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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Vaillant
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based application designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective. IFTDSS provides access to data and…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Yedinak
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wildland fires occupy the biosphere as both an ecological process essential for maintaining species diversity and a hazard to human lives, infrastructure and activities. Fire managers’ ability to anticipate fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
A statement by the Wildland Fire Leadership Council and their partners relating to the benefits of prescribed fire programs.
Year: 2020
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
Zeller, Lewison, Fletcher, Tulbure, Jennings
Landscape connectivity is increasingly promoted as a conservation tool to combat the negative effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and climate change. Given its importance as a key conservation strategy, connectivity science is a rapidly growing discipline. However, most…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Poujol, Prein, Newman
Convective storms produce heavier downpours and become more intense with climate change. Such changes could be even amplified in high-latitudes since the Arctic is warming faster than any other region in the world and subsequently moistening. However, little attention has been…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Macander, Palm, Frost, Herriges, Nelson, Roland, Russell, Suitor, Bentzen, Joly, Goetz, Hebblewhite
Previous research indicates that the effects of climate warming, including shrub expansion and increased fire frequency may lead to declining lichen abundance in arctic tundra and northern alpine areas. Lichens are important forage for caribou (Rangifer tarandus), whose…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palm
Caribou from studied Canada and Alaska herds avoided burned areas, especially in winter and at larger spatial and temporal scales.
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Houseman, Ruess, Hollingsworth, Verbyla
Fire severity affects both ecosystem N-loss and post-fire N-balance. Climate change is altering the fire regime of interior Alaska, although the effects on Siberian alder (Alnus viridis ssp. fruticosa) annual N-fixation input (kg N ha-1 yr-1) and ecosystem N-balance are largely…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O, Hou, Orth
Wildfires can destroy property and vegetation, thereby threatening people’s livelihoods and food security. Soil moisture and biomass are important determinants of wildfire hazard. Corresponding novel satellite-based observations therefore present an opportunity to better…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vitolo, Di Giuseppe, Barnard, SanMiguel-Ayanz, Libertà, Krzeminski
Forest fires are an integral part of the natural Earth system dynamics, however they are becoming more devastating and less predictable as anthropogenic climate change exacerbates their impacts. In order to advance fire science, fire danger reanalysis products can be used as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowman, Kolden, Abatzoglou, Johnston, Van der Werf, Flannigan
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental damage. Contemporary fire regimes are increasingly impacted by human activities and climate change, but, owing…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Theys, Volkamer, Müller, Zarzana, Kille, Clarisse, De Smedt, Lerot, Finkenzeller, Hendrick, Koenig, Lee, Knote, Yu, Van Roozendael
Nitrous acid (HONO) is a precursor of the hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere, which controls the degradation of greenhouse gases, contributes to photochemical smog and ozone production, and influences air quality. Although biomass burning is known to contribute substantially to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Rogers, Veraverbeke, Johnstone, Baltzer, Barrett, Bourgeau-Chavez, Day, de Groot, Dieleman, Goetz, Hoy, Jenkins, Kane, Parisien, Potter, Schuur, Turetsky, Whitman, Mack
Carbon (C) emissions from wildfires are a key terrestrial–atmosphere interaction that influences global atmospheric composition and climate. Positive feedbacks between climate warming and boreal wildfires are predicted based on top-down controls of fire weather and climate, but…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kobziar, Thompson
Wildfires over the past 3 years have resulted in lengthy episodes of smoke inundation across major metropolitan areas in Australia, Brazil, and the United States. In 2020, air quality across the western United States reached and sustained extremely unhealthy to hazardous levels…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perry, Loeb, White, Weller
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development
Prescribed fire effects on bats and bat habitat in the eastern U.S., Roger Perry, Research Wildlife Biologist
What we know and don’t know about…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ichoku
Wildfires and other types of biomass burning are a seasonal phenomenon in different land ecosystems around the world. Such fires are estimated to consume biomass containing a total of 2-5 petagrams of carbon globally every year, generating heat energy and emitting smoke plumes…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Anderson
This webinar to the NWCG Smoke Committee describes experimental tools developed for smoke management including higher resolution 7-day forecasts. Presented by Bret Anderson, who works for the National USDA Forest Service Air program and develops tools for wildfire smoke…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Harden, McAvoy, Yocom
Fire Ecology: It is everywhere around us, yet so many of us know so little. What is fire ecology? What makes fire behave the way it does? What is a fire ecologist and how does one get into that field? What are the coolest/most surprising/unique fire ecosystems on the planet?…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Burri, Emelko, Rhoades
What does current science and experience tell us about the near and long-term impacts of fire on water quality and how to recover?
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Varner
PRESCRIBED FIRE SCIENCE: THE CASE FOR A REFINED RESEARCH AGENDA
In this inaugeral episode of the Association for Fire Ecology's Fire Ecology Chats Podcast Series, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane interviews Morgan Varner, Director of Fire Research and Senior Scientist at Tall…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Noble
A presentation delivred to by Caroline Noble to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee (SmoC) in November 2020. The presentation focuses on the current features of the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) Version 3.2.2.1. Questions…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ballard
Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions with Timmons Group presents the latest developments in the Shared Wildfire Risk Mitigation (SWRM) Dashboard Tool that uses GIS data to provide mapped communities at risk, a consistent approach across 13 states (so far), completed…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Palmer, Hernandez, Lipson
Fire is a global disturbance that is predicted to increase in frequency and severity in many parts of the world due to climate change. Biological soil crust (biocrust) communities are often overlooked in fire studies despite having a substantial effect on ecological function and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lindley, Ziel, Teske, Jolly, Law
The Fire Environment Continuing Education SubCommittee presents the 2020 Fall Fire Environment Post Season Lessons Learned Webinar
Topics will include:
Satellite-derived data
WildfireSAFE
Tips for Remote fire analysis assignments
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES