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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rebain, Dykstra
The Economics and Utilization Team is clarifying the economic requirements of NEPA analysis and developing a summary of the existing scientific information on costs and revenues associated with hazardous fuels treatments. It isl also providing tools, methods, and procedures to…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
The goal of the Forest Structure and Fire Hazard team is to increase and improve the understanding of available research which can aid in making informed, defensible decisions on managing forest structure and disclosing the treatment effects on fire hazard and potential fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The record-breaking 2004 fire season burned approximately 6.6 million acres in Alaska, with over 2 million acres on National Wildlife Refuge Lands. This provided the opportunity to assess the application of the national Burn Severity Mapping project techniques on Refuge lands.…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
LANDFIRE, Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools, is a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior, providing landscape scale geo-spatial products to support…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
During 2002, fuel loadings were measured at 150 plots in three major fuel types across Anchorage's wildland-urban interface. A suite of Fire Danger Rating System (FDRS) fire behavior variables was sampled to parameterize custom fuel models for use in the FARSITE fire behavior…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Natural Fuels Photo Series project is designed to help land managers appraise fuel and vegetation conditions in natural settings. Each group of photos in a series includes inventory information summarizing vegetation composition, structure and loading and, as appropriate…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Babbitt, Ferguson, Vihnanek
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episodes for local residents and communities and causing…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a tool that enables land managers, regulators, and scientists to create and catalog fuelbeds and to classify those fuelbeds for their capacity to support fire and consume fuels. The fuelbed characteristics and fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Peterson, Carlino, Barnes, Eagle
FIREHouse provides user-friendly, web-based information about fire science and technology relevant to Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. For each project posted, the goal is to provide, as applicable, online, searchable access to: (1) project and tool descriptions, contact…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Graham
The Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning Project was initiated as a pilot project by the U.S. Forest Service in response to the need for tools and information useful for planning site-specific fuel (vegetation) treatment projects.…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Heilman
As part of a proposed USDA Forest Service national framework for regional atmospheric modeling, as described in companion proposals from fire/atmosphere research work units in the Southern, Pacific Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Rocky Mountain Research Stations, this North…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Jimenez, Reardon, Ryan, Webb
Current methods for predicting fire-induced plant mortality in shrubs and trees are largely empirical. These methods do not exhibit a wide range of applicability and are not readily linked to duff burning, soil heating, and surface fire behavior models. New models of duff…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Haase, Hardy, Regelbrugge, Reinhardt, Sackett, Sandberg, Sutherland, Vihnanek, Wade, Wright
The primary objective of the fuel consumption project is: Improve existing models to better predict fuel consumption during the smoldering phase of wildland fires; develop new fuel consumption models for shrubland hardwood, and boreal forest fuel types; implement modified and…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg, Wright
Current fire danger and fire behavior prediction focuses on the flaming stage of combustion, while fire effects and resistance to control are governed by smoldering and residual combustion in heavy fuels and organic soil layers. Fuel combustion algorithms in current use are…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brenner, Masters
In order to keep our focus and avoid unnecessary mission creep that could ultimately prevent us from achieving our objectives, we plan to invite specific personnel and agencies to this work shop. Our plan is to place three focal points at the workshop to represent the…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brenner
Objective: The purpose/objectives of the 2: Congress is an open exchange of information between fire managers, land managers, fire ecologists and the meteorological and climatological community. As stated above, the issue of wildland fire has become one of great concern. The…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Gabbert, Mangan
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will sponsor a conference to address fuels management and how to measure success. IAWF has worked with the Interagency Fule Committee on initial planning. There is general recognition of the need for such a conference. We…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES