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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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González-Cabán
In the spring of 2008, the Third International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: A World View was held in Carolina, Puerto Rico to address the issues related to the economics, policy and planning of wildland fire management problems and concerns. Since then,…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Smith
This project supports the identification and organization of data from early fire behavior experiments with particular emphasis on radiative and convective spread mechanisms. These pivotal experiments were conducted at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory from the early 1960s…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Acheson, Finney, Hicks
Wildland fires are a major contributor of particulate matter and other pollutants to the atmosphere. The new EPA Clean Air Act and the Regional Haze Rule require quantifying accurately the emissions of PM2.5 and other pollutants from fires and their impacts on regional haze and…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Babbitt, Ferguson, Lahm, Ottmar, Sandberg, Susott, Yokelson
Project Objectives For at least 5 different major classes of fuels typically involved in residual smoldering combustion (RSC) and two different moisture content conditions dispersed over at least 10 different sites. Four of these will be in the western USA, 3 in the southeast, 2…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Riggan
The goals of this proposal are to extend an existing JFSP Rapid Response Study (JFSP# 03-S-al) for an additional twelve-month period. Additional funding requested will provide the opportunity for two additional full deployments of the Rapid Response Team, including the airborne…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Bradshaw, Running
Real-time monitoring and predictive models of vegetation phenology will be developed to assess the current state of greenness of live vegetation as well as predict the timing of greenup and senescence events as a result of future climates. The real-time monitor will be based on…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman
This study is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of TFSP agency communication strategies and partnerships with local organizations for fuel reduction programs. Research will be at the community level where federal fire personnel have begun to work cooperatively with local…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Hiers
Knowledge of the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics is becoming increasingly important for making informed decisions on the use of prescribed fire, wildfires, and wildland fire use fires. Consequently the Joint Fire Science Program funded the development of fuels…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Renschler
This proposal is in response to Task 1: Science Application Partnerships, as described in the Joint Fire Science Program Announcement for Proposals 2004-4. The current GeoWEPP spatial erosion modeling tool is showing great promise for applications to Burned Area Emergency…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Ottmar, Vihnanek
Wildland fire professionals require accurate, detailed fuels information to effectively plan and implement a whole range of fuels and fire management actions. The Natural Fuels Photo Series, a photo guide designed for field use, is a source of high quality fuels data for a wide…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi
The Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan promulgates policy objectives that recognize the ecological importance of perpetuating natural fire regimes. The same policy also directs land managers to balance the protection of ecological principles with appropriate risk management…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Cawrse, VanDyck
This is a proposal to improve performance of the Forest Vegetation Simulator related to processing speed and linkages to other software. These improvements will better meet the needs of landscape analyses for fire planning for the Interagency Fuels Treatment - Decision Support…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz, Peterson, Vaillant
The focus of the proposed project will be on synthesizing the available information on crown fire behavior related to conifer forests (e.g., the onset of crowning, type of crown fire and the associated spread rate and fireline intensity, convection column development, spotting,…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Winkler
Planning for future fire regimes and fuel conditions involves predicting future fuel loads and conditions, as well as evaluating how the atmospheric potential for large or dangerous fires will change in the future. There have been several studies examining the potential changes…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Alden, Shulski
This proposal is in response to the Joint Fire Science Program's Announcement for Proposals 2004-2, Task 1, directly addressing local knowledge gaps associated with planning and implementation of fuels treatment that are specifically identified by an agency administrator. At the…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Ferguson, Larkin
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) was completed with Joint Fire Science Program support in 2000 under a 1998-2000 project called, Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildiand Fires. It is a twice-daily, 30- year database of surface wind,…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Brooks, Sutherland, Zouhar
Managers need to understand the scientific principles that drive the relationships between fire and invasive plants, and they need to know what aspects of fire-invasive issues are unique to their geographic regions. This project will (1) produce a General Technical Report in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
With the creation of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) came an expectation of the rapid and systematic delivery of solutions to the technical and scientific problems associated with planning for (including managing fuels), fighting, and recovering from wildfires. Although it…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
Recent increases in funding for fire related research have not been accompanied by corresponding increases in the science delivery effort. This has created a backlog of new information that is not being fully applied by managers, regulators, decision makers, or policy makers.…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith
What constitutes a high-quality synthesis for wildland managers? Fire managers often request syntheses, and the Joint Fire Science Project (JFSP) has responded--publishing eight syntheses on its website to date and supporting online publication of nearly 300 species reviews (…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Princevac, Achtemeier, Goodrick, Mahalingam, Venkatram
Researchers from the University of California at Riverside and the USDA Forest Service (FS) are proposing a study to understand the processes that govern the formation of 'superfog', which is associated with low intensity, smoldering fires. This study is designed to complement a…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski, Achtemeier, Hao, Kovalev
The proposal addresses JFSP AFP-2008-1, Task 6, Smoke and Emissions Models Evaluation. Wildland fire is a significant source of fine particulate matter (e.g. PM2.5, particles· with a diameter less than 2.5 Jlm) and volatile organic compounds that can contribute to ozone (03)…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie
This project reviews the essential ingredients of a modeling system for projecting smoke consequences in a rapidly warming climate that is expected to change wildfire regimes significantly. We present relevant details of each component of the system, offer suggestions for the…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Rorig
We propose to hold a workshop to train approximately ten smoke modeling specialists who would be available thereafter to support wildland fire incidents on a regional scale, similar to the role the AirFire Team played for the 2011 fires in the Southwestern US. The workshop will…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Cochrane, Wimberly
The fire situation in the United States is well documented with a growing prevalence of larger and more intense fires that have increasingly severe consequences for affected ecosystems and human health and well being. Wildland fire managers have the task of mitigating the…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES