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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Episode 2 of the Fire Danger Learning Series discussing the forthcoming 2016 revision to the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pimont, Parsons, Rigolot, deColigny, Dupuy, Dreyfus, Linn
Scientists and managers critically need ways to assess how fuel treatments alter fire behavior, yet few tools currently exist for this purpose. We present a spatially-explicit-fuel-modeling system, FuelManager, which models fuels, vegetation growth, fire behavior (using a…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fischer, Spies, Steelman, Moseley, Johnson, Bailey, Ager, Bourgeron, Charnley, Collins, Kline, Leahy, Littell, Millington, Nielsen-Pincus, Olsen, Paveglio, Roos, Steen-Adams, Stevens, Vukomanovic, White, Bowman
Wildfire risk in temperate forests has become a nearly intractable problem that can be characterized as a socioecological 'pathology': that is, a set of complex and problematic interactions among social and ecological systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drury, Rauscher, Banwell, Huang, Lavezzo
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes fire and fuels software applications into a single online application. IFTDSS is designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balch, Nagy, Archibald, Bowman, Moritz, Roos, Scott, Williamson
Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The Wildfire Act is supported by the Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Partner Caucus and has been deemed especially critical in the face of global climate change. The Forest Service states that as a result of a changing climate, forest conditions are more…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhang, Kondragunta, Roy
The ratio of key elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica determines nutrient limitations that are important to regulating primary productivity and species composition in aquatic ecosystems. The flux of these nutrients in streams, as dissolved constituents or as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wheeler
From the text lll 'Several types of firebreaks exist, and often more than one type of firebreak is used during a prescribed fire. Different types of firebreaks offer different levels of performance and permanence and have varying levels of installation costs. the firebreaks that…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Burrows, Buyantuyev, Gray, Keane, Kubian, Liu, Seijo, Shu, Tolhurst, van Wagtendonk
Mega-fires are often defined according to their size and intensity but are more accurately described by their socioeconomic impacts. Three factors -- climate change, fire exclusion, and antecedent disturbance, collectively referred to as the 'mega-fire triangle' -- likely…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Numerical prediction of size, mass, temperature and trajectory of cylindrical wind-driven firebrands
Mathematical models and numerical solution procedures for predicting the trajectory, oscillation, possible rotation, and mass and size time-evolution of cylindrical wind-driven firebrands are described and discussed. Two test problems and the results, used for validating the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Steelman
There are fundamental spatial and temporal disconnects between the specific policies that have been crafted to address our wildfire challenges. The biophysical changes in fuels, wildfire behavior, and climate have created a new set of conditions for which our wildfire governance…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Waring, Coops
A lengthening of the fire season, coupled with higher temperatures, increases the probability of fires throughout much of western North America. Although regional variation in the frequency of fires is well established, attempts to predict the occurrence of fire at a spatial…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Dillon, Drury, Innes, Morgan, Lutes, Prichard, Smith, Strand
From the introduction ... 'Announcing the release of new software packages for application in wildland fire science and management, two fields that are already fully saturated with computer technology, may seem a bit too much to many managers. However, there have been some…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Wildfires can be caused by an accumulation of dead matter (leaves, twigs, and trees) that can create enough heat in some instances to spontaneously combust and ignite the surrounding area.'
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
From the text ... 'Operational guides for predicting various aspects of wildland fire behavior, including crowning, are generally dependent on mathematical models that can take a variety of forms. The degree of accuracy in predictions of crown fire behavior is dependent on the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wei, Rideout, Kirsch, Kernohan
Hazard fuel reduction and wildland fire preparedness programs are two important budgeting components in the US National Park Service strategic wildland fire planning. During the planning process, each national park independently conducts analysis to understand the benefits from…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Lasko, Kaufmann
Significant changes occurring in the wildland fire environment of the United States are generatinguncharacteristic shifts in the complexity, behavior, extent, and effects of wildfires. Increases in wildfire numbers, temporal and spatial scales, and ecological, social, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Breen
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: Amy Breen
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ziel
What factors may influence new fires burning into or being slowed by previous fire scars? How long can we consider fire scars a fuel barrier? More and more area in Alaska seems to be burning in close succession, or "repeat burns."
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne, Ziel
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
The Funny River Fire (AK-KKS-403140) was ignited by humans on May 19, 2014, and burned almost 200,000 acres on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, by early June. Most of the fire was within the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, but it threatened adjacent communities. Four recreational…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
A brief refresher of CFFDRS from the 3-day Summit, held October 28-30 in Fairbanks.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) of the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, focuses on fundamental and applied research in wildland fire, from fire physics and fire ecology to fuels management and smoke emissions. Located at the Missoula Fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES