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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Guyette
From the text ... 'Because fire was such an important historic disturbance and is a large component in understanding regional differences in emissions, it is analogous to an elephant in the closet. One can think of fire frequency as the elephant. That is, it is an issue that is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
America does not have a fire problem. It has many fire problems. The policy of fire exclusion through most of the 20th century seemed successful at first but eventually lead to larger, more intense, and damaging fires. By the mid-1970s federal agencies pulled back from the fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Preliminary list of fire research needs in Alaska.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This is a well-written polemic about the failure of fire policy and management in the United States. The book contains enough ecology and history for nonspecialists to understand the complexities of the policy and management dilemmas that we face today. The authors provide a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2010 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Chipman, Barnes, Rupp, Duffy, Urban
Charcoal deposits collected from lake sediment in Noatak and the Seward Peninsula were used to quantify fire return intervals in tundra ecosystems and examine the relationships between fire, vegetation, and climate.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rigby
BLM - Alaska Service plans to use SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images to update all 2009 and 2010 fire perimeters. The quick processing time and small file size will allow for all fire perimeters to be updated after the fire season.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adair
Persuasive models of the ejection of material at high velocities from the Chicxulub asteroid impact marking the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary have led to the conclusion that upon return, that material, heated in passage through the upper atmosphere, generated a high level of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hély, Girardin, Ali, Carcaillet, Brewer, Bergeron
We present here a 7000-year wildfire reconstruction based on sedimentary charcoal series from five lakes located south of Hudson Bay in eastern boreal North America. The reconstruction shows a significant downward trend in the frequency of large fires from 0.0061 fire·yr^-1 ca.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Mack, Romanovsky, Turetsky
In the boreal forests of interior Alaska, feedbacks that link forest soils, fire characteristics, and plant traits have supported stable cycles of forest succession for the past 6000 years. This high resilience of forest stands to fire disturbance is supported by two…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Power, Marlon, Bartlein, Harrison
Version 1 of the Global Charcoal Database is now available for regional fire history reconstructions, data exploration, hypothesis testing, and evaluation of coupled climate-vegetation-fire model simulations. The charcoal database contains over 400 radiocarbon-dated records that…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Verbyla, Rupp, McGuire, Murphy, Jandt, Barnes, Hoy, Duffy, Calef, Turetsky
A synthesis was carried out to examine Alaska's boreal forest fire regime. During the 2000s, an average of 767 000 ha x year-1 burned, 50% higher than in any previous decade since the 1940s. Over the past 60 years, there was a decrease in the number of lightning-ignited fires,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Hollingsworth, Chapin, Mack
Predicting plant community responses to changing environmental conditions is a key element of forecasting and mitigating the effects of global change. Disturbance can play an important role in these dynamics, by initiating cycles of secondary succession and generating…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Koo, Pagni, Weise, Woycheese
Spotting ignition by lofted firebrands is a significant mechanism of fire spread, as observed in many large-scale fires. The role of firebrands in fire propagation and the important parameters involved in spot fire development are studied. Historical large-scale fires, including…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pechony, Shindell
Recent bursts in the incidence of large wildfires worldwide have raised concerns about the influence climate change and humans might have on future fire activity. Comparatively little is known, however, about the relative importance of these factors in shaping global fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hu, Barnes, Rupp
We reconstructed fire history in one of the most flammable tundra ecosystems in Alaska, the Noatak River watershed, and interpreted records in the context of local vegetation change and regional climate. We also developed models linking monthly weather conditions to annual area…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Walsh, Chapman, Duffy, Brubaker, Chipman
Recent climatic warming has resulted in pronounced environmental changes in the Arctic, including shrub cover expansion and sea ice shrinkage. These changes foreshadow more dramatic impacts that will occur if the warming trend continues. Among the major challenges in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sorbel
This document provides guidelines for downloading active (current) fire perimeters, all perimeters (fire progression), and historic fire perimeters through the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center's IMS site. Also, there are directions for viewing active fire data using Google…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
To date in 2010, eleven fires have been detected on the North Slope. There has been some interest in the fire activity and whether it is abnormal. Here I provide some basic statistics on North Slope fires since 1969 to provide some context. There have been 34 recorded fires on…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Champ, Brooks
In this conceptual article, the authors explore the possibilities of another approach to examining the human dimensions of wildland fire. They argue that our understanding of this issue could be enhanced by considering a cultural studies construct known as the 'circuit of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Rupp
Fire and fuels management goals in Alaska are hindered by a limited understanding of fire history and the controls of fire regimes. Nowhere is this statement more accurate that in tundra ecosystems that cover nearly one-third of the state. Over 60 communities and 348 native…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rigby
BLM - Alaska Service plans to use SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images to update all 2009 and 2010 fire perimeters. The quick processing time and small file size will allow for all fire perimeters to be updated after the fire season.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Charcoal deposits collected from lake sediment in Noatak and the Seward Peninsula were used to quantify fire return intervals in tundra ecosystems and examine the relationships between fire, vegetation, and climate.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Neill
Stress complexes in Western forests are affected by a warmer climate, that is the interaction of fire, drought, insects, etc. can alter the vigor of forest ecosystems and potentially change their structure and function. This webinar will cover the concepts and present several…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone
Current changes in climate are likely to cause changes to the fire regime in Alaska and other boreal regions. How are projected changes in fire regime likely to affect the composition of boreal forests? This presentation summarized research in interior Alaska and adjacent Yukon…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES