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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Nakazawa, Cain, Kenyon, Munson, Cooke
The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau hosted this public workshop to promote the use of multilingual emergency alerting. The workshop included presentations related to the multilingual capabilities of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Armatas, Borrie, Watson
Despite the generally accepted need for understanding social vulnerability within the context of USDA Forest Service planning and management, there is a lack of structured approaches available to practitioners to gain such an understanding. This social vulnerability protocol…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woźniak, Aleksansdrowicz
Mapping of regional fires would make it possible to analyse their environmental, social and economic impact, as well as to develop better fire management systems. However, automatic mapping of burnt areas has proved to be a challenging task, due to the wide diversity of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rosen
More than ever, scientists are being asked to explain how their research is relevant to society and decision-making. This often requires them to navigate interactions with the media. In this webinar, journalist and scientist Dr. Julia Rosen will share expertise and insights…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
York
Presented by: Alison York, Alaska Fire Science Consortium
November 20th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th International Fire Ecology and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brunson
Presented by: Ed Brunson, Joint Fire Science Program
November 20th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th International Fire Ecology and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Alaska's Fire Environment: Not an Average Place is a compilation of excerpts from the keynote presentation given by Robert "Zeke" Ziel at the Albuquerque location of the 2019 Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference.
Alaska is nearly 18% of USA landmass. Its size is often…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evers, Ager, Nielsen-Pincus, Palaiologou, Bunzel
Risk management typologies and their resulting archetypes can structure the many social and biophysical drivers of community wildfire risk into a set number of strategies to build community resilience. Existing typologies omit key factors that determine the scale and mechanism…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joshi, Poudyal, Weir, Fuhlendorf, Ochuodho
While prescribed burning is a proven tool in the management of forests and grasslands, its use has been limited due, in part, to potential risks that may result in legal liability, property damage, and personal injury. The purpose of this study is to understand the factors that…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nguyen, Schlesinger, Han, Gür, Carlson
Quantifying factors that affect evacuation decision making remains a challenging task. Progress is crucial for developing predictive models of collective behavior and for designing effective policies to guide the action of populations during wildfires. We conduct a controlled…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alaska Wildland Fire Information is a web application designed to provide users with an interactive mapping interface that displays data relevant to wildland fires in Alaska. Examples of the wildland fire-specific data available from this web application include fire locations,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Part of the new Research Task List, this is a document of products delivered based upon the Research Task.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York, Jandt
A three-day workshop was held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks April 4-6, 2017. The interagency, international workshop was hosted by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) with funding from the NASA Applied Sciences Program to bring sciences users and producers together…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Metcalf, Miller, Buma, McWethy, Metcalf, Ratajczak, Nelson, Chaffin, Stedman, McCaffrey, Schoennagel, Harvey, Hood, Schultz, Black, Campbell, Haggerty, Keane, Krawchuk, Kulig, Rafferty, Virapongse
Resilience has become a common goal for science-based natural resource management, particularly in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes. Integrating varying perspectives and definitions of resilience is a complex and often unrecognized challenge to applying…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp
A significant amount of research has examined what motivates people living in the WUI to mitigate their wildfire risk, but drawing over-arching conclusions is difficult given the myriad of ways researchers have conceptualized and operationalized preparedness. This webinar…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Steelman, Nowell
The United States' National Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy aims to achieve greater social and ecological resilience to wildfire. It also raises the question: cohesive for whom and for what purpose? In this article, we address the wildfire response goal and what a cohesive…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Twidwell, Wonkka, Wang, Grant, Allen, Fuhlendorf, Garmestani, Angeler, Taylor, Kreuter, Rogers
Mechanisms underlying the loss of ecological resilience and a shift to an alternate regime with lower ecosystem service provisioning continues to be a leading debate in ecology, particularly in cases where evidence points to human actions and decision-making as the primary…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York
Presented By: Alison York
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an update of recent AFSC activities.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
Presented By: Jen Jenkins
March 28th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting, the presentation gave an update on new and continuing GIS uses available.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lasky
Every year, 600,000 Americans over 70 years old stop driving every year. In 1970, blue-collar jobs were 31.2% of total nonfarm employment. By 2016, their share had fallen to 13.6%. The number of days reaching 'Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups' Level or Above on the Air Quality…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Crawford, Shahroudi
Wildfires have increased in frequency, duration, and intensity worldwide. Climate change, drought, and other factors have not only increased susceptibility to wildfires, but have also increased the duration of the season. There are a number of factors affecting wildfires:…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Carroll, Stasiewicz, Edgeley
One overarching goal of United States fire management focuses on fostering human populations who can 'adapt' to wildfire as an unavoidable, reoccurring process operating in the landscapes where they live. The goal of creating 'fire adapted communities' is generally taken to mean…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Colavito, Trainor, Kettle, York
Boundary organizations facilitate two-way, sustained interaction and communication between research and practitioner spheres, deliver existing science, and develop new, actionable scientific information to address emerging social–ecological questions applicable to decision-…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arellano
Presented by Chiara Arellano as part of the REU Workshop on August 8th, 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The guide provides public health officials with the information they need to prepare for smoke events, communicate health risks and take measures to protect public health. It is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning more about what to do when smoke travels…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES