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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Episode 3 of the Fire Danger Learning System describes the dataflow of weather data into the various databases and processors that provide fire danger calculations for the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Morimoto, Juday, Young
The boreal forest of Alaska has experienced a small area of forest cuttings, amounting to 7137 ha out of a total of 256,284 ha of timberland in the Fairbanks and Kantishna area of state forest land. Low product values and high costs for management have resulted in a low-input…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fischer, Spies, Steelman, Moseley, Johnson, Bailey, Ager, Bourgeron, Charnley, Collins, Kline, Leahy, Littell, Millington, Nielsen-Pincus, Olsen, Paveglio, Roos, Steen-Adams, Stevens, Vukomanovic, White, Bowman
Wildfire risk in temperate forests has become a nearly intractable problem that can be characterized as a socioecological 'pathology': that is, a set of complex and problematic interactions among social and ecological systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steelman
There are fundamental spatial and temporal disconnects between the specific policies that have been crafted to address our wildfire challenges. The biophysical changes in fuels, wildfire behavior, and climate have created a new set of conditions for which our wildfire governance…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett, Loboda, McGuire, Genet, Hoy, Kasischke
Wildfire, a dominant disturbance in boreal forests, is highly variable in occurrence and behavior at multiple spatiotemporal scales. New data sets provide more detailed spatial and temporal observations of active fires and the post-burn environment in Alaska. In this study, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hayasaka, Tanaka, Bieniek
Recent concurrent widespread fires in Alaska are evaluated to assess their associated synoptic-scale weather conditions. Several periods of high fire activity from 2003 to 2015 were identified using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) hotspot data by…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morefield, LeDuc, Clark, Iovanna
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is the largest agricultural land-retirement program in the United States, providing many environmental benefits, including wildlife habitat and improved air, water, and soil quality. Since 2007, however, CRP area has declined by over 25%…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yeboah, Chen, Kingston
Understanding species diversity and disturbance relationships is important for biodiversity conservation in disturbance-driven boreal forests. Species richness and evenness may respond differently with stand development following fire. Furthermore, few studies have…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
A pictorial poster showing many cloud formations and what these clouds mean in regards to fire weather and fire behavior.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Kurth, Saperstein
Webinar with Robert (Zeke) Ziel, Laurie Kurth, and Lisa Saperstein. Organized by the Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee. Recorded on May 24, 2016.
Robert (Zeke) Ziel: Using FFMC and DMC to assess fuel moisture and use of BUI to help adjust ERC values
Laurie Kurth: Some…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alden, Strader, Ziel
Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review | Wedresday, October 12, 2016Presenter: Heidi Strader and Robert Ziel, with input from Sharon Alden
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saltenberger
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: John Saltenberger
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Wildland Fire Library is a collection of long-term assessments, fire progressions, fire behavior reports, and other documents and resources to support fire modeling and assessment of long-duration fires. Each file is tied to some event with a location, a start date, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy is a collaborative process to seek national, all-lands solutions to wildland fire management issues, focusing on three goals: Restore and maintain resilient landscapes, create fire adapted communities and, safe and…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Belval, Wei, Bevers
Wildfire behavior is a complex and stochastic phenomenon that can present unique tactical management challenges. This paper investigates a multistage stochastic mixed integer program with full recourse to model spatially explicit fire behavior and to select suppression locations…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schoennagel, Morgan, Balch, Dennison, Harvey, Hutto, Krawchuk, Moritz, Rasker, Whitlock
Record blazes swept across parts of the US in 2015, burning more than 10 million acres. In recent decades, state and federal policymakers, tribes, and others are confronting longer fire seasons (Jolly et al. 2015), more large fires (Dennison et al. 2014), a tripling of homes…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schoennagel, Morgan, Balch, Dennison, Harvey, Hutto, Krawchuk, Moritz, Rasker, Whitlock
Record blazes swept across parts of the US in 2015, burning more than 10 million acres. The four biggest fire seasons since 1960 have all occurred in the last 10 years, leading to fears of a ‘new normal’ for wildfire. Fire fighters and forest managers are overwhelmed, and it is…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Wotton, Marshall, de Groot, Johnstone, Jurko, Cantin
The objective of this paper is to examine the sensitivity of fuel moisture to changes in temperature and precipitation and explore the implications under a future climate. We use the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System components to represent the moisture content of fine…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wiggins, Veraverbeke, Henderson, Karion, Miller, Lindaas, Commane, Sweeney, Luus, Tosca, Dinardo, Wofsy, Miller, Randerson
Relationships between boreal wildfire emissions and day-to-day variations in meteorological variables are complex and have important implications for the sensitivity of high-latitude ecosystems to climate change. We examined the influence of environmental conditions on boreal…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Di Giuseppe, Pappenberger, Wetterhall, Krzeminski, Camia, Libertà, San Miguel
A global fire danger rating system driven by atmospheric model forcing has been developed with the aim of providing early warning information to civil protection authorities. The daily predictions of fire danger conditions are based on the U.S. Forest Service National Fire-…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This video introduces fire ecology and the role it plays in the health of forest communities. This video is part of the World of Wildland Fire video series.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Strader, Pyne, Henderson
Presented at the 2016 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop. Weather information, surface observations and forecasts, is among the most widely viewed topics on the web. It is the one way that the history, current setting, and forecast fire potential can be quickly compared. Fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hewitt, Hollingsworth, Chapin, Taylor
Background: Vegetation change in high latitude tundra ecosystems is expected to accelerate due to increased wildfire activity. High-severity fires increase the availability of mineral soil seedbeds, which facilitates recruitment, yet fire also alters soil microbial composition,…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation covers systematic social network analysis and how people and institutions function in disasters, after disasters, and the ways they adapt to hazard settings. As hazards become disasters, the opportunities and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES