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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Vaidyanathan, Yip, Garbe
Wildfire episodes pose a significant public health threat in the United States. Adverse health impacts associated with wildfires occur near the burn area as well as in places far downwind due to wildfire smoke exposures. Health effects associated with exposure to particulate…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frazier, Coops, Wulder, Hermosilla, White
The disturbance and recovery cycles of Canadian boreal forests result in highly dynamic landscapes, requiring continued monitoring to observe and characterize environmental change over time. Well-established remote sensing methods capture change over forested ecosystems, however…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
El Houssami, Lamorlette, Morvan, Hadden, Simeoni
An experimental and numerical study was carried out to assess the performance of the different submodels and parameters used to describe the burning dynamics of wildfires. A multiphase formulation was used and compared to static fires of dried pitch pine needles of different…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin, Celis, Johnstone, McGuire, Genet, Schuur, Rupp, Mack
Increasing wildfire activity in Alaska's boreal forests has led to greater fuel-reduction management. Management has been implemented to reduce wildfire spread, but the ecological impacts of these practices are poorly known. We quantified the effects of hand-thinning and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kumar, Wu, Huang, Liao, Kaplan
We estimate the global Hg wildfire emissions for the 2000s and the potential impacts from the 2000–2050 changes in climate, land use and land cover and Hg anthropogenic emissions by combining statistical analysis with global data on vegetation type and coverage as well as fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Minor, Boyce
Wildfire prevention advertisements featuring Smokey Bear represent the longest-standing and most successful government advertising and branding campaign in U.S. history. As the public face of U.S. fire control policy, Smokey Bear uses mass media to influence the attitudes and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Matsypura, Prokopyev, Zahar
Wildfires are a common phenomenon on most continents. They have occurred for an estimated 60 million years and are part of a regular climatic cycle. Nevertheless, wildfires represent a real and continuing problem that can have a major impact on people, wildlife and the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fann, Alman, Broome, Morgan, Johnston, Pouliot, Rappold
Introduction: Wildland fires degrade air quality and adversely affect human health. A growing body of epidemiology literature reports increased rates of emergency departments, hospital admissions and premature deaths from wildfire smoke exposure. Objective: Our research aimed to…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinne, Bladon, Miller, Parisien, Mathieu, Flannigan
The large mediatic coverage of recent massive wildfires across the world has emphasized the vulnerability of freshwater resources. The extensive hydrogeomorphic effects from a wildfire can impair the ability of watersheds to provide safe drinking water to downstream communities…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
The purpose of this project is to actively distribute fire science research results through two currently scheduled international conferences. These conferences are currently being coordinated by the International Association of Wildland Fire. It is anticipated that between 40-…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rios, Jahn, Pastor, Valero, Planas
Local wind fields that account for topographic interaction are a key element for any wildfire spread simulator. Currently available tools to generate near-surface winds with acceptable accuracy do not meet the tight time constraints required for data-driven applications. This…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Valero, Rios, Pastor, Planas
A variety of remote sensing techniques have been applied to forest fires. However, there is at present no system capable of monitoring an active fire precisely in a totally automated manner. Spaceborne sensors show too coarse spatio-temporal resolutions and all previous studies…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DellaSala, Ingalsbee, Hanson
Wildfires are a fact of life for westerners. They mark the beginning of the spring season and have been a keystone architect of biodiverse ecosystems for millennia. While wildfires are not eco-catastrophes, they are a health concern, evoke public fear-of-fire exploited by…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
This webinar will discuss various agricultural and forestry fires and their impacts on air quality, including smoke and other air emissions. Basic Smoke Management Practices (BSMPs) will be discussed as means to minimize air quality impacts from prescribed fires.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hostetler, Bartlein, Alder
We analyze climate simulations conducted with the RegCM3 regional climate model on 50‐ and 15‐km model grids to diagnose the dependence of wildfire incidence and area burned variations on monthly climate long‐term means and anomalies over North America for the period 1986‐2013.…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gallacher, Ripa, Butler, Fletcher
The Coanda effect is the phenomenon in which a jet entering quiescent fluid attaches to a nearby solid object due to inhibited entrainment of ambient fluid near the solid. Little is known about the influence of the Coanda effect on wildland fire behavior. Specifically, there is…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stanley, Hom, Gai, Joiner
Recent research has indicated that firefighters are at elevated suicide risk. Fire service organizations have called for research to examine fire service subgroups that might be at relatively increased suicide risk. Although anecdotal reports suggest that wildland firefighters…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pereira, Francos, Brevik, Ubeda, Bogunovic
Soils are an important natural capital and can be negatively affected by high severity fires. The capacity of soil to recover from the degradation caused by fire disturbance depends on fire history, ash properties, topography, post-fire weather, vegetation recuperation and post-…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fečkan, Pačuta
We consider a wildfire spread model represented by the system (1). We use results from the theory of Hamilton-Jacobi equations to prove that there exists a classical solution of (1) for any (ϕ,t)∈R×(0,T)(ϕ,t)∈R×(0,T) and some T>0T>0 and satisfies particular initial…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson, Paveglio, Becker
Often missing or underdeveloped in wildland fire research is a clear sense of the link between contemporaneous political possibility and the desired ecological or management outcomes. We examine the disconnect between desired outcomes and what we call the “politically possible…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harley, Baisan, Brown, Falk, Flatley, Grissino-Mayer, Hessl, Heyerdahl, Kaye, Lafon, Margolis, Maxwell, Naito, Platt, Rother, Saladyga, Sherriff, Stachowiak, Stambaugh, Sutherland, Taylor
Dendroecology is the science that dates tree rings to their exact calendar year of formation to study processes that influence forest ecology (e.g., Speer 2010 [1], Amoroso et al., 2017 [2]). Reconstruction of past fire regimes is a core application of dendroecology, linking…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ruby
The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Irland
The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lee
The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES