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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Henderson, Ichoku, Burkholder, Brauer, Jackson
Wildfire emissions are challenging to measure and model, but simple and realistic estimates can benefit multiple disciplines. We evaluate the potential of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data to address this objective. A total of 11,004 fire pixels detected…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Goldshleger, Ben-Dor, Lugassi, Eshel
Recent developments in the monitoring of soil degradation processes have used passive remote sensing (diffuse reflectance spectroscopy) and active remote-sensing tools such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and frequency domain electromagnetic induction (FDEM). We have limited…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mieville, Granier, Liousse, Guillaume, Mouillot, Lamarque, Gregoire, Petron
A new dataset of emissions of trace gases and particles resulting from biomass burning has been developed for the historical and the recent period (1900-2005). The purpose of this work is to provide a consistent gridded emissions dataset of atmospheric chemical species from 1900…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Giglio, Randerson, van der Werf, Kasibhatla, Collatz, Morton, Defries
Long term, high quality estimates of burned area are needed for improving both prognostic and diagnostic fire emissions models and for assessing feedbacks between fire and the climate system. We developed global, monthly burned area estimates aggregated to 0.5º spatial…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aplet, Wilmer
From the text ... 'Policymakers and forestry experts recognize that, after a century of fire suppression, there is a crisis in forest health: fire-dependent ecosystems starved of regular fire cycles now have unhealthy fuel loads and experience unnaturally large wildfires.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mell, Manzello, Maranghides, Butry, Rehm
Wildfires that spread into wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities present significant challenges on several fronts. In the United States, the WUI accounts for a significant portion of wildland fire suppression and wildland fuel treatment costs. Methods to reduce structure…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schneider, Fernando
In land change science studies, a cover type is defined by land surface attributes, specifically including the types of vegetation, topography and human structures, which makes it difficult to characterize land cover as discrete classes. One of the challenges in characterizing a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liu, Stanturf, Goodrick
The trend in global wildfire potential under the climate change due to the greenhouse effect is investigated. Fire potential is measured by the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), which is calculated using the observed maximum temperature and precipitation and projected changes…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Goetz, Sun, Baccini, Beck
Fire disturbance at high latitudes modifies a broad range of ecosystem properties and processes, thus it is important to monitor the response of vegetation to fire disturbance. This monitoring effort can be aided by lidar remote sensing, which captures information on vegetation…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hood
The report synthesizes the literature and current state of knowledge pertaining to reintroducing fire in stands where it has been excluded for long periods and the impact of these introductory fires on overstory tree injury and mortality. Only forested ecosystems in the United…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girardin, Ali, Hély
With the emergence of a new forest management paradigm based on the emulation of natural disturbance regimes, interest in fire-related studies has increased in the boreal forest management community. A key issue in this regard is the improvement of our understanding of the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Riebau, Fox
From the text ... 'It may be that a new dialogue is needed between those who advocate education and social sciences investigations on fire and those who advocate air quality and health science concerned with fire smoke.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Ooi
From the text ... 'Only if the seed experiences an appropriate cue that informs it of a favourable current environment while (relatively) non-dormant will germination occur. Light confirms there has been some disturbance that has brought a buried seed to the surface, smoke that…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larkin, Brown, Lahm, Zimmerman
From the text ... 'The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) is a new Web-based system designed to integrate science and technology in support of risk-informed decisionmaking for wildland fires. ... WFDSS replaces three past wildland fire decision analysis and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kochi, Donovan, Champ, Loomis
The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious consideration in determining the optimal wildfire management policy. Unfortunately, the literature in this research area is thin. In an effort to better understand the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Watts, Kobziar, Percival
Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) have been developed alongside manned aircraft yet have seen widespread use only in the past decade. Their use for miliraty applications has propelled advances in electronics and sensors to yield systems whose capabilities may be useful for many…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Long
From the text ... 'As we move forward and as we put more prescribed fire across the nation, there are going to be things like smoke incidents, there will be accidents, there will be loss of structures. And, yes, there will even be loss of life. The future of prescribed fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haddow
From the text ... 'Summary: Air quality regulations are getting more stringent. We need to be involved in writing those regulations. We must be experts on the impact of our emissions, and we must be leaders rather than followers. If a state starts to develop a prescribed burning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette
From the text ... 'Because fire was such an important historic disturbance and is a large component in understanding regional differences in emissions, it is analogous to an elephant in the closet. One can think of fire frequency as the elephant. That is, it is an issue that is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barnes
Preliminary list of fire research needs in Alaska.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hinkley, Zajkowski, Schrader-Patton
Aerial sketchmapping is the geolocating of features that are seen on the ground below an aircraft and the subsequent recording of those features. Traditional aerial sketchmapping methods required hand-sketching on hardcopy maps or photos and the translation of that information…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schwind, Brewer, Quayle, Eidenshink
There is a need to provide agency leaders, elected officials, and the general public with summary information regarding the effects of large wildfires. Recently, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), which implements and coordinates National Fire Plan (NFP) and Federal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mazza
In 2010, station researchers provided land managers and policymakers with critical information related to ecological processes, environmental threats, forest management, and use of natural resources. The station also capitalized on opportunities to expand its research in these…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Eagle, Balog
Land managers throughout the West pile and burn surface fuels to mitigate fire hazard in dry forests. Whereas piling was historically conducted with heavy machinery following commercial harvesting operations, land managers are increasingly prescribing the use of hand piling and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright, Eagle, Olson
Photo series and their associated data provide a quick and easy way for managers to quantify and describe fuel and vegetation properties, such as loading of dead and down woody material, tree density, or height of understory vegetation. This information is critical for making…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS