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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Postfire energy exchange in arctic tundra: the importance and climatic implications of burn severity
Fires produce land cover changes that have consequences for surface energy balance and temperature. Three eddy covariance towers were setup along a burn severity gradient (i.e. Severely, Moderately, and Unburned tundra) to determine the effect of fire and burn severity on arctic…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Penn
The combination of a gutted B.C. Forest Service, vast areas of not sufficiently restocked forest lands, a quirky loophole in the Kyoto Protocol and a provincial government ideologically driven to sell off public assets has created the perfect opportunity to burn down B.C.'s…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parks
From the text ... 'Since the 1950s the US Forest Service (USFS) has relied on fire-retardant chemicals as one method of battling wildland blazes, primarily in the American West. ...In 2004, the Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics (FSEEE; Eugene, OR) sued the USFS…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neugarten, Wolf, Stedman, Tear
Large-scale sell-offs of industrial timberlands in the United States have prompted public and private investments in a new class of ''working forest'' land deals, notable for their large size and complex divisions of property rights. These transactions have been pitched as ''win…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGee
This study examined neighbourhood level wildfire mitigation programs being implemented in neighbourhoods in Canada (FireSmart-ForestWise), Australia (Community Fireguard) and the US (Firewise Communities). Semi-structured interviews were completed with 19 residents participating…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeQuire
The best available science is of little use if it gathers dust on the shelves of library stacks or is deeply embedded on an obscure website. A key part of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) mission is to ensure research on wildland fire science is readily available to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Henderson, Brauer, MacNab, Kennedy
BACKGROUND: During the summer of 2003 numerous fires burned in British Columbia, Canada. OBJECTIVES: We examined the associations between respiratory and cardiovascular physician visits and hospital admissions, and three measures of smoke exposure over a 92-day study period (1…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
Fire behaviour associated with the stand structure of a particular pine plantation is the result of multiple interactions between climate and weather conditions, physical characteristics of the fuel complex, the micrometeorological environment (i.e., wind, fuel moisture and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Vaillant, Peterson
This paper provides a brief overview and progress report of the U.S. Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) sponsored project "Crown Fire Behavior Characteristics and Prediction in Conifer Forests: A State-of-Knowledge Synthesis" (JFSP 09-S-03-1).
In addition to summarizing the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
The preparation of wildland fire behavior studies represents both an opportunity and a challenge to the wildland fire community in the future. While the continuance of basic research into fire fundamentals is essential to gaining a complete understanding of the physical…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lowell, Parrent, Deering, Bihn, Becker
The Community Biomass Handbook. Volume 2: Alaska, Where Woody Biomass Can Work, is a companion volume to the Community Biomass Handbook. Volume 1: Thermal Wood Energy, published in April 2014 (Becker et al. 2014). Why an Alaska volume? The original handbook contains information…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos—to encircle nature with our protection…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Jorgenson, Douglas, Romanovsky, Kielland, Hiemstra, Euskirchen, Ruess
We examined the effects of fire disturbance on permafrost degradation and thaw settlement across a series of wildfires (from ~1930 to 2010) in the forested areas of collapse‐scar bog complexes in the Tanana Flats lowland of interior Alaska. Field measurements were combined with…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bian, May, Kreidenweis, Pierce
Smog chambers are extensively used to study processes that drive gas and particle evolution in the atmosphere. A limitation of these experiments is that particles and gas-phase species may be lost to chamber walls on shorter timescales than the timescales of the atmospheric…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thoman
The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. Subjects reviewed include recent climate conditions around Alaska, some forecast tools, and the…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Based primarily on the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) component parts, the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System and the Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System, this document can be used to guide learning users through the fire behavior assessment process from the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Voulgarakis, Field
Fires impact atmospheric composition through their emissions, which range from long-lived gases to short-lived gases and aerosols. Effects are typically larger in the tropics and boreal regions but can also be substantial in highly populated areas in the northern mid-latitudes.…
Year: 2015
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
This guide is intended as a reference for US users who may have reason to work with the system in the United States, where English units are primarily used. Keep in mind that the Canadian Forest Service has produced the definitive selection of reference publications and tools…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Robert "Zeke" Ziel, a long-term analyst and fire behavior specialist for the State of Alaska, Zeke gives an overview of the past and current tools used in Alaska (and elsewhere) for Landscape Risk Assessment and exposure to wildfire. Modeling is more art than science in that the…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Massman
Increased use of prescribed fire by land managers and the increasing likelihood of wildfires due to climate change require an improved modeling capability of extreme heating of soils during fires. This issue is addressed here by developing and testing the soil (heat-moisture-…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor
A summary of a JSFP survey presented by Sarah Trainor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rappold
A recent study of simulated forecast-based interventions as a tool to reduce the health and economic burden during smoke episodes. The study illustrated a large health burden associated with these events and the potential benefit an adaptation of current forecasting technologies…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McMillan
To assess the impacts of grazing by caribou (Rangifer tardus granti), permanent range transects were established by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 1981. These transects were located in the winter range of WACH, primarily in the Buckland River valley of the Seward…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pastick, Jorgenson, Wylie, Minsley, Ji, Walvoord, Smith, Abraham, Rose
Permafrost has a significant impact on high latitude ecosystems and is spatially heterogeneous. However, only generalized maps of permafrost extent are available. Due to its impacts on carbon pools, subsurface hydrology, lake water levels, vegetation communities, and surface…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES