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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Donoghue
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tang, Shao
Drones of various shapes, sizes, and functionalities have emerged over the past few decades, and their civilian applications are becoming increasingly appealing. Flexible, low-cost, and high-resolution remote sensing systems that use drones as platforms are important for filling…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Short
Analyses to identify and relate trends in wildfire activity to factors such as climate, population, land use or land cover and wildland fire policy are increasingly popular in the United States. There is a wealth of US wildfire activity data available for such analyses, but…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wang, Piao, Xu, Ciais, MacBean, Myneni, Li
Aim: Change in spring phenology is a sensitive indicator of ecosystem response to climate change, and exerts first-order control on the ecosystem carbon and hydrological cycles. The start of season (SOS) in spring can be estimated from satellite data using different…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tanimoto, Ikeda, Boersma, van der A, Garivait
Past studies suggest that forest fires contribute significantly to the formation of ozone in the troposphere. However, the emissions of ozone precursors from wildfires, and the mechanisms involved in ozone production from boreal fires, are very complicated. Moreover, an…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He draws not only on academic experience…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'The outcome of the Southern Forestry Education Campaign was much less devisive. To begin with, its subject was not the internal distribution of agency funds but the promotion of fire protection as a concept. Nor was it concerned with the question of transient…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'But with the advent of fire protection in the South, game birds decreased much as pasturage had and as grouse populations had in Britain. The vegetative ensemble that sustained maximum populations gave way to roughage and woods. By 1923 hunting plantations in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'It is often assumed that the American Indian was incapable of greatly modifying his environment and that he would not have been much interested in doing so if he did have the capabilities. In fact, he possessed both the tool and the will to use it. That tool…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Landry, Matthews, Ramankutty
Changes in the current fire regime would directly affect carbon cycling, land–atmosphere exchanges, and atmospheric composition, and could therefore modulate the ongoing climate warming. We used a coupled climate–carbon model to quantify the effect of major changes in non-…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Short
Analyses to identify and relate trends in wildfire activity to factors such as climate, population, land use or land cover and wildland fire policy are increasingly popular in the United States. There is a wealth of US wildfire activity data available for such analyses, but…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, McKenzie, Billmire, Ottmar, Prichard, McCarty, Endsley
The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) was developed under NASA Carbon Cycle Science and Applications programs to provide a consistent approach to estimating emissions at continental to sub-continental scales (see http://wfeis.mtri.org). We present an overview of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kulig, Westlund
Transformation of research findings into relevant policies and programs is a principle for ensuring the creation of usable science. One way of achieving this is to employ knowledge translation to disseminate findings between researchers and end users. In this article the process…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hantson, Lasslop, Kloster, Chuvieco
Wildland fires are an important agent in the earth's system. Multiple efforts are currently in progress to better represent wildland fires in earth system models. Although wildland fires are a natural disturbance factor, humans have an important effect on fire occurrence by…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt, York
Introductions and upcoming workshop discussion presented at the Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015. This comprises the first 10 minutes of the video.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Heinrichs, Stevens
Presentation by Tom Heinrichs and Eric Stevens, GINA, from the Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015. Their presentation starts at the 52:10 mark of the video.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hinkley, Quayle
Presentation by Everett Hinkley and Brad Quayle, US Forest Service, from Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015, begins at the 28:30 mark and lasts approximately 24 minutes.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
Presentation by Jennifer Jenkins from the Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015. It begins at the 10:20 mark of the video and lasts approximately 18 minutes.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
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
Dennison, Fryer, Campbell, Cova, Butler
Safety zones are designated areas that reduce firefighter heat exposure to tolerable levels by providing separation between personnel and fuels. Along with Lookouts, Communications, and Escape routes, Safety zones are a component of the 'LCES' procedures for reducing risk of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A description of fire occurrence and fire effects across the United States for the year of 2014. This includes spending, acres burned, reports on performance measures, and brief narratives on different fires.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hantson, Pueyo, Chuvieco
Aim: In order to understand fire's impacts on vegetation dynamics, it is crucial that the distribution of fire sizes be known. We approached this distribution using a power-law distribution, which derives from self-organized criticality theory (SOC). We compute the global…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bevins
Two computer programs for testing alternative fire prescriptions are presented. Program RXBUILD creates a fire occurrence and a fire weather, danger, and manning class file for use by the second program. Program RXFIRES reads user fire selection criteria are tested against the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Riddering, Holden, Jolly, Warren
Perhaps the most obvious use of mobile technologies in fire management is in the collection and sharing of weather information. For firefighters, the ability to quickly receive the latest weather information is critical to safely execute their mission.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knapman
In Interior Alaska, firelines are often constructed to help control and contain wildfires. In the early 1960's and early 1970's, the firelines were built, as in the western states, by tractors with bulldozer blades that scraped off the organic mat, knocked down trees, and pushed…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS