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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Robinne
Learn about: how forests contribute to water security; how fire, forests, and humans interact to impact water security; what is the state of wildfire-watershed risk research in Canada; and, what are the tools, methods, and data available to advance research and management of…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Raoelison, Valenca, Lee, Karim, Webster, Poulin, Mohanty
Surface runoff mobilizes the burned residues and ashes produced during wildfires and deposits them in surface waters, thereby deteriorating water quality. A lack of a consistent reporting protocol precludes a quantitative understanding of how and to what extent wildfire may…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flores, Fox, Iverson, Venette, Conley, Jahn, Howes, Haire
The USDA Forest Service anticipated that COVID-19 outbreaks among fire management personnel would potentially impact the agency’s ability to maintain the readiness of the wildland fire system and to respond to large complex wildfires across the country. In response, the agency…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuzmina, Lim, Loiko, Pokrovsky
Extensive studies have been performed on wildfire impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the taiga biome, however consequences of wildfires in the tundra biome remain poorly understood. In such a biome, permafrost peatlands occupy a sizable territory in the Northern…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paul, LeDuc, Lassiter, Moorhead, Noyes, Leibowitz
Wildfires have increased in frequency in many ecosystems, with implications for human health and the environment, including water quality. Increased fire frequency and urbanization also raise the prospect of fires burning into urban areas, mobilizing pollutants few have…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
1. Problem Statement Climate change is impacting the climate-related biophysical dynamics of fisheries. For example, researchers have documented shifts in annual stream runoff throughout the western United States associated with warmer air temperature. In addition, current…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zolkos, MacDonald, Hung, Schade, Ludwig, Mann, Treharne, Natali
Northern high-latitude deltas are hotspots of biogeochemical processing, terrestrial-aquatic connectivity, and, in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD), tundra wildfire. Yet, wildfire effects on aquatic biogeochemistry remain understudied in northern delta regions, thus limiting…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
In this presentation, Dr. Thompson will explore themes of slack and scarcity and how they relate to multi-scale concepts of strategy, performance, and analytics in wildfire. While the description is short, this webinar contained a fascinating collection of concepts, statistics,…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
East, AghaKouchak, Caprarelli, Filippelli, Florindo, Luce, Rajaram, Russell, Santín, Santos
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical processes associated with fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Alpers, Anderson, Banta, Blake, Carpenter, Clark, Clow, Hempel, Martin, Meador, Mendez, Mueller-Solger, Stewart, Payne, Peterman, Ebel
Wildfires pose a risk to water supplies in the western U.S. and many other parts of the world, due to the potential for degradation of water quality. However, a lack of adequate data hinders prediction and assessment of post-wildfire impacts and recovery. The dearth of such data…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belval, McCaffrey, Finney, Calkin, Greer
In the 2020 fire season, the fire management community developed and tested a wide range of new practices to meet challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. To better understand the effectiveness of different innovations and which should be considered for more permanent use,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ebel, Shephard, Walvoord, Murphy, Partridge, Perkins
Wildfire is a growing concern as climate shifts. The hydrologic effects of wildfire, which include elevated hazards and changes in water quantity and quality, are increasingly assessed using numerical models. Post-wildfire application of physically based distributed models…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dickman, Jonko, Linn, Altintas, Atchley, Bär, Collins, Dupuy, Gallagher, Hiers, Hoffman, Hood, Hurteau, Jolly, Josephson, Loudermilk, Ma, Michaletz, Nolan, O'Brien, Parsons, Feltrin, Pimont, de Dios, Restaino, Robbins, Sartor, Schultz-Fellenz, Serbin, Sevanto, Shuman, Sieg, Skowronski, Weise, Wright, Xu, Yebra, Younes
Wildfires are a global crisis, but current fire models fail to capture vegetation response to changing climate. With drought and elevated temperature increasing the importance of vegetation dynamics to fire behavior, and the advent of next generation models capable of capturing…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stonesifer, Calkin, O'Connor
Aircraft provide critically important capacity for a wide range of missions for wildland firefighters, but their use brings inherent risks. Aviation-related fatalities account for 30% of federal and contractor firefighter deaths in the United States over the last ten years.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Khan
Wildfires kill and injure people, destroy residences, pollute the air, and cause economic loss. In this paper, a low-power Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensor network is developed, which automatically detects fires in forests and sends the location to a central monitoring…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hampton, Lin, Basu
Forested watersheds supply over two thirds of the world's drinking water. The last decade has seen an increase in the frequency and intensity of wildfires that is threatening these source watersheds, and necessitating more expensive water treatment to address degrading water…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Deval, Brooks, Dobre, Lew, Robichaud, Fowler, Boll, Easton, Collick
Effective watershed management and protection of water resources from non-point source pollution require identification, prioritization, and targeting of pollutant source areas. Process-based hydrology and water quality models are powerful heuristic tools for land and water…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boyer, Wagenbrenner, Zhang
Climate change is a crucial factor in increasing wildfire risks, where warmer and drier conditions, increased drought periods, and increased lightning strikes have made many areas more susceptible to burning. This special issue focuses on Wildfire and Hydrological Processes,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pugh, Colley, Dugdale, Edwards, Flitcroft, Holz, Johnson, Mariani, Means-Brous, Meyer, Moffett, Renan, Schrodt, Thorne, Valman, Wijayratne, Field
Background
Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodiversity begets biodiversity” hypothesis suggests that wildfires that generate temporally and spatially heterogeneous mosaics of wildfire severity and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ebel
Infiltration and associated soil-hydraulic properties, such as field-saturated hydraulic conductivity (Kfs), sorptivity (S), or saturated soil-water content (θs) are measured after wildland fires to assess risks of water-related hazards and water supply impairment. Yet the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayes, Sekavec, Quigley, Ewell, Cunningham
In 2007, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) organized a task group to: 1) Develop a monitoring plan for implementing a directive from the National Fire Plan’s 10-Year Implementation Strategy, and 2) Respond to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act requirement of monitoring…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayes, Sekavec, Quigley, Ewell, Cunningham
In 2007, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) organized a task group to: 1) Develop a monitoring plan for implementing a directive from the National Fire Plan’s 10-Year Implementation Strategy, and 2) Respond to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act requirement of monitoring…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES