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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alkhatib
Context. Apart from causing tragic loss of lives and valuable natural and individual properties including thousands of hectares of forest and hundreds of houses, forest fires are a great menace to ecologically healthy grown forests and protection of the environment. Every year,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunnell
The decision process involved in developing any plan to manage a prescribed natural fire must consider several divergent resource and management goals. In many cases, these fires may be projected to be, and eventually become, large and long-duration events. The exact final fire…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dr. Matt Nolan is a Research Associate Professor at UAF's Institute of Northern Engineering with degrees in geophysics and arctic and mechanical engineering. He has been pioneering new high-tech uses of an old tool-the aerial photo. With new advances in computer processing and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rodriguez
One of the factors that shapes the Alaskan Boreal forest is the frequency in which previously burned areas re-burn, also known as the fire return interval. The Alaskan fire regime itself is subject to various climate influences one of which is temperature. Using geographic…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burroughs, Clark
Ecosystem management links human activities with the functioning of natural environments over large spatial and temporal scales. Our examination of Greater Yellowstone and Georges Bank shows similarities exist between human uses, administrative characteristics, and some…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pearson, Turner, Wallace, Romme
The effect of fire and habitat heterogeneity on winter foraging by ungulates was studied in northern Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Grazing was monitored at 15 study sites for 14 wks during the winters of 1991 and 1992. The location and intensity of grazing activity within…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Green, Finney, Campbell, Weinstein, Landrum
FIRE! is one example of GIS models that go beyond inventory, monitoring, and display to allow ecosystem managers to simulate the spatial outcomes of management and policy decisions. By making the ability to vary critical model assumptions readily accessible to the manager, FIRE…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ratz
Fire is one of the most important factors structuring boreal forests. A spatial simulation model based on a cellular automata approach was built to obtain insights into the spatial pattern of successional stages. Two scenarios are compared: 1. constant flammability and 2.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, Berry
The results of a study using satellite imagery to map boreal forest fires in Alaska in 1990 and 1991 are presented. Composite AVHRR data was found to detect more than 80% of fires greater than 2,000 ha in size Addidonally, using a two season method, 78% of the area of all boreal…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Toukiloglou, Gitas, Katagis
The recognition and understanding of long-term fire-related processes and patterns, such as the possible connection between the increased frequency of wildfires and global warming, requires the study of historical data records. In this study, a methodology was proposed for the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hokkaido University (HU) is one of the world leaders in developing new earth-observing space technology. Dr. Koji Nakau leads their wildfire remote sensing applications team. He's working with various partners-including UAF-on new satellite-derived products delivered to wildland…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bailey
Alaska Center for Unmanned Aerial Systems Integration (ACUASI) Deputy Director Ro Bailey gave a presentation on the University of Alaska's history and capabilities with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the Interagency Dispatchers meeting March 26, 2014 at the North Pole Hotel…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tirmenstein, Long, Heward
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krist, Ellenwood, Woods, McMahan, Cowardin, Ryerson, Sapio, Zweifler, Romero
This report on the 2012 National Insect and Disease Risk Map (NIDRM) contains a nationwide strategic assessment of the hazard of tree mortality due to insects and diseases, displayed as a series of maps.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gallant, Binnian, Omernik, Shasby
A map of ecoregions of Alaska has been produced as a framework for organizing and interpreting environmental data for State, national, and international inventory, monitoring, and research efforts. The map and descriptions of 20 ecological regions were derived by synthesizing…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eenigenburg, Main
United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses the METAFIRE Severity Index to justify fire emergency funding requests. In addition, many fire managers use it successfully to support applications for those very funds. The METAFIRE Information System has assembled…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
A Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System (MAPSS) has been constructed for simulating the potential biosphere impacts and biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks from climatic change. The system calculates the potential vegetation type and leaf area that could be supported at a site, within…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kittel, Rosenbloom, Painter, Schimel, Melillo, Pan, Kicklighter, McGuire, Neilson, Chaney, Ojima, McKeown, Parton, Pulliam, Prentice, Haxeltine, Running, Pierce, Nemani, Hunt, Smith, Rizzo, Woodward
For the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP), we developed a model database of climate, soils and vegetation that was compatible with the requirements of three ecosystem physiology models and three vegetation life-form distribution models. A key constraint…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guyette, Thompson, Whittier, Stambaugh, Dey
Climate has a primary influence on the occurrence and rate of combustion in ecosystems with carbon-based fuels such as forests and grasslands. Society will be confronted with the effects of climate change on fire in future forests. There are, however, few quantitative appraisals…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The new VIIRS 375 m active fire detection data product: algorithm description and initial assessment
The first Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) was launched in October 2011 aboard the Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite. The VIIRS instrument carries two separate sets of multi-spectral channels providing full global coverage at both 375 m…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Collatz, Masek, Huang, Goward
Forest carbon stocks and fluxes are highly dynamic following stand-clearing disturbances from severe fire and harvest and this presents a significant challenge for continental carbon budget assessments. In this work we use forest inventory data to parameterize a carbon cycle…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Martínez, Román, Hantson, Pettinari
Aim: This paper presents a map of global fire vulnerability, estimating the potential damage of wildland fires to global ecosystems. Location: Global scale at 0.5° grid resolution. Methods: Three vulnerability factors were considered: ecological richness and fragility,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wotton
Mike Wotton visited Fairbanks in August 2014 to talk with managers and researchers about the further development and enhancement of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS), which is the system used universally across Canada (and in other areas, including Alaska)…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, McKenzie, Ottmar, McCarty, Norheim, Hamermesh, Soja
Biomass burning has become an important component of Earth-system models as understanding improves about fire as a global ecosystem process. Smoke emissions are a health hazard to nearby communities, can impair air quality and visibility for hundreds of kilometers downwind, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Behavior Field Reference Guide (FBFRG) was developed as a hands-on user tool for field going Fire Behavior Analysts (FBANs) and Long Term Fire Analysts (LTANs) along with various operation personnel. The guide contains helpful references to fuels, weather, fuel models…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES