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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stonesifer, Calkin, Thompson, Stockmann
Large airtanker use is widespread in wildfire suppression in the United States. The current approach to nationally dispatching the fleet of federal contract airtankers relies on filling requests for airtankers to achieve suppression objectives identified by fire managers at the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hunter
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lojewski
Thinning and masticated treatments near the Funny River road on the Kenai Peninsula reduced fire intensity during 2014 Funny River wildfire and aided protection of Soldotna.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lara, Genet, McGuire, Euskirchen, Zhang, Brown, Jorgenson, Romanovsky, Breen, Bolton
Lowland boreal forest ecosystems in Alaska are dominated by wetlands comprised of a complex mosaic of fens, collapse-scar bogs, low shrub/scrub, and forests growing on elevated ice-rich permafrost soils. Thermokarst has affected the lowlands of the Tanana Flats in central Alaska…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kelly, Genet, McGuire, Hu
Wildfires play a key role in the boreal forest carbon cycle1, 2, and models suggest that accelerated burning will increase boreal C emissions in the coming century3. However, these predictions may be compromised because brief observational records provide limited constraints to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Iwahana, Uchida, Liu, Gong, Meyer, Guritz, Yamanokuchi, Hinzman
Thermokarst is the process of ground subsidence caused by either the thawing of ice-rich permafrost or the melting of massive ground ice. The consequences of permafrost degradation associated with thermokarst for surface ecology, landscape evolution, and hydrological processes…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hewitt, Bennett, Breen, Hollingsworth, Taylor, Chapin, Rupp
Context: Forecasting the expansion of forest into Alaska tundra is critical to predicting regional ecosystem services, including climate feedbacks such as carbon storage. Controls over seedling establishment govern forest development and migration potential. Ectomycorrhizal…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gaglioti, Mann, Jones, Wooller, Finney
Stand-replacing wildfires are a keystone disturbance in the boreal forest, and they are becoming more common as the climate warms. Paleo-fire archives from the wildland–urban interface can quantify the prehistoric fire regime and assess how both human land-use and climate change…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke
The study uses satellite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer albedo products (MCD43A3) to assess changes in albedo at two sites in the treeless tundra region of Alaska, both within the foothills region of the Brooks Range, the 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF) and 2012…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A fire adapted community acknowledges and takes responsibility for its risk of wildfire and takes appropriate actions at all levels of the community.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Driscoll, Luber
The environmental effects of climate change are likely having negative impacts on the health of the 13.1 million residents of the circumpolar north. In this chapter, we describe an observational epidemiologic study that collected surveillance data on local environmental changes…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huang, Liu, Dahal, Jin, Li, Liu
Boreal fires can cool the climate; however, this conclusion came from individual fires and may not represent the whole story. We hypothesize that the climatic impact of boreal fires depends on local landscape heterogeneity such as burn severity, prefire vegetation type, and soil…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Long, Connot
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) 2010 data release provides updated and enhanced vegetation, fuel, and fire regime layers consistently across the United States. The data represent landscape conditions from approximately 2010 and are the latest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Hrobak
A summary of fire ecology activities and program information for the Alaska Region National Park Units including fire effects plot workload, staffing, management objectives and monitoring results, and planning, fire monitoring, communications, and research. Also included are…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) of the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station focuses on fundamental and applied research in wildland fire, from fire physics and fire ecology to fuels management and smoke emissions. Located at the Missoula Fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Schroeder, Justice
The two Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments, on-board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, have provided more than a decade of global fire data. Here we describe improvements made to the fire detection algorithm and swath-level product that were…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yeboah, Chen
Context: Despite decades of research, there is an intense debate about the consistency of the hump-shaped pattern describing the relationship between diversity and disturbance as predicted by the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH). Previous meta-analyses have not…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Minsley, Pastick, Wylie, Brown, Kass
Fire can be a significant driver of permafrost change in boreal landscapes, altering the availability of soil carbon and nutrients that have important implications for future climate and ecological succession. However, not all landscapes are equally susceptible to fire-induced…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wonkka
Resistance to the use of prescribed fire is strong among many private land managers despite the advantages it offers for maintaining βire-prone ecosystems. Often, managers who are aware of the benefits of using prescribed fire as a management tool avoid using it because of fear…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chakrabarty, Gyawali, Yatavelli, Pandey, Watts, Knue, Chen, Pattison, Tsibart, Samburova, Moosmüller
The surface air warming over the Arctic has been almost twice as much as the global average in recent decades. In this region, unprecedented amounts of smoldering peat fires have been identified as a major emission source of climate-warming agents. While much is known about…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGuire
David McGuire discusses The Alaska Land Carbon Assessment: Baseline and Projected Future Carbon Storage and Greenhouse-gas Fluxes in Ecosystems of Alaska.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Laker
In the past couple years we have photographed over 500,000 acres using commercial off-the-shelf equipment with excellent results. Images were collected using a Nikon D800, Nikon D700 infrared (IR) cameras, and a survey grade GPS (Trimble R8). The images were then…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan
This webinar included an overview of the various forecasts available and the parameters used by the National Weather Service, as well as discussion of some of the more critical parameters.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis
The presenters will discuss key messages from the recently published drought assessment. Topics to be covered include a state-of-the-science review of direct and indirect impacts of drought on forests and rangelands, as well as a discussion of management options for increasing…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The final report submitted by The Nature Conservancy's North America Fire Team for PERC, a cooperative agreement among The Nature Conservancy, the USDA Forest Service, and land management agencies of the Department of the Interior (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES