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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Bhatt
Presented By: Uma Bhatt March 28th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting, the presentation gave an update on the UAF seasonal prediction project and EPSCoR project.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Strader
Presented By: Heidi Strader March 28th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting, the presentation gave the seasonal outlook for the 2019 fire season.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Conduct your home risk assessment on Wildfire Prep Day.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Reinhardt
See how remote sensing is being used to track progress in conifer management. This video was presented by Jason Reinhardt – University of Minnesota-Minneapolis at the Harnessing Technology to Improve Conservation Effectiveness on Western Working Lands| Society for Rangeland…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jandt, Little, Drury, Molina, Lane
This compilation is intended to provide an illustrated overview of the current science of fuelbreaks in Alaska boreal forest, with citations and links to additional reference material for practitioners and the public.  Research on fuelbreaks in the high northern latitudes is…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jenkins
Presented By: Jen Jenkins March 28th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting, the presentation gave an update on new and continuing GIS uses available.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Buma, Batllori, Bisbing, Holz, Saunders, Bidlack, Creutzburg, DellaSala, Gregovich, Hennon, Krapek, Moritz, Zaret
The coastal temperate rainforests of South and North America are part of the most biomass dense forest biome on the planet. They are also subject to rapid climatic shifts and, subsequently, new disturbance processes - snow loss‐driven mortality and the emergence of fire in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Day, Dunfield, Johnstone, Mack, Turetsky, Walker, White, Baltzer
Wildfire is the dominant disturbance in boreal forests and fire activity is increasing in these regions. Soil fungal communities are important for plant growth and nutrient cycling post‐fire but there is little understanding of how fires impact fungal communities across…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ebel
Wildfires raise risks of floods, debris flows, major geomorphologic and sedimentologic change, and water quality and quantity shifts. A principal control on the magnitude of these changes is field‐saturated hydraulic conductivity (Kfs), which dictates surface runoff generation…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Yang, Liu, Chen, Gao, Tu
The smoldering combustion of natural organic layers such as peatlands leads to the largest and most persistent wildland fires on the Earth. The atmospheric oxygen concentration (mass fraction of oxygen: ) significantly influences the smoldering characteristics of peatlands. This…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Weir, Kreuter, Wonkka, Twidwell, Stroman, Russell, Taylor
Changing climate and fuel accumulation are increasing wildfire risks across the western United States. This has led to calls for fire management reform, including the systematic use of prescribed fire. Although use of prescribed fire by private landowners in the southern Great…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lopez, Frederick, Navarro
Prescribed fire and wildfire in the Western US have long been critical ecological processes used by humans, specifically Native Americans, to manage the plant species, insects, and diseases present in a landscape. However, policies of fire suppression have led to a decrease in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Zhang, Collin, Moireau, Trouve, Rochoux
Data assimilation is an emerging and powerful tool towards real-time flame front monitoring for wildland fire applications. The key idea is to regularly update the state and/or parameters of a fire spread model using observed firelines in order to improve a forecast on future…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Dunn, O'Connor, Reilly, Calkin, Thompson
Researchers and managers increasingly recognize enterprise risk management as critical to addressing contemporary fire management challenges. Quantitative wildfire risk assessments contribute by parsing and mapping potentially contradictory positive and negative fire effects.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Filipponi
Satellite data play a major role in supporting knowledge about fire severity by delivering rapid information to map fire-damaged areas in a precise and prompt way. The high availability of free medium-high spatial resolution optical satellite data, offered by the Copernicus…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Long, Zhang, He, Jiao, Tang, Wu, Zhang, Wang, Yin
Heretofore, global Burned Area (BA) products have only been available at coarse spatial resolution, since most of the current global BA products are produced with the help of active fire detection or dense time-series change analysis, which requires very high temporal resolution…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

McGranahan
Fine-fuel moisture is an important variable in the wildland fire environment, but measuring live fuel moisture is time-consuming. There is a strong incentive to develop technologies that provide instantaneous measurements of fine-fuel moisture. Campbell Scientific, Inc. markets…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lopez, Frederick, Lake, Wright
In many ecosystems worldwide, fire plays a critical role as a natural disturbance that influences landscape pattern and function. The effects of fire disturbances at landscape levels are central to many tribal cultures in North America, and tribes extensively used fire to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lasky
Every year, 600,000 Americans over 70 years old stop driving every year. In 1970, blue-collar jobs were 31.2% of total nonfarm employment. By 2016, their share had fallen to 13.6%. The number of days reaching 'Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups' Level or Above on the Air Quality…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Kush
Longleaf pine and ponderosa pine in the same talk? Both of these forests were often described as open and park-like. This presentation will provide a historical overview of these forests and a discussion of each species ecology and the relationship with fire. It is important to…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Melvin
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils (CPFC) worked collaboratively to produce the 2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report (.pdf). Since 2012, this report has been compiled every three years, and is unique among…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Navarro, Martinez
Wildland firefighters are exposed to wood smoke, which contains hazardous air pollutants, during wildland fire management assignments across the U.S. each year. In this webinar, Kathleen Navarro, PhD, will present on a recent Joint Fire Science Program study estimating the…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Dunn
New fire management paradigms are emerging that recognize fire is inevitable, and in many cases desirable. During this webinar you will be introduced to a new process for spatial fire planning using tools such as Potential Control Line atlases (PCLs), Quantitative wildfire Risk…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Chuvieco, Mouillot, Van der Werf, San Miguel, Tanase, Koutsias, García, Yebra, Padilla, Gitas, Heil, Hawbaker, Giglio
Fire has a diverse range of impacts on Earth's physical and social systems. Accurate and up to date information on areas affected by fire is critical to better understand drivers of fire activity, as well as its relevance for biogeochemical cycles, climate, air quality, and to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES