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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Peterson, Hardy
Much like other scientific endeavors, most fire research is conducted either within individual disciplines - fuels, physics, chemistry, ecology, modelling, and so forth - or, at best, across only two or three disciplines. This is primarily because fire scientists have particular…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kiefer, Heilman, Zhong, Charney, Bian
Much uncertainty exists regarding the possible role that gaps in forest canopies play in modulating fire–atmosphere interactions in otherwise horizontally homogeneous forests. This study examines the influence of gaps in forest canopies on atmospheric perturbations induced by a…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berg
Fire and Vegetation in a Changing Climate on the Kenai Peninsula: a 14,000-year Record presented by Ed Berg of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Tundra Fires in a Changing Climate presented by Jennifer Barnes of the National Park Service. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Marlon, Kelly, Daniau, Vannière, Power, Bartlein, Higuera, Blarquez, Brewer, Brücher, Feurdean, Gil-Romera, Iglesias, Maezumi, Magi, Courtney Mustaphi, Zhihai
The location, timing, spatial extent, and frequency of wildfires are changing rapidly in many parts of the world, producing substantial impacts on ecosystems, people, and potentially climate. Paleofire records based on charcoal accumulation in sediments enable modern changes in…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell, Mutch
In August of 1972, the small Bad Luck Fire signaled the start of returning fire to the wilderness for the USDA Forest Service. Forty-three years later, the wisdom of allowing perhaps the most important of the 'forces of nature' to prevail has been proven time and again. While…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bixler, Bixler, Ellison, Moseley
Changes in land use and management practices throughout the past century-in addition to drought and other stressors exacerbated by climate change-have degraded the nation’s forests and led to overgrowth and accumulation of hazardous fuels (GAO 2015). Because of these fuels, some…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Miller, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Loehman, Shanks Rodrigues, Miller, Loboda, Prakash, York
Polar amplification of climate warming is bringing with it an increase in wildfire (Wolken et al. 2011). More fire disturbance may provide a mechanism by which climate warming could rapidly alter the structure and function of high northern latitude ecosystems. Observational…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) is jointly funded by the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior, and governance is through a 12-member Governing Board with 6 members from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and 1 member each from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar by TNC LANDFIRE Program lead Jim Smith, Ph.D. All ecosystems are dynamic and changing due to growth, succession and disturbances. Modeling large landscapes in the United States requires the collective knowledge of experienced and knowledgeable…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Stephen Pyne, wildland fire historian, scholar and author with Arizona State University. This thought-provoking 1-hour webinar by Steve Pyne explored the complex histories and relationships between societies and various combustion…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Aplet
Wilderness has played an invaluable role in the development of wildland fire science. Since Agee's review of the subject 15 years ago, tremendous progress has been made in the development of models and data, in understanding the complexity of wildland fire as a landscape process…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Summary: Why does the feathermoss fuel bed fit so poorly into fire behavior and fire danger rating systems? What do we know or think we know? This presentation will explore the feathermoss fuel bed in the context of poikilohydry in bryophytes, hydro-/cryology- , FFMC, saturation…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rossa, Veloso, Fernandes
Observational evidence of an effect of live vegetation moisture content on fire spread rate remains extremely scarce despite the significance of fire activity in fuel complexes dominated by live components. This study assessed the moisture content effect of quasi-live fuels on…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vejmelka, Kochanski, Mandel
Fuel moisture has a major influence on the behaviour of wildland fires and is an important underlying factor in fire risk assessment. We propose a method to assimilate dead fuel moisture content (FMC) observations from remote automated weather stations (RAWS) into a time lag…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Long
LANDFIRE produces a comprehensive, consistent, scientifically based suite of spatial layers and databases for the entire United States and territories. In 2009 the first wall to wall National data set was delivered for the fifty United States. Since this accomplishment,…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Thinning and pruning treatments at the experimental 2009 Nenana Ridge fuel treatment study reduced fire intensity during 2015 wildfire which entered unburned experimental fuel treatments.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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: FRAMES
Gaglioti, Mann, Jones, Wooller, Finney
Stand-replacing wildfires are a keystone disturbance in the boreal forest, and they are becoming more common as the climate warms. Paleo-fire archives from the wildland–urban interface can quantify the prehistoric fire regime and assess how both human land-use and climate change…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Long, Connot
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) 2010 data release provides updated and enhanced vegetation, fuel, and fire regime layers consistently across the United States. The data represent landscape conditions from approximately 2010 and are the latest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Schroeder, Justice
The two Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments, on-board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, have provided more than a decade of global fire data. Here we describe improvements made to the fire detection algorithm and swath-level product that were…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGuire
David McGuire discusses The Alaska Land Carbon Assessment: Baseline and Projected Future Carbon Storage and Greenhouse-gas Fluxes in Ecosystems of Alaska.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis
The presenters will discuss key messages from the recently published drought assessment. Topics to be covered include a state-of-the-science review of direct and indirect impacts of drought on forests and rangelands, as well as a discussion of management options for increasing…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pettinari, Chuvieco
This study presents the methods for the generation of the first global fuel data set, containing all the parameters required to be input in the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS). The data set was developed from different spatial variables, both based on satellite…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Drury, Rauscher, Banwell, Huang, Lavezzo
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes fire and fuels software applications into a single online application. IFTDSS is designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES