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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Moseley, Nielsen-Pincus
Wildfire management requires significant institutional organization, a skilled workforce, facilities, and equipment. Sustaining this wildfire response capacity is critical to both agencies and fire-affected communities. Because fire suppression is seasonal and varies…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Fletcher, Jolly, Mahalingam, McAllister, Shotorban
After many years of research examining the ignition of wood and other cellulosic fuels, it is still unclear which modes of heat transfer will result in successful ignition of live wildland fuel particles. Thermal radiation can cause a fuel particle to pyrolyze to produce a…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Oswald, Ingalsbee
This conference will provide 1) high profile technology transfer for JFSP supported research, 2) highlight JFSP programs and projects, 3) opporfunities for special sessions on the JFSP programand JFSP supported projects, 4) ffSP supported student participation in all aspects of…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Naughton, Urbanski
An accurate, reliable wildland fire emissions inventory is likely the most important criteria in assessing the impacts of prescribed burning and wildfires on regional air quality and global climate. Significant progress has been made in the past ten years to develop fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kreidenweis, Pierce
Although representing only a small mass fraction of the emissions from biomass burning, the emitted particle-phase organic species (organic aerosol, OA) exert importance influences on visibility, climate, and human health. Wildland fire, both prescribed and wildfires, is a…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Ager
In this proposal, we outline a methodology for the application of a novel, integrated modeling approach to analyze economic tradeoffs associated with alternative fuel management and suppression policies. The analytical process is designed to specifically target salient questions…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Domitrovich, Ottmar
In summary, the toxicological and epidemiological evidence of adverse effects for those with chronic exposure to smoke is troubling, especially so for those with preexisting cardiovascular health conditions. What the research means for healthy workers is less clear. It seems…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pierce, Heald, Robinson, Val Martin
Emissions of aerosols and gases from fires have been shown to adversely affect US air quality at local to regional scales as well as downwind regions far away from the source. Fire activity is strongly related to weather and climate. Recent observations have shown an upward…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Boschetti
Northern high latitude climates are rapidly changing nearly faster than the rest of the globe, suggesting that fire regimes in these ecosystems may be particularly vulnerable to future change. In Alaska, key JFSP research priorities are to understand climate linkages to past and…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Naughton
The proposed project will quantify the effects of hazardous fuels treatments on suppression costs of subsequent wildfires. Spatial econometric models of daily fire suppression costs will be estimated to determine if and to what spatial and temporal extent hazardous fuels…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Nowell, McCaffrey, Steelman
Failures in effective communication and coordination within the network of responding organizations and agencies during a wildfire can lead to problematic or dangerous outcomes. Although risk assessment and management concepts are usually understood with regards to biophysical…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Dupuy, Jolly, Linn, Mell, Pimont, Rigolot, deColigny
Accurate characterization of stand scale fuel treatment effectiveness is necessary before such treatments can be robustly considered at landscape scales. Fire behavior predictions are key components in evaluating fuel treatments, which may include a mixture of mechanical…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
There is a clear need for decision support systems that inform rangeland management strategies to reduce fire hazard and maintain ecological integrity. The RVS is improving that capability but offers outdated depictions of vegetation dynamics (BpS successional models).…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
The FVS is currently incapable of estimating succession, biomass and fuels of non-forested landscapes, yet decision support models such as the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS) require this information. In response, we propose development of the…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Fox, Gabor, Thomas, Ziegler
Managing wildland fire is an exercise in risk perception, sense-making and resilient performance. Risk perception begins with individual size up to determine a course of action, and becomes collective as the fire management team builds and continuously updates their common…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Birdsey
This project involves a review of relevant literature and preparation of a review paper to be submitted to a prominent journal. Lead Author (Anping Chen) will select and work with a team of respected scientists with expertise in fire emissions, national emissions inventories,…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Volckens
Emissions from prescribed burns and wild fires have important impacts on air quality. The quantification and tracking of emissions from wildfires and prescribed burns has proven to be a difficult task, due to the high cost of comprehensive monitoring. Sensors being developed for…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Pierce
This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency modeling team proposes to provide expertise related to smoke emissions, modeling, and transport to support the design of future field studies focused on fire behavior. As part of that commitment, we plan to model all of the pre-burn…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Linn
The physics-based models FIRETEC and WFDS have been used to simulate a number of field experiments involving fire in wildland fuels. These models work by simulating the coupled physical processes driving fire behavior including the drying and thermal degradation of vegetation,…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kochanski, Fournier, Jenkins, Mandel
Recent advancements in fire-atmosphere modeling have increased the number of physical processes integrated into the coupled models. This greater complexity allows for more comprehensive representation of the complex interactions between the fire and the atmosphere; however, as a…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski
This proposal responds to JFSP FON #16-04 Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, Task 4: Smoke Emissions, Chemistry, and Transport. Over the past decade, significant progress has been gained in characterizing the composition, transport, and processing of wildland fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Clements
The FASMEE FON requests proposals from individuals seeking to serve as discipline leads for the development of the FASMEE study plan. We propose to serve as co-discipline leads for plume development and meteorology for this endeavor. The proposal outlines what data are needed to…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Butler, Hao, O'Brien, Schroeder
The radiation field - resolved in time and space and encompassing an entire burn unit - and the convective field that can be derived from it are essential kinds of evaluation data for fire models and input data for smoke models. The primary challenge of the Fire Behavior and…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Keane, Loudermilk, Parsons, Prichard, Seielstad, Skowronski
The assumption of homogeneous fuel beds that underlies most fire spread models fundamentally limits their operational utility and future advancements in fire science, and imposes a significant disconnect between real fuels, which are highly heterogeneous, the inferences made…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
The over all objective of the Rainbow Series Project is to write, publish, and distribute a series of 'state of the art' reviews of the effects of fire on fauna, flora, air, cultural resources, and soil and water (5 volumes). The Missoula Fire Lab proposes to complete the…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES