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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Potter, Koch, Oswalt, Iannone
Context. Fine-scale ecological data collected across broad regions are becoming increasingly available. Appropriate geographic analyses of these data can help identify locations of ecological concern.Objectives. We present one such approach, spatial association of scalable…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haig, Miller, Bellinger, Draheim, Mercer, Mullins
The field of conservation genetics, when properly implemented, is a constant juggling act integrating molecular genetics, ecology, and demography with applied aspects concerning managing declining species or implementing conservation laws and policies. This young field has grown…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kerns, Kim, Kline, Day
We examined landscape exposure to wildfire potential, insects and disease risk, and urban and exurban development for the conterminous US (CONUS). Our analysis relied on spatial data used by federal agencies to evaluate these stressors nationally. We combined stressor data with…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yeboah, Chen, Kingston
Understanding species diversity and disturbance relationships is important for biodiversity conservation in disturbance-driven boreal forests. Species richness and evenness may respond differently with stand development following fire. Furthermore, few studies have…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Wells
From the text... 'One of the potential problems with the use of prescribed burning in the past has been the lack of any systematic investigation into the ecological effects of this forest management practice on the ecosystem. In 1991, the planning process to address this issue…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Price, Rind
Each year lightning ignites approximately 10,000 wildland fires in the United States alone. Therefore, when considering how climate change may affect wildland fires, one needs to consider possible changes in lightning activity. With the aid of satellite cloud and lightning…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Hanneman, Ottmar
A study of smoke exposure at prescribed fires was done by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station and Radian Corporation between 1991 and 1994. This study was done to assess exposure to smoke among firefighters at prescribed fires in the Pacific Northwest.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Means, Hansen, Koerper, Alaback, Klopsch
BIOPAK is a menu-driven package of computer programs for IBM-compatible personal computers that calculates the biomass, area, height, length, or volume of plant components (leaves, branches, stem, crown, and roots). The routines were written in FoxPro, Fortran, and C. BIOPAK was…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Hardy
A smoke emissions production model (EPM) was developed by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station about 10 years ago. Since then, the model has been coded into a computer module and integrated into a variety of other computer programs. The module, EPM,…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Vegetation Classification is a central organizing framework for documentation, inventory, monitoring, and study of vegetation in the United States from broad scale formations like forests to fine-scale plant communities. The Classification allows users to produce…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allison, Johnston, Craig, Jennings
For decades detection and monitoring of forest and other wildland fires has relied heavily on aircraft (and satellites). Technical advances and improved affordability of both sensors and sensor platforms promise to revolutionize the way aircraft detect, monitor and help suppress…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayasaka, Tanaka, Bieniek
Recent concurrent widespread fires in Alaska are evaluated to assess their associated synoptic-scale weather conditions. Several periods of high fire activity from 2003 to 2015 were identified using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) hotspot data by…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Baughman, Romanovsky, Parsekian, Babcock, Stephani, Jones, Grosse, Berg
Permafrost presence is determined by a complex interaction of climatic, topographic, and ecological conditions operating over long time scales. In particular, vegetation and organic layer characteristics may act to protect permafrost in regions with a mean annual air temperature…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Presentation to the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee Arctic Data Collaboration Team Meeting September 2016 by Eric Miller on behalf of the Wildfires Collaboration Team.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hatfield
Mike Hatfield talks with fire managers about potential use of Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration assets at the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
York
Alison York summarizes the plans from the NASA Arctic/Boreal Vulnerability Experiment relevant to fire managers. From the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thoman, Lader, Mölders
Rick Thoman, Rick Lader, and Nicole Molders presented at the IARC Research Salon Series, May 19, 2016. Rick Thoman, Climate Science and Services Manager, NWS Alaska Region: Seasonal scale forecasting of the atmospheric drivers important to wildfire (0-15:50); Rick Lader, PhD…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lindenmayer, Messier, Sato
Many forest ecosystems are thought to be at risk of ecological collapse, which is broadly defined as an abrupt, long-lasting, and widespread change in ecosystem state and dynamics that has major negative impacts on biodiversity and key ecosystem services. However, there is…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Das Gupta, MacKenzie
Fire in boreal ecosystems is known to affect CO2 efflux from forest soils, which is commonly termed soil respiration (Rs). However, there is limited information on how fire and recovery from this disturbance affects spatial variation in Rs. The main objective of this study was…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A series of presentations in which experts explore the trade-offs between wildfire, prescribed fire, forest health, and public health in a one day public forum. This seminar event was hosted by the University of British Columbia on April 18th, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Lewis, Schmutz, Amundson, Lindberg
Wildfires are the principal disturbance in the boreal forest, and their size and frequency are increasing as the climate warms. Impacts of fires on boreal wildlife are largely unknown, especially for the tens of millions of waterfowl that breed in the region. This knowledge gap…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gray, Keane, Karpisz, Pedersen, Brown, Russell
A study by Keane and Gray (2013) compared three sampling techniques for estimating surface fine woody fuels. Known amounts of fine woody fuel were distributed on a parking lot, and researchers estimated the loadings using different sampling techniques. An important result was…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES