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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cissel
Recommendation 3 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board over a decade ago stated that "The process of tool use including comparison, selection, acquisition, training, implementation, evaluation, and support needs national administrative focus, guidance, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Fuels are often defined based on the physical characteristics of live and dead biomass that contribute to wildland fire. Because these characteristics affect the character, size, intensity, and duration of fires, fuels are important to the understanding of fire behavior and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Keane
A 23-minute video in which Robert Keane and Wendel Hann discuss advances in fire technology, particularly modeling, assessments, and mapping, since 2000, and technological needs for the future, including those that include climate change. Presented at the Fifth International…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
In this presentation, Kevin Ryan provides a welcome, background, and goals for the session: "Looking Back for a Clear View of the Future: 1999 to 2012," a concurrent session of the Fifth International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Uniting Research, Education, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Werth
Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
This webinar will provide an introduction to the new edition of the Rainbow series that provides fire and land management professionals and policy makers with a greater understanding of the value of cultural resource protection and the methods available to evaluate and mitigate…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Betancourt
In October 1997, I attended a conference in Park City, Utah on the Future of Wildland Fire Research. Billed as 'an experiment, a beginning,' this seminal workshop developed action plans to create an interdepartmental competitive grants program, a coordinated response to managing…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
The active involvement and support of the public will be central to efforts to restore resilience and foster fire adapted landscapes. One barrier to effectively engaging the public may be that many of the accepted descriptions related to the public and wildfire are based…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Jones
The FRCC Mapping Tool quantifies the departure of vegetation conditions and fire regimes from a set of reference conditions representing the historical range of variation. The tool, which operates from an ArcGIS platform, derives several metrics of departure (e.g., vegetation…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Recent science communication studies of the federal fire management community suggest managers access research via informal information networks, and that these networks vary by both agency and position. We used a phone survey to understand the informal science communication…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant
Wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning on federal lands in the U.S. is a complex problem that often requires advanced fire behavior modeling and intensive spatial data analyses. Both the benefits and potential impacts of proposed fuel treatments must be…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Picotte, Lecker
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: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ager
The Landscape Treatment Designer (LTD) is a multicriteria spatial prioritization and optimization system to help design and explore landscape fuel treatment scenarios. The program fills a gap between fire model programs such as FlamMap, and planning systems such as ArcFuels, in…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett
Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is an interagency, standardized tool for determining the degree of departure from reference condition vegetation structure and composition and fire regimes. FRCC metrics can help guide management objectives and set priorities for treatments.…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strand, Hyde
WFAT provides an interface between ArcMap, FlamMap 5, and the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), combining their strengths into a spatial fire behavior and fire effects analysis tool in GIS. In the webinar, you will learn how to use WFAT to locate potential fuel treatment…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
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