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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The 3rd "International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk" (ICFBR2022) took place in Alghero from May 3-6, 2022. ICBR2022 aims to involve scientists, researchers and policy makers whose activities are focused on different aspects of fires and their impact on ecosystems and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Global Wildfire Information System is a joint initiative of the GEO and the Copernicus Work Programs. In the new GEO GWIS work program for the years 2020-2022 , the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) aims at bringing together existing information sources at regional…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mockrin, Hammer, Radeloff
Each year more wildland-urban interface (WUI) homes are exposed to wildfire. From 1999 to 2011, an average of 1,354 residences were destroyed annually by wildland fire, despite billions spent on fire suppression. Costs of fire suppression continue to rise with housing growth and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brown
GOALS: Deepen the scope of the Symposium as it addresses the relation of weather and climate to the four principle purposes of the Joint Fire Science Plan: a) fuels inventory and mapping, b) evaluation of fuels treatments, c) scheduling fuels treatments, and d) monitoring and…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hadden, Mell, Simeoni, Skowronski
This proposal aims at developing a suite of field diagnostics to support the quantification of ember showers and their impact in the vicinity of a fire front. The obtained data will cover ember properties and the spatial and temporal description of the firebrand fluxes in…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Amos, Bone, Moseley
Currently, land managers are unable to apply prescribed fire at the necessary levels to achieve land management objectives. Past survey research has identified a suite of barriers, many of which reside in law and policy, that fire management officers and other on-the-ground…
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
Hodges, Finley, Luloff
Fire prevention and fuel treatments have enjoyed renewed and enhanced support. However, the use of fire prevention measures for enhancing ecosystem services has not found purchase in either the publics acceptance or involvement in this new role of and for fire. This is…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Brenkert-Smith, Curtis, Sharp
Fire and fuels reduction are completed within a complex context. This is particularly true at the interface of public and private lands where management is often closely scrutinized by stakeholders. In these settings, private and public land managers typically seek to achieve…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wood, Kreitler
This project will combine methods from multiple disciplines to provide new applied research for timely and policy relevant wildland fire and natural resource management issues. We propose research to address the tension between allocating fuel treatments to reduce risk to values…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Little, Jandt
Wildland fire is the dominant disturbance agent of the boreal forest of Alaska, which covers about 114 million ac. of the southcentral and interior regions, representing about 15% of the forested area of the U.S. Currently, about 80% of the population of Alaska resides in…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wickland, Kasischke
ABoVE is a NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program field campaign that will be conducted in Alaska and Western Canada (West of the Hudson Bay). The planning started in 2009 with a scoping study and in 2013 the science definition team wrote a concise experiment plan that was completed…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Palmer, Robertson
We propose to develop and deliver a national conference to bring together the fire management and research community to focus on fire ecology and management issues in northern coastal and interior climates. The objective of this 25th Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference is to…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Busse, Hubbert
Soils are the foundation of terrestrial ecosystems. They provide essential nutrients, water, oxygen, heat, and physical support for the survival and growth of plants and living organisms. A soil's capacity to function within an ecosystem and adjust to land use disturbance…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pyne, Mighetto
The USDA Forest Service and the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) propose to organize and host an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together environmental historians and scientists to discuss the historical dimensions of the wildland urban interface and its…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bowker, Green, Johnson, Rideout-Hanzak
The proposed project is designed to contribute to Task 1, Part 3 of RFP 2001-1 from the JFSP. Generally, the proposed study aims to improve understanding of the perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes of the public regarding fire, fire risk and fire recovery techniques in…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kokaly, McAdams, Root, Walker
For the past several decades, prescribed fire has proven to be a valuable tool for managing federal lands. It is an economical and efficient way to reduce accumulated fuel loads resulting from prolonged policies of suppressing wildfires, Prescribed fire helps to control the…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Evaluation of Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Mitigation Methods and Development of Decision-Support Tools
The production of debris flows can be one of the most hazardous consequences of wildfires in the urban/wildland interface. Debris flows can occur with little warning, are capable of transporting large material over relatively gentle gradients, and may develop momentum and impact…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman
Considerable social science research has been conducted at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) since inception of the Joint Fire Science Program and National Fire Plan. Results have provided useful insight into factors including public acceptance of fuel treatments, communication…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Leigh, York
In Alaska's boreal forest, fire is an integral part of ecosystem function. Smoke often fills the summer skies, and extensive wildfires can pose risks to life, property and subsistence livelihoods. The frequency and severity of wildfires in the interior and south central regions…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Absher, Vaske
A multi-year, community-based project to look at social and cognitive barriers to wildfire risk reduction by focusing on better completion of defensible space behaviors through the use of promising social science approaches. The project seeks to identify practical steps for…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bytnerowicz
Presenting state-of-science information and discussion of broadly defined air pollution and forest fire issues. Among others, the following topics will be discussed: effects of forest fires on air quality in the remote and urban-wildland interface forests; effects of forest…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Becker
The proposed study includes two parts. The first part focuses on characterizing biomass removal efforts on USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and tribal lands for a total of 10-12 case studies located throughout the country. Information will be collected on project…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Vogt, Butler, Winter
Effective wildland urban interface (WUI) risk management requires action by local communities and individual property owners. Recently enacted federal and state policies provide some strong incentives for local jurisdictions to manage the risks associated with wildland fire.…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES