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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 1 - 25 of 101
Franz
The topic of “managed wildfire” is mired in complexity, starting with what to call it. This fire management approach has been known as “prescribed natural fire,” “wildland fire use,” “resource objective fire,” and more. All names refer to the same essential idea: leveraging…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg
It's no secret that wildfires in the west have been drastically increasing in size and destructive power. But what, if anything, can be done about it? Join world-renown and award-winning USFS research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg as he explains how we got here and restores our…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg
We have all seen the news - hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What's going on? How did we get here? Paul tells a fast-paced story of western US forests - unintentionally yet massively changed by a century of management. He relates how these changes, coupled with a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hattenbach
A special session by the Fuels Community of Practice.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Charnley, Adams
Both the US Forest Service Wildfire Crisis Strategy and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is funding the agency’s initial investments to reduce wildfire risk under the Strategy call for considering equity and environmental justice when implementing projects. During this…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Margolis, Guiterman
A recent collaboration by ~90 tree-ring and fire-scar scientists has resulted in the publication of the newly compiled North American Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Network (NAFSN), which contains 2,562 sites, > 37,000 fire-scarred trees, and covers large parts of North America. In this…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hedayati, Gorham
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
IBHS test chamber is a unique facility to study the effects of wind on fire. The test chamber area is equal to four basketball courts which allows researchers to perform large scale wind and fire tests. The test…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ballinger
Alaska’s central and eastern interior (CEI), including the greater Tanana Valley and Yukon Flats, has consistently been the most fire prone area of the state during the last two decades. Toward operational and research applications, several surface fire weather indicators have…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McWethy
This seminar is part of Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2021 EarthTalks Series: Fire in the Earth System(link is external). Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are getting larger, more destructive…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
This seminar is part of Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2021 EarthTalks Series: Fire in the Earth System(link is external). Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are getting larger, more destructive…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This 15-minute video provides an overview of the FireWorks program and describes several of the activities.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Grabinski
An intensified pattern of wildfire is emerging in Alaska as rapidly increasing temperatures and longer growing seasons alter the state's environment. Both tundra and Boreal forest regions are seeing larger and more frequent fires. The impacts of these fires are felt across the…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ballard
Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions with Timmons Group presents the latest developments in the Shared Wildfire Risk Mitigation (SWRM) Dashboard Tool that uses GIS data to provide mapped communities at risk, a consistent approach across 13 states (so far), completed…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Dr. Stephen Pyne, the world's foremost fire historian, discusses how we are living in a Fire Age of comparable scale to the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, and whether our relationship with fire is a mutual assistance pact or a Faustian bargain. To read his responses to the…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schultz
This webinar is part of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 Webinar Series hosted by the Colorado State University, the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network and the Forest Stewards Guild.
For the final installment of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 webinar series we are joined by Courtney…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wonkka
Maintaining appropriate fire return intervals for fully functioning ecosystems can be difficult for a variety of reasons. Laws and regulations can place limitations on both the timing and extent of prescribed burning. In this webinar, Dr. Wonkka will present an overview of the…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Humanity’s fire practices are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age. Our shift from burning living landscapes to burning lithic ones is affecting all aspects of Earth.
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ernstrom, Hyde
Current and future development of IFTDSS and a demonstration of the Map Values feature that was added in Version 3.2.0.2.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
York
Presented by: Alison York, Alaska Fire Science Consortium
November 20th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th International Fire Ecology and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Presented by: Randi Jandt, Alaska Fire Science Consortium
November 20th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Fire in the Last Frontier: 21st Century Fire Patterns, Behavior, and Pyroecology of North American Boreal Forests and Tundra presented as part of the 8th…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Bradshaw, Freeborn
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Flanagan
This webinar will review recent research led by Duke University investigating the impacts of fire on peatland ecosystems. Severe wildfires can cause smoldering ground fires that oxidize entire carbon stores and threaten peatlands around the globe. However, low‐severity surface…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bailey, O'Brien
This webinar is part of NAFSE's Prescribed Fire Science Workshop Webinar Series and provides a broad overview of the process of writing a burn plan before implementing a prescribed fire (or prescribed burn; RxB). It was broadcast on August 13, 2020. This webinar was co-presented…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Matonis, Quinn-Davidson, Guess, Sadler, Karboski
In this webinar co-hosted by the FLN and Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils, Meg Matonis shared highlights from the recent report “Insights and Suggestions for Certified Prescribed Burn Manager Programs.” A panel gave overviews of programs in states with established programs…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES