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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Scheer
From the text: Firefighting, especially smokejumping, is an exercise in outlasting the uncomfortable. I think it has little to do with gender; rather it is each individual's assessment and subsequent reaction to a given situation.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGee
From the text...'A group of valiant men known as the Triple Nickles, the first African-American smokerjumpers, paved the way for so many in the smokejumping cadre...'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cottrell
From the text...'Smokejumpers come from all over the country and represent a very diverse and well-educated workforce.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bramwell
From the text ... 'One of the smokejumper program's defining characteristics is its commitment to innovation--a constant refinement of equipment and techniques that hearkens back to the program's earliest days.'
Year: 2015
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
Alvarez, Planelles, Rubio
Carbon footprint (CF) can be a key factor stimulating innovation while driving sustainable decision making. The air transport sector and wildfires are considered to be relevant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Among the available resources for wildfire suppression,…
Year: 2015
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
Yuan, Zhang, Liu
Because of their rapid maneuverability, extended operational range, and improved personnel safety, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with vision-based systems have great potential for monitoring, detecting, and fighting forest fires. Over the last decade, UAV-based forest fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stonesifer, Thompson, Calkin, McHugh
The appropriate role of large airtankers (LATs) in federal fire suppression in the United States has been the source of much debate and discussion in recent years as the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has faced impending decisions about how best to address an aging fleet of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hinkley, Quayle
Presentation by Everett Hinkley and Brad Quayle, US Forest Service, from Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015, begins at the 28:30 mark and lasts approximately 24 minutes.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Goldammer
'First load to the box.' Calmly, but with urgency, these words rolled through the intercom while I was in the loft working on a project for the afternoon. As the alarm sounded through the building, I knew that meant we had a fire call, and without hesitation, I dropped…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Campbell
On May 19, 2014, during unusually dry weather, a fire started in a popular recreational area near Funny River Road in the Kenai, near Newberry's home. The wind pushed it through dry grasses and into insect-killed stands of spruce. By the end of the day, fire had consumed 2,500…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McCullum
The fourth webinar in this series covered new techniques and technologies.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Zylstra
Shirley Zylstra, of USFS Missoula Technical Development Center (fs.fed.us/eng/techdev/mtdc.htm), gave a talk and demonstration on the properties of aerial retardant, foams and gels along with tips on improving effectiveness. She presented this at two different sessions, in…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Randi Jandt talked about the evolution of Alaska firefighting practices (field and management)over the past 50 years. We are starting to be aware of the changes in climate and in Alaska forests: is the wildfire "problem" the same one we faced a half-century ago? Have our…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
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