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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bowker, Green, Johnson, Rideout-Hanzak
The proposed project is designed to contribute to Task 1, Part 3 of RFP 2001-1 from the JFSP. Generally, the proposed study aims to improve understanding of the perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes of the public regarding fire, fire risk and fire recovery techniques in…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman
Considerable social science research has been conducted at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) since inception of the Joint Fire Science Program and National Fire Plan. Results have provided useful insight into factors including public acceptance of fuel treatments, communication…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Absher, Vaske
A multi-year, community-based project to look at social and cognitive barriers to wildfire risk reduction by focusing on better completion of defensible space behaviors through the use of promising social science approaches. The project seeks to identify practical steps for…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Woodard
This conference will bring wildland fire managers, policy makers, community planners, and social scientist together to share information, foster the development of new research collaborations between and among fire managers and researchers across geographic and national borders…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Burns, Cheng, Jakes, Nelson, Sturtevant
Multi-stakeholder collaboration has a long tradition in natural resource management. Recent initiatives such as the National Fire Plan have encouraged collaboration in wildland fire and fuels management. Collaboration for fuels management has received even greater impetus with…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
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
Swanson
This project will provide a plan of action to broaden and strengthen public and agency understanding of the many cultural and ecological roles of fire past, present, and future in fire-critical regions of the US. To build awareness of immediate fire issues in particular places…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
From 1990 to 2000 a massive outbreak of spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) caused a die-off of spruce trees (Picea spp.) across more than 1.19 million ha of forests in Alaska. This natural disturbance was most pronounced among forests in south-central Alaska where a…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This website offers the wildland fire manager the latest and best fire science to support all aspects of wildland fire planning, management, and policy-making that involve people. Here you can find fire science applied to all the human dimensions of wildland fire management.…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This research program is documenting the changing role of fire, particularly as affected by human activities, on the Arctic Climate System and its human residents, with specific focus on Alaska and the Yukon Territory. The program will assess the changing role of human…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning - Social Science
The Social Science Team is synthesizing research that answers five key questions that might be helpful when planning or implementing fuels treatment projects: 1) what information and tools are available to help land managers and communities collaborate in the development of fuel…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Peterson, Carlino, Barnes, Eagle
FIREHouse provides user-friendly, web-based information about fire science and technology relevant to Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. For each project posted, the goal is to provide, as applicable, online, searchable access to: (1) project and tool descriptions, contact…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Graham
The Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning Project was initiated as a pilot project by the U.S. Forest Service in response to the need for tools and information useful for planning site-specific fuel (vegetation) treatment projects.…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bannock
The Mission of the Spruce Bark Beetle Mitigation Program is to help protect the lives and property of the residents of the Kenai Peninsula Borough by identifying and mitigating wildfire and other hazards related to spruce bark beetle-killed spruce, and to replant forests…
Type: Program
Source: FRAMES
Haskell
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) was created by Congress in 1998 as an interagency research, development, and applications partnership between the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Funding priorities and policies are set by the JFSP…
Type: Program
Source: FRAMES
Trainor
Sarah Trainor (University of Alaska Fairbanks) discusses the 2012 In a Time of Change: the Art of Fire exhibition.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Module 4 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Module 3 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Module 2 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Module 1 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
Presentation by Sarah McCaffrey (USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station) regarding public attitudes towards fire management.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pike
Americans are waking up to the reality of extreme weather events and are beginning to connect the dots to climate disruption. Effectively engaging the public as partners in addressing the challenge requires emphasizing local, current and personally relevant impacts and bridging…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Huffman
A simple model that looks at the physical, ecological and social aspects of a fire system is presented and applied to forests in the western U.S. and the highlands of southern Mexico. The model can be used to clarify linkages among system drivers and to identify vulnerabilities…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lowenstein
Climate change is no longer a threat; it's a reality. A rapidly changing climate is already transforming ecosystems and the processes that sustain them; greater changes lie in front of us. Climate change will change physical relationships (e.g. the baseflow in streams from a…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Huffman
In this presentation, Mary Huffman (The Nature Conservancy, Fire Learning Network) shares the results of her comparison of indigenous fire knowledge from 25 countries on six continents. She starts with the question, what do people around the world know about fire, and examines…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES