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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Song, Wang
Wildfire occurrence and spread are affected by atmospheric and land-cover conditions, and therefore meteorological and land-cover parameters can be used in area burned prediction. We apply three forecast methods, a generalized linear model, regression trees, and neural networks…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moreno, Laurent, Ciais, Mouillot
Fire disturbance is a significant component of the climate system. Analysis of satellite-derived burned areas has allowed the identification of fire patches and their morphology as a new resource for tracking fire spread to improve fire models used to assess the impact of fires…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woo, Liu, Yue, Mickley, Bell
Alaskan wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe, but very little is known regarding exposure to wildfire smoke, a risk factor for respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses. We estimated long-term, present-day and future exposure to wildfire-related fine particulate matter…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kehrwald, Jasmann, Dunham, Ferris, Osterberg, Kennedy, Havens, Barber, Fortner
The past decade includes some of the most extensive boreal forest fires in the historical record. Warming temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, the desiccation of thick organic soil layers, and increased ignition from lightning all contribute to a combustive combination…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Karp, Holman, Hopper, Grice, Freeman
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), produced via incomplete combustion of organics, convey signatures of vegetation burned in the geologic past. New and published burn experiments reveal how the quantity, distributions, and isotopic abundances of fire-derived PAHs were…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Penney, Habibi, Cattani
When attempting to suppress severe wildfire the possibility for firefighting crews to be overrun by wildfire, known as entrapment and burnover, remains a catastrophic and all too common occurrence. While improvements have been made to vehicle protection systems to increase the…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt
In 2019 the National Science Foundataion (NSF) funded a Navigating the New Arctic project called "Arctic Urban Risks and Adaptations (AURA): a co-production framework for addressing multiple changing environmental hazards". This project looks at three hazards: wildfire, thawing…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Palviainen, Laurén, Pumpanen, Bergeron, Bond-Lamberty, Larjavaara, Kashian, Köster, Prokushkin, Chen, Seedre, Wardle, Gundale, Nilsson, Wang, Berninger
Boreal forests store 30% of the world's terrestrial carbon (C). Consequently, climate change mediated alterations in the boreal forest fire regime can have a significant impact on the global C budget. Here we synthesize the effects of forest fires on the stocks and recovery…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Santín, Doerr, Jones, Merino, Warneke, Roberts
Vegetation fires play an important role in global and regional carbon cycles. Due to climate warming and land‐use shifts, fire patterns are changing and fire impacts increasing in many of the world’s regions. Reducing uncertainties in carbon budgeting calculations from fires is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Randerson, Coffield, Foufoula-Georgiou, Smyth, Graff, Morton, Andela, Van der Werf, Giglio, Ott
Fire emissions of gases and aerosols alter atmospheric composition and have substantial impacts on climate, ecosystem function, and human health. Warming climate and human expansion in fire‐prone landscapes exacerbate fire impacts and call for more effective management tools.…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rogers, Natali, Frumhoff
The Arctic is experiencing record heat and wildfires are ramping up across the global north. New research shows northern forest fire frequency and severity are rapidly increasing, releasing large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and worsening climate feedback loops. WHRC…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reiher, McCutchan
Speakers: Clairisse Reiher & Emily McCutchan, 2020 Hollings Scholars
During the summer of 2020 ACCAP and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium hosted two Ernest F. Hollings scholars for the summer internships. Because of COVID-19 their internships were remote. During this…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bailey, O'Brien
This webinar is part of NAFSE's Prescribed Fire Science Workshop Webinar Series and provides a broad overview of the process of writing a burn plan before implementing a prescribed fire (or prescribed burn; RxB). It was broadcast on August 13, 2020. This webinar was co-presented…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Skowronski, Hiers
This webinar is part of NAFSE's Prescribed Fire Science Workshop Webinar Series. It was broadcast on July 16, 2020 to kick off the series.
This webinar has 2 parts:
1. Prescribed Fire Science and Co-production: by Dr. Nick Skowronski, Research Forester with the USDA Forest…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hewitt, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Mack, Rocha, Taylor
We tested whether post-fire seedling establishment of common boreal tree and expanding shrub species at treeline and in Arctic tundra is facilitated by co-migration of boreal forest mycorrhizal fungi. Wildfires are anticipated to facilitate biome shifts at the forest-tundra…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Bayham, Belval
The global COVID-19 pandemic will pose unique challenges to the management of wildland fire in 2020. Fire camps may provide an ideal setting for the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. However, intervention strategies can help minimize disease spread and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Fernandes, Kilinc, Sil
The prediction of wildfire rate of spread and growth under high wind speeds and dry fuel moisture conditions is key to taking proactive actions to warn and in turn protect communities. We used two datasets of wildfires spreading under critical fire weather conditions to evaluate…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Navarro, Piacentino, Viktora, Coil
As COVID-19 cases and wildland fire activity increase across the country, wildland fire personnel are looking for ways to quickly identify cases and prevent the spread of the disease on the fireline. The Southwest Fire Consortium will be hosting a webinar sharing information…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
The Wildfire SAFE app incorporates real-time data from sources that include the U.S. National Fire Danger Rating System, U.S. Drought Monitor drought conditions, weather data, and vegetation conditions to provide targeted information on any wildfire in the continental United…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sharma, Rani, Memon
One of the most ubiquitous cause of worldwide deforestation and devastation of wildlife is fire. To control fire and reach the forest area in time is not always possible. Consequently, the level of destruction is often high. Therefore, predicting fires well in time and taking…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mockrin, Radeloff, Stewart, Steel, Hammer
Wildfire losses in the U.S. have soared over the past several decades, as residential development in fire-prone vegetation has expanded, causing more ignitions and creating a vast wildland-urban interface (WUI) to protect during fire. However, wildfires themselves may be…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Billmire, Prichard, Kennedy, McKenzie, Larkin, Ottmar
Fuels are highly variable and dynamic in space and time, and fuel loading can vary considerably even within fine spatial scales and within specific fuel types, such as downed wood or organic soils. Given this inherent variability in fuel loadings, it is not good practice to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Deaton
While a wildfire is a natural occurrence, the loss of communities to fire is not. Community engagement and empowerment can stop life and property loss from wildfire and keep the wildfire from becoming a disaster. This presentation will share how the Firewise USA® Program, and…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pang, Chen, An, Wang, Deng, Benard, Lajnef, Cao
Forest fires present a great threat as they can rapidly grow and become large, resulting in tragic loss of life and property when occurring near occupied land. Here a self‐powered fire alarm system based on a novel multilayered cylindrical triboelectric nanogenerator (MC‐TENG)…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stauffer, Autenrieth, Hart, Capoccia
A steady increase in wildfire event severity and season length has led to greater potential for exposure to fine particulate matter associated with wildfire smoke. Research has found fine particulate matter to be correlated with a myriad of health ailments and thus effective…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES