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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Melvin
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils (CPFC) worked collaboratively to produce the 2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report. Since 2012, this report has been compiled every three years, and is unique among fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Poulos, Barton, Slingsby, Bowman
The development of frameworks for better-understanding ecological syndromes and putative evolutionary strategies of plant adaptation to fire has recently received a flurry of attention, including a new model hypothesizing that plants have diverged into three different plant…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coughlan, Magi, Derr
We examined the relationships between lightning-fire-prone environments, socioeconomic metrics, and documented use of broadcast fire by small-scale hunter-gatherer societies. Our approach seeks to re-assess human-fire dynamics in biomes that are susceptible to lightning-…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rossa, Fernandes
Currently, there is a dispute on whether live fuel moisture content (FMC) should be accounted for when predicting a real-world fire-spread rate (RoS). The laboratory and field data results are conflicting: laboratory trials show a significant effect of live FMC on RoS, which has…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Strand
In August, 2018, an editorial in Fire entitled Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science was published. This was intended to ignite a conversation into diversity in fire science by highlighting several women leaders in fire research and development. This editorial was released…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins, Brooks, Sturz, Nelson, Keefe
Wildland firefighting is arduous work with extreme physical and nutritional demands that often exceeds those of athletes competing in sports. The intensity and duration of job demands, impacts the amount of calories burned, which can influence body composition. The purpose of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGranahan, Wonkka
Wildland fire science literacy is the capacity for wildland fire professionals to understand and communicate three aspects of wildland fire: (1) the fundamentals of fuels and fire behavior, (2) the concept of fire as an ecological regime, and (3) multiple human dimensions of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Levi, Bestelmeyer
Background: Soil properties have important effects on fire occurrence and spread, but soils are often overlooked in fire prediction models. Quantifying soil−fire linkages is limited by information in conventional soil maps, but digital soil mapping products (e.g., detailed soil…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fontenot
Unmanned Aircraft, commonly called “Drones,” are being used more and more for public safety, research, etc. Falling prices, rising capabilities, and a favorable regulatory framework are all fueling this growth. Let’s look at actual, real-world, Wildfire missions where these…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Magness, Morton
Managers need information about the vulnerability of historical plant communities, and their potential future conditions, to respond appropriately to landscape change driven by global climate change. We model the climate envelopes of plant communities on the Kenai Peninsula in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wehmas
Thesis defense by Maija Wehmas, MS Candidate in UAF School of Natural Resources Management and Extension, advised by David Verbyla, Teresa Hollingsworth, and Daniel Mann.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The NWCG User Guide for Glossary of Wildland Fire provides guidance on the development and review of glossary entries approved by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG). The NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire, PMS 205, provides the wildland fire community a single source…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vernon, Bolt, Canty, Kahn
The dispersion of particles from wildfires, volcanic eruptions, dust storms, and other aerosol sources can affect many environmental factors downwind, including air quality. Aerosol injection height is one source attribute that mediates downwind dispersion, as wind speed and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
Rick Stratton explains the use of exceedance probability (EP) curves and how the information can inform decision makers regarding tradeoffs or potential impacts of fire to resources identified on the landscape.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Scott
Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Recent large fires and reburns in tundra north of the Brooks Range in Alaska have raised interest in the North Slope fire regime and induced some speculation that that it may be changing. The author analysed agency fire records, lightning detection data, and physiography for the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Ziel
With support from the NASA Applied Sciences Program, the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC; part of the International Arctic Research Center at UAF) organized an international workshop in April 2017 to advance the application of remote sensing tools and data by Alaska fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Creamean, Maahn, de Boer, McComiskey, Sedlacek, Feng
The Arctic is warming at an alarming rate, yet the processes that contribute to the enhanced warming are not well understood. Arctic aerosols have been targeted in studies for decades due to their consequential impacts on the energy budget, both directly and indirectly through…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen
Preliminary findings on recovery of 6 tundra and forest-tundra sites that burned in 2012 in NWT. Development of post-fire plant communities is controlled by burn severity.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tomaz, Cui, Chen, Sexton, Roberts, Warneke, Yokelson, Surratt, Turpin
We investigated the gas-phase chemical composition of biomass burning (BB) emissions and their role in aqueous secondary organic aerosol (aqSOA) formation through photochemical cloud processing. A high-resolution time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer using iodide…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vosick
Implementing prescribed fire is a complex process that requires the coordination of many different agencies. Prior to implementing a prescribed burn, the trade-offs and benefits (such as smoke) are carefully assessed and planned. Clear objectives, specific desired outcomes,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dingman, Abella, Frey, Budde, Hogan
The National Park Service (NPS) manages non-native invasive plant species that impact the natural and cultural resources and visitor experience in parks. This document provides an overview of key technical concepts and critical information needed to develop the content of an…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From the Alaska Climate Change Adaption Series.
Wildfires are a natural part of the boreal ecosystem. Wildfires help maintain vegetation diversity, providing suitable habitats for wildlife, but wildfires can also present a threat to human values. Alaska has seen the frequency of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fillmore
Like many before it, the wildfire was conceived on a late summer afternoon as a drifting monsoonal cell bunched up, gathered its energy, and raked over the mountainous uplift, all the while spewing hard rain, wind, and lightning. The neighborhood it was born in was both rough…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
The idea for a book series began in conversations with Lincoln Bramwell, chief historian for the Forest Service. We agreed that the standard history Fire in America needed updating.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES