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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Swetnam, Villalba, Whitlock
We propose a workshop in 2002 at the University of Arizona to discuss the current state of knowledge on fire and its linkages between climate and ecosystem change. Such discussion requires a concerted and collaborative effort among traditionally independent disciplines. We will…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bobbe, Finco, Parsons, Sohlberg
Plans for watershed rehabilitation after a wildfire must be developed and implemented as quickly as possible after containment to be effective. One of the most difficult inputs to generate is the assessment of how the wildfire affected the hydraulic properties of the soil,…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Alvarado, Ferguson, Leuschen, McKenzie, O'Neill, Ottmar, Peterson
The primary objective of the Emission Production Model project is: To improve the usability, accuracy, and applicability of an Emission Production Model to predict air pollutant source strength, heat release rate, and plume buoyancy from all fire environments and all fuel types…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
González-Cabán
The symposium it is organized around seven major themes: 1. Regional and global vision of the forest fire problem 2. Theory and methods for strategic fire planning 3. Nonmarket and market valuation methods for strategic fire planning 4. Forest firs and sustainable forest…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Major
Project Objectives 1. Synthesize Available Information on Habitat Requirements and Effects of Fire on Resident Wildlife Species (National Coverage). 2. National Workshop on Habitat Structure: Fire Fuel Loads and Wildlife Use. 3. Prototype Project: Develop Sampling Protocols for…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Martinson
Objectives 1) To synthesize, in one document, existing information on historic fire regimes in the US; 2) To document fuel profile changes in these regimes to the extent possible, including a discussion of impacts on ecosystem function and consequent fire behavior; 3) To…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Rideout
A 2-year study is proposed in response to Task 3 of the second Request for Proposals authorized by the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board ('Develop, evaluate, or compare methods or approaches to incorporate wildland fuels management information into landscape scale land…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Landres, Black, Miller
We propose to develop methods that allow managers to incorporate information on the risks and benefits of wildland fuels management into landscape scale planning. Although wildland fire managers have a full spectrum of strategies available for reducing fuels, they lack…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brooks
This is a proposal soliciting support for a symposium on the inter-relationships between fire and invasive plants. This symposium is scheduled for 1:00-4:30 PM, 6 August 2002, in Tucson, Arizona, as a special session of the joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
MacGregor
This proposal is in response to the Joint Fire Science Program RFP2001-1, Task 7: Develop scientifically based support tools to improve fire management decision processes. The proposed project takes the perspective that prescribed fire planning is inherently a problem of…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kokaly, McAdams, Root, Walker
For the past several decades, prescribed fire has proven to be a valuable tool for managing federal lands. It is an economical and efficient way to reduce accumulated fuel loads resulting from prolonged policies of suppressing wildfires, Prescribed fire helps to control the…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Munger, Randall, Ryan, Smith, Sutherland, Zouhar
This project will update and increase the information on invasive plant species available in the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS), link FEIS to other Internet sites with high-quality information on invasive species, and report on information gaps in the scientific…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Randall, Ryan, Saveland
This proposal addresses Tasks 1 & 2 of Joint Fire Sciences AFP 2003-4: Develop information structures, tools, or decision support systems for accessing, disseminating, and applying wildland fire and fuels research results ... Produce readily understandable and useable…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Evaluation of Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Mitigation Methods and Development of Decision-Support Tools
The production of debris flows can be one of the most hazardous consequences of wildfires in the urban/wildland interface. Debris flows can occur with little warning, are capable of transporting large material over relatively gentle gradients, and may develop momentum and impact…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Abt
Decades of fire suppression in fire-prone forested regions of the western and southern United States has created conditions favorable for catastrophic wildfires. Systematic stand density reduction through mechanical methods or a combination of mechanical methods and prescribed…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Arbaugh, Chew, Jones, Kimberlin, Kurz, Merzenich, Snell, van Wagtendonk, Wiitala
Project Objectives: In addition to the 4 original objectives, we will: 1. Develop the data necessary to parameterize the 3 models for a selected site in Alaska. 2. Simulate potential fuel treatments for the Alaskan site. 3. Examine and model fire-size and landscape fragmentation…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler
This proposal outlines a request for funding to pay for equipment and travel costs incurred by a team that can be rapidly deployed to obtain measurements of energy transfer as naturally burning fires burn into and around clearings that may be characterized as firefighter safety…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Eberhardt
Knowing the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics, and potential fuel consumption and emissions production is becoming increasingly important for making informed decisions on the use of prescribed fire, wildfires and wildland fire use fires. Consequently the Joint…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zeller, Mathewson, Nikolov
Reliable forecasting of regional weather and wind flow patterns is critical for effective fighting of wildland fires and the operational management of prescribed burns. Accurate prediction of future wind fields is essential for predicting fire behavior; smoke dispersion, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Ferguson, Wilson
We propose to develop training resources to facilitate application of the BlueSky modeling framework and its Rapid Access Information System (RAINS) to Smoke and Fire Management and Operations. BlueSkyRAINS, developed under the National Fire Plan in cooperation with the…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Key, Ohlen
This proposal responds to Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Request for Proposals 2001-1, Task 4. Specifically, the proposed research is in direct response to JFSP statements that research is needed to 'develop, apply, and validate improved remote sensing applications for…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Bradshaw, Butler
The following constitutes a proposal submitted in response to JFSP RFP 2003-2 Task-i. One major source of uncertainty in fire behavior predictions is spatial variation in the wind fields used in the fire models. Mountainsides, valleys, ridges, and the fire itself, influence both…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Caratti, Gangi, Hann, Key
Monitoring the effects of wildland fire is critical for (1) documenting fire effects, (2) assessing ecosystem damage and benefit, (3) evaluating the success or failure of a burn, and (4) appraising the potential for future treatments. Many fire managers do not collect monitoring…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Holmberg, Irwin
Forest reserves have been established to protect resources such as red-cockaded woodpeckers in the southeastern U.S., northern spotted owls and other vertebrates in the Pacific Northwest, aquatic resources such as salmon and bull trout, and the Canada lynx throughout its range.…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Agee, Baldwin, Barbour, Beall, Boerner, Brown, Busse, Edminster, Fiedler, Haase, Harrington, Hodgson, Keeley, Landram, Laudenslayer, Lehmkuhl, Otrosina, Ottmar, Ritchie, Ryan, Shea, Skinner, Stephens, Stephenson, Sutherland, Vihnanek, Wade, Waldrop, Weatherspoon, Yaussy, Zack
Objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Quantify the initial effects (first five years) of fire and fire surrogate treatments on a number of specific core response variables within the general groupings of (a) vegetation, (b) fuel and fire behavior, (c) soils and forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES