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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Leschak
A fire adapted community could be defined as a knowledgeable and engaged community in which the awareness and actions of residents regarding infrastructure, buildings, landscaping, and the surrounding ecosystem lessens the need for extensive protection actions and enables the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
Presented at the CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hanes
Presentation from the CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, York
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Higgins, Miller, Hrobak, Saperstein
The following process can be used for drying duff, foliar, woody, and herbaceous fuel moisture samples along with entering data and calculating moisture content and the CFFDRS Indices.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
At the September 17th 2014 NWCG Executive Board meeting, three updates to the United States National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) were approved. 1) Incorporate the Growing Season Index (GSI) to compute live fuel moistures; 2) Incorporate the Nelson Model to compute fine…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Swedin, Eagle
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Year: 2014
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Bowman, Bond, Pyne, Alexander
[From description] Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stavros, McKenzie, Larkin
Future climate change and its effects on social and ecological systems present challenges for preserving valued ecosystem services, including local and regional air quality. Wildfire is a major source of air-quality impact in some locations, and a substantial contributor to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, McKenzie, Erickson, Koziol, Billmire, Endsley, Yager Scheinerman, Jenkins, Miller, Ottmar, Prichard
As carbon modeling tools become more comprehensive, spatial data are needed to improve quantitative maps of carbon emissions from fire. The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) provides mapped estimates of carbon emissions from historical forest fires in the United…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Menakis, Hessburg, Reynolds, Dickinson
At several spatial scales, fire managers need accurate and comprehensive assessments of wildfire hazard and risk. Assessments are needed to plan, prioritize, and implement management actions, which can range from pro-active prescribed burning to real-time fire suppression. They…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This website gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the text 'Fire on Earth: An Introduction' by Andrew C. Scott, David M.J.S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne and Martin E. Alexander. It includes: powerpoints of all figures from the book for…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Stanturf, Tian
Mega-fires can adversely impact air quality in the United States and the impact is likely to become more severe in the future due to the possibly more frequent and intense mega-fires in response to the projected climate change. This study investigates mega-fires and their air…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brown
This project is purposed to develop a consensus approach to undertake smoke model validation through field measurements. It builds upon needs described in the JFSP Smoke Science Plan (Riebau and Fox 2010), in the JFSP Models and Measurements Workshop, and lessons learned from…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Busse, Hubbert
Soils are the foundation of terrestrial ecosystems. They provide essential nutrients, water, oxygen, heat, and physical support for the survival and growth of plants and living organisms. A soil's capacity to function within an ecosystem and adjust to land use disturbance…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Palmquist
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) will support the Department of Interior (DOI) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in its goal to improve its analysis and evaluation of existing and emerging decision support systems and their associated software. The benefit to SIE support…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
This webinar explores a current effort to use the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) in Alaska for fuel treatment planning on or adjacent to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. In addition, IFTDSS was also used to assess the effectiveness of pre-existing…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Quarles
This one-hour video includes a presentation from Dr. Stephen Quarles along with a live 'Ask an Expert' segment where pre-selected homeowners have an opportunity to ask a question related to the session's topic. This unique learning format provides wildland/urban interface…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Archibald
Canada's NWT burned over 7 million acres in 2014. What were the indications (drought codes, forecasts, fuel moisture) to alert managers that they were in for a record-breaking season? How well did pre- and early-season Fuel Moisture Indices reflect the fire risk? What were the…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller
Jennifer Barnes, NPS-Alaska Fire Ecologist and Eric Miller, BLM-Alaska Fire Ecologist talk about duff moisture sampling in Alaska: why we do it, its history, and comparing field results of destructive sampling and oven drying to weather-generated Duff Moisture Code and Drought…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This short video records a presentation by Bureau of Land Management-Alaska Fire Service Fire Fuel Specialist Eric Miller on preliminary work he did in field validating Fire Weather Indices of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System with probes and weather stations in…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Skowronski
Webinar presented by Nick Skowronski on November 18, 2014. Canopy bulk density (CBD) is an important component of wildland fire behavior. CBD remains very difficult to quantify at even the plot level. Estimation at the stand, landscape, and beyond is even more problematic, but…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Robert Ziel, State of Alaska Fire Analyst shares information on how seasonal effects change the fuel moisture codes of CFFDRS and how remotely sensed data may help with interpretation for managers. This video was edited from his presentation at the October, 2014 Summit on CFFDRS…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Bourgeau-Chavez
Since Alaska adopted the CFFDRS as a fire danger rating system in the 1980's, there has been interest among Alaska fire mangers to check how the equations that compute the indices to reflect duff moisture really compare to duff moisture conditions in the field. A promising new…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wotton
Mike Wotton's current research focuses on the development of fuel moisture, fire occurrence and fire behaviour models for use in daily operational fire management activities as well as in the development of climate change impacts scenarios. His doctoral thesis developed a…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES