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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 176 - 200 of 336
Beji, Verstockt, Van de Walle, Merci
The concept of numerical simulations for real-time Numerical Fire Forecasting is illustrated for the case of natural smoke filling of a large-scale atrium in case of fire. The numerical simulations are performed within the Inverse Zone Modelling framework. The technique consists…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marino, Dupuy, Pimont, Guijarro, Hernando, Linn
Fuel bulk density and fuel moisture content effects on fire rate of spread were assessed in shrub fuels, comparing experimental data observed in outdoor wind tunnel burns and predictions from the physically-based model FIRETEC. Statistical models for the combined effects of bulk…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Allen, Baron, Fagre, McKenzie, Stephenson, Fountain, Hicke, Malanson, Ojima, Tague, van Mantgem
Mountains in western North America are beginning to see changes in ecosystem processes primarily from climate-forced changes in water dynamics. With earlier snowmelt and increasing proportions of rain versus snow (Mote 2003; Stewart et al. 2005; Knowles et al. 2006), drought…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Kennedy
Understanding the environmental controls on historical wildfires, and how they changed across spatial scales, is difficult because there are no surviving explicit records of either weather or vegetation (fuels). Here we show how power laws associated with fire-event time series…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ager, Vaillant, Owens, Brittain, Hamann
The Landscape Treatment Designer (LTD) is a multicriteria spatial prioritization and optimization system to help design and explore landscape fuel treatment scenarios. The program fills a gap between fire model programs such as FlamMap, and planning systems such as ArcFuels, in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fontaine, Kennedy
Management in fire-prone ecosystems relies widely upon application of prescribed fire and/or fire surrogate (e.g., forest thinning) treatments to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem function. Recently, published literature examining wildlife response to fire and fire management…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Rothermel's surface fire spread model was developed to use a value for the wind speed that affects surface fire, called midflame wind speed. Models have been developed to adjust 20-ft wind speed to midflame wind speed for sheltered and unsheltered surface fuel. In this report,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reid
What are FRAMES and the Southern Fire Portal? The Fire Research and Management Exchange System, or FRAMES (www.frames.gov), is a unique website aimed at information exchange and technology transfer among all wildland fire stakeholders and was developed by the University of Idaho…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reid
What does the Joint Fire Science Program offer online? The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) website (https://www.firescience.gov) provides a free-access wildland fire science information resource providing research summaries and project findings. The primary goal of the website…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy) is a collaborative effort to identify, define, and address wildland fire management problems and opportunities for successful wildland fire management in the three regions of the United States: the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robertson
The purpose of the workshop was for research scientists, air quality specialists, policy administrators, and others to present and discuss recent advances in research relating to estimation of emission factors for particulate matter (PM) and its constituents (organic carbon,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin
Science demonstrates that low-intensity surface fires were historically a critical ecological process in as much as 60% of North American landscapes. When applied appropriately in fire-dependent ecosystems, prescribed fire maintains forest health and function, provides habitat…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In celebration of 20 years of International Journal of Wildland Fire, a complete index of authors has been compiled from 1991 to 2011.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mason, White, Morishima, Alvarado, Andrew, Clark, Durglo, Durglo, Eneas, Erickson, Friedlander, Hamel, Hardy, Harwood, Haven, Isaac, James, Kenning, Leighton, Pierre, Raish, Shaw, Smallsalmon, Stearns, Teasley, Weingart, Wilder
Native Americans relied on fire to maintain a cultural landscape that sustained their lifeways for thousands of years. Within the past 100 years, however, policies of fire exclusion have disrupted ecological processes, elevating risk of wildfire, insects, and disease, affecting…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Medley-Daniel, Davis
Forest Service policies and programs promote the integration of forest and watershed restoration with local economic development. For example, the Collaborative Landscape Restoration Program, stewardship contracting, and the Watershed Condition Framework all explicitly link…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Medley-Daniel, Davis
The Watershed Condition Framework (WCF) asks Forest Service program managers and line officers to plan and implement integrated watershed restoration. Collaborating to restore watershed can help you, as a national forest or grassland staff member, achieve diverse benefits. In…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Jin, Giglio, Foley, Randerson
Fires in agricultural ecosystems emit greenhouse gases and aerosols that influence climate on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Annex 1 countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), many of which ratified the Kyoto Protocol, are required to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Moseley, Davis
Across multiple presidential administrations, forest and watershed restoration has become an increasingly important focus of the USDA Forest Service. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, for example, has made restoring watershed and forest health the primary objective of the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guyette, Stambaugh, Dey, Muzika
A predictive equation for estimating fire frequency was developed from theories and data in physical chemistry, ecosystem ecology, and climatology. We refer to this equation as the Physical Chemistry Fire Frequency Model (PC2FM). The equation was calibrated and validated with…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin
The Economic Extension (ECON) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) computes economic measures during FVS simulations to aid evaluation of silvicultural alternatives. These measures include undiscounted and discounted costs and revenues, benefit-cost ratio, internal rate of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turetsky, Bond-Lamberty, Euskirchen, Talbot, Frolking, McGuire, Tuittila
Mosses in northern ecosystems are ubiquitous components of plant communities, and strongly influence nutrient, carbon and water cycling. We use literature review, synthesis and model simulations to explore the role of mosses in ecological stability and resilience. Moss…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Epstein, Raynolds, Kuss, Kopecky, Frost, Daniels, Leibman, Moskalenko, Matyshak, Khitun, Khomutov, Forbes, Bhatt, Kade, Volanthen, Tichy
Satellite-based measurements of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI; an index of vegetation greenness and photosynthetic capacity) indicate that tundra environments are generally greening and becoming more productive as climates warm in the Arctic. The greening,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, McIver, Boerner, Fettig, Fontaine, Hartsough, Kennedy, Schwilk
The current conditions of many seasonally dry forests in the western and southern United States, especially those that once experienced low- to moderate-intensity fire regimes, leave them uncharacteristically susceptible to high-severity wildfire. Both prescribed fire and its…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ray, Kolden, Chapin
Sustainability science promotes place-based resource management because natural processes vary among ecosystems. When local science is limited, land managers may be forced to generalize from other ecosystems that function differently. One proposed solution is to draw upon the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jahn
This mixed methods dissertation examined the communicative construction of safety in wildland firefighting. I used a two-study mixed methods approach, examining the communicative accomplishment of safety from two perspectives: high reliability organizing (Weick, Sutcliffe,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES