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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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: TTRS
Lutes
FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Markowski-Lindsay, Catanzaro, Milman, Kittredge
Due to an aging landowner population, there will be an unprecedented ownership shift in land-based assets in the USA. Approximately 2.7 million family forest owners (FFOs) in the USA over the age of 55 years old, reflecting 80 % of all FFO-owned land, will be deciding the future…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balch, Nagy, Archibald, Bowman, Moritz, Roos, Scott, Williamson
Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baker, Woody, Tonnesen, Hutzell, Pye, Beaver, Pouliot, Pierce
Two specific fires from 2011 are tracked for local to regional scale contribution to ozone (O3) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) using a freely available regulatory modeling system that includes the BlueSky wildland fire emissions tool, Spare Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Diaz, Steelman, Nowell
As fire management agencies seek to implement more flexible fire management strategies, local understanding and support for these strategies become increasingly important. One issue associated with implementing more flexible fire management strategies is educating local…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barn, Elliott, Allen, Kosatsky, Rideout, Henderson
Landscape fires can produce large quantities of smoke that degrade air quality in both remote and urban communities. Smoke from these fires is a complex mixture of fine particulate matter and gases, exposure to which is associated with increased respiratory and cardiovascular…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yuchi, Yao, Mclean, Stull, Paviovic, Davignon, Moran, Henderson
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) generated by forest fires has been associated with a wide range of adverse health outcomes, including exacerbation of respiratory diseases and increased risk of mortality. Due to the unpredictable nature of forest fires, it is challenging for…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liu, Mickley, Sulprizio, Dominici, Yue, Ebisu, Anderson, Khan, Bravo, Bell
Wildfire can impose a direct impact on human health under climate change. While the potential impacts of climate change on wildfires and resulting air pollution have been studied, it is not known who will be most affected by the growing threat of wildfires. Identifying…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morefield, LeDuc, Clark, Iovanna
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is the largest agricultural land-retirement program in the United States, providing many environmental benefits, including wildlife habitat and improved air, water, and soil quality. Since 2007, however, CRP area has declined by over 25%…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Uusivuori
One of the most fundamental questions in forest economics is how to divide forestland between productive and conserved land. In this study, voluntary land conservation by private forest owners is analyzed in two cases: first, in a case in which access to conserved forest is…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yao, Eyamie, Henderson
Exposure to forest fire smoke (FFS) is associated with multiple adverse health effects, mostly respiratory. Findings for cardiovascular effects have been inconsistent, possibly related to the limitations of conventional methods to assess FFS exposure. In previous work, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tohidi, Kaye
Highly buoyant plumes, such as wildfire plumes, in low to moderate wind speeds have initial trajectories that are steeper than many industrial waste plumes. They will rise further into the atmosphere before bending significantly. In such cases the plume's trajectory will be…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: Eric Kasischke
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: KT Pyne
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
York
Alison York summarizes the plans from the NASA Arctic/Boreal Vulnerability Experiment relevant to fire managers.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
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
[from the text] Our last research brief focused on managing smoke emissions using a decision support system in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). The authors of this system used a look-up table approach using smoke dispersion and fuel parameters to estimate the impact of smoke…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Mack
Global change models predict that high-latitude boreal forests will become increasingly susceptible to fire activity as climate warms, possibly causing a positive feedback to warming through fire-driven emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere. However, fire-climate feedbacks depend…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Knorr, Jiang, Arneth
Wildfires are by far the largest contributor to global biomass burning and constitute a large global source of atmospheric traces gases and aerosols. Such emissions have a considerable impact on air quality and constitute a major health hazard. Biomass burning also influences…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Santín, Doerr, Kane, Masiello, Ohlson, de la Rosa, Preston, Dittmar
The production of pyrogenic carbon (PyC; a continuum of organic carbon (C) ranging from partially charred biomass and charcoal to soot) is a widely acknowledged C sink, with the latest estimates indicating that ~50% of the PyC produced by vegetation fires potentially sequesters…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward, Shevliakova, Malyshev, Lamarque, Wittenberg
Connections between wildfires and modes of variability in climate are sought as a means for predicting fire activity on interannual to multi-decadal timescales. Several fire drivers, such as temperature and local drought index, have been shown to vary on these timescales, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiggins, Veraverbeke, Henderson, Karion, Miller, Lindaas, Commane, Sweeney, Luus, Tosca, Dinardo, Wofsy, Miller, Randerson
Relationships between boreal wildfire emissions and day-to-day variations in meteorological variables are complex and have important implications for the sensitivity of high-latitude ecosystems to climate change. We examined the influence of environmental conditions on boreal…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hao, Naughton, Urbanski
An accurate, reliable wildland fire emissions inventory is likely the most important criteria in assessing the impacts of prescribed burning and wildfires on regional air quality and global climate. Significant progress has been made in the past ten years to develop fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES