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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Brinkman
Presented by Todd Brinkman with content from Tom Paragi. From the 2018 Bonanza Creek LTER symposium, April 6, 2018.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Strader
AICC Predictive Services meteorologist Heidi Strader provides an outlook for the 2018 fire season in Alaska and reviews the projects that Predictive Services staff have been involved in over the winter to improve their results. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Operations Meeting.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Bhatt
UAF professor Uma Bhatt reviews progress on the NOAA funded project to improve longer-term predictions of Alaska's fire season. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Moore
Chris Moore provides an overview of ways to understand the overall drivers of Alaska's fire seasons, with a focus on season-slowing and season-ending events. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jandt
AFSC fire ecologist Randi Jandt reviews how to access some of the most useful tools and resources provided by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Ziel
AFSC fire analyst Robert Ziel provides an update on a new project to forecast convective outflows from thunderstorms. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop. Note: Zeke gave this talk without the slides, so the slides include references to material that he did not…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jandt
AFSC fire ecologist Randi Jandt reviews the most recent evidence on how wildfire smoke affects human health, including the health of firefighters. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

U.S. EPA researchers are using an innovative smoke combustion system in a laboratory in Research Triangle Park, NC, to study the toxicity of smoke from fires in controlled conditions. The studies are showing the potential health effects of smoke from different burned wood and…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jain, Sikkink, Keefe, Byrne
Forest managers use mastication to grind or shed vegetation to remove competition, prepare a site for natural or artificial regeneration, or release sapling-sized trees; or they use mastication to convert ladder fuels to surface fuels and enhance decomposition of biomass.…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Gilmour, Kim, Higuchi, Hays, Farraj, DeMarini
Acute and chronic exposure to wildfire smoke can cause numerous documented cardiopulmonary effects, although determining the casual components within the thousands of different chemicals found in both the particle and gas phases remains a toxicological challenge. Specifically,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Gilmour, Dye, Hays, Hazari, Higuchi
Short-term exposures to ambient particulate matter (PM) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in the exposed population, and these same patterns have been noted during wildland fire episodes. Since the scale and frequency of wildfires are expected to increase…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Becker, Hohner, Rosario-Ortiz, DeWolfe
Utilities can recover from wildfires and extreme weather events with resiliency plans and operation designs that address subsequent water quality challenges.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kane
October 10th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fall Fire Review, Kelly Kane, USFS Risk Management Program Specialist, presents on human performance.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Moore
October 11th, 2018. Part of the annual Fall Fire Review, the presentation assessed the new National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) vs the Fire Weather Index (FWI) for Alaska.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Plumb
October 11th, 2018. Part of the annual Fall Fire Review, the presentation presented the National Weather Services analysis the affects of forecast precipitation on fire weather predictions and how they plan to solve them.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Falke
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation introduced the project on fire effects on boreal aquatic ecosystems.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Little, Jandt
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a final report on fuel treatments.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Coker
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a report on the effects of a fire season on fire fighters.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Hickman, Ziel
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview of the available for use with a live demo through UAF Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA).
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

This compendium is a freely available resource of every article related to fire ecology published in the Natural Areas Journal from 2010-2017.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bhatt, Veazey
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a progress report on seasonal and subseasonal predictions as well as an introduction to a EPSCoR project.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration (Seed Strategy) recognizes the importance of native plants and healthy plant communities in our lives, in our economy, and in our future. Native plants and native plant communities are nature’s infrastructure. Native…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Giglio, Boschetti, Roy, Humber, Justice
The two Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on-board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites have provided nearly two decades of global fire data. Here, we describe refinements made to the 500-m global burned area mapping algorithm that were implemented in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wei, Hayes, Fraver, Chen
Fires play an important role in the terrestrial biosphere carbon cycle, not only through direct carbon release but also contributing to a potential long‐term storage as pyrogenic carbon (PyC). PyC is formed through fires, and, because it may resist further biological and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

FireWorks provides students with interactive, hands-on materials to study wildland fire. It is highly interdisciplinary and students learn about properties of matter, chemical and physical processes, ecosystem fluctuations and cycles, habitat and survival, and human interactions…
Year: 2018
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES