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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dodds, Gido, Whiles, Daniels, Grudzinski
We propose the Stream Biome Gradient Concept as a way to predict macroscale biological patterns in streams. This concept is based on the hypothesis that many abiotic and biotic features of streams change predictably along climate (temperature and precipitation) gradients because…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bixby, Cooper, Gresswell, Brown, Dahm, Dwire
Fire is a prevalent feature of many landscapes and has numerous and complex effects on geological, hydrological, ecological, and economic systems. In some regions, the frequency and intensity of wildfire have increased in recent years and are projected to escalate with predicted…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Drews, Siebeneck, Cova
Decision making in complex environments has been investigated in many domains, including medicine, aviation, business, and police operations. However, how incident commanders (ICs) make protective-action recommendations (PARs) to populations exposed to wildfire risks is…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larouche, Abbott, Bowden, Jones
In the Alaskan Arctic, rapid climate change is increasing the frequency of disturbance including wildfire and permafrost collapse. These pulse disturbances may influence the delivery of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to aquatic ecosystems, however the magnitude of these effects…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire is an important disturbance in riparian systems-consuming vegetation; increasing light; creating snags and debris flows; altering habitat structure; and affecting stream conditions, erosion, and hydrology. For many years, land managers have worked to keep fire out of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
The management of wildfire is a dynamic, complex, and fundamentally uncertain enterprise. Fire managers face uncertainties regarding fire weather and subsequent influence on fire behavior, the effects of fire on socioeconomic and ecological resources, and the efficacy of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stonesifer, Thompson, Calkin, McHugh
The appropriate role of large airtankers (LATs) in federal fire suppression in the United States has been the source of much debate and discussion in recent years as the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has faced impending decisions about how best to address an aging fleet of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York, Jandt, Maisch, Slaughter
Presentations and roundtable discussion from Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
West
In the profession of wildland firefighting there has been a rise in the occurrence and awareness of exertional rhabdomyolysis, a serious medical condition. Exercise, particularly when strenuous and unaccustomed, causes damage and subsequent muscle fiber breakdown, known as…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Culver
This study was an examination of the correlation between fire officers' emotional intelligence (EI) and their perceived leadership effectiveness. A review of the literature pointed out the need to further explore and understand the leadership effectiveness of fire officers, the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butteri, Pyne
This training webinar was presented by Peter Butteri (US Fish and Wildlife Service/Bureau of Land Management-Alaska Fire Service) and KT Pyne (Alaska Division of Forestry, Strategic Planner), and Co-organized by the Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee and Alaska Fire Science…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Larouche, Abbott, Bowden, Jones
In the Alaskan Arctic, rapid climate change is increasing the frequency of disturbance including wildfire and permafrost collapse. These pulse disturbances may influence the delivery of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to aquatic ecosystems, however the magnitude of these effects…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS