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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bieniek
Presentation by Peter Bieniek at the 2017 Alaska Fall Fire Science Workshop, October 10, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mann
Presentation from the 2017 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop. Tundra fires were once very rare on Alaska's North Slope, but are now becoming more frequent, probably as a result of climate change. Fire-management need to be highly adaptable during this time of rapid change;…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Calef, Varvak, McGuire
In western North America, the carbon-rich boreal forest is experiencing warmer temperatures, drier conditions and larger and more frequent wildfires. However, the fire regime is also affected by direct human activities through suppression, ignition, and land use changes. Models…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin, Mack, Jandt
Clearing and forest thinning are increasingly seen as strategies to protect private property and infrastructure from boreal wildfires. Property sited in natural spruce-dominated forests are often considered high risk due to the intensity of fires in this fuel type when it burns…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pastick, Duffy, Genet, Rupp, Wylie, Johnson, Jorgenson, Bliss, McGuire, Jafarov, Knight
Modern climate change in Alaska has resulted in widespread thawing of permafrost, increased fire activity, and extensive changes in vegetation characteristics that have significant consequences for socioecological systems. Despite observations of the heightened sensitivity of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Genet, Hue, Lyu, McGuire, Zhuang, Clein, D'Amore, Bennett, Breen, Biles, Euskirchen, Johnson, Kurkowski, Schroder, Pastick, Rupp, Wylie, Zhang, Zhou, Zhu
It is important to understand how upland ecosystems of Alaska, which are estimated to occupy 84% of the state (i.e. 1,237,774 km2), are influencing and will influence state-wide carbon (C) dynamics in the face of ongoing climate change. We coupled fire disturbance and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rutherford, Schultz
Presentation by Courtney Schultz and Tait Rutherford at the 2017 Alaska Fall Fire Science Workshop, October 10, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Houseman
Brian Houseman presents his thesis work, October 27, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wilson, McCaffrey, Toman
Throughout the late 19th century and most of the 20th century, risks associated with wildfire were addressed by suppressing fires as quickly as possible. However, by the 1960s, it became clear that fire exclusion policies were having adverse effects on ecological health, as well…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pierce, Val Martin, Heald
Emissions of aerosols and gases from fires have been shown to adversely affect US air quality at local to regional scales as well as downwind regions far away from the source. In addition, smoke from fires negatively affects humans, ecosystems, and climate. Recent observations…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Colavito
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) is a boundary organization that works across the science-management interface to enhance the role that scientific information plays in decision-making for fire management in Alaska. We conducted a case study of AFSC to examine how they…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dannenberg, Wise
Much of the precipitation delivered to western North America arrives during the cool season via midlatitude Pacific storm tracks, which may experience future shifts in response to climate change. Here, we assess the sensitivity of the hydroclimate and ecosystems of western North…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a forest dynamics modeling system with geographic variants covering forested areas of the contiguous United States. As a direct descendant of the Prognosis model of the 1970/80s, FVS has seen continuous development and use for over 40…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
West, Rowley, Keeley, Huebner, Evers
Drought creates the potential for invasive plant species to increase in diversity and abundance in a variety of ecosystems, often mediated by the occurrence of disturbances (wildfire, insect outbreaks). Because the frequency and magnitude of droughts will increase in a warmer…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Skaggs, Rizza, Cardwell
Addressing ‘climate change’ at the local, state, or Tribal-level may feel like trying to tackle an amorphous idea, on top of an already heavy work load. The natural hazards mitigation plan, however, can provide a structured format for addressing specific impacts of climate…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Guyette, Stambaugh, Dey, Muzika
The effects of climate on wildland fire confronts society across a range of different ecosystems. Water and temperature affect the combustion dynamics, irrespective of whether those are associated with carbon fueled motors or ecosystems, but through different chemical, physical…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Birdsey
Fire is a major ecosystem disturbance that profoundly impacts vegetation dynamics, atmospheric trace gases and aerosol composition, climate, and the welfare of wildlife and human society. While climate is generally a critical driving factor shaping the occurrence, size, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boschetti, Higuera, Young
Projections of future fire activity from statistical models are a powerful tool for anticipating 21st-century fire regimes. In previous work, we developed a set of statistical models that predict the likelihood of fires over 30-yr timescales in Alaskan boreal forest and tundra…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinsch, Andrews, Tirmenstein
The fire characteristics chart is a graphical method of presenting U.S. National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) indexes and components as well as primary surface or crown fire behavior characteristics. Computer software has been developed to produce fire characteristics…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Horowitz, Payton, Fiore, Tonnesen
US surface O3 responds to varying global-to-regional precursor emissions, climate, and extreme weather, with implications for designing effective air quality control policies. We examine these conjoined processes with observations and global chemistry-climate model (GFDL-AM3)…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coyle, Nagendra, Taylor, Campbell, Cunard, Joslin, Mundepi, Phillips, Callaham
Environmental disturbances seem to be increasing in frequency and impact, yet we have little understanding of the belowground impacts of these events. Soil fauna, while widely acknowledged to be important drivers of biogeochemical function, soil structure and sustainability, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fires are increasing in frequency, size and intensity partly due to climate change and land management practices, yet there is limited knowledge of the impacts of smoke emissions - both short term and long term. EPA is using its expertise in air quality research to fill the gaps…
Year: 2017
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Pierce, Heald, Robinson, Val Martin
Emissions of aerosols and gases from fires have been shown to adversely affect US air quality at local to regional scales as well as downwind regions far away from the source. Fire activity is strongly related to weather and climate. Recent observations have shown an upward…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Our Research Brief this month covers a new NASA-funded study led by Sander Veraverbeke of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam which found lightning storms to be a main driver of recent large fire seasons in Alaska and Canada. Results of the study are published in the July, 2017…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Boschetti
Northern high latitude climates are rapidly changing nearly faster than the rest of the globe, suggesting that fire regimes in these ecosystems may be particularly vulnerable to future change. In Alaska, key JFSP research priorities are to understand climate linkages to past and…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES