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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Black, Saveland, Thomas, Ziegler
The US wildland fire community has been interested in cultivating organizational learning to improve safety and overall performance for a number of years. A key focus has been on understanding the difference between culpability (to be guilty) and accountability (to explain) and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman, McCaffrey, Stidham, Gordon, Olsen, Frederick, Maier
Considerable social science research has been conducted at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) since inception of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) and National Fire Plan (NFP). The Current project was designed to meet two primary goals: 1) summarize and prioritize current…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ghio, Soukup, Case, Dailey, Richards, Berntsen, Devlin, Stone, Rappold
Objectives: Human exposure to wood smoke particles (WSP) impacts on human health through changes in indoor air quality, exposures from wild fires, burning of biomass and air pollution. This investigation tested the postulate that healthy volunteers exposed to WSP would…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak
This video was produced by AFSC coordinator Jen Hrobak for presentation at the Association for Fire Ecology 5th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in Portland, Oregon, (Dec 3-7, 2012). It summarizes the Art of Fire project, including footage of field trips, the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stevenson
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's "In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire" is a visual art project designed generate excitement, facilitate mutual understanding and promote meaningful dialogue on issues related to fire science and society. The interaction between artists, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Nancarrow
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's "In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire" is a visual art project designed generate excitement, facilitate mutual understanding and promote meaningful dialogue on issues related to fire science and society. The interaction between artists, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Moss
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's "In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire" is a visual art project designed generate excitement, facilitate mutual understanding and promote meaningful dialogue on issues related to fire science and society. The interaction between artists, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hedden
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's "In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire" is a visual art project designed generate excitement, facilitate mutual understanding and promote meaningful dialogue on issues related to fire science and society. The interaction between artists, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's "In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire" is a visual art project designed generate excitement, facilitate mutual understanding and promote meaningful dialogue on issues related to fire science and society. The interaction between artists, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
DeGennaro
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium's "In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire" is a visual art project designed generate excitement, facilitate mutual understanding and promote meaningful dialogue on issues related to fire science and society. The interaction between artists, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Broughton, Lahm, Fitch, O'Neill
States in the humid southeastern US (ex. Louisiana, South Carolina) are investigating or already implementing a methodology developed in the arid intermountain west where particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) concentrations…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Based on its review of the air quality criteria and the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM), the EPA is making revisions to the suite of standards for PM to provide requisite protection of public health and welfare and to make corresponding…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Janas
Post traumatic stress and its impact on the lives of firefighters is under-investigated. Little has been written about the effects of chronic stress and even less on the profession of firefighting and traumatic stress. While coping has been studied over the years, investigation…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fronterhouse
The Alaska Fire Service (AFS) owns and maintains the Alaska Lightning Detection Network (ALDN). Working with the scientific community from the University of Arizona, Tucson, a prototype system was installed in Galena and field tested in 1976. Many transitions have occurred in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Mack, Goetz, Beck, Belshe
Fire activity in boreal forests has increased recently with climate warming, altering stand structure and composition in many areas. Changes in stand dynamics have the potential to alter C cycling and biophysical processes, with feedbacks to global and regional climate. Here, we…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Petrovic, Alderson, Carlson
Challenges associated with the allocation of limited resources to mitigate the impact of natural disasters inspire fundamentally new theoretical questions for dynamic decision making in coupled human and natural systems. Wildfires are one of several types of disaster phenomena,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arino, Casadio, Serpe
Global night-time fire counts for the years from 1995 to 2009 have been obtained by using the latest version of Along Track Scanning Radiometer Top of Atmosphere radiance products (level 1B), and related trends have been estimated. Possible biases due to cloud coverage…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reszka, Borowiec, Steinhaus, Torero
A methodology for the estimation of ignition times on solid materials is presented. It is based on the observation that the time to ignition is proportional to the squared time integral of the incident heat flux. This relationship can be readily demonstrated for the classical…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beach
The author notes that the Indians never put out their campfires, which sometimes led to forest fires.
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
The over all objective of the Rainbow Series Project is to write, publish, and distribute a series of 'state of the art' reviews of the effects of fire on fauna, flora, air, cultural resources, and soil and water (5 volumes). The Missoula Fire Lab proposes to complete the…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Forney, Rehm
Currently there are no fire spread models evaluated for use in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. A number of possible model approaches can be applied to WUI fires. They can range from the relatively simple rule or empirically based to the very complex physics based. Each…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Foltz, Showers
The increased size and severity of wildland fires require increasingly effective BAER treatments. A commonly used BAER treatment is mulching, the spreading of agricultural straw by hand or from the air using a helicopter. While widely used and fairly reasonably effective at…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon
A Fire Prevention Effectiveness Assessment for Multiple Ownerships Fire managers and policy makers have a variety of means of intervening in fire processes to reduce the long-run discounted sum of costs and losses from wildfire. These include preventing and suppressing wildfires…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olmstead, Kousky, Sedjo
This project will test the hypothesis that public fire suppression in forested areas increases the fraction of developed land in these areas, drawing people and structures into the wildland/urban interface. To test this hypothesis, we will construct statistical models that…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Jahn, Putnam
Wildland firefighting crews are considered High Reliability Organizations (HROs) because their members operate in hazardous environments with low rates of error. However, the level of error currently experienced is higher than desired. To improve the safety and performance…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES