Joffe
Natural or human-made hazards may occur at any time. Although one might assume that individuals plan in advance for such potentially damaging events, the existing literature indicates that most communities remain inadequately prepared. In the past, research in this area has…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lueck, Yoder
Wildfires are heating up once again in the American West. In 2015, wildfires burned more than 10 million acres in the United States at a cost of $2.1 billion in federal expenditures. As the fires burned, the U.S. Forest Service announced that, for the first time, more than half…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a plan developed by a community in an area at-risk from wildfire.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) is an assessment intended to protect life, property, water quality, important archeological resources, and impacted ecosystems from further damage.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Twidwell, Allen, Detweiler, Higgins, Laney, Elbaum
During the past century, fire management has focused on techniques both to protect human communities from catastrophic wildfire and to maintain fire-dependent ecological systems. However, despite a large and increasing allocation of resources and personnel to achieve these goals…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rasker
The dangers and costs associated with wildfires are rising and predicted to escalate rapidly in decades to come, primarily because of continued home development on fire-prone lands and the effects of climate change. Those interested in reducing wildfire risk have asked whether…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marshall
Join guest expert, Gary Marshall, NFPA Wildfire Field Rep, and discover the three distinct areas surrounding structures within a home ignition zone and identify how mitigation and maintenance in each section plays a distinct role in improving survivability during a wildfire.…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES