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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Domitrovich, Duncan, Allen, Rosso
Wildland firefighting is arduous work in extreme environmental conditions including heat. The job demands and environmental factors experienced by wildland firefighters can lead to a perfect storm for an increased risk to heat illnesses. This webinar discusses the indicators…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
On April 18, 2012, Duncan Lutes (RMRS Fire Modeling Institute, Missoula, MT) presented a webinar hosted by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. FOFEM is a computer program for predicting first order fire effects including tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke production, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Toney, Jones
Chris Toney (US Forest Service, RMRS/LANDFIRE Project) and Jeff Jones (RMRS Wildland Fire Management RD&A, Whitefish, MT), presented the webinar titled LANDFIRE Data Access Tool, on February 15, 2012 at 12 pm MST. The LANDFIRE Data Access Tool (LFDAT) allows users to…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smail, Martin
The LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool (LFTFC) allows users to edit LANDFIRE fuels attributes and associated layers directly with an ArcMap Toolbar. This webinar provides an overview of LFTFC's capabilities to edit and add rule sets for changing fuel attributes based on existing…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hunter
Molly Hunter will present a webinar on January 26, 1 PM MST. In this webinar we will highlight the latest research from JFSP funded projects and show participants how to find more in depth information on the projects. Topics include climate change and fire, revegetating arid…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pupulidy
Ivan Pupulidy will present a webinar on January 10, 1 PM MST on the roles individuals, leaders and organizations have in improving performance. Historically human performance has been seen as a simply looking at how the individual workers behave. The focus of post incident…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Dr. Carissa Brown, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Sherbrooke, joined us for a webinar on February 23, 2012 (11:00 am to noon AKST) entitled 'Once burned, twice shy: Repeat fires result in black spruce regeneration failure.' Dr. Brown is currently studying plant…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rorig
Introduction to WFDSS - Air Quality ToolsSmoke management is an important aspect of managing wildland fire. While mitigating smoke impacts from prescribed burns is important, smoke from large wildfire complexes (such as the AZ/NM fires in 2011) can expose millions of people to…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Lawson
Video providing an introduction to the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. 22 minutes.
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Leigh, Hrobak, Ellis
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) has partnered with UAF's Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Station to foster the growing network of visual artists, writers, and scientists dedicated to integrating scientific and artistic perspectives on climate change in…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
The Fire Behavior Field Reference Guide (FBFRG) was developed as a hands-on user tool for field going FBAN's along with various operational personnel. The guide contains helpful references to fuels, weather, fuel models, and terrain features that are vital to field going fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Eric Miller, BLM-Alaska Fire Service, presents the powerpoint titled, Refining Prescriptions for Ruffed Grouse Habitat Burns in Interior Alaska, at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 7, 2011. Four fire effects plots were established at Fort…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Joly
Kyle Joly, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, presents the powerpoint titled, Winter Range Studies of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 7, 2011. The goals of the study are to quantify effects of…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
Paul A. Duffy presents the powerpoint, Early Season Forecasting of Fire Activity in Alaska, at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 7, 2011. An annual area burned forecast model has been developed using monthly temperature and precipitation and…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Identifying Indicators of State Change and Forecasting Future Vulnerability in Alaskan Boreal Forest
A. David McGuire, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, presents the study Identifying Indicators of State Change and Forecasting Future Vulnerability in Alaskan Boreal Forest at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 7, 2011. The objectives of this…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Jennifer Barnes, Regional Fire Ecologist for the National Park Service in Alaska, presents the study, Effects of Shortened Fire Return Intervals in Alaska Boreal Forest at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 6, 2011. The purpose of this project…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Olson
Diana Olson, University of Idaho - FRAMES, presents the project Compiling, Synthesizing and Analyzing Existing Boreal Forest Fire History Data in Alaska at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 6, 2011. The three primary objectives of this project…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Perrakis
Kerry Anderson of the Canadian Forest Service, begins this presentation on the Probabilistic Fire Analysis System (PFAS) by presenting his thesis work on fire growth modeling at multiple scales. Fire growth modeling can fall into three scales depending on weather forecasting…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saveland
The Joint Fire Science Program, the International Association of Wildland Fire and the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center are hosting a monthly webinar series on crucial topics in wildland fire science and resource management. The next webinar of the series features a…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lecker, Clark, Picotte
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) is a multi-year, interagency project designed to consistently map the location, extent and associated burn severity of large fires occurring on all lands of the United States from 1984 to present. The suite of mapping, data and analysis…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Farley
From federal and state land management policies, to Clean Air Act regulations, to energy incentive programs, and even new proposed legislative efforts, the policy environment surrounding use of biomass resources for bioenergy and climate change mitigation is complex and rapidly…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Amato
Mediasite video presentation given by Sam Amato, (National Fire Decision Support Center) at the 2011 Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop, Flagstaff, AZ on March 10, 2011. The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) model uses different fire models to provide landscape…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, McCarthy, Hall, Olsen
The NWCG Smoke Committee (SmoC) hosted this webinar on June 28, 2011. Four presentations and a discussion period examined public perception and messaging about smoke and fire. The webinar was a key initial step in developing needed messaging about wildland fire smoke, and it…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
Dr. Mike Ryan, USDA Forest Service Research Forest Ecologist, presented a scientific synthesis of the forest carbon cycle. The synthesis covers the entire US, but Dr. Ryan focused on the western US for this webinar. Forests play a key role in the carbon cycle and their growth…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rigby
BLM - Alaska Service plans to use SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images to update all 2009 and 2010 fire perimeters. The quick processing time and small file size will allow for all fire perimeters to be updated after the fire season.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES