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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
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
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
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
Kahn
Satellite remote sensing is generally the most practical way to measure aerosol amount and type frequently, over large areas. However, aerosol remote sensing is especially challenging in the polar regions, due to the combination of very bright surface, low sun angle, persistent…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Quinn
Black carbon is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. When BC is deposited on snow and ice, it darkens an otherwise bright surface. The darker surface may enhance the absorption of solar radiation resulting in an acceleration of snow and ice…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lahm
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by USDA Forest Service Air Resource Specialist Pete Lahm. This webinar presented an introduction to the six components of the USFS-NRCS Basic Smoke Management Practices.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Shankar
Smoke from wildfires has adverse biological and social consequences, and various lines of evidence suggest that smoke from wildfires in the future may be more intense and widespread, demanding that methods be developed to address its effects on people, ecosystems, and the…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Evans
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Jennifer Evans, Prescribed Fire Extension Specialist with the North Carolina State University Extension Forestry program. This webinar introduced material contained within a newly developed integrated curriculum package on wildland…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Odman
Talat Odman presented a webinar on March 4, 2014. Smoke from wildland fires can have adverse impacts on visibility and also on public health. Models are available for simulating the dispersion, long-range transport, and chemical evolution of fire plumes and predicting their…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Preisler
Haiganoush Preisler talks about her work modeling very large fires over very large areas. She is a research scientist and statistician with the USFS PSW Research Station and lead author on the attached paper. You can find out more about her work at: http://www.wfas.net/index.…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Liu
Yong Liu presented a webinar on February 19, 1 PM MST. Plume height is one of the smoke properties that fire and air quality managers need to estimate in order to determine how much pollutants emitted from a prescribed burn are transported to remote populated areas from the burn…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCoy, Elenz, Vergari, Floyd, Dykehouse, Soper, Fay
Listen to the experiences and lessons learned from veteran fire management officers regarding prescribed fire and fire use.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keane
There will be dramatic changes to most landscapes of the western US over the next century, such as shifts in vegetation communities, changes in fire regimes, and increases in smoke emissions. These changes will result from complex interactions among vegetation, fuels, fire, and…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lahm, Broyles
This is the third presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Pete Lahm, US Forest Service and George Broyles, US Forest Service discuss an emerging program and effort dealing with wildfire air quality response. This webinar originally aired…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan
Presentation by Casey Sullivan, Meteorologist and Forecaster with the National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville office. Recorded at the 2013 Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Curcio, Fleegel, Heilman
Bringing both national and regional perspectives to the issues, tools and decisions concerning smoke from wildland fires, this webinar highlighted a range of current perspectives, activities, developments and emerging issues for fire practitioners. Gary Curcio introduced the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying forest fuel consumption and emissions. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 8B) covers smoke production,…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying forest fuel consumption and emissions. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 8A) covers fire fuels, consumption and…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strader
Heidi Strader presented this talk on weather conditions important to smoke management in prescribed fire planning at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This introductory (RX410 Unit 7) talk covers weather terms definitions, effects…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar led numerous field studies on the effects of smoke on firefighter health. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 5B) covers effects of various smoke components…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying smoke and effects on firefighter and public health. He presented this talk on the public health impacts of smoke at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This introductory (…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying smoke and effects on firefighter and public health. He presented this talk on the public health impacts of smoke at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This introductory (…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier
Gary L. Achtemeier presented a webinar on predicting the occurrence and transport of smoke-induced dense fog (superfog) which has been implicated in roadway accidents around the nation. The webinar summarizes 20 years of collaboration between land managers in the southeastern U.…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES