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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Joint Fire Science Program 2015 Funding Call

York
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

EPA Next Generation Air Monitoring

Stanek
2014 briefing presentation by Lindsay Wichers Stanek. Delivered to the National Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Smoke Committee. The presentation describes EPA's next generation air monitoring efforts.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Smoke Perceptions Module 4 - Public Trust and Advanced Warning

Module 4 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Smoke Perceptions Module 3 - Individual and Community Characteristics

Module 3 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Smoke Perceptions Module 2 - Values, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Tolerance

Module 2 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Smoke Perceptions Module 1 - Why Public Perception Matters

Module 1 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Smoke: Knowing the Risks

Thirteen minute video outlining the risks of smoke exposure to wildland fire personnel and ways to mitigate exposure.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The How, What, and Where of Safety Zones: Recent Findings

Butler
Bret Butler presented a webinar on December 2, 2014. Current safety zone guidelines for wildland firefighters are based on the assumption of flat ground, no wind, and radiative heating only. Recent measurements in grass, shrub and crown fires indicate that convective heating can…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Season review of Northwest Territories record-breaking 2014 fire season

Archibald
Canada's NWT burned over 7 million acres in 2014. What were the indications (drought codes, forecasts, fuel moisture) to alert managers that they were in for a record-breaking season? How well did pre- and early-season Fuel Moisture Indices reflect the fire risk? What were the…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Uncertainty with Estimating Short-Term (1-3 hr) Particulate Matter Concentration from a Human-Sighted Visual Range

Malm
Several U.S. state and tribal agencies and other countries implement a methodology developed in the arid intermountain western United States, where short-term (1-3 hr) particulate matter (PM) concentrations are estimated from human-observed visual range (Vr) sightings. These PM2…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Sub-canopy Transport and Dispersion of Smoke: A Unique Observation Dataset Plus Model Evaluation of the BlueSky Framework

Strand
Tara Strand presented a webinar on April 24, 2014. Low intensity prescription burning is used to reduce fuels, improve ecosystem health, and to mimic a natural fire pattern that is otherwise suppressed during the more intense wildfire season. There are many constraints that…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Advancement of Smoke Emissions Models Utilizing Geospatial and Remote Sensing Data

Roise, Khorran, Lutes
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Joe Roise of the North Carolina State University, Siamak Khorram of the University of California, Berkeley, and Duncan Lutes with the USDA Forest Service. This webinar presented an introduction to some recent interdisciplinary…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Predicting Local Smoke Dispersion During Low-Intensity Fires in Forested Environments

Heilman
Smoke generated from low-intensity prescribed fires used for fuels management can have an adverse impact on local air quality, raising human health and safety concerns especially in wildland-urban-interface areas. Local smoke behavior is a complex process and is highly dependent…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Fires and Arctic Black Carbon in Russia: Emissions Inventory, Transport, and Mitigation Options

Kinder, Hao
Since 2010, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has been coordinating a USDA multi-agency program to conduct an emissions inventory of black carbon from fires and burning in Russia, examine transport of black carbon from these sources to the Arctic, and identify and implement…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Satellite Constraints on Arctic-region Airborne Particles

Kahn
Satellite remote sensing is generally the most practical way to measure aerosol amount and type frequently, over large areas. However, aerosol remote sensing is especially challenging in the polar regions, due to the combination of very bright surface, low sun angle, persistent…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The Impact of Black Carbon on Arctic Climate

Quinn
Black carbon is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. When BC is deposited on snow and ice, it darkens an otherwise bright surface. The darker surface may enhance the absorption of solar radiation resulting in an acceleration of snow and ice…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Basic Smoke Management Practices

Lahm
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by USDA Forest Service Air Resource Specialist Pete Lahm. This webinar presented an introduction to the six components of the USFS-NRCS Basic Smoke Management Practices.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Smoke Consequences of New Wildfire Regimes Driven by Climate Change

McKenzie, Shankar
Smoke from wildfires has adverse biological and social consequences, and various lines of evidence suggest that smoke from wildfires in the future may be more intense and widespread, demanding that methods be developed to address its effects on people, ecosystems, and the…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Integrated Smoke Management Curriculum

Evans
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Jennifer Evans, Prescribed Fire Extension Specialist with the North Carolina State University Extension Forestry program. This webinar introduced material contained within a newly developed integrated curriculum package on wildland…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Predicting Smoke Impacts with Uncertain Emissions and Meteorology

Odman
Talat Odman presented a webinar on March 4, 2014. Smoke from wildland fires can have adverse impacts on visibility and also on public health. Models are available for simulating the dispersion, long-range transport, and chemical evolution of fire plumes and predicting their…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Mega Fire Project PNW

Preisler
Haiganoush Preisler talks about her work modeling very large fires over very large areas. She is a research scientist and statistician with the USFS PSW Research Station and lead author on the attached paper. You can find out more about her work at: http://www.wfas.net/index.…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Evaluation and Improvement of Smoke Plume Rise Models

Liu
Yong Liu presented a webinar on February 19, 1 PM MST. Plume height is one of the smoke properties that fire and air quality managers need to estimate in order to determine how much pollutants emitted from a prescribed burn are transported to remote populated areas from the burn…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES