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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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McKenzie
This project reviews the essential ingredients of a modeling system for projecting smoke consequences in a rapidly warming climate that is expected to change wildfire regimes significantly. We present relevant details of each component of the system, offer suggestions for the…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Potter, Rorig
We propose to hold a workshop to train approximately ten smoke modeling specialists who would be available thereafter to support wildland fire incidents on a regional scale, similar to the role the AirFire Team played for the 2011 fires in the Southwestern US. The workshop will…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Cochrane, Wimberly
The fire situation in the United States is well documented with a growing prevalence of larger and more intense fires that have increasingly severe consequences for affected ecosystems and human health and well being. Wildland fire managers have the task of mitigating the…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Shindler, Toman
Considerable social science research has been conducted at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) since inception of the Joint Fire Science Program and National Fire Plan. Results have provided useful insight into factors including public acceptance of fuel treatments, communication…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Trainor, Leigh, York
In Alaska's boreal forest, fire is an integral part of ecosystem function. Smoke often fills the summer skies, and extensive wildfires can pose risks to life, property and subsistence livelihoods. The frequency and severity of wildfires in the interior and south central regions…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Veblen, Holz, Paritsis, Tepley
We seek travel support for approximately 8 early-career scientists to participate in a wildfire conference we are organizing for January 2013 to be held in conjunction with the VII Southern Connection Congress in Dunedin, New Zealand. The Southern Connection Congress is a…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Absher, Vaske
A multi-year, community-based project to look at social and cognitive barriers to wildfire risk reduction by focusing on better completion of defensible space behaviors through the use of promising social science approaches. The project seeks to identify practical steps for…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Robinson
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) is a non-profit, professional association representing members of the global wildland fire community. The mission of the Association is to facilitate communication and provide leadership for the wildland fire community.…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Ingalsbee
The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) uses conferences as a primary method of delivering the latest science concerning fire ecology and fire effects to land managers. Regional-level conferences are conducted two years out of three with each regional conference focusing on a…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Bytnerowicz
Presenting state-of-science information and discussion of broadly defined air pollution and forest fire issues. Among others, the following topics will be discussed: effects of forest fires on air quality in the remote and urban-wildland interface forests; effects of forest…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Black, Miller
The Fire Effects Planning Framework (FEPF), developed under the JFSP project #99-1-3-16, was formally completed in June 2004. Although all proposed technology transfer activities were completed, field managers, national and international fire planning organizations continue to…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Jolly, Andrews, Hardy
Live fuel moisture plays an important role in wildland fire. There is a need for a complete information synthesis on live fuel moisture that fire managers can use in wildland fire planning and implementation activities. And a complete review is needed to identify areas where…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Hardy, Andrews, Finney
Development of the BehavePlus fire modeling system and the FlamMap fire behavior analysis and mapping system and supporting technology transfer material was funded in part under JFSP project #98-1-8-02. After successful completion of that project, development of those systems…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Woodard
This conference will bring wildland fire managers, policy makers, community planners, and social scientist together to share information, foster the development of new research collaborations between and among fire managers and researchers across geographic and national borders…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Hardy
1. Initial focus will likely be on energy transfer within heterogeneous and spatially non-uniform fuel beds; 2. As stated in the Framework, moisture dynamics in the combustion environment is a critical element demanding attention, and we expect the plan to phase in work directed…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Renschler, Perry, Saveland
This proposal is in response to Task 1: Extension of Technology Transfer Activities, as described in the JFSP Announcement for Proposals 2005-4. This proposal seeks continued funding to customize and deliver additional user-requested functionality of our currently JFSP-funded.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Barbour
The focused science delivery program proposes to investigate to what extent existing JFSP research is being incorporated into current environmental analysis related to fuels management projects for Federal land management agencies.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Smith, Miller
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) has provided a scientific basis for fire and land management since 1986. The Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and National Wildfire Coordinating Group sponsored development of…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Reinhardt, Lutes, Noble, Scott
A need exists for a simple computer program to determine surface and canopy fuel quantities (load, bulk density, depth) and qualities (fire behavior fuel model, fire-carrying fuel type) from a variety of fuel inventory data sources. In addition, fuel managers need help analyzing…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Evans
The Forest Guild will utilize its national network of foresters and natural resource professionals, along with federal, tribal, and local partners, to inventory and evaluate biomass removal case studies.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Foltz, Robichaud
Recent expansions in post-fire rehabilitation research have increased the knowledge base and opened the door to more informed decision making and successful post-fire rehabilitation efforts. Although there are many tools which have been developed to estimate peak flows and road…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Butler
Previous funding from the JFSP has been used to test the utility of commercial engineering software for simulating surface wind flows in support of fire management decisions. Efforts over the last three years have demonstrated that this technology can be very useful as a…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Becker
The proposed study includes two parts. The first part focuses on characterizing biomass removal efforts on USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and tribal lands for a total of 10-12 case studies located throughout the country. Information will be collected on project…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Williams, Burns, Cheng, Jakes, Nelson, Sturtevant
Multi-stakeholder collaboration has a long tradition in natural resource management. Recent initiatives such as the National Fire Plan have encouraged collaboration in wildland fire and fuels management. Collaboration for fuels management has received even greater impetus with…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Rebain, Crookston, Dixon, Reinhardt
This project is designed to provide an improved version of the Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FFE-FVS), a program whose original development was largely financed by the JFSP. The program is widely used by JFSP member agencies and several JFSP-…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES