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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Leach
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Interpret results from a verification study of the NDFD grids from the local Missoula Weather Forecast Office and the implications for fire behavior forecasts that use NDFD data. Afternoon temperature, minimum…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Short
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jones
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The rate of vegetation recovery from boreal wildfire influences terrestrial carbon cycle processes and climate feedbacks by affecting the surface energy budget and land-atmosphere carbon exchange. Previous forest…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lange-Navarro
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Ever wish you could be out on the ground watching how fire behaves over the terrain, in different fuels with effects from weather, then use that experience to try and replicate what you saw and predict what will…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Archibald
Canada's NWT burned over 7 million acres in 2014. What were the indications (drought codes, forecasts, fuel moisture) to alert managers that they were in for a record-breaking season? How well did pre- and early-season Fuel Moisture Indices reflect the fire risk? What were the…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller
Jennifer Barnes, NPS-Alaska Fire Ecologist and Eric Miller, BLM-Alaska Fire Ecologist talk about duff moisture sampling in Alaska: why we do it, its history, and comparing field results of destructive sampling and oven drying to weather-generated Duff Moisture Code and Drought…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This short video records a presentation by Bureau of Land Management-Alaska Fire Service Fire Fuel Specialist Eric Miller on preliminary work he did in field validating Fire Weather Indices of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System with probes and weather stations in…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Skowronski
Webinar presented by Nick Skowronski on November 18, 2014. Canopy bulk density (CBD) is an important component of wildland fire behavior. CBD remains very difficult to quantify at even the plot level. Estimation at the stand, landscape, and beyond is even more problematic, but…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stevens
Dr. Eric Stevens of UAF's Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA) discusses new satellite imagery that may have utility for fire detection and monitoring in Alaska, including VIRS products. He illustrates the available imagery with examples from the Funny River fire of…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Robert Ziel, State of Alaska Fire Analyst shares information on how seasonal effects change the fuel moisture codes of CFFDRS and how remotely sensed data may help with interpretation for managers. This video was edited from his presentation at the October, 2014 Summit on CFFDRS…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Bourgeau-Chavez
Since Alaska adopted the CFFDRS as a fire danger rating system in the 1980's, there has been interest among Alaska fire mangers to check how the equations that compute the indices to reflect duff moisture really compare to duff moisture conditions in the field. A promising new…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Calkin
In this presentation we review several recent studies that attempt to understand how suppression actions influence fire progression as well as review variation among Incident Management Teams in the amount of resources that they use to manage large wildland fires in the US.…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Seesholtz
Navigating adaptive management and cumulative effects analysis to satisfy legal requirements and address stakeholder concerns.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Quarles
This one-hour video includes a presentation from Dr. Stephen Quarles along with a live 'Ask an Expert' segment where pre-selected homeowners have an opportunity to ask a question related to the session's topic. This unique learning format provides wildland/urban interface…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Heller
To manage and utilize Great Northern LCC supported science project information, we have developed a project tracking system (PTS). The PTS functionality centers on collaborative, administrative, project and data management, and outreach uses to increase efficiencies and provide…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pike
Americans are waking up to the reality of extreme weather events and are beginning to connect the dots to climate disruption. Effectively engaging the public as partners in addressing the challenge requires emphasizing local, current and personally relevant impacts and bridging…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Malm
Several U.S. state and tribal agencies and other countries implement a methodology developed in the arid intermountain western United States, where short-term (1-3 hr) particulate matter (PM) concentrations are estimated from human-observed visual range (Vr) sightings. These PM2…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strand
Tara Strand presented a webinar on April 24, 2014. Low intensity prescription burning is used to reduce fuels, improve ecosystem health, and to mimic a natural fire pattern that is otherwise suppressed during the more intense wildfire season. There are many constraints that…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Tim Brown presented a webinar on the new National Climate Assessment (NCA). The NCA summarizes present day and future impacts of climate change on the United States. Observations are showing changes in temperature and precipitation patterns causing societal impacts outside of…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wotton
Mike Wotton's current research focuses on the development of fuel moisture, fire occurrence and fire behaviour models for use in daily operational fire management activities as well as in the development of climate change impacts scenarios. His doctoral thesis developed a…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Roise, Khorran, Lutes
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Joe Roise of the North Carolina State University, Siamak Khorram of the University of California, Berkeley, and Duncan Lutes with the USDA Forest Service. This webinar presented an introduction to some recent interdisciplinary…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
On May 19th 2014 the Funny River fire started on the western side of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Over the next five days the fire grew to nearly 200,000 acres, burning four structures and two outbuildings. There were also thousands of homes in the direct path of the fire.…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Heilman
Smoke generated from low-intensity prescribed fires used for fuels management can have an adverse impact on local air quality, raising human health and safety concerns especially in wildland-urban-interface areas. Local smoke behavior is a complex process and is highly dependent…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reiner, Ewell
Ali Reiner and Carol Ewell presented a webinar on June 10, 2014. Fire behavior and effects models are frequently used to inform fire and land management decisions despite a lack of testing against field measurements. The Adaptive Management Services Enterprise Team (AMSET, USFS…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kinder, Hao
Since 2010, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has been coordinating a USDA multi-agency program to conduct an emissions inventory of black carbon from fires and burning in Russia, examine transport of black carbon from these sources to the Arctic, and identify and implement…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES