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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dunn
New fire management paradigms are emerging that recognize fire is inevitable, and in many cases desirable. During this webinar you will be introduced to a new process for spatial fire planning using tools such as Potential Control Line atlases (PCLs), Quantitative wildfire Risk…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rutherford, Schultz
We use concepts drawn from the adaptive governance literature to examine challenges and opportunities for fire management in Alaska, where rising average summer temperatures over the past several decades are associated with statewide increases in wildland fire activity. Alaska’s…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coupechoux, Demange, Ellison, Jouve
In the Firefighter problem, introduced by Hartnell in 1995, a fire spreads through a graph while a player chooses which vertices to protect in order to contain it. In this paper, we focus on the case of trees and we consider as well the Fractional Firefighter game where the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The impact of smoke on human health is a factor that is taken into account when forest managers are planning prescribed burns. David Weise, a research forester with the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, explains how research seeks to improve the ability for…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Zambon, de Rezende, de Souza
In this paper, we introduce the Geometric Firefighter Routing Problem (gfrp) as a variant of the Geometric Firefighter Problem aiming to better model more realistic situations. We design an exact algorithm based on a core Linear Integer Programming formulation and propose…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Friggens, Loehman, Thode, Flatley, Evans, Bunn, Wilcox, Mueller, Yocom, Falk
Decision makers need better methods for identifying critical ecosystem vulnerabilities to changing climate and fire regimes. Climate-wildfire-vegetation interactions are complex and hinder classification and projection necessary for development of management strategies. One such…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Little
Presented by: Joe Little, University of Alaska Fairbanks
October 25th, 2019
PowerPoint presentation from the first Fall 2019 IARC Salon
Topics include: Forecasting fire suppression costs in the context of changing climate
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fresco
Presented by: Nancy Fresco, University of Alaska Fairbanks
October 25th, 2019
PowerPoint presentation from the first Fall 2019 IARC Salon
Topics include: climate modeling and implications for area burned and vegetation shifts.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
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
Bartos
Presented by: Benjamin Bartos, National Weather Service
Powerpoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire Science Workshop
Topics include the unusual wind event from August and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Loehman, Holsinger
Climate change and associated ecological impacts have challenged many conventional, observation-based approaches for predicting ecosystem and landscape responses to natural resource management. Complex spatial ecological models provide powerful, flexible tools which managers and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
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
Howe, St. Clair, Bachelet, Stevenson-Molnar
The Seedlot Selection Tool (SST) is a GIS mapping program designed to help forest managers match seedlots with planting sites based on climatic information. The climates of the planting sites can be chosen to represent current climates, or future climates based on selected…
Year: 2019
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Before conducting any prescribed fire, landowners need to work with certified professionals to ensure they are following local, state and federal policies. On Trust land, BIA fire management officers can assist with your planning efforts.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Abella
National guidance is provided for new and updated invasive plant management plans that meet federal standards.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ronchi, Gwynne, Rein, Intini, Wadhwani
Fire evacuations at wildland-urban interfaces (WUI) pose a serious challenge to the emergency services, and are a global issue affecting thousands of communities around the world. This paper presents a multi-physics framework for the simulation of evacuation in WUI wildfire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baghdikian
The purpose of this document is to outline the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) wildland fire priorities and coordinate the EPA Office of Research and Development’s (ORD’s) wildland-fire-related research across multiple National Research Programs (NRPs) to be…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hood, Varner, van Mantgem
Forests represent a major source of carbon storage, drive numerous ecosystem processes, and have huge economic and social importance. Wildland and prescribed fires burn millions of forested acres annually, making accurate prediction of post-fire effects and the likelihood of…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES