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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Ferguson, Elkie
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

O'Neill, Ferguson, Peterson, Wilson
BlueSky is a real-time smoke forecast system that predicts surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities. Developed by the USDA Forest Service in cooperation with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is a tool used by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Barna, Fox
This paper presents preliminary results of an effort to assess impacts caused by forest fires on regional air quality and visibility. Regional air quality is the result of many, many different sources of air pollution being transported, dispersed, chemically transformed, wet and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rehm, Evans, McGrattan, Forney, Bouldin, Baker, Mell, Hostikka
This talk describes development of a physics-based mathematical and computational model to predict fire spread among structures and natural fuels (trees, shrubs and ground litter). This tool will be used to understand how fires spread in a community where both structures and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Espinoza, Cui, Martell
FireSmart forest management strategies often include landscape level fuel treatments that fragment the landscape to reduce the risk of extreme fire events. We describe a decision support system that is being developed for incorporating FireSmart forest management strategies into…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Paragi, Smart, Worum, Haggstrom
Modern fire suppression has the potential to alter the natural distribution of forest cover types and age classes, which has consequences for resource management. A 21,000 ha prescribed burn to enhance wildlife habitat and secondarily reduce continuity of coniferous fuels was…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Morton
Members of two caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) herds periodically winter in lichen habitat on the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in north central Alaska, providing an important subsistence resource for residents of nearby villages. Fire is often considered detrimental…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wegener
The surveillance of critical facilities and national infrastructure such as forests, waterways, roadways, pipelines and utilities requires advanced technological tools to provide timely, up to date information on status and threats. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are uniquely…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

York
Presented by: Alison York, Alaska Fire Science Consortium November 20th, 2019 Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th International Fire Ecology and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Brunson
Presented by: Ed Brunson, Joint Fire Science Program November 20th, 2019 Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th International Fire Ecology and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Ziel
Alaska's Fire Environment: Not an Average Place is a compilation of excerpts from the keynote presentation given by Robert "Zeke" Ziel at the Albuquerque location of the 2019 Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference.  Alaska is nearly 18% of USA landmass. Its size is often…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Alaska Wildland Fire Information is a web application designed to provide users with an interactive mapping interface that displays data relevant to wildland fires in Alaska. Examples of the wildland fire-specific data available from this web application include fire locations,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Part of the new Research Task List, this is a document of products delivered based upon the Research Task.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

York, Jandt
A three-day workshop was held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks April 4-6, 2017. The interagency, international workshop was hosted by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) with funding from the NASA Applied Sciences Program to bring sciences users and producers together…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

York
Presented By: Alison York March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an update of recent AFSC activities.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jenkins
Presented By: Jen Jenkins March 28th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting, the presentation gave an update on new and continuing GIS uses available.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Crawford, Shahroudi
Wildfires have increased in frequency, duration, and intensity worldwide. Climate change, drought, and other factors have not only increased susceptibility to wildfires, but have also increased the duration of the season. There are a number of factors affecting wildfires:…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Arellano
Presented by Chiara Arellano as part of the REU Workshop on August 8th, 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The guide provides public health officials with the information they need to prepare for smoke events, communicate health risks and take measures to protect public health.  It is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning more about what to do when smoke travels…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Parmenter, Hansen, Kennedy, Cohen, Langner, Lawrence, Maxwell, Gallant, Aspinall
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Han, Viau, Anctil
Wildfires are important in regions dominated by forest, such as found in large parts of Canada. The principal objective of this study was to provide homogeneously distributed indices for the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The FWI was calculated using four sets of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

McCarthy, Wood
The Jemez Mountains Project is a part of the North American Fire Learning Network (FLN), a collaborative venture of the USDA Forest Service, the Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy. Project partners include Bandelier National Monument; the Jemez Mountains Field…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Dispatch Utilities Program contains the Adam, Sunrise-Sunset, and Can programs. This guide explains the use and functionality of these tools.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Alexander
In 2001, I participated in a survey commissioned by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre's Forest Fire Science and Technology Working Group (MacKendrick 2001). The survey dealt with how fire managers and fire researchers could more effectively work together in the future.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kremens, Faulring, Gallagher, Seema, Vodacek
An Autonomous Fire Detector (AFD) is a miniature electronic package combining position location capability [using the Global Positioning System (GPS)], communications (packet or voice-synthesized radio), and fire detection capability (thermal, gas, smoke detector) into an…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS