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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alkhatib
Context. Apart from causing tragic loss of lives and valuable natural and individual properties including thousands of hectares of forest and hundreds of houses, forest fires are a great menace to ecologically healthy grown forests and protection of the environment. Every year,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bernier, Gauthier, Jean, Manka, Boulanger, Beaudoin, Guindon
Fire is a dominant mechanism of forest renewal in most of Canada's forests and its activity is predicted to increase over the coming decades. Individual fire events have been considered to be non-selective with regards to forest properties, but evidence now suggests otherwise.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smithwick
From the text...'...calls for the fire-science community to draw up maps of wildfire risk based on contributory factors...' © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dr. Matt Nolan is a Research Associate Professor at UAF's Institute of Northern Engineering with degrees in geophysics and arctic and mechanical engineering. He has been pioneering new high-tech uses of an old tool-the aerial photo. With new advances in computer processing and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Kurth, Saperstein
Webinar with Robert (Zeke) Ziel, Laurie Kurth, and Lisa Saperstein. Organized by the Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee. Recorded on May 24, 2016.
Robert (Zeke) Ziel: Using FFMC and DMC to assess fuel moisture and use of BUI to help adjust ERC values
Laurie Kurth: Some…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: Jenn Jenkins
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saltenberger
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: John Saltenberger
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Waigl
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: Chris Waigl
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Wildland Fire Library is a collection of long-term assessments, fire progressions, fire behavior reports, and other documents and resources to support fire modeling and assessment of long-duration fires. Each file is tied to some event with a location, a start date, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Rodriguez
One of the factors that shapes the Alaskan Boreal forest is the frequency in which previously burned areas re-burn, also known as the fire return interval. The Alaskan fire regime itself is subject to various climate influences one of which is temperature. Using geographic…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toukiloglou, Gitas, Katagis
The recognition and understanding of long-term fire-related processes and patterns, such as the possible connection between the increased frequency of wildfires and global warming, requires the study of historical data records. In this study, a methodology was proposed for the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hokkaido University (HU) is one of the world leaders in developing new earth-observing space technology. Dr. Koji Nakau leads their wildfire remote sensing applications team. He's working with various partners-including UAF-on new satellite-derived products delivered to wildland…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bailey
Alaska Center for Unmanned Aerial Systems Integration (ACUASI) Deputy Director Ro Bailey gave a presentation on the University of Alaska's history and capabilities with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the Interagency Dispatchers meeting March 26, 2014 at the North Pole Hotel…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tirmenstein, Long, Heward
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krist, Ellenwood, Woods, McMahan, Cowardin, Ryerson, Sapio, Zweifler, Romero
This report on the 2012 National Insect and Disease Risk Map (NIDRM) contains a nationwide strategic assessment of the hazard of tree mortality due to insects and diseases, displayed as a series of maps.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
America's tremendous asset base of protected areas is critical for conservation planning, natural resource management, recreation, public health and more. These include national parks and forests, wildlife sanctuaries, state beaches and parks, county open space, city parks, land…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Hopper
Dominique Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute, and Dave Hopper, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, discussed the need for reliable, usable tools and data sources to meet climate change-related land management challenges. The combination of projected climate change and land use…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Robinne, Miller, Parisien, Emelko, Bladon, Silins, Flannigan
Wildfires are keystone components of natural disturbance regimes that maintain ecosystem structure and functions, such as the hydrological cycle, in many parts of the world. Consequently, critical surface freshwater resources can be exposed to post-fire effects disrupting their…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The National Vegetation Classification is a central organizing framework for documentation, inventory, monitoring, and study of vegetation in the United States from broad scale formations like forests to fine-scale plant communities. The Classification allows users to produce…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guyette, Thompson, Whittier, Stambaugh, Dey
Climate has a primary influence on the occurrence and rate of combustion in ecosystems with carbon-based fuels such as forests and grasslands. Society will be confronted with the effects of climate change on fire in future forests. There are, however, few quantitative appraisals…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The new VIIRS 375 m active fire detection data product: algorithm description and initial assessment
The first Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) was launched in October 2011 aboard the Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite. The VIIRS instrument carries two separate sets of multi-spectral channels providing full global coverage at both 375 m…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Collatz, Masek, Huang, Goward
Forest carbon stocks and fluxes are highly dynamic following stand-clearing disturbances from severe fire and harvest and this presents a significant challenge for continental carbon budget assessments. In this work we use forest inventory data to parameterize a carbon cycle…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Martínez, Román, Hantson, Pettinari
Aim: This paper presents a map of global fire vulnerability, estimating the potential damage of wildland fires to global ecosystems. Location: Global scale at 0.5° grid resolution. Methods: Three vulnerability factors were considered: ecological richness and fragility,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wotton
Mike Wotton visited Fairbanks in August 2014 to talk with managers and researchers about the further development and enhancement of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS), which is the system used universally across Canada (and in other areas, including Alaska)…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES