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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jakes, Carroll
With this research we seek to answer the question: What are the social characteristics and conditions of human communities that promote adaptive capacity for wildfire? In human communities, vulnerability to disasters is influenced not only by exposure and biophysical…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
We propose development of a new methodology that can be used by forest and fire managers and planners to consider the potential effects of all aspects of fire management (i.e., fuels reduction to post-fire restoration) on native stream fishes and their habitats. State-of-the-art…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand, Wheeler
Fire emissions and smoke impacts from wildland fire are a growing concern due to increasing fire season severity, dwindling tolerance of smoke by the public, tightening air quality regulations, and their role in climate change issues. Unfortunately, as identified in JFSP RFA…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pratt
A discussion about the calibration of fire models is presented by Ben Pratt.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Graning
Amanda is approaching the 10 year mark as a meteorologist for the National Weather Service (NWS). Majority of her time has been spent as a forecaster in the Duluth, MN Weather Forecast Office. She has been the Fire Weather Program Leader at her office going on 3 years and will…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Curcio, Fleegel, Heilman
Bringing both national and regional perspectives to the issues, tools and decisions concerning smoke from wildland fires, this webinar highlighted a range of current perspectives, activities, developments and emerging issues for fire practitioners. Gary Curcio introduced the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hewitt
This newly funded project will build on previous research on biotic controls of seedling establishment to focus on abiotic controls and develop heuristic and landscape models of tree establishment, migration, and landscape flammability. Presented at the 2012 Alaska Fire Science…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller
Important seasonal fuel moisture data is lacking in Alaska. In 2012, several areas collected duff and live fuel moisture samples throughout the summer to calibrate and validate CFFDRS indices, to monitor prescribed fires and adjust staffing levels. Continued monitoring in 2013…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
This webinar focuses on how plants burn and where and under what conditions. It is a mixture of plant physiology and combustion characteristics, and understanding why plants burn at certain times.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Tobalske, Crandell, Klaassen Von Oorschot
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
This webinar is a three-part sampler platter of research in the flight lab at the Field Research Station, each presentation will be ~12 min in length, with ~3 min for questions between presentations. The…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cochrane
Large wildfire frequency has increased several-fold in recent decades throughout the western United States. These changes have resulted from a combination of human land use practices, altered climates and shifting forest and fire management policies. These fires have had…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McHugh
FlamMap is a fire behavior mapping and analysis program that computes potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.) over an entire FARSITE landscape for constant weather and fuel moisture conditions. Since 2006 FlamMap3 has been…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Drury
The web-based Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) was designed to provide fire and fuels managers with a single software solution to manage the many data types, software applications, and tools available for fuels treatment planning. The IFTDSS project…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Godson
The USFS Mobile Technology Integration for Fire & Aviation Management (MTIFAM) Program is a national led effort to help facilitate and coordinate mobile technology integration for fire and aviation management. The program focuses on pilot testing new mobile technologies,…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship
The LANDFIRE product suite includes a set of aspatial, quantitative, ecological models that describe vegetation and disturbance dynamics for every Biophysical Setting (BpS) mapped by LANDFIRE. The models were developed by more than 700 experts through a series of workshops and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Long
One of the main objectives for the LANDFIRE project recently has been to update vegetation and fuel products to reflect disturbance and vegetation succession that have occurred on the landscape since the initial LANDFIRE National circa 2001 products. This process has resulted in…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Connot
Updating the LANDFIRE data layers is an ambitious undertaking. Updates to LANDFIRE datasets reflect the best available data depicting the landscape. LANDFIRE relies upon field contributed spatial information reflecting landscape change and fire severity mapping products from…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship
LANDFIRE fire regime products characterize reference fire frequency and severity and vegetation departure for the entire U.S. The datasets in this product suite include Biophysical Settings, Succession Class, Fire Regime Group, Mean Fire Return Interval, Reference Fire Severity…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smail
This presentation will provide spatial fuel analysts an evolutionary assessment on the development of LANDFIRE (LF) fuel attributes. Reviewing the progression of LANDFIRE fuel data layers will point out critical junctures, important user input, processing procedures, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Toney, Connot, Nelson
Among the myriad of LANDFIRE products available are layers representing forest canopy cover and forest canopy height. These data layers are critical for a number of applications. For LANDFIRE National 2001 forest canopy height was derived using Landsat imagery and Forest…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Long, Toney
LANDFIRE fuel and fire regime products are based almost entirely on various combinations of existing and potential vegetation themes. Since LANDFIRE National's initial release in 2008, a number of revisions to these themes have been implemented both from a mapping and a…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lundberg
To help develop and update LANDFIRE data products, LANDFIRE has relied on a vast collection of geo-referenced data. LANDFIRE 2001 National data collection efforts were focused on vegetation and fuel plot data, which were processed into the LANDFIRE Reference Database (LFRDB).…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Peterson
A facilitated panel discussion of the eight presentations (including the introduction) from the the session: Looking Back for a Clear View of the Future: 1999 to 2012 (a concurrent session of the Fifth International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Uniting Research,…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Menakis, Engert
Recommendation 4 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board a decade ago stated that "Technology development, transfer, and communication need to be improved between developers and user communities". A decade ago computer technology had advanced to a point that…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cissel
Recommendation 3 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board over a decade ago stated that "The process of tool use including comparison, selection, acquisition, training, implementation, evaluation, and support needs national administrative focus, guidance, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES