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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Varner, Hiers
Fire science is an inherently applied amalgamation of disciplines which is increasingly developing exceptional disciplinary depth. There is a definitive need for managers and 2 researchers to leverage experiential and theoretical knowledge to address the complex problems facing…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Singletary, Evans
This agreement is made and entered into by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Joint Fire Science Program (BLM), and the University of Nevada Reno for the purpose of Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Consortia.
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reich, Broome, Cope, Fann, Johnston, Morgan, Rappold
Fire smoke is a major contributor to both particulate matter (PM) and ozone exposure in urban centers. Epidemiological, clinical, and toxicological studies have demonstrated a casual relationship between these pollutants and cardiovascular and respiratory related deaths and…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Naughton, Urbanski
An accurate, reliable wildland fire emissions inventory is likely the most important criteria in assessing the impacts of prescribed burning and wildfires on regional air quality and global climate. Significant progress has been made in the past ten years to develop fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, French, Kolden, Raffuse, Strand, Sullivan, Wendland
The demand for fire emissions information has increased over the last decade due to a number of factors from increased needs for smoke impact assessments to more demand for carbon accounting. With the likelihood of more stringent air quality standards, state and federal…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Moore
The 3-year PMDETAIL project will quantify the impact of prescribed and other fire sources on particulate matter (characterized as PM2.5 and PM10, hereafter PM) levels across the continental U.S. It will also develop new fire emissions inventories and computational modules for…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Ager
In this proposal, we outline a methodology for the application of a novel, integrated modeling approach to analyze economic tradeoffs associated with alternative fuel management and suppression policies. The analytical process is designed to specifically target salient questions…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Weatherspoon
Project Objectives: Land managers and researchers from the Department of Agriculture (Forest Service), Department of Interior (National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management), and universities will work collaboratively to complete the design of an…
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Kurz, Reinhardt
Project Objectives: We request support from the JFSP to: 1. adapt FFE-FVS to support fire-related economic analysis by linking FFE-FVS to IASELECT (Wiitala 1992) and CHEAPOII (Horn and others 1986). IASELECT quantifies the optimal economic performance of a fire organization in…
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Watson, Borrie, Burchfield, Wakimoto
There is currently limited understanding of the social acceptability of the various means of treatment of forest or grassland fuels. Either through the application of prescribed fire or mechanical means, the social and economic implications of fuel treatments can be decisive in…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka
Objectives: Bring together key decision makers, information providers, researchers, and managers concerned about climate implications for management of forest fire hazards and prescribed burning. Evaluate the 2000 fire season in the context of information presented at our…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Albini, Bevins, Brittain, Butler, Catchpole, Finney
PROJECT OBJECTIVES As requested under Tasks 8 and 9, user-friendly modeling systems designed for local use will be provided for modeling smoke from wildland fires. These tools will provide a means for conducting tradeoff analyses, with a focus on emissions production, of…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
González-Cabán
The symposium it is organized around seven major themes: 1. Regional and global vision of the forest fire problem 2. Theory and methods for strategic fire planning 3. Nonmarket and market valuation methods for strategic fire planning 4. Forest firs and sustainable forest…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Naughton
The proposed project will quantify the effects of hazardous fuels treatments on suppression costs of subsequent wildfires. Spatial econometric models of daily fire suppression costs will be estimated to determine if and to what spatial and temporal extent hazardous fuels…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Dupuy, Jolly, Linn, Mell, Pimont, Rigolot, deColigny
Accurate characterization of stand scale fuel treatment effectiveness is necessary before such treatments can be robustly considered at landscape scales. Fire behavior predictions are key components in evaluating fuel treatments, which may include a mixture of mechanical…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Massman
Accurately modeling the duration and extent of soil heating from prescribed fires and wildfires is vital to predicting many second-order fire effects, including development of soil hydrophobicity and other biological, chemical, and physical effects. Advancements have been made…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Amos, Bone, Moseley
Currently, land managers are unable to apply prescribed fire at the necessary levels to achieve land management objectives. Past survey research has identified a suite of barriers, many of which reside in law and policy, that fire management officers and other on-the-ground…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Duffy, Fresco
Fire activity in Alaska has increased significantly over the past several decades, and the top three years in terms of area burned have occurred since 2004. Increased fire activity has occurred coincident with novel extremes in summer weather, which strongly drive interannual…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Volckens
Emissions from prescribed burns and wild fires have important impacts on air quality. The quantification and tracking of emissions from wildfires and prescribed burns has proven to be a difficult task, due to the high cost of comprehensive monitoring. Sensors being developed for…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Pierce
This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency modeling team proposes to provide expertise related to smoke emissions, modeling, and transport to support the design of future field studies focused on fire behavior. As part of that commitment, we plan to model all of the pre-burn…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Linn
The physics-based models FIRETEC and WFDS have been used to simulate a number of field experiments involving fire in wildland fuels. These models work by simulating the coupled physical processes driving fire behavior including the drying and thermal degradation of vegetation,…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kochanski, Fournier, Jenkins, Mandel
Recent advancements in fire-atmosphere modeling have increased the number of physical processes integrated into the coupled models. This greater complexity allows for more comprehensive representation of the complex interactions between the fire and the atmosphere; however, as a…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski
This proposal responds to JFSP FON #16-04 Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, Task 4: Smoke Emissions, Chemistry, and Transport. Over the past decade, significant progress has been gained in characterizing the composition, transport, and processing of wildland fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Clements
The FASMEE FON requests proposals from individuals seeking to serve as discipline leads for the development of the FASMEE study plan. We propose to serve as co-discipline leads for plume development and meteorology for this endeavor. The proposal outlines what data are needed to…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES