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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jandt
AFSC fire ecologist Randi Jandt gave a great public presentation discussing how climate is interacting with fire ecology in Alaska at her Science for Alaska lecture on February 19th.
Wildfires were in the news last fall -- again. Have you wondered what drives large fire seasons…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Sorption models were developed to predict the moisture content in fuelbeds of standing dead grass from ambient weather measurements. Intuition suggests that the response time of standing dead grass to diurnal changes in weather is negligible and that moisture content tracks the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Zhao, Tang, Miller, Sun, Gollner
Fuel loads in real-world fire scenarios often feature discrete elements, discontinuities, or inhomogeneities; however, most models for flame spread only assume a continuous, homogeneous fuel. Because discrete fuels represent a realistic scenario not yet well-modeled, it is of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ager, Houtman, Day, Ringo, Palaiologou
US public land management agencies are faced with multiple, often conflicting objectives to meet management targets and produce a wide range of ecosystem services expected from public lands. One example is managing the growing wildfire risk to human and ecological values while…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morandini, Santoni, Tramoni, Mell
Structure of vegetation significantly influences its flammability and resulting fire spread. Despite considerable amount of laboratory studies, experimental works carried out with full plant specimens, representative of field conditions, are still limited. Present study aims to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Friggens, Loehman, Thode, Flatley, Evans, Bunn, Wilcox, Mueller, Yocom, Falk
Decision makers need better methods for identifying critical ecosystem vulnerabilities to changing climate and fire regimes. Climate-wildfire-vegetation interactions are complex and hinder classification and projection necessary for development of management strategies. One such…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morandini, Toulouse, Silvani, Pieri, Rossi
Data collection in the field is fundamental in providing relevant information during fire spread across vegetation or in industrial environments. Considering the challenge and costs of obtaining measurements in the presence of a fire at such a large scale, the development of non…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steblein, Miller
Wildland fire characteristics, such as area burned, number of large fires, burn intensity, and fire season duration, have increased steadily over the past 30 years, resulting in substantial increases in the costs of suppressing fires and managing damages from wildland fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire smoke is typically a mixture of water vapor, gases, fine particles, and trace minerals from burning fuels like trees and vegetation, other organic components, and, sometimes, building materials.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bhatt
Presented by: Uma Bhatt, University of Alaska Fairbanks, National Science Foundation EPSCoR
October 9th, 2019
PowerPoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire Science Workshop…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Branson
Presented by: Willie Branson, BLM Alaska Fire Service
October 8th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire Science Workshop
Topics include displaying complex fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jain
Since 1973, the National Silviculture Workshop has provided a forum for USDA Forest Service managers and scientists to deliberate on management topics, issues, or challenges that reflect the progression of Federal forest management in the United States. Rotating the meeting…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Quarles, Weise
Direct flame contact, radiant heat, and burning firebrands (or embers) have been identified as three principal ways that cause fire spread in the wildland and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). However, only burning firebrands can initiate a new spot fire at distances further than…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinsch
This document describes the steps necessary to complete a nomogram for the 13 fire behavior nomograms in Rothermel 1992.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary
Wildfires and prescribed fires cause a range of impacts on forest soils depending on the interactions of a nexus of fire severity, scale of fire, slope, infiltration rates, and post-fire rainfall. These factors determine the degree of impact on forest soils and subsequently the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This video by Heather Heward, University of Idaho, offers a short overview of the steps needed to review LANDFIRE data in the context of wildland fire and fuels management. Perform any or all of these steps to increase your ability to creatively and effectively use LF to…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Gucker
In 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) was statutorily authorized as a joint partnership between the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The program provides leadership to the wildland fire science community by…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hammond, Strand, Hudak, Newingham
Background: Fire has historically been a primary control on succession and vegetation dynamics in boreal systems, although modern changing climate is potentially increasing fire size and frequency. Large, often remote fires necessitate large-scale estimates of fire effects and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Christensen, Amin, Smith, Rein
Peat fires are a global-scale source of carbon emissions and a leading cause of regional air quality deterioration, especially in Southeast Asia. The ignition and spread of peat fires are strongly affected by moisture, which acts as an energy sink. However, moisture effects on…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Distinguishing disturbance from perturbations in fire regimes - research brief for resource managers
If the fire has characteristics that do not fit the historical fire regime with which the fire-adapted ecosystem has developed, then it may impact resilience and cause a shift in ecosystem characteristics.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bastian
The Landscape Burn Probability Model quantifies the likelihood and intensity of a fire occurring under a fixed set of weather and fuel moisture conditions. It is one of the key pieces to conducting an Exposure Analysis which contributes to a comprehensive Quantitative Wildfire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuel, weather, and topography - components of fire behavior - influences how fires spread and ultimately what becomes the head, flank, or back of the fire.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
He, Loboda, Jenkins, Chen
Wildland fire is common and widespread in Alaskan tundra. Tundra fires exert considerable influence on local ecosystem functioning and contribute to climate change through biogeochemical (e.g. carbon cycle) and biogeophysical (e.g. albedo) effects. These treeless landscapes are…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Gray, Davis, Holsinger, Loehman
Continued suppression of wildfires may allow more biomass to accumulate to foster even more intense fires. Enlightened fire management involves explicitly determining concurrent levels of suppression, wildland fire use (allowing some fires to burn) and fuel treatments to manage…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
We’ve spent 100 years growing a tinderbox across the West. Now it's wildfire season. Controlled burning - an indigenous tradition that's been used for millennia - might be a solution.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES