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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McAllister
The burning rate of wildland fuels is a poorly understood yet key fire behavior metric. Previous work has utilized wood cribs; however, it has not yet been addressed whether the burning behavior of a crib, an axisymmetric fire, can be representative of a line fire, a typical…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Finney
The effects of radiation and convection in determining the heating that leads to ignition of fuel particles were explored using experiments with spreading laboratory fires and a numerical fuel particle heating model. As a follow-on to “Fuel Particle Heat Transfer, Part 1” (this…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Finney
Wildfire spread requires fuel particles heated to ignition but the roles of radiation and convection heat transfer have not before been examined in detail. This paper reports on laboratory experiments and numerical modeling of wood particle response when subjected to a fixed…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wollstein, O'Connor, Gear, Hoagland
• Effective wildland fire response and suppression are critical for reducing the size of frequent and severe wildfires, thereby reducing the risk of post-fire conversion to invasive annual grass-dominated plant communities.
• Wildland firefighter safety and strategic deployment…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cloud-to-ground lightning and near-surface fire weather control wildfire occurrence in Arctic tundra
Wildfire is a dominant disturbance agent in pan-Arctic tundra and can significantly impact terrestrial carbon balance and ecosystem functioning. Interactions between fire and climate change can enhance their impacts on the Arctic. However, the driving mechanisms of tundra fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McWethy
This seminar is part of Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2021 EarthTalks Series: Fire in the Earth System(link is external). Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are getting larger, more destructive…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Eriksen
This Perspective highlights the lingering consequences of nuclear disasters by examining the risks posed by wildfires that rerelease radioactive fallout originally deposited into the environment by accidents at nuclear power plants or testing of nuclear weapons. Such wildfires…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nemens, Varner, Johnson
The practice of removing fire-killed trees from burned forests (or “postfire salvage logging”) has sparked public controversy and scientific debate when conducted on public lands in the United States. This review synthesizes the current scientific literature on the subject,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Marty Alexander (Wild Rose Fire Behavior) and Luc Bibeau (FireSmart Specialist with Yukon Wildland Fire Management, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory) discuss the 3-m tree crown spacing guideline for the prevention of crowning wildfires.
This podcast interview was hosted in…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Goodwin, Zald, North, Hurteau
Wildfire is capable of rapidly releasing the energy stored in forests, with the amount of water in live and dead biomass acting as a regulator on the amount and rate of energy release. Here we used temperature and fuel moisture data to examine climate-driven changes in fuel…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mann, Gaglioti, Jones, Miller
This project concerned tundra fires in Alaska and how climate-driven changes in fire regimes could impact Alaska’s Arctic ecosystems. We used remote sensing, dendrochronology, field vegetation surveys, and paleoclimate reconstructions to accomplish three goals: 1) to identify…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This 15-minute video provides an overview of the FireWorks program and describes several of the activities.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ellis, Bowman, Jain, Flannigan, Williamson
There is mounting concern that global wildfire activity is shifting in frequency, intensity and seasonality in response to climate change. Fuel moisture provides a powerful means of detecting changing fire potential. Here, we use global burned area and weather reanalysis data,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuhn-Régnier, Voulgarakis, Nowack, Forkel, Prentice, Harrison
The seasonal and longer-term dynamics of fuel accumulation affect fire seasonality and the occurrence of extreme wildfires. Failure to account for their influence may help to explain why state-of-the-art fire models do not simulate the length and timing of the fire season or…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, McAllister, Grumstrup, Forthofer
Wildland fires have an irreplaceable role in sustaining many of our forests, shrublands and grasslands. They can be used as controlled burns or occur as free-burning wildfires, but can also be dangerous and destructive to fauna, human communities and natural resources. Through…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The U.S. Forest Service has created a Fuels Academy Pilot Project to accelerate and improve the training for new and aspiring Fuels Specialists. This Training and Career Guide represents the latest iteration in a continuing effort to help our developing employees gain competence…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Al Abri, Grogan
The United States has experienced an even longer and more intense wildfire season than normal in recent years, largely resulting from drought conditions and a buildup of flammable vegetation. The derived stochastic dynamic model in this study was utilized to evaluate the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Molina, Little, Drury, Jandt
Wildfire has become a larger threat to human life and property with the proliferation of homes into the wildland urban interface and warming climate. In this study we explored Alaskan homeowner preferences for wildfire risk mitigation in the wildland urban interface using…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
'Fire Research at the Science–Policy–Practitioner Interface' is a Section of the fully open access journal Fire. The main aim of the Section is to highlight research seeking to assess operational approaches to wildland fire management, and to facilitate the sharing of…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Fire is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, broadly defined, published quarterly online by MDPI. Fire serves as an international forum for diverse…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Vose, Peterson, Fettig, Halofsky, Hiers, Keane, Loehman, Stambaugh
Higher temperatures, lower snowpacks, drought, and extended dry periods have contributed to increased wildfire activity in recent decades. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of large fires, the cumulative area burned, and fire suppression costs and risks in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanan, Kennedy, Ren, Johnson, Smith
In recent decades, climate change has lengthened wildfire seasons globally and doubled the annual area burned. Thus, capturing fire dynamics is critical for projecting Earth system processes in warmer, drier, more fire prone future. Recent advances in fire regime modeling have…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stubbs, Humphreys, Goldman, Childtree, Kush, Scarborough
Wildland fires present a threat to both the environment and to homes and businesses in the wildland urban interface. Understanding the behavior of wildland fires is crucial for developing informed risk management techniques, such as prescribed burning, to prevent uncontrolled…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rouet-Leduc, Pe'er, Moreira, Bonn, Helmer, Shahsavan Zadeh, Zizka, van der Plas
Abandonment of agricultural land is widespread in many parts of the world, leading to shrub and tree encroachment. The increase of flammable plant biomass, that is, fuel load, increases the risk and intensity of wildfires. Fuel reduction by herbivores is a promising management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bendick, Hoylman
A topological data analysis (TDA) of 200,000 U.S. wildfires larger than 5 acres indicates that events with the largest final burned areas are associated with systematically low fuel moistures, low precipitation, and high vapor pressure deficits in the 30 days prior to the fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES