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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Strand, Hammond
Determining the age of natural conifer regeneration following wildfires is crucial to understanding ecological trajectories and predicting post-fire effects in conifer forests. However, traditional methods of determining seedling age via growth ring counts requires killing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Szpakowski, Rooker Jensen
Wildfire plays an important role in ecosystem dynamics, land management, and global processes. Understanding the dynamics associated with wildfire, such as risks, spatial distribution, and effects is important for developing a clear understanding of its ecological influences.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Humber, Boschetti, Giglio, Justice
We characterize the agreement and disagreement of four publically available burned products (Fire CCI, Copernicus Burnt Area, MODIS MCD45A1, and MODIS MCD64A1) at a finer spatial and temporal scale than previous assessments using a grid of three-dimensional cells defined both in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Artés, Oom, de Rigo, Houston Durrant, Maianti, Libertà, SanMiguel-Ayanz
Global fire monitoring systems are crucial to study fire behaviour, fire regimes and their impact at the global scale. Although global fire products based on the use of Earth Observation satellites exist, most remote sensing products only partially cover the requirements for…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAndrew, Forgotson, Johnson, Delgado Arias
A joint U.S. Forest Service (USFS)–NASA Applications Workshop took place April 29–May 2, 2019. The USFS hosted the meeting at its Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC) in Salt Lake City, UT. This unique collaborative venture bought together representatives from…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kerski
Use modern web-based geotechnologies to collect, map, spatially analyze, and explain the results of your work to others. These tools include Survey123, ArcGIS Online, Operations Dashboards, and story maps. Join geographer and educator Joseph Kerski for an exploration and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Paragi
Trends in regional fire cycles for Alaska, 1943-2016, were analyzed by Thomas Paragi, Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Maija Wehmas, Alaska Fire Science Consortium, and David Verbyla, University of Alaska Fairbanks
The methodology/figures/tables, GIS data and Python…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ernstrom, Hyde
Current and future development of IFTDSS and a demonstration of the Map Values feature that was added in Version 3.2.0.2.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
York
Presented by: Alison York, Alaska Fire Science Consortium
November 20th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th International Fire Ecology and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Presented by: Randi Jandt, Alaska Fire Science Consortium
November 20th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Fire in the Last Frontier: 21st Century Fire Patterns, Behavior, and Pyroecology of North American Boreal Forests and Tundra presented as part of the 8th…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rogers, Cooperdock, Dieleman, Erb, Goetz, Johnstone, Mack, Moubarak, Phillips, Potter, Randerson, Schaaf, Solvik, Turetsky, Veraverbeke, Walker, Wiggins
Wildfires in the boreal forests and peatlands of the ABoVE domain are a natural disturbance agent, but are increasing in frequency and severity. Boreal forest fires impart relatively large forcings on the climate system as a result of (i) typically high severity fires that emit…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Jenkins, Hart, French, Poley, Tanzer, Bosse, McDonald
At three locations in the ABoVE domain in-situ data loggers have been installed since summer 2017 to obtain time series data on soil moisture and temperature across a variety of land cover types, including tundra, boreal peatlands, and boreal uplands. The percent Volumetric…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Graham, Battaglia, Kane, French, Grelik, Hanes
Our study aimed to integrate remote sensing, spatial analysis, and field data to understand the vulnerability and resiliency of peatlands and uplands to wildfire across the southern Northwest Territories study area where peatlands are abundant, including these objectives:
• Map…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Battaglia, Billmire, Kane, Shuman, Swenson, Siqueira, Chapman, Hanes, Cantin, Whitman, Berg, Foster, Baltzer
Our goal was to improve understanding of the interactions of wildfire and hydrology (including permafrost changes) and the ensuing post-fire successional trajectories in both uplands and peatlands of the Artic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) in a changing climate. Objective 1: Develop…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bernknopf, Kuwayama, Gibson, Blakely, Mabee, Clifford, Quayle, Epting, Hardy, Goodrich
We use a value of information (VOI) approach to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of using satellite imagery as part of Burn Area Emergency Response (BAER), a federal program that identifies imminent post-wildfire threats to human life and safety, property, and critical natural…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
America is not simply a federation of states but a confederation of regions. Some have always held national attention, some just for a time. Slopovers examines three regions that once dominated the national narrative and may now be returning to prominence. The Mid-American oak…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Trends and transitions in the growing-season normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite sensor at 250-m resolution were analyzed for the period from 2000 to 2018 to understand recent patterns of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley, Pausas
Fire is a necessary ecosystem process in many biomes and is best viewed as a natural disturbance that is beneficial to ecosystem functioning. However, increasingly, we are seeing human interference in fire regimes that alters the historical range of variability for most fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vegetation change has been observed across Arctic and boreal regions. Studies have often documented large-scale greening trends, but they have also identified areas of browning or shifts between greening and browning over varying spatial extents and time periods. At the same…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tomlinson, Smith
Presented By: Mike Smith and Caleb Tomlinson
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview on the Fire Management in the Yukon Territory.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Filipponi
Satellite data play a major role in supporting knowledge about fire severity by delivering rapid information to map fire-damaged areas in a precise and prompt way. The high availability of free medium-high spatial resolution optical satellite data, offered by the Copernicus…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lopez, Frederick, Lake, Wright
In many ecosystems worldwide, fire plays a critical role as a natural disturbance that influences landscape pattern and function. The effects of fire disturbances at landscape levels are central to many tribal cultures in North America, and tribes extensively used fire to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kush
Longleaf pine and ponderosa pine in the same talk? Both of these forests were often described as open and park-like. This presentation will provide a historical overview of these forests and a discussion of each species ecology and the relationship with fire. It is important to…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dunn
New fire management paradigms are emerging that recognize fire is inevitable, and in many cases desirable. During this webinar you will be introduced to a new process for spatial fire planning using tools such as Potential Control Line atlases (PCLs), Quantitative wildfire Risk…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hoecker, Higuera
Context: The boreal forest is globally important for its influence on Earth’s energy balance, and its sensitivity to climate change. Ecosystem functioning in boreal forests is shaped by fire activity, so anticipating the impacts of climate change requires understanding the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES