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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Larkin, Solomon, Strand, Krull, Rorig
The BlueSky smoke modeling framework, developed with support from the National Fire Plan and recently reworked through a grant from NASA, is used to enable a variety of real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fires, wildfires, and agricultural burns…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Pryden, Healy, Unger, Strand, Solomon
This project addresses the need for a collaborative architecture for scientific modeling that allows various scientific models to easily interact. The need for such a system has been documented by recent studies such as the JFSP Smoke Roundtables and the JFSP review of tools…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Solomon, Strand, Raffuse, Pollard, Potter
Fire and fuel managers often need to know how much fuel a fire will consume, and how much smoke the fire will produce. Many factors influence the ultimate smoke impacts, and a variety of fuel models and consumption models have been developed to help provide useful answers.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
The purpose of this paper is to document how to make changes to the Alaska 2009 fuels layer to account for recent fires. A similar process can be followed next year to modify the LANDFIRE National '2010' LCP using the 2009 final fire perimeters as well as the masks described…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
The purpose of this paper is to document the calibration process on the Shanta Creek Fire (#348) so that future analysts can benefit from this procedure and findings.
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
The purpose of this paper is to document the calibration process on the Zitziana Fire (#284) so that future analysts can benefit from this procedure and findings.
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Seasonal Assessment workshop was held in mid April for Alaska. The initial fire potential predictions made for the 2009 Alaska season all indicated a lower than average number of acres would be burned. The AICC Predictive Services group, the Alaska Center for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
FSPro uses the Energy Release Component (ERC) for fuel model G to derive fire weather percentiles which are used to bin fuel moisture and other inputs to the model. ERC is part of the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) which is used in the lower 48 states but does not…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kurth
The 2009 fire season in Alaska was characterized by numerous fires in the coastal and interior areas, very dry conditions, and an extended period without rain beyond the normal fire season. This afforded the opportunity to model fire behavior using the recently developed/updated…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Varner, Keyes
Fire behavior and fire effects models are arguably among the most important tools in fire and fuels management. Given the power, accessibility, and utility of these models, fuels planners and scientists commonly use them to compare potential fire intensity and severity on…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chuah, Kuwana, Saito
We conducted a series of laboratory-scale fire whirl experiments spinning 5-cm-diameter methanol pool fires and observed elongated flame height compared with the pool fire without spin. A simple scaling analysis was conducted to obtain dependency of the axial flame height on the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cheung, Yeoh
A numerical study simulating the temporal vortical structures of a large-scale buoyant pool fire has been carried out using a fully-coupled Large Eddy Simulation (LES) model which incorporates all essential subgrid scale (SGS) turbulence, combustion, radiation and soot chemistry…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blate, Joyce, Littell, McNulty, Millar, Moser, Neilson, O'Halloran, Peterson
Climate change is already affecting forests and other ecosystems, and additional, potentially more severe impacts are expected (IPCC, 2007; CCSP, 2008a, 2008b). As a result, forest managers are seeking practical guidance on how to adapt their current practices and, if necessary…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Raymond, Cushman
The understory is an oft-neglected element in landscape modeling. Most landscape models focus on the dominant vegetation and how it responds over successional time to climate, competitive interactions, and disturbance (Keane et at. 2004, Cary et al. 2006). Even forest stand-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joyce, Blate, McNulty, Millar, Moser, Neilson, Peterson
This study explores potential adaptation approaches in planning and management that the United States Forest Service might adopt to help achieve its goals and objectives in the face of climate change. Availability of information, vulnerability of ecological and socio-economic…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furniss, Millar, Peterson, Joyce, Neilson, Halofsky, Kerns
Information in this short course summarizes the state-of-the science for natural resource managers and decisionmakers regarding climate variability, change, climate projections, and ecological and management responses to climate variability. The information and talks included…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baron, Gunderson, Allen, Fleishman, McKenzie, Meyerson, Oropeza, Stephenson
Past and present climate has shaped the valued ecosystems currently protected in parks and reserves, but future climate change will redefine these conditions. Continued conservation as climate changes will require thinking differently about resource management than we have in…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Marty Alexander presents a speech for the MITACS/GEOIDE Conference on Forest Fire Modelling, June 22-23, 2009, in Hinton, AB. The main topics discussed in this powerpoint include extreme fire behavior, wildland-urban interface disasters, wildland fire behavior research, spot…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sharkey, Gaskill
This report updates 'Fitness and Work Capacity: Second Edition,' published in 1997. The 2009 edition includes new information on core training and nutrition. This report is intended to help forestry field workers and firefighters achieve health and fitness while improving their…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Bright
Integrative complexity is a measure of how complexly people think about an issue. A newly developed integrative complexity scale was applied in a study of perceptions of wildfire management. We explored the relationship between value-laden basic beliefs and attitudes, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McMillin, Fettig
Native tree-killing bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) are a natural component of forest ecosystems. Eradication is neither possible nor desirable and periodic outbreaks will occur as long as susceptible forests and favorable climatic conditions co-exist.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cain, Hayes
The recent dramatic impacts of bark beetle outbreaks across conifer forests of the West have been mapped and reported by entomology and pathology professionals with Forest Health Protection (FHP), a component of USDA Forest Service's State and Private Forestry, and their state…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The compilation of papers in this proceedings is based on a symposium sponsored by the Insect and Diseases Working Group (D5) at the 2007 Society of American Foresters (SAF) convention in Portland, Oregon. The selection of topics parallels the research priorities of the Western…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Omi
Fuel treatments can be categorized by objective (e.g., hazard reduction vs. ecological restoration), treatment type (mechanical vs. prescribed fire or other fire use activities), and scale (project vs. landscape), among other criteria. Tradeoffs with fire suppression activities…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship, Smith, Shlisky, Johnson, Swaty
Fire regime alteration is a known threat to the conservation of biological diversity. Specifically, altered fire regimes often result in changes in plant and animal species composition and ecosystem structure. The LANDFIRE Rapid Assessment (LFRA) project recently produced a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES