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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The 3rd "International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk" (ICFBR2022) took place in Alghero from May 3-6, 2022. ICBR2022 aims to involve scientists, researchers and policy makers whose activities are focused on different aspects of fires and their impact on ecosystems and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The overarching goal of the Coalition is to establish and maintain a viable coalition of prescribed fire councils by providing encouragement, education, and leadership for the use of prescribed fire across the United States.
The concept of forming a Coalition of Prescribed Fire…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Fire is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, broadly defined, published quarterly online by MDPI. Fire serves as an international forum for diverse…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The Global Wildfire Information System is a joint initiative of the GEO and the Copernicus Work Programs. In the new GEO GWIS work program for the years 2020-2022 , the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) aims at bringing together existing information sources at regional…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Since 2002, The Firewise USA program has empowered neighbors to work together in reducing their wildfire risk. Research has shown that both the house and the adjacent landscape play a critical role in the home surviving a wildfire. The most important things homeowners can do are…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wildland fire incident management activities create an ideal environment for the transmission of infectious diseases: high-density living and working conditions, lack of access to and use of soap and sanitizers, and a transient workforce. These and other environmental and…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Butler
Since the introduction and adoption of a centralized suppression-oriented wildland firefighting paradigm in the US wildland firefighters have been employed to protect and manage various natural and human resources. Both wildland fire scientists and firefighters have long noted…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Singletary, Evans
This agreement is made and entered into by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Joint Fire Science Program (BLM), and the University of Nevada Reno for the purpose of Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Consortia.
Year: 2018
Type: Project
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 Fire Severity Mapping System project (FIRESEV) is geared toward providing fire managers across the western United States critical information about the potential ecological effects of wildland fire at multiple levels of thematic, spatial, and temporal detail. A major…
Year: 2009
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
FireWorks provides students with interactive, hands-on materials to study wildland fire. It is highly interdisciplinary and students learn about properties of matter, chemical and physical processes, ecosystem fluctuations and cycles, habitat and survival, and human interactions…
Year: 2018
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Contains descriptions of fuel types.
Year: 2004
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
'In experimental fire research, some of the most compelling data you can get is the visual data from video and photography,' says Matt Hoehler, a research structural engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. 'So we’re always…
Year: 2019
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Fletcher, Jolly, Mahalingam, McAllister, Shotorban
After many years of research examining the ignition of wood and other cellulosic fuels, it is still unclear which modes of heat transfer will result in successful ignition of live wildland fuel particles. Thermal radiation can cause a fuel particle to pyrolyze to produce a…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires over the last couple decades have increased in size and intensity and the fire season has lengthened, resulting in increased wildfire suppression costs and greater risk to human health and safety. The large, severe fires have also had pronounced effects on water…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Barnes, Jandt
We propose to expand the Northwest Fire Research Clearinghouse (FIREHouse) (see http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/ fera/firehouse) to include projects relevant specifically to fire management in Alaska. FIREHouse was originally funded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in 2003 (…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Ager
In this proposal, we outline a methodology for the application of a novel, integrated modeling approach to analyze economic tradeoffs associated with alternative fuel management and suppression policies. The analytical process is designed to specifically target salient questions…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Horel, Crosman, Kochanski, Ziel
The proposed work will evaluate the ability of operational and experimental versions of the High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) modeling system for the continental United State and Alaska to forecast the characteristics of mesoscale atmospheric boundaries arising from…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Friedrich, Lundquist
Strong and variable winds in thunderstorm outflow boundaries interact with wildland fires, often spreading flames faster to threaten firefighter safety and amplify economical destruction. These boundaries are difficult to detect in complex terrain with operational observing…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Powers, Coen
Abrupt changes in wind direction and speed can dramatically impact wildfire development and spread and, consequently, have been involved in a number of fatality fires. A frequent driver of these is outflows of thunderstorms or organized convective systems, which can produce…
Type: Project
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
Scott
The project has four general objectives: link two JFSP-funded studies, take advantage of a unique opportunity to use inventory data and stand treatments that have already been funded to enrich our study of canopy fuels, add forest types and conditions to the canopy fuels photo…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Neuenschwander, Ryan
This fuels mapping project has one main objectives. To develop methods for creating spatial fuels layers for fire behavior and fire effects prediction systems and hazard and risk assessment The primary goal of this objective is to develop methods and protocols for creating high…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Albini, Bevins, Brittain, Butler, Catchpole, Finney
PROJECT OBJECTIVES As requested under Tasks 8 and 9, user-friendly modeling systems designed for local use will be provided for modeling smoke from wildland fires. These tools will provide a means for conducting tradeoff analyses, with a focus on emissions production, of…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bobbe, Finco, Parsons, Sohlberg
Plans for watershed rehabilitation after a wildfire must be developed and implemented as quickly as possible after containment to be effective. One of the most difficult inputs to generate is the assessment of how the wildfire affected the hydraulic properties of the soil,…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES