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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wright
This seminar is part of the University of Idaho's Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences 2021 Spring Semester Seminar Series.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Steblein, Loehman, Miller, Holomuzki, Soileau, Brooks, Drane-Maury, Hamilton, Kean, Keeley, Mason, McKerrow, Meldrum, Molder, Murphy, Peterson, Plumlee, Shinneman, van Mantgem, York
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Wildland Fire Science Strategic Plan defines critical, core fire science capabilities for understanding fire-related and fire-responsive earth system processes and patterns, and informing management decision making. Developed by USGS fire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hassan, Mahmoud
The current COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of healthcare systems worldwide. When combined with natural disasters, pandemics can further strain an already exhausted healthcare system. To date, frameworks for quantifying the collective effect of the two…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This video outlines a step-by-step process of when and how to gather information about your situation before, enroute to, and during a wildland fire incident.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Panda, Bhatt, Meyer
In Alaska the current wildfire fuel map products were generated from low spatial (30 m) and spectral resolution (11 bands) Landsat 8 satellite imagery which resulted in map products that not only lack the granularity but also have insufficient accuracy to be effective in fire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gaglioti, Berner, Jones, Orndahl, Williams, Andreu-Hayles, D'Arrigo, Goetz, Mann
As the Arctic warms, tundra wildfires are expected to become more frequent and severe. Assessing how the most flammable regions of the tundra respond to burning can inform us about how the rest of the Arctic may be affected by climate change. Here we describe ecosystem responses…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fagen, Weir, Payne
Landowners across the country are constantly looking for ways to innovate and become more efficient in their everyday practices. Land managers who choose to practice prescribed fire are no different. Landowners know adequate equipment and personnel are needed to conduct each…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pais, Carrasco, Elimbi Moudio, Shen
The destructive potential of wildfires has been exacerbated by climate change, causing their frequencies and intensities to continuously increase globally. Generating fire-resilient landscapes via efficient and calculated fuel-treatment plans is critical to protecting native…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Ikejiri, Lu
The Devonian is known for the earliest dispersal of extensive wildfires, but the spatiotemporal diversification pattern and process have not been studied in detail. We synthesize a total of 65 global wildfire occurrences based on fossil charcoals and geochemical (biomarker)…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suzuki, Manzello
Wind plays an important role in the built environment. Large outdoor fires in the built environment are no exception. Under strong wind, firebrands fly far, which leads to quick fire spread. In this study, the effect of structure to structure separation distance on firebrand…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davison, Barkjohn, Hagler, Holder, Coefield, Noonan, Hassett-Sipple
Effective strategies to reduce indoor air pollutant concentrations during wildfire smoke events are critically needed. Worldwide, communities in areas prone to wildfires may suffer from annual smoke exposure events lasting from days to weeks. In addition, there are many areas of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Schultz, Thompson
FOREST SERVICE FIRE MANAGEMENT AND THE ELUSIVENESS OF CHANGE
In this episode of the Association for Fire Ecology's Fire Ecology Chats Podcast Series, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with Courtney Schultz (Colorado State University) and Matthew Thompson (US Forest Service)…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Cansler
A LARGE DATABASE SUPPORTS THE USE OF SIMPLE MODELS OF POST-FIRE TREE MORTALITY FOR THICK-BARKED CONIFERS, WITH LESS SUPPORT FOR OTHER TREE SPECIES
In this episode of the Association for Fire Ecology's Fire Ecology Chats Podcast Series, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wittenberg, Pereira
Fire is a natural element that has important effects on society, economy and environment. It is a critical element of many ecosystems, but when uncontrolled is the cause of the destruction of many socio-economic systems. These uncontrolled fires (wildfires) have temporal effects…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Certini, Moya, Lucas-Borja, Mastrolonardo
Fire has always been a driving factor of life on Earth. Now that mankind has definitely joined the other environmental forces in shaping the planet, lots of species are threatened by human-induced variation in fire regimes. Soil-dwelling organisms, i.e., those organisms that…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vigna, Besana, Comino, Pezzoli
Although increasing concern about climate change has raised awareness of the fundamental role of forest ecosystems, forests are threatened by human-induced impacts worldwide. Among them, wildfire risk is clearly the result of the interaction between human activities, ecological…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cartwright, Gregg, Panci, Croll
This webinar focuses on planning, restoration, and recovery actions that strengthen ecosystem resilience, mitigate the impacts of natural disasters, and realize co-benefits.
Speakers:
Dr. Jennifer Cartwright, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, USGS
Rachel M. Gregg,…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
The prediction of a wildfire rate of spread and growth under high wind speeds and dry fuel moisture conditions is key to taking proactive actions to warn and protect communities. We investigated the possibility that a simple relationship exists that could be used as a first…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
De Vivo, Johnson, Battipede
The accurate prediction of the wildfire spread-rate is a challenging task, due to the high number of parameters involved and the underlying complex dynamic multi-physics processes which drive the phenomenon. For these reasons, data-driven prediction tools could be useful to…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roy, Li, Giglio, Boschetti, Huang
The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard the new generation of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series provides 10 min, multi-spectral, 500 m to 2 km observations, with significantly improved…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wan, Hamilton, Mahowald
Uncertainty in pre‐industrial aerosol emissions, including fires, is one of the largest sources of uncertainty in estimating anthropogenic radiative forcing. Here we quantify the range in aerosol forcing associated with uncertainty in the location and magnitude of pre‐industrial…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Touma, Stevenson, Lehner, Coates
Attribution studies have identified a robust anthropogenic fingerprint in increased 21st century wildfire risk. However, the risks associated with individual aspects of anthropogenic aerosol and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, biomass burning and land use/land cover change…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt, Grabinski
The 2019 McKinley wildfire burned north of Wasilla during the driest summer on record. Lessons learned from the McKinley wildfire are shared in this infographic with the goal of helping other Alaskans better prepare for future wildfire.
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Hrobak
The National Park Service (NPS) Interior Region 11 (Alaska) fire ecology program provides science based information to guide fire and land management planning, decisions and practices to maintain and understand fire-adapted ecosystems in Alaska. This annual report provides a…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bessonov, Meradji
Numerical simulation of multi-physical processes requires a lot of processor time, especially when solving ill-conditional linear systems arising in fluid dynamics problems. This paper is devoted to the development of efficient parallel methods for such systems for FireStar3D…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES