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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sparks, Kolden, Talhelm, Smith, Apostol, Johnson, Boschetti
Fire activity, in terms of intensity, frequency, and total area burned, is expected to increase with a changing climate. A challenge for landscape-level assessment of fire effects, often termed burn severity, is that current remote sensing assessments provide very little…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Abatzoglou
Fire is an integral component of the Earth system that will critically affect how terrestrial carbon budgets and living systems respond to climate change. Paleo and observational records document robust positive relationships between fire activity and aridity in many parts of…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bailey
The Incident Command System (ICS) exists as the nationwide standard for on-site incident management, as called for under the National Incident Management System (NIMS). However, the effectiveness of ICS is debated, both for its systemic efficacy as a response model and for its…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vigneaux
The U.S. federal wildland fire management system continues to experience rises in the number of acres burned annually and increases in management expenditures surrounded by firefighter death and injury. Despite a wealth of relevant academic research regarding wildland…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Presentation to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee Arctic Data Collaboration Team Meeting September 2016 by Eric Miller on behalf of the Wildfires Collaboration Team.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Alexander
The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System is a systematic method for assessing wildland fire behavior potential. This field guide provides a simplified version of the system, presented in tabular format. It was prepared to assist field staff in making first…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Carroll
A growing body of wildfire research indicates that populations will support or enact different programs, policies and planning approaches to better 'live with wildfire.' This presentation builds on one existing conceptual approach for characterizing local socio-ecological…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Newman, Walbrun
As the fire community aspires to promote firefighter safety and best practices, this webinar strives to share information regarding lessons learned from the 2016 wildfire season. Every fire season there are parts of the country that receive a lot of fire activity and…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Santín, Doerr
Soils are among the most valuable non-renewable resources on the Earth. They support natural vegetation and human agro-ecosystems, represent the largest terrestrial organic carbon stock, and act as stores and filters for water. Mankind has impacted on soils from its early days…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pyne
For most of human history, fire has been a pervasive presence in human life, and so also in human thought. This essay examines the ways in which fire has functioned intellectually in Western civilization as mythology, as religion, as natural philosophy and as modern science. The…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hobbie, Rice, Weber, Smith
We assessed the nutritional strategy of true morels (genus Morchella) collected in 2003 and 2004 in Oregon and Alaska, 1 or 2 y after forest fires. We hypothesized that the patterns of stable isotopes (δ13C and δ15N) in the sporocarps would match those of saprotrophic fungi and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gowlett
Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are highly evident on many landscapes. Birds such as hawks, and some other predators, are alert…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belcher
Studies of palaeofire rely on quantifying the abundance of fossil charcoals in sediments to estimate changes in fire activity. However, gaining an understanding of the behaviour of palaeofires is also essential if we are to determine the palaeoecological impact of wildfires.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Learn basic fire behavior terminology, including the parts of the fire, types of fire, and associated fire behavior. In this video you will learn: 1) How is fire behavior related to the fire environment? 2) What are the basic measures of fire behavior? 3) What are the parts of a…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
What is dead fuel moisture, how does it changes over time, why it is important for fire management. In this video you will learn: 1) What is dead fuel moisture? 2) Why is this important information for fire managers? 3) What is moisture of extinction? 4) What is equilibrium…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Buchanan, Menakis, Finney, Romero, Human
he Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program, asks that CFLR projects “Facilitate the reduction of wildfire management costs and risks, including through reestablishing natural fire regimes.”…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Breen, Bennett, Kurkowski, Lindgren, Schroder, McGuire, Rupp
The extent and frequency of wildfires in Alaska’s boreal forest are predicted to increase in the coming century. In addition to natural sources of ignition, military lands in Interior Alaska are vulnerable to human ignitions due to their proximity to the road system and training…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Thomas, Ziegler, Gabor, Fox
Managing wildland fire is an exercise in risk perception, sensemaking and resilient performance. Risk perception begins with individual size up of a wildfire to determine a course of action, and then becomes collective as the fire management team builds and continuously updates…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
The escalating awareness of non-forested landscapes and realization that more emphasis is needed for an all lands approach to management increasingly requires timely information to improve management effectiveness. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) has been used in a large…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helmbrecht, Blankenship
The LANDFIRE Program provides 'wall-to-wall' geospatial data of vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regime, disturbance, and topographic characteristics for the United States (Rollins 2009). LANDFIRE data are often an excellent choice for wildland fire and land management planning…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Short
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Initial attack (IA) success has long been one of the primary performance measures used by agencies with wildland firefighting responsibility in the United States (US) and elsewhere. The US federal agencies…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wagenbrenner
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hatfield
Mike Hatfield talks with fire managers about potential use of Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration assets at the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smith
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
On June 1, 2015, the Forest Service celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Branch of Research. To commemorate that event, research historian Diane Smith has been writing a monograph on the history of wildland…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rowell
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Understanding fine-scale variability in understory fuels is increasingly important as physics-based fire behavior models are driving needs for higher resolution ata. Describing fuelbeds three dimensionally is…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES