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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topik
From the text ... 'With just over 3 months remaining, it looks like 2015 could be a record-breaking year for wildfires in the United States. So far this year, more than 8.5 million acres have burned and severe fires often happen in October. For the first time, the U.S. Forest…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rissman, Owley, Shaw, Thompson
Perpetual conservation easements (CEs) are popular for restricting development and land use, but their fixed terms create challenges for adaptation to climate change. The increasing pace of environmental and social change demands adaptive conservation instruments. To examine the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chen, Di
Precautions against forest fires, a significant element in the prevention and reduction of natural disasters in China, are very important to the development of public emergency systems, as well as to the safety of forest resources, ecology, people's lives and properties. The USA…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The wildland/urban inferface (WUI) is a geographic location where structures and flammable vegetation merge in a wildfire-prone environment.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drews, Siebeneck, Cova
Decision making in complex environments has been investigated in many domains, including medicine, aviation, business, and police operations. However, how incident commanders (ICs) make protective-action recommendations (PARs) to populations exposed to wildfire risks is…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abt, Butry, Prestemon, Scranton
Humans cause more than 55% of wildfires on lands managed by the USDA Forest Service and US Department of the Interior, contributing to both suppression expenditures and damages. One means to reduce the expenditures and damages associated with these wildfires is through fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pyne, Neeley
With support from the U.S. Forest Service, Department of the Interior, and Joint Fire Science Program, I have written a fire history of America from 1960 to 2013. The project will result in two books. Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America relates the basic…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
The management of wildfire is a dynamic, complex, and fundamentally uncertain enterprise. Fire managers face uncertainties regarding fire weather and subsequent influence on fire behavior, the effects of fire on socioeconomic and ecological resources, and the efficacy of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stonesifer, Thompson, Calkin, McHugh
The appropriate role of large airtankers (LATs) in federal fire suppression in the United States has been the source of much debate and discussion in recent years as the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has faced impending decisions about how best to address an aging fleet of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York, Jandt, Maisch, Slaughter
Presentations and roundtable discussion from Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
West
In the profession of wildland firefighting there has been a rise in the occurrence and awareness of exertional rhabdomyolysis, a serious medical condition. Exercise, particularly when strenuous and unaccustomed, causes damage and subsequent muscle fiber breakdown, known as…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Culver
This study was an examination of the correlation between fire officers' emotional intelligence (EI) and their perceived leadership effectiveness. A review of the literature pointed out the need to further explore and understand the leadership effectiveness of fire officers, the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butteri, Pyne
This training webinar was presented by Peter Butteri (US Fish and Wildlife Service/Bureau of Land Management-Alaska Fire Service) and KT Pyne (Alaska Division of Forestry, Strategic Planner), and Co-organized by the Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee and Alaska Fire Science…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES