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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Moseley, Nielsen-Pincus
Wildfire management requires significant institutional organization, a skilled workforce, facilities, and equipment. Sustaining this wildfire response capacity is critical to both agencies and fire-affected communities. Because fire suppression is seasonal and varies…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Fletcher, Jolly, Mahalingam, McAllister, Shotorban
After many years of research examining the ignition of wood and other cellulosic fuels, it is still unclear which modes of heat transfer will result in successful ignition of live wildland fuel particles. Thermal radiation can cause a fuel particle to pyrolyze to produce a…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Oswald, Ingalsbee
This conference will provide 1) high profile technology transfer for JFSP supported research, 2) highlight JFSP programs and projects, 3) opporfunities for special sessions on the JFSP programand JFSP supported projects, 4) ffSP supported student participation in all aspects of…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Naughton, Urbanski
An accurate, reliable wildland fire emissions inventory is likely the most important criteria in assessing the impacts of prescribed burning and wildfires on regional air quality and global climate. Significant progress has been made in the past ten years to develop fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Hardy, Hilbruner, Vanderlinden, Vihnanek, Wade, Weise, Wooster
The primary objective of this project is: To continue the development of the natural fuels photo series to include a maximum of 10 additional fuel types not covered by previous projects. The goals of this objective are to: (1) complete an assessment of the literature and the…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Hiers
Knowing the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics across a landscape is becoming increasingly important to fire managers as new fuel and fire management decision support systems come on line, Often, few fuel characteristic data are available to the extent, or…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Agee, Decker
There is relatively little scientific understanding of mixed severity fire regimes, compared to low severity fire regimes. However, mixed severity regimes widespread in the United States, and ecology and fuel treatments must be considered in the current manadate to accelerate…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Scott
The project has four general objectives: link two JFSP-funded studies, take advantage of a unique opportunity to use inventory data and stand treatments that have already been funded to enrich our study of canopy fuels, add forest types and conditions to the canopy fuels photo…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Jakes
This Joint Fire Science Program proposal seeks to characterize and compare different collaborative planning efforts for community protection and ecosystem restoration related to wildfire, and to determine key elements of collaborative success (Task 2 of AFP, 2003-1). There is a…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Albini, Bevins, Brittain, Butler, Catchpole, Finney
PROJECT OBJECTIVES As requested under Tasks 8 and 9, user-friendly modeling systems designed for local use will be provided for modeling smoke from wildland fires. These tools will provide a means for conducting tradeoff analyses, with a focus on emissions production, of…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Russell, Arbaugh, Kimberlin, Omi, Ottmar, Rideout, Snell, Wiitala
The project objectives are as follows: Phase I Model Development 1. Prepare a prototype FETM Version 4.0, incorporating any required revisions to the wildfire size and fire distribution algorithms. The prototype model would be used in the field test of candidate vegetation…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Burgan, Ohlen, Saveland
To provide 'first draft' basic spatial data layers, descriptive statistics, and documentation of the components listed above to enable specific risk analyses by subject matter experts, in National fuels treatment program planning, and for RPA direction.
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rideout
This project will culminate in a user-friendly value at risk (VAR) decision support system (DSS) for fire managers and planners. By assimilating and analyzing the available literature on fire effects as they relate to VARs, such information will be catalogued into a relational…
Year: 2002
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
Nowell, McCaffrey, Steelman
Failures in effective communication and coordination within the network of responding organizations and agencies during a wildfire can lead to problematic or dangerous outcomes. Although risk assessment and management concepts are usually understood with regards to biophysical…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Dupuy, Jolly, Linn, Mell, Pimont, Rigolot, deColigny
Accurate characterization of stand scale fuel treatment effectiveness is necessary before such treatments can be robustly considered at landscape scales. Fire behavior predictions are key components in evaluating fuel treatments, which may include a mixture of mechanical…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
There is a clear need for decision support systems that inform rangeland management strategies to reduce fire hazard and maintain ecological integrity. The RVS is improving that capability but offers outdated depictions of vegetation dynamics (BpS successional models).…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
The FVS is currently incapable of estimating succession, biomass and fuels of non-forested landscapes, yet decision support models such as the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS) require this information. In response, we propose development of the…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Fox, Gabor, Thomas, Ziegler
Managing wildland fire is an exercise in risk perception, sense-making and resilient performance. Risk perception begins with individual size up to determine a course of action, and becomes collective as the fire management team builds and continuously updates their common…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Bradshaw, Ferguson, Goodrick, Werth
Fine-scale weather data are becoming increasing available for fire weather and fire danger forecasting to support tactical fire preparedness and prescribed fire planning. Unfortunately, appropriate techniques to implement the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) with short…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parsons
Unroaded areas and areas managed as wilderness provide unique opportunities for applying wildland fire use (WFU) as a fuels management strategy and as a method for restoring historical fire regimes. But can WFU successfully restore historical fire regimes? An untested but common…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Loomis, Rideout
This study is an integrated economic assessment of alternative fuels treatments. We examine ecological, economic and financial aspects of alternative fuels treatments paying particular attention to market and non-market costs and benefits, property damage, smoke, air quality,…
Year: 2005
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
Day, Brown, Hitchcock, Latham, Wiitala
The purpose of this pre-proposal is to investigate the complex decision environment related to predicting preparedness levels for the national wildland fire program to a degree sufficient to develop a proposal for submission to the Joint Fire Sciences Program and the National…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Hunter, Kalkhan, Martinson
We propose the first standardized investigation of the relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, exotic plant invasions, and post-fire fuel flammability in grasslands, shrublands, and forests across the western US. This proposal responds to the 2000-1 Request for Proposals (…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES