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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Webb, Loranty, Lichstein
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average, due in part to the albedo feedbacks of a diminishing cryosphere. As snow cover extent decreases, the underlying land is exposed, which has lower albedo and therefore absorbs more radiation, warming the surface and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sanderfoot, Bassing, Brusa, Emmet, Swift, Gardner
Climate change is intensifying global wildfire activity, and people and wildlife are increasingly exposed to hazardous air pollution during large-scale smoke events. Although wildfire smoke is considered a growing risk to public health, few studies have investigated the impacts…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGowan-Stinski, Charney, Kobziar, Wickman, Pitrolo
This is the 3rd panel discussion in Season 2 of the Fueling Collaboration series. Moderator Jack McGowan-Stinski (Lake States Fire Science Consortium) discusses all things smoke. What is it? What are the messages we should be communicating? What are the tools that can help us…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
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
Huang, Mote, Simpson
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory will hold a virtual two-part panel discussion on the state-of-the-science regarding climate and wildland fire during the upcoming fall semester of the recurring Fire Lab…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hedayati, Gorham
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
IBHS test chamber is a unique facility to study the effects of wind on fire. The test chamber area is equal to four basketball courts which allows researchers to perform large scale wind and fire tests. The test…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] Under this strategy, the Forest Service will work with partners to engineer a paradigm shift by focusing fuels and forest health treatments more strategically and at the scale of the problem, using the best available science as the guide. At the Forest Service,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nimmo, Andersen, Archibald, Boer, Brotons, Parr, Tingley
[from the text] Fire is one of Earth's most potent agents of ecological change. This Special Issue comes in the wake of a series of extreme wildfires across the world, from the Amazon, to Siberia, California, Portugal, South Africa and eastern Australia (Duane et al., 2021).…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanan, Kennedy, Ren, Johnson, Smith
Climate change has lengthened wildfire seasons and transformed fire regimes throughout the world. Thus, capturing fuel and fire dynamics is critical for projecting Earth system processes in warmer and drier future. Recent advances in fire regime modeling have linked land surface…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballinger
Alaska’s central and eastern interior (CEI), including the greater Tanana Valley and Yukon Flats, has consistently been the most fire prone area of the state during the last two decades. Toward operational and research applications, several surface fire weather indicators have…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Littell, Trainor
Sarah Trainor & Jeremy Littell present at the 2021 Association for Fire Ecology Conference special session: The Nexus of Climate Change and Fire: Taking Science to Action
Addressing the unprecedented challenges of climate change, wildland fire, and human land use requires…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Le, Kim, Bae
Wildfires alter the composition and structure of ecosystems and result in huge economic costs. While future fires and ecosystems recovery might become increasingly challenging to manage under warming environment, further understanding of the main drivers of wildfires is…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York, Bhatt, Gargulinski, Grabinski, Jain, Soja, Thoman, Ziel
Despite the low annual temperatures and short growing seasons that are characteristic of high northern latitudes (HNL), wildland fire is the dominant ecological disturbance within the region's boreal forest, the world's largest terrestrial biome. The boreal forest, also known as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Croft, Wuttig, Mathieson, Montini
The quantity and intensity of wildfires have increased while permafrost in the interior of Alaska has become more vulnerable to thaw with warming climate conditions. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) transports oil through a 1.2-m-diameter pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dodds, Rosales, Hailes, Sol, Coker, Quindry, Ruby
Wildland fire suppression presents a working environment that often exceeds an energy expenditure of 20 MJ/day, however maladaptive responses to adiposity and blood lipid profiles have been noted. We recruited wildland firefighters (WLFF), (n=100, 92 males, 8 females) from seven…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Douglas, Jorgenson, Genet, Marcot, Nelsen
Climate change and intensification of disturbance regimes are increasing the vulnerability of interior Alaska Department of Defense (DoD) training ranges to widespread land cover and hydrologic changes. This is expected to have profound impacts on wildlife habitats, conservation…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vachula, Liang, Sae-Lim, Xie
Recent fire events in Alaskan tundra ecosystems have been identified as harbingers of climate change and have caused reassessment of more traditional thinking about fire activity in this high-latitude biome. Although some work has demonstrated the novelty of these fires and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foster, Shuman, Rogers, Walker, Mack, Bourgeau-Chavez, Veraverbeke, Goetz
Forest characteristics, structure, and dynamics within the North American boreal region are heavily influenced by wildfire intensity, severity, and frequency. Increasing temperatures are likely to result in drier conditions and longer fire seasons, potentially leading to more…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baltzer, Day, Walker, Greene, Mack, Alexander, Arseneault, Barnes, Bergeron, Boucher, Bourgeau-Chavez, Brown, Carrière, Howard, Gauthier, Parisien, Reid, Rogers, Roland, Sirois, Stehn, Thompson, Turetsky, Veraverbeke, Whitman, Yang, Johnstone
Intensifying wildfire activity and climate change can drive rapid forest compositional shifts. In boreal North America, black spruce shapes forest flammability and depends on fire for regeneration. This relationship has helped black spruce maintain its dominance through much of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Fitzsimmons, Olnes, Williams
Climate change and natural disturbances are catalysing forest transitions to different vegetation types, but whether these new communities are resilient alternate states that will persist for decades to centuries is not known. Here, we test how changing climate, disturbance and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowring, Jones, Ciais, Guenet, Abiven
Recently identified post-fire carbon fluxes indicate that, to understand whether global fires represent a net carbon source or sink, one must consider both terrestrial carbon retention through pyrogenic carbon production and carbon losses via multiple pathways. Here these legacy…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balch, Abatzoglou, Joseph, Koontz, Mahood, McGlinchy, Cattau, Williams
Night-time provides a critical window for slowing or extinguishing fires owing to the lower temperature and the lower vapour pressure deficit (VPD). However, fire danger is most often assessed based on daytime conditions1,2, capturing what promotes fire spread rather than what…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yu, Zou, Jerrett, Meng
The impacts of air pollution on public health have become great concerns worldwide. Particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter small than 2.5μm (PM2.5), either from conventional sources such as traffic emissions or wildfire smoke, is among the most damaging air pollutants…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masrur, Taylor, Harris, Barnes, Petrov
Although the link between climate change and tundra fire activity is well-studied, we lack an understanding of how fire, vegetation, and topography interact to either amplify or dampen climatic effects on these tundra fires at Pan-Arctic scale. This study investigated the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Song, Xu, Li, Oppong
Wildfire causes environmental, economic, and human problems or losses. This study reviewed wildfires induced by lightning strikes. This review focuses on the investigations of lightning mechanisms in the laboratory. Also, the paper aims to discuss some of the modeling studies on…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES