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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stonesifer
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station
Aircraft are important fire management tools, but their use can bring substantial costs and associated risks. We developed the Aviation Use Summary (AUS), which is a…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ghali, Akhloufi, Souidene Mseddi
Wildfires are a worldwide natural disaster causing important economic damages and loss of lives. Experts predict that wildfires will increase in the coming years mainly due to climate change. Early detection and prediction of fire spread can help reduce affected areas and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark
Aircraft play vital roles in managing wildfire, but their use is both costly and inherently risky. On average, USDA Forest Service aviation costs represent 30 percent of annual firefighting expenditures. And despite improvements in airworthiness and safety in the last decade,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From the text ... 'The Supertanker is a 747 jet that has been transitioned and retailored into a 'super' large airtanker designed to suppress wildland fire. It can cruise at mach .86 -- or close to 600 miles-per-hour and deliver up to 17,000 gallons of product.At this time, the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frederick, Frederick
From the text ... 'Today, the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management smokejumper programs continue to be effective and heralded wildland firefighting forces. Walt Anderson -- firefighter, district ranger, fire manager, and ski jumper -- helped to get them off the ground.'
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Croft
From the text ... 'With his camera attached to his helmet, rappeller and photographer .... He is responsible for sizing-up and determining all risk factors associated with the mission -- as well as communicating with the pilot to position the aircraft prior to and during the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lynch
From the text ... 'As a method for delivering firefighters into otherwise difficult-to-access backcountry fires, rappelling provided a practical alternative to parachuting.... The jumpers took what they did and adapted it to the helicopter.... Needless to say, it is an…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trethewey
A helicopter comparison index was developed to incorporate cost and benefit information for individual helicopters for large wildland fire suppression operations. The costs and benefits for individual helicopters are unique. Costs consist of daily availability and hourly flight…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jennings, Craig, Erdos, Filiter, Crowell, Macuda
Helicopters are widely used in daytime forest fire suppression, conducting diverse tasks such as spotting, re-supply, medical evacuation and airborne delivery. However, they are not used at night for forest fire suppression operations. There would be many challenges when…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cook, Savage, Turquety, Carver, O'Connor, Heckel, Stewart, Whalley, Parker, Schlager, Singh, Avery, Sachse, Brune, Richter, Burrows, Purvis, Lewis, Reeves, Monks, Levine, Pyle
Intercontinental Transport of Ozone and Precursors (ITOP) ( part of International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT)) was an intense research effort to measure long-range transport of pollution across the North Atlantic and its impact on…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES