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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Thompson
In this presentation, Dr. Thompson will explore themes of slack and scarcity and how they relate to multi-scale concepts of strategy, performance, and analytics in wildfire. While the description is short, this webinar contained a fascinating collection of concepts, statistics,…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Franz
The topic of “managed wildfire” is mired in complexity, starting with what to call it. This fire management approach has been known as “prescribed natural fire,” “wildland fire use,” “resource objective fire,” and more. All names refer to the same essential idea: leveraging…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Pilgrim
Kristy Pilgrim is a Researcher for the Wildlife and Terrestrial Ecosystems program at Rocky Mountain Research Station, and Laboratory Supervisor for the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation. She presents interesting case studies of DNA species…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Flores, Rushing, Redmore
Presentation as part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2023 Webinar Series by David Flores, Jaclyn Rushing and Lauren Redmore
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Stevens, Dillon, Manley, Povak, Nepal
Introduction to SCIENCE x Day 4, brief overview by Jens StevensDelivering wildfire risk information targeted to the community level, presented by Greg DillonJuggling risks and tradeoffs toward a more resilient future: the known, unknown, unknowable, and the unpleasant, presented…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Smail, Martin
A practitioner-oriented overview of LANDFIRE with a focus on fuels and how they react to modeling techniques. The subject area of discussion is the 2022 Cooks Peak fire located in northern New Mexico. This webinar is technical in its application and may offer insights for both…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jain, Hood, McKinney, Ott, Urza
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. Rocky Mountain Research Station…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Carr, McDonald, Hanes
Hosted by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, Richard Carr of CFS provided a national-level forecast, Matthew MacDonald provided a regional outlook from a BC perspective, and Chelene Hanes of NRCan presented some of her research on overwintering and initial DC values.
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

This is a combined call for the NWCG Smoke Managers Sub-Committee and the WRAP Fire and Smoke Working Group. The intent of this occasional call series is to discuss operational smoke management issues and build understanding between the air regulatory and wildland fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Ruby
This presentation and an associated article detail the physical demands and emerging health concerns facing wildland firefighters, in addition to the challenges that their sponsoring agencies must address to protect the health and performance of these key personnel and their…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Brown
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Rupp, Bieniek, Ziel, Bhatt
Meeting on Thursday November 29th, 2018 at the Alaska Fire Service on the Alaska Climate Adaption Science Center Wildfire Forecasting. Presenters include: Scott Rupp, Peter Bieniek, Robert (Zeke) Ziel, and Uma Bhatt
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Zylstra
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. In 2017, approximately 57.3 million gallons of retardant was loaded onto airtankers.  Of that, approximately 19 million gallons were dropped onto NFS lands. The use of fire chemicals is not without controversy.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jolly, Bradshaw, Freeborn
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

This video details the procedure for sampling fuel loading using the photoload technique. This video is part of the World of Wildland Fire video series.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Moore, Ziel, Saperstein
Organized by the AWFCG Fire Modeling & Analysis Committee (FMAC), this webinar is meant to help listeners get ready for the upcoming fire season in Alaska. Speakers and topics included: Chris Moore on 2017 Fire Modeling Case Studies (AKA "Have you considered elevation in…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

This webinar covers significant changes made to the 2017 Prescribed Fire Complexity Rating System Guide (PMS 424).
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Noonan
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. This research examines perceptions of risk by decision-makers during wildland fires using newly available data from the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), with an eye toward better understanding how…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Treadwell
Dr. Morgan Treadwell, with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, teaches ranchers about using prescribed burning, then uses drones to review burn footage and dissect the burn piece by piece.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Schoennagel, Godwin, Miller
The combination of frequent droughts, changing climate conditions, and longer fire seasons along with urban development expansion into wildland areas has resulted in more difficult conditions for managing wildfires. Wildfires are causing more frequent and wider-ranging societal…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Odman, Garcia Menendez
SIPFIS is the acronym for Southern Integrated Prescribed Fire Information System. SIPFIS merges prescribed fire and air quality data into a common analysis framework to create a unified prescribed fire and air quality database for the southern U.S. The information available…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Forthofer
Fire Weather Alert System tutorial video for online use to alert firefighters to hazardous weather conditions in their area.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Toombs, Weber
Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive fire information becomes…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES