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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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, Flannigan, Wotton, Suffling
The predicted increase in climate warming will have profound impacts on forest ecosystems and landscapes in Canada because of increased temperature, and altered disturbance regimes. Climate change is predicted to be variable within Canada, and to cause considerable weather…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunting, Robberecht, Defosse
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Stocks
From the text ... 'It is interesting to note that the greatest annual areas burned since records have been kept, are restricted to the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s (with the exception of 1961 when almost 4 million ha burned). Also, when examining these statistics, it…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fauria, Johnson
The area burned in the North American boreal forest is controlled by the frequency of mid-tropospheric blocking highs that cause rapid fuel drying. Climate controls the area burned through changing the dynamics of large-scale teleconnection patterns (Pacific Decadal Oscillation/…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stapanian, Sundberg, Baumgardner, Liston
A probability-based sampling scheme was used to survey plant species composition in forests of 16 states in seven geopolitical regions of the United States (California, Colorado, Minnesota, and parts of the Pacific Northwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast) in 1994. The…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pouliot, Pace, Roy, Pierce, Mobley
A 2005 biomass burning (wildfire, prescribed, and agricultural) emission inventory has been developed for the contiguous United States using a newly developed simplified method of combining information from multiple sources for use in the US EPA's National Emission Inventory (…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyons, Jin, Randerson
We assessed the multidecadal effects of boreal forest fire on surface albedo using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite observations within the perimeters of burn scars in interior Alaska. Fire caused albedo to increase during periods with and without…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liu, Randerson
Understanding how changes in the boreal fire regime will affect high latitude climate requires knowledge of the sensitivity of the surface energy budget to shifts in vegetation cover. We measured components of the surface energy budget in three ecosystems that were part of a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ziel
The purpose of this paper is to document the calibration process on the Mooseheart fire so that future analysts can benefit from this procedure and findings.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marshall, Blair, Peters, Okin, Rango, Williams
Climate is changing across a range of scales, from local to global, but ecological consequences remain difficult to understand and predict. Such projections are complicated by change in the connectivity of resources, particularly water, nutrients, and propagules, that influences…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This presentation was given by Martin Alexander as part of the Wildland Fire Behavior Specialist Course, February 2008. The objectives of this unit, titled Advanced Fuel Type Modeling, was to explore in more depth the background and underlying assumptions of the Canadian Forest…
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This presentation was given by Martin Alexander as part of the Wildland Fire Behavior Specialist Course, February 2008. The objectives of this unit, titled U.S. BEHAVE System, was to appreciate the similarities and differences between the U.S. BEHAVE fire behaviorprediction…
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This presentation was given by Martin Alexander as part of the Alaska Division of Forestry Fire Preparedness Workshop on April 2, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This presentation was given by Martin Alexander as part of the Alaska Fire Service Military Zone Meeting on April 3, 2008 at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This presentation was given by Martin Alexander as part of the Alaska Division of Forestry Spring Operations Meeting on April 4, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Objectives of the presentation were tor review the philosophy and structure behind the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating…
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Felling your backyard tree could be fatal. Logging is one of the five most dangerous jobs in the world. This broadcast discusses the cause of injuries and how to prevent them.
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions is a 19-minute video available from the Rocky Mountain Research Station. This program tells you how a wildfire can ignite your home. A 'home ignition zone,' the area that includes a home and its immediate surroundings, determines a home's…
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hirsch, Corey, Martell
An expert judgment elicitation methodology was developed and used to encode subjective assessments of fire crew effectiveness from experienced initial attack crew leaders. During structured individual interviews, experts from four Canadian forest fire management agencies…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This article outlines the flexible semi-empirical philosophy used throughout six decades of fire research by the Canadian Forest Service, culminating in the development of the Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System. It then describes the principles involved when spread rate and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feller
The influence of seedbed (undisturbed forest floor, burned forest floor, and mineral soil), light (closed forest, open forest, and clearcut), and competing vegetation (present, not present) on germination and initial seedling survival and growth of subalpine fir (Abies…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whittle, Duchesne, Needham
The soil seed bank (seed and vegetative propagules) of a jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) ecosystem was investigated using direct propagule emergence from soil cores in greenhouse experiments, and visual examination of rhizome/rooting systems in situ. Of the 985 emergents…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Makarim, Arbai, Deddy, Brady
The report describes the 1997 land and forest fires in Indonesia, reviews of the control measures put in place and evaluates the national coordination efforts taken to combat the fires as the dry period extended toward what became a serious drought. A key finding is that…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The need to understand both the role of wildland fire as an ecosystem process and the appropriate use of fire as a management tool has been recognized for years. Historically fire has played an important role in many ecosystems by removing fuel accumulations,…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haney, Lee, Walsh-McGehee
We compiled and analyzed 101 accessible reports of 194 individual Kirtland's Warblers (Dendroica kirtlandii) from the Bahama Archipelago, 1841-1997. Most individuals were reported from northern islands (88%), and most sight reports (84%) and specimen/banding records (76%) were…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS