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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McCarty, Korontzi, Justice, Loboda
Burning crop residue before and/or after harvest is a common farming practice however; there is no baseline estimate for cropland burned area in the contiguous U.S. (CONUS). We present the results of a study, using five years of remotely sensed satellite data to map the location…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'After the enactment of the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement (FLAME) Act of 2009, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) directed the development of a national cohesive strategy to address the Nation's wildland fire management issues.…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
London
An essay appearing in On Collaboration, a collection edited by Marie Bak Mortensen and Judith Nesbitt. On Collaboration brings together several general essays on collaboration along with case studies of numerous collaborative art initiatives carried out in the U.K. under the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Carroll, Absher, Norton
This study uses social constructionism as a basis for understanding the effectiveness of communication about wildfire risk between agency officials and wildland-urban interface (WUI) residents. Risk communication literature demonstrates a welldocumented difference in the way…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LeQuire
Since its inception, the JFSP has funded projects with a strong technology-transfer component. That original commitment to information exchange between scientists and practitioners received an even stronger boost in 2008, the 10th anniversary of the JFSP, which was marked by a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
So, why should a narrative be of interest to the fire community? Because it is story that gives cultural meaning to historical and accruing experiences. Firefighters don't recount their actions and memories as data sets; they tell stories. Journalists don't ask about facts and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Martin, Martin, Kent
An important policy question receiving considerable attention concerns the risk perception-risk mitigation process that guides how individuals choose to address natural hazard risks. This question is considered in the context of wildfire. We analyze the factors that influence…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley
Several recent papers have suggested replacing the terminology of fire intensity and fire severity. Part of the problem with fire intensity is that it is sometimes used incorrectly to describe fire effects, when in fact it is justifiably restricted to measures of energy output.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wang, Vodacek, Coen
We describe a method for generating synthetic infrared remote-sensing scenes of wildland fire. These synthetic scenes are an important step in data assimilation, which is defined as the process of incorporating new data into an executing model. In our case, this is a fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wang, Glenn
Reflectance-based indices derived from remote-sensing data have been widely used for detecting fire severity in forested areas. Rangeland ecosystems, such as sparsely vegetated shrub-steppe, have unique spectral reflectance differences before and after fire events that may not…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Preisler, Burgan, Eidenshink, Klaver, Klaver
The current study presents a statistical model for assessing the skill of fire danger indices and for forecasting the distribution of the expected numbers of large fires over a given region and for the upcoming week. The procedure permits development of daily maps that forecast…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Data and algorithms from earth-orbiting satellite observations provide key components in scientists' tools that can map active fires and burn scars. Fire perimeter maps can then be crafted using this data. Armed with fire perimeter maps that have been linked to fuel maps of the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bahn, Wright, MontBlanc, Thode
Fire and fuels management have become increasingly challenging in the last three decades due to climate change, invasive species, urbanization and development, increased land use, and the effects of these factors on fire size and frequency (Westerling et al. 2007; D'Antonio and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reid
What are FRAMES and the Southern Fire Portal? The Fire Research and Management Exchange System, or FRAMES (www.frames.gov), is a unique website aimed at information exchange and technology transfer among all wildland fire stakeholders and was developed by the University of Idaho…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reid
What does the Joint Fire Science Program offer online? The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) website (https://www.firescience.gov) provides a free-access wildland fire science information resource providing research summaries and project findings. The primary goal of the website…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy) is a collaborative effort to identify, define, and address wildland fire management problems and opportunities for successful wildland fire management in the three regions of the United States: the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In celebration of 20 years of International Journal of Wildland Fire, a complete index of authors has been compiled from 1991 to 2011.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mason, White, Morishima, Alvarado, Andrew, Clark, Durglo, Durglo, Eneas, Erickson, Friedlander, Hamel, Hardy, Harwood, Haven, Isaac, James, Kenning, Leighton, Pierre, Raish, Shaw, Smallsalmon, Stearns, Teasley, Weingart, Wilder
Native Americans relied on fire to maintain a cultural landscape that sustained their lifeways for thousands of years. Within the past 100 years, however, policies of fire exclusion have disrupted ecological processes, elevating risk of wildfire, insects, and disease, affecting…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jahn
This mixed methods dissertation examined the communicative construction of safety in wildland firefighting. I used a two-study mixed methods approach, examining the communicative accomplishment of safety from two perspectives: high reliability organizing (Weick, Sutcliffe,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Aman
Wildfire hazard is a growing problem in many areas of the United States, especially in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where homes and other structures border or intermingle with forests, shrubs and grasslands. Despite years of educational outreach by fire management…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jahn, Putnam, Black
This document is a summary of a mixed methods dissertation that examined the communicative construction of safety in wildland firefighting. For the dissertation, I used a two-study mixed methods approach, examining the communicative accomplishment of safety from two perspectives…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lauk, Erb
Human-induced vegetation fires destroy a large amount of biomass each year and thus constitute an important fraction of the human interference with the energy flows of terrestrial ecosystems. This paper presents a quantification of the biomass burned in large-scale as well as…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright, Aman
Wildfire hazard is a growing problem in many areas of the United States, especially in the wildland-urban interface, where homes and other structures border or intermingle with forests, shrubs and grasslands. Despite years of educational outreach by fire management officials…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McCoy, Elenz, Vergari, Floyd, Dykehouse, Soper, Fay
Listen to the experiences and lessons learned from veteran fire management officers regarding prescribed fire and fire use.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES