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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander, Cruz
In 2019 we described the development of a rule of thumb for estimating a wildfire’s forward rate of spread in cases when burning conditions are severe (i.e., namely when wind speeds are high and fuels are critically dry) and the time available to prepare a more exacting…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Margolis, Guiterman
A recent collaboration by ~90 tree-ring and fire-scar scientists has resulted in the publication of the newly compiled North American Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Network (NAFSN), which contains 2,562 sites, > 37,000 fire-scarred trees, and covers large parts of North America. In this…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Loudermilk, O'Brien, Goodrick, Linn, Skowronski, Hiers
Background: The structure and function of fire-prone ecosystems are influenced by many interacting processes that develop over varying time scales. Fire creates both instantaneous and long-term changes in vegetation (defined as live, dead, and decomposing plant material) through…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nguyen, Wei
Selecting the optimal locations and timing for prescribed burning is challenging when considering uncertainties in weather, fire behavior, and future fire suppression. In this study, we present a sample average approximation (SAA) based multistage stochastic mixed integer…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chaideftou
Background: Fire is a multifaceted force. Fire activity and risk of fire incidence across US forested ecosystems have accelerated over the last two decades. At the same time, human land-use choices and climate change interacted with fire, in an era we are called to meet specific…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burton, Cawson, Filkov, Penman
Fallen plant material such as leaves, needles and branches form litter beds which strongly influence fire ignition and spread. Traits of the dominant species influence litter flammability directly by determining how individual leaves burn and indirectly through the structure of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Fernandes
The suggestion has been made within the wildland fire community that the rate of spread in the upper portion of the fire danger spectrum is largely independent of the physical fuel characteristics in certain forest ecosystem types. Our review and analysis of the relevant…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multistate regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based application designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective. IFTDSS provides access to data and…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Potter
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Some fires are big, but others are reach totally stunningly sizes, really “wow, that’s big.” What drives those fires to become so large, while other fires in seemingly similar conditions do not? I will present…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Yedinak
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wildland fires occupy the biosphere as both an ecological process essential for maintaining species diversity and a hazard to human lives, infrastructure and activities. Fire managers’ ability to anticipate fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ramírez
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Technosyva is a company of 50 professionals based in San Diego and in Leon, Spain. Since 1997 we focused on developing technology and applications for the wildland fire community, with a strong partnership with…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Moody
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
A microscale wildfire model (QES-Fire), which dynamically couples the fire front to microscale winds, was developed utilizing a simplified physics rate of spread (ROS) model, a kinematic plume-rise model and a…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Belenguer-Plomer, Tanase, Chuvieco, Bovolo
In this paper, we present an in-depth analysis of the use of convolutional neural networks (CNN), a deep learning method widely applied in remote sensing-based studies in recent years, for burned area (BA) mapping combining radar and optical datasets acquired by Sentinel-1 and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Makowiecki
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
In-situ measurements of combustion systems are challenging due to high temperatures, rapidly varying spatial properties, and limited physical and optical access. In biomass combustion these challenges are further…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Grabinski, Smith
In 2019, the Shovel Creek Fire grew rapidly and threatened nearby neighborhoods north of Fairbanks. The fire was started by lighting on June 21. After 39 days of burning, and $25 million spent on suppression the fire was put out and no homes or lives were lost.
The resulting…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Simpson, Archibald, Osborne
Grasses fuel most fires on Earth and strongly influence local fire behaviour through traits that determine how flammable they are. Therefore, grass communities that differ in their species and trait compositions give rise to significant spatial variation in savanna fire regimes…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Di Cristina, Gallagher, Skowronski, Simeoni, Rangwala, Im
Connecting the results from laboratory wildland fire experiments with in-situ field experiments under natural conditions remains an important challenge in wildland fire science, particularly because of differences in flow and boundary-layer conditions in the local atmosphere.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camera captures video and temperature as a high-intensity crown fire rolls through. From the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in the Northwest Territories.
Year: 2000
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Video about the 1982 Porter Lake experimental burning.
Year: 1982
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
During 2021 the Canadian Forest Service celebrated the 50th anniversary of the operation of the Northern Forestry Centre (NoFC) in Edmonton, Alberta. As part of the celebration, NoFC retirees volunteered to make virtual presentations (roughly an hour in duration, giving time for…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fazeli, Jolly, Blunck
Wildland fires impact ecosystems and communities worldwide. Many wildfires burn in living or a mixture of living and senescent vegetation. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the burning behavior of living fuels, in contrast to just dead or dried fuels, to more effectively…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richter, Bathras, Barbetta Duarte, Gollner
Fires occurring at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) have rapidly increased in frequency and severity over the past few decades. As a result of these extreme fires, multiple communities, including thousands of structures, are destroyed every year. The majority of these losses…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Linley, Jolly, Doherty, Geary, Armenteras, Belcher, Bird, Duane, Fletcher, Giorgis, Haslem, Jones, Kelly, Lee, Nolan, Parr, Pausas, Price, Regos, Ritchie, Ruffault, Williamson, Wu, Nimmo
Background
‘Megafire’ is an emerging concept commonly used to describe fires that are extreme in terms of size, behaviour, and/or impacts, but the term’s meaning remains ambiguous.
Approach
We sought to resolve ambiguity surrounding the meaning of ‘megafire’ by conducting a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES