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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lin, McCarty, Wang, Rogers, Morton, Collatz, Jin, Randerson
Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we quantified decadal trends, interannual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Koivula, Cobb, Dechene, Jacobs, Spence
Forest fires are among the most important natural disturbances in the boreal region, but fire-initiated succession is increasingly often interrupted by salvage logging, i.e., post-fire removal of burned trees. Unfortunately, very little is known about the ecological effects of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Groot, Goldammer, Keenan, Brady, Lynham, Justice, Csiszar, O'Loughlin
Wildland fires burn several hundred million hectares of vegetation every year, and increased fire activity has been reported in many global regions. Many of these fires have had serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional economies, global climate change, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huntington, Trainor, Natcher, Huntington, DeWilde, Chapin
Community workshops are widely used tools for collaborative research on social-ecological resilience in indigenous communities. Although results have been reported in many publications, few have reflected explicitly on the workshop itself, and specifically on understanding what…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goulden, Winston, McMillan, Litvak, Read, Rocha, Elliot
We deployed a mesonet of year-round eddy covariance towers in boreal forest stands that last burned in ~1850, ~1930, 1964, 1981, 1989, 1998, and 2003 to understand how CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration change during secondary succession. We used MODIS imagery to establish that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ali, Taylor, Inubushi
CO2 efflux from tropical peat swamp substrates was measured under three different land uses (selectively logged forest, recently burned and cleared forest, and agriculture) in Jambi Province, eastern Sumatra over a six-month period that incorporated parts of both the major wet…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
From the text ... 'A coordinated, interagency effort is required to ensure that fire use programs are implemented in a professional and competent manner.... Fire management is as much a philosophy and attitude toward the land as it is an action program.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hiratsuka, Toma, Diana, Hadriyanto, Morikawa
After the 1998 forest fire in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, biomass recovery of naturally regenerated vegetation was estimated in order to evaluate the initial secondary succession patterns of the burned land. We established research plots in naturally regenerated vegetation that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhang, Kondragunta, Roy
The ratio of key elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica determines nutrient limitations that are important to regulating primary productivity and species composition in aquatic ecosystems. The flux of these nutrients in streams, as dissolved constituents or as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 2006 Alaska fire season started out quietly, with the first human-caused fire of the season on April 11th in the Fairbanks area. A total of 250 human-caused fires resulted in 144,811.8 acres burned. On May 15, the Little Delta fire became the first lightning fire of the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Research and Development (R&D) arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service works at the forefront of science to improve the health and use of our Nation's forests and grasslands. Research has been part of the Forest Service mission since the agency's…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winter, Bigler-Cole
A user needs assessment surrounding National Predictive Services was conducted involving current and prospective customers. Needs assessments (Rossi, Freeman and Lipsey 1999) are a useful form of program evaluation. National Predictive Services offers products and services…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Key
Ecological definition and detection of fire severity are influenced by factors of spatial resolution and timing. Resolution determines the aggregation of effects within a sampling unit or pixel (alpha variation), hence limiting the discernible ecological responses, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Hollingsworth
Land managers in Alaska are faced with the challenge of managing fire in a way that preserves human life and property while at the same time conserving the key ecological processes driven by fire. Because managers have little capacity to alter fire behavior by direct fuel…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiedinmyer, Quayle, Geron, Belote, McKenzie, Zhang, O'Neill, Wynne
Fires contribute substantial emissions of trace gases and particles to the atmosphere. These emissions can impact air quality and even climate. We have developed a modeling framework to estimate the emissions from fires in North and parts of Central America (10-71 degrees N and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Norheim, Alvarado, Peterson
This project archived the data from several projects conducted with JFSP support by the Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab) (FERA). Data is being archived at the Forest…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gitas, SanMiguel-Ayanz, Chuvieco, Camia
This foreword describes advances and challenges for the use of remote sensing and geographic information systems in the operational monitoring and management of wildland fires at local, regional and global scales since the 1970s. Selected articles using remote sensing in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Godwin, Ferrarese
Student fire groups, collegiate-level groups explicitly organized around topics related to wildland fire, are widespread across the country. Student fire groups are at times participants in wildland fire-oriented experiential education but are often limited by access to training…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnston, Wooster, Lynham
The temperature and emissivity of forest fire flames play a key role in understanding fire behaviour, modelling fire spread and calculating fire parameters by means of active fire thermal remote sensing. Essential to many of these is the often-made assumption that vegetation…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Takai
As in the old westerns, the incident management team rides into the challenges of fighting fires, hurricanes, and other threats to townsfolk. We come to help restore order out of chaos and to give communities assurance that the situation is being resolved. As public information…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olsen, Spies, Shindler
This report is a deliverable to share the impact of travel funding awarded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in support of a workshop focused on fire-prone coupled human and natural systems (CHANS). From August 4th-7th 2014, twenty-six scientists convened in Bend, Oregon…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Smith
Assess the usefulness and quality of JFSP publications.
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Fronterhouse
Presented at the CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Vance-Borland, Burnett, Hummel, Creighton, Johnson, Jasny
Patterns of social interaction influence how knowledge is generated, communicated, and applied. Theories of social capital and organizational learning suggest that interactions within disciplinary or functional groups foster communication of knowledge, whereas interactions…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES