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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Heilman, Tang, Luo, Zhong, Winkler, Bian
Occurrences of large and sometimes extreme and erratic wildfires in the United States in recent years have raised speculation about what projected future climate conditions might mean for future wildfire activity and fire weather in different regions of the United States. This…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
Climate controls the magnitude, duration, and frequency of weather conditions associated with extreme fire behavior. In a warming climate, we are experiencing earlier snowmelt, longer fire seasons, and greater incidence of drought. We expect these trends to increase.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Riddering, Holden, Jolly, Warren
Perhaps the most obvious use of mobile technologies in fire management is in the collection and sharing of weather information. For firefighters, the ability to quickly receive the latest weather information is critical to safely execute their mission.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Davis, Eckhause, Pouy, Sigalas-Markham, Volovo
Undoubtedly, high-technology equipment, like unmanned aircraft systems, offer distinct advantages in the identification, containment, and control of wildland fires. These systems, however, can be costly-and complicated. As Federal and State wildland management agencies plan to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Abatzoglou, Potter, Steel, Stocks
Mega-fire events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts to cities and towns downwind. The extensive 2010 fires in western Russia are only the most recent…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Bothwell, Drury, Wheeler
Fire weather forecasters, fire planners, and decision makers do not have easy access to information needed to verify the accuracy of, or to communicate the level of confidence in, fire weather forecasts and the fire prediction products that depend on fire weather forecasts. In…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parks
This proposal addresses JFSP announcement FA-RFA-12-0001, task statement #3 'Fuel treatment effectiveness.' The proposed project will quantify the effectiveness of wildland fire as a fuel treatment in terms of its ability to limit the occurrence, extent, and burn severity (i.e.…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Seielstad, Fletcher
This project is developing methods to spatially represent shrub fuel matrices of chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum Hook. & Arn.) and sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) using laser scanning, simulating fire propagation through them, and validating simulations against…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kielland, Euskirchen
Wildfire is the most frequent ecological disturbance in the boreal forest and recent studies have documented an increase in the frequency and severity of wildfires in interior Alaska under a changing climate. Disturbance-generated landscape heterogeneity, such as fire, can…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Benscoter, Corace, Kane
The goals of the proposed research are to develop fire management and modeling tools to predict particulate carbon production and black carbon (BC) conversion rates during combustion of organic peat soils common to boreal forested and non-forested ecosystems of the Great Lakes…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Fuel treatments to reduce wildfire behavior and severity are major concerns for fire and forest managers throughout the United States. To test treatment effects and alternatives, managers rely on simulation models, such as Behave, the Fire Area Simulator, and the Fire and Fuels…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Horel, Brown
The proposed work will assess the degree of improvement provided by spot and incident fire weather forecasts as compared to National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) forecasts and provide a methodology to verify fire weather forecasts nationally. The expected benefits from this…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hodges, Finley, Luloff
Fire prevention and fuel treatments have enjoyed renewed and enhanced support. However, the use of fire prevention measures for enhancing ecosystem services has not found purchase in either the publics acceptance or involvement in this new role of and for fire. This is…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Brenkert-Smith, Curtis, Sharp
Fire and fuels reduction are completed within a complex context. This is particularly true at the interface of public and private lands where management is often closely scrutinized by stakeholders. In these settings, private and public land managers typically seek to achieve…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wood, Kreitler
This project will combine methods from multiple disciplines to provide new applied research for timely and policy relevant wildland fire and natural resource management issues. We propose research to address the tension between allocating fuel treatments to reduce risk to values…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
This goal of this project is to write two complementary book-length studies, each of approximately 130,000-150,000 words that would survey and analyze the past 50 years of American fire history. One text, Between Two Fires: A Fire History of America, 1960-2010, would relate the…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mann
As part of my dissertation, I propose to study the interactions between climate change, wildland fires, and post-fire permafrost thaw over the last 1,000 years (permafrost; permanently frozen ground occurring in boreal regions). The last 1,000 years has seen sizable climate…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Charney
Over the last six decades, many fire scientists have developed and implemented fire weather indices. Their efforts have produced numerous tools designed to assess the potential for meteorological conditions to affect the initiation and evolution of a wildland fire. Some fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Nauslar
Fire management utilizes National Weather Service (NWS) spot forecasts to help plan prescribed and wildland fires. Fire management officials request spot forecasts from NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFO's) to provide detailed guidance as to atmospheric conditions in the vicinity…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Discussion of the Nenana Ridge Fire presented at the 2015 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rogers
The degree and manner in which different fires affect climate is a complete unknown, but is expected to vary substantially and may in fact represent a currently untapped climate mitigation service. In this webinar, Rogers will provide background on these issues, and describe his…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Marlon
Dr. Jenn Marlon of Yale University compares her Western paleo charcoal and pollen data with her sites in Massachussets.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
Carbon cycles through forested ecosystems, but climate change will increase disturbance in many of these ecosystems. Many U.S. forests currently act as carbon sinks, but increased disturbance may alter this dynamic. Management responses could include focusing on rapid…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
In this webinar from May 7, 2015, Marty Alexander and Miguel Cruz discuss crown fire behavior in conifer forests. This webinar was part of the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center Monthly Webinar Series.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Butler
Bret Butler, of the Fire Lab in Missoula, addresses the problem stated in the IRPG, of how to calculate the increase in Safety Zone sizes when considering slope and wind. Currently, there is a beta version Safety Zone Calculator android app available for testing and feedback.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES