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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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In July 2006, more than 170 researchers and managers from the United States, Canada, and Mexico convened in Boulder, Colorado, to discuss the state of the science in environmental threat assessment. This two-volume general technical report compiles peer-reviewed papers that were…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mazza
In 2010, station researchers provided land managers and policymakers with critical information related to ecological processes, environmental threats, forest management, and use of natural resources. The station also capitalized on opportunities to expand its research in these…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Eagle, Balog
Land managers throughout the West pile and burn surface fuels to mitigate fire hazard in dry forests. Whereas piling was historically conducted with heavy machinery following commercial harvesting operations, land managers are increasingly prescribing the use of hand piling and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright, Eagle, Olson
Photo series and their associated data provide a quick and easy way for managers to quantify and describe fuel and vegetation properties, such as loading of dead and down woody material, tree density, or height of understory vegetation. This information is critical for making…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McKenzie
How will climatic change and wildfire management policies affect public land management decisions concerning air quality through the 21st century? As global temperatures and populations increase and demands on natural resources intensify, managers must evaluate the trade-offs…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fried, Fried
The Fried and Fried containment algorithm, which models the effect of suppression efforts on fire growth, allows simulation of any mathematically representable fire shape, provides for 'head' and 'tail' attack tactics as well as parallel attack (building fireline parallel to but…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz, Vaillant, Peterson
Members of the project team associated with the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) project JFSP-09-S-03-1 entitled 'Crown Fire Behavior Characteristics and Prediction in Conifer Forests: A State of Knowledge Synthesis' are actively seeking help and input from members of the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liljeblad, Borrie, Watson
Trust is a complicated emotion. In the past, many social scientists have studied trust. They discovered that trust involves a number of beliefs and emotions. The scientists in this study were interested in learning more about trust. They believed that forest managers can do a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Chung, Seielstad, Sullivan, Krueger
There is a recognized need to apply and maintain fuel treatments to reduce catastrophic wildland fires. A number of models and decision support systems have been developed for addressing different aspects of fuel treatments while considering other important resource management…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This is a well-written polemic about the failure of fire policy and management in the United States. The book contains enough ecology and history for nonspecialists to understand the complexities of the policy and management dilemmas that we face today. The authors provide a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Charkrabarty, Moosmüller, Chen, Lewis, Arnott, Mazzoleni, Dubey, Wold, Hao, Kreidenweis
We report the direct observation of laboratory production of spherical, carbonaceous particles-'tar balls'-from smoldering combustion of two commonly occurring dry mid-latitude fuels. Real-time measurements of spectrally varying absorption Ångström coefficients (AAC) indicate…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holley, Keane
This visual training aid is designed to provide Photoload users a tool to increase the accuracy of fuel loading estimations when using the Photoload technique. The Photoload Sampling Technique (RMRS-GTR-190) provides fire managers a sampling method for obtaining consistent,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
This powerpoint presentation is a consortium overview for the first session of the 2nd Annual Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop held in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The goals for this workshop are to share new fire re-search findings, network and enhance communications across the fire community, and identify missing links in fire research in Alaska.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's 2nd annual workshop was held October 14-15, 2010 in the BLM - Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms on Ft. Wainwright (1541 Gaffney Road), in conjunction with the annual Fall Fire Review (Oct. 12-14). This condensed summary includes short…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's 2nd annual workshop was held October 14-15, 2010 in the BLM - Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms on Ft. Wainwright (1541 Gaffney Road), in conjunction with the annual Fall Fire Review (Oct. 12-14). This summary includes presentation…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mooney
Most North American fire management agencies have initiated fuel management programs to reduce the effect of wildfire on human, property and resource values. Although fire behavior principles are considered when developing fuel management treatments there is little in the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder
Reducing risk of loss due to wildfire in enhanced when forest fuels surrounding communities and individual structures are properly managed and are a part of the FireSmart concept. This report describes two test burns where a crown fire was burned into a fuel-managed plot…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson
The Alaska Fire Portal provides information about fire science and technology relevant to Alaska. the goal is to provide 'one stop shopping' for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who want access to the results of efforts to understand and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Nenana Ridge Experimental Fuels Treatment Research Project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program and supported with additional contributions from local state and federal agencies. This project was designed to quantify the effects of fuels reduction treatments on fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2010 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Chipman, Barnes, Rupp, Duffy, Urban
Charcoal deposits collected from lake sediment in Noatak and the Seward Peninsula were used to quantify fire return intervals in tundra ecosystems and examine the relationships between fire, vegetation, and climate.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
This brainstorming session addressed several questions including: a) How can scientists help support management decisions? b) How can we integrate this information into the field? c) Where are the missing links in AK fire science information? d) How can the Consortium be most…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
The 2009 survey results were summarized and future action items were identified. The 2010 Technology Transfer Survey in now available.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
The Alaska Consortium is part of a national effort to improve technology transfer between management and researchers. The goals of the Alaska Consortium are to coordinate current science delivery efforts, create a formal outreach mechanism for two-way communication between fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES