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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hutchen, Volkmann, Hodges
Climate change is altering fire regimes. As fire regimes change, it is important to understand how mammals respond to these altered post-fire landscapes. Because fires vary in size, severity and landscape context, it is important to know the experimental designs and response…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Healey, Yang, Stehman, Brewer, Brooks, Gorelick, Huang, Hughes, Kennedy, Loveland, Moisen, Schroeder, Vogelmann, Woodcock, Yang, Zhu
Disturbance is a critical ecological process in forested systems, and disturbance maps are important for understanding forest dynamics. Landsat data are a key remote sensing dataset for monitoring forest disturbance and there recently has been major growth in the development of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide provides homeowners with tools to assess your home's wildfire risk and prioritizes actions you can take to reduce that risk. The assessment worksheet included with this guide is intended to help you understand your risk and where vulnerabilities on your property may…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Pierce
Photochemical grid models such as the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) are used to estimate local to continental scale O3, PM, and haze for scientific and regulatory assessments. Field data from specific and well characterized wildland fires is critically important…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski
Smoke from wildland fires has a significant impact on public health and transportation safety and presents a serious complication for air regulators seeking to design effective and efficient emission control strategies to meet and maintain air quality standards. Wildland fires…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young
Projections of future fire activity, derived from statistical models, are a powerful tool for anticipating 21st-century fire regimes. In previous work, we developed a set of statistical models that captures fire-climate relationships at 30-yr timescales in Alaskan boreal forest…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strader
Heidi Strader shares what is known now about climate change and answers questions about its causes and effects.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder, Schleeweis, Moisen, Toney, Cohen, Freeman, Yang, Huang
In light of Earth's changing climate and growing human population, there is an urgent need to improve monitoring of natural and anthropogenic disturbances which effect forests' ability to sequester carbon and provide other ecosystem services. In this study, a two-step modeling…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jin, Yang, Zhu, Homer
Monitoring and mapping land cover changes are important ways to support evaluation of the status and transition of ecosystems. The Alaska National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2001 was the first 30-m resolution baseline land cover product of the entire state derived from circa…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schoennagel, Balch, Brenkert-Smith, Dennison, Harvey, Krawchuk, Mietkiewicz, Morgan, Moritz, Rasker, Turner, Whitlock
Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a consequence, the wildland–urban interface is projected to experience substantially higher risk of climate-…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prichard, Stevens-Rumann, Hessburg
Across the globe, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns have caused persistent regional droughts, lengthened fire seasons, and increased the number of weather-driven extreme fire events. Because wildfires currently impact an increasing proportion of the total…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Massman, Forthofer, Finney
The ability to rapidly estimate wind speed beneath a forest canopy or near the ground surface in any vegetation is critical to practical wildland fire behavior models. The common metric of this wind speed is the “mid-flame” wind speed, UMF. However, the existing approach for…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hvizdak, Bailey, Fischer, Boykin, Decker
As part of our effort to advance policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species, WLA is offering this interactive practitioner exchange focused on prescribed fire on private land. We are enlisting a panel of experts from across the…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hyde, Yedinak, Talhelm, Smith, Bowman, Johnston, Lahm, Fitch, Tinkham
Wildland fire emissions degrade air quality and visibility, having adverse economic, health and visibility impacts at large spatial scales globally. Air quality regulations can constrain the goals of landscape resilience and management of fire-dependent ecosystems. Here, we…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones
Understanding the economic costs imposed by wildfire smoke is important to evaluating competing fire management approaches and setting appropriate mitigation budgets. The nascent literature on wildfire smoke costs has largely examined the indirect health costs associated with…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kautz, Meddens, Hall, Arneth
Aim: Biotic disturbances (BD, including insects, pathogens and wildlife herbivory) can alter forest structure and the capability of forests to deliver ecosystem services. Impact assessments, however, are limited by the lack of reliable and timely disturbance data at large…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rashidi, Medal, Gordon, Grala, Varner
In this research, we study the vulnerability of landscapes to wildfires based on the impact of the worst-case scenario ignition locations. Using this scenario, we model wildfires that cause the largest damage to a landscape over a given time horizon. The landscape is modeled as…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuster
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hua, Shao
Forest wildfires pose significant and growing threats to human safety, wildlife habitat, regional economies and global climate change. It is crucial that forest fires be subject to timely and accurate monitoring by forest fire managers and other stake-holders. Measurement by…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Stuefer, Cooper
This webinar, organized jointly by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, will focus on changing wildfires in Alaska and resulting smoke impacts to help our audience be prepared for the upcoming wildfire season. Randi Jandt…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keim, DeWitt, Fitzpatrick, Jenni
Quantifying abundance and distribution of plant species can be difficult because data are often inflated with zero values due to rarity or absence from many ecosystems. Terrestrial fruticose lichens (Cladonia and Cetraria spp.) occupy a narrow ecological niche and have been…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Qin, Flint
Local sociocultural processes including community perceptions and actions represent the most visible social impacts of various economic and environmental changes. Comparative community analysis has been used to examine diverse community perspectives on a variety of socioeconomic…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shuman, Foster, Shugart, Hoffman-Hall, Krylov, Loboda, Ershov, Sochilova
Change in the Russian boreal forest has the capacity to alter global carbon and climate dynamics. Fire disturbance is an integral determinant of the forest's composition and structure, and changing climate conditions are expected to create more frequent and severe fires. Using…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Mack, Johnstone
Climate change has increased the occurrence, severity, and impact of disturbances on forested ecosystems worldwide, resulting in a need to identify factors that contribute to an ecosystem’s resilience or capacity to recover from disturbance. Forest resilience to disturbance may…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weir
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar with John Weir of Oklahoma State University and the Oklahoma Prescribed Burn Association. Are you involved in creating, developing, guiding, or supporting a prescribed burn association (PBA)? Are you interested learning how prescribed burn…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES