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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Beck, Goetz, Mack, Alexander, Jin, Randerson, Loranty
Climate warming and drying are modifying the fire dynamics of many boreal forests, moving them towards a regime with a higher frequency of extreme fire years characterized by large burns of high severity. Plot-scale studies indicate that increased burn severity favors the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report highlights key findings from the most recent (2004-2008) data collected by the Forest Inventory and Analysis program across all ownerships in southeast and south-central Alaska. We present basic resource information such as forest area, ownership, volume, biomass,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wei, Rideout, Hall
In this study, we developed an optimization model and two iterative approaches to improve the efficiency of large fire management. This model allocates suppression effort across time and space to minimize fire loss within a defined duration. It departs from previous research by…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fundamentally different from the rest of the forest types in the United States, Alaska's boreal forest covers a significant amount of acreage in an increasingly variable climate. With its high latitude location, predictions reveal that this region will be the first to experience…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Finney, Ager, Thompson, Gebert
In this paper we review progress towards the implementation of a risk management framework for US federal wildland fire policy and operations. We first describe new developments in wildfire simulation technology that catalyzed the development of risk-based decision support…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masarie
Resource allocation for wildland fire suppression problems, referred to here as Fire-S problems, have been studied for over a century. Not only have the many variants of the base Fire-S problem made it such a durable one to study, but advances in suppression technology and our…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, McAllister
The character of a wildland fire can change dramatically in the presence of another nearby fire. Understanding and predicting the changes in behavior due to fire-fire interactions cannot only be life-saving to those on the ground, but also be used to better control a prescribed…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary
Forest, woodland, and grassland watersheds throughout the world are major sources of high quality water for human use because of the nature of these soils to infiltrate, store, and transmit most precipitation instead of quickly routing it to surface runoff. This characteristic…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Thompson, Finney, Hyde
Development of appropriate management strategies for escaped wildland fires is complex. Fire managers need the ability to identify, in real time, the likelihood that wildfire will affect valuable developed and natural resources (e.g., private structures, public infrastructure,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Calkin, Phipps, Holmes, Rieck, Thompson
A cornerstone of effective institutional learning and accountability is the development, tracking, and analysis of informative performance measures. In a previous issue of Fire Management Today ('A New Look at Risk Management,' Winter 2011), a series of articles highlighted the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wallenius, Pennanen, Burton
The annual area of forest burned has decreased in recent centuries over large areas of Fennoscandia, Siberia and temperate North America. To determine if this same trend extends to a sparsely populated region of northern Canada, fire scars on living and dead trees, forest stand…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Benson, Caratti, Keifer, Streetman
A new monitoring tool called FFI (FEAT/FIREMON Integrated) has been developed to assist managers with collection, storage and analysis of ecological information. The tool was developed through the complementary integration of two fire effects monitoring systems commonly used in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In response to the increasing complexities of fire management the National Fire Decision Support Center (NFDSC) was created in May 2009. The Center, a group of scientists, researchers and practitioners has been operational for the past two years. Complexities of fire management…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
Assessing the ecological effects of wildfires in a landscape context is crucial for effective postfire management. While tools exist to assess the severity and ecological effects of wildfires after they burn, managers also need new tools that easily and quickly forecast the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Barnes, Chipman, Urban, Hu
More than 5.4 million acres (2.2 million hectares) of Alaska tundra have burned over the past 60 years (Figure 2), indicating its flammable nature under warm, dry weather conditions. Tundra fires have important impacts on vegetation composition (Racine et al. 1987, 2004),…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Spread Probability Simulator (FSPro) is a geospatial probabilistic model that predicts fire growth, and is designed to support long-term decision-making (more than 5 days). FSPro calculates two-dimensional fire growth and displays the probability that fire will visit…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Grenfell, McHugh, Seli, Trethewey, Stratton, Brittain
An ensemble simulation system that accounts for uncertainty in long-range weather conditions and two-dimensional wildland fire spread is described. Fuel moisture is expressed based on the energy release component, a US fire danger rating index, and its variation throughout the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This chapter gives users the information needed to enter and manipulate station information, Special Interest Group (SIGs), and Access Control Lists (ACLs). User menu options and functions depend on account type and access level. Tasks described in this chapter are not available…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin, Smail, Napoli, Bastian, Fay
Participants at the workshop represented experts from state, local and federal agencies, tribal organizations, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and private contractors with knowledge of vegetation types and their relationships to fuels and fire behavior. Attendees provided…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guide for standardized data entry into WFDSS for fires in Alaska.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These protocols were developed in order to have a statewide standard for requesting fire behavior analyses on wildland fires in Alaska and a process for prioritization of the requests. It is not intended to give direction on how to develop inputs or to run the models.…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pence, Zimmerman
Federal agency policy requires documentation and analysis of all wildland fire response decisions. In the past, planning and decision documentation for fires were completed using multiple unconnected processes, yielding many limitations. In response, interagency fire management…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holden, Jolly
Fire danger rating systems commonly ignore fine scale, topographically-induced weather variations. These variations will likely create heterogeneous, landscape-scale fire danger conditions that have never been examined in detail. We modeled the evolution of fuel moistures and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girard, Payette, Gagnon
Lichen-spruce woodlands occur in the closed-crown forest zone as a divergent type of the spruce-moss forest because of regeneration failure caused by compounded disturbances (fire, insect outbreaks, and logging). From the southern limit of distribution of lichen woodlands (47…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dillon, Holden, Morgan, Crimmins, Heyerdahl, Luce
Fire is a keystone process in many ecosystems of western North America. Severe fires kill and consume large amounts of above- and belowground biomass and affect soils, resulting in long-lasting consequences for vegetation, aquatic ecosystem productivity and diversity, and other…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES