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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brown
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jordan, Ichoku, Hoff
A newly developed method, which involves the use of satellite measurements of energy released by fires, was used to estimate smoke emissions in the United States (US) Southern Great Plains (SGP). This SGP region was chosen because extensive agricultural and planned burning…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robbins, Eckelmann, Quiñones
This paper presents a summary of the forest fire reports in the insular Caribbean derived from both management reports and an analysis of publicly available Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrodiometer (MODIS) satellite active fire products from the region. A vast difference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhang, Kondragunta, Schmidt, Kogan
Biomass burning is a major source of aerosols that affect air quality and the Earth's radiation budget. Current estimates of biomass burning emissions vary markedly due to uncertainties in biomass density, combustion efficiency, emission factor, and burned area. This study…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Henderson, Burkholder, Jackson, Brauer, Ichoku
Plume dispersion models may improve assessment of the health effects associated with forest fire smoke, but they require considerable expertise in atmospheric and fire sciences to initialize and evaluate. Products from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall, Freeburn, de Groot, Pritchard, Lynham, Landry
The severity of a burn for post-fire ecological effects has been assessed with the composite burn index (CBI) and the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR). This study assessed the relationship between these two variables across recently burned areas located in the western…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lahm
Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Toombs, Weber, Stegner, Schnase, Lindquist, Lippitt
Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive fire information becomes…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Fox, Gabor, Thomas, Ziegler
This Research Brief summarizes findings of a Joint Fire Science Program project focused on understanding radio communications as part of risk communication and sensemaking in wildland fire operations. Through observation of live and simulated radio conversations, analysis of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Delaney
Wildland fire management involves specialization and a division of labor. When you order supplies on a wildland fire, you should keep that in mind. In your own specialty area, you need support from others who don’t necessarily have your level of knowledge. To get what you need,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From the Alaska Climate Change Adaption Series.
Wildfires are a natural part of the boreal ecosystem. Wildfires help maintain vegetation diversity, providing suitable habitats for wildlife, but wildfires can also present a threat to human values. Alaska has seen the frequency of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Butler
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) is a non-profit, professional association representing members of the global wildland fire community. The purpose of the association is to facilitate communication and leadership for the wildland fire community. Since 1997,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chavez, Absher, Winter
Fire events often have a large impact on recreation and tourism, yet these issues had not been addressed from a social science perspective. To address his, the Wildland Recreation and Urban Cultures Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Pacific Southwest Research Station acquired…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoy, French, Turetsky, Trigg, Kasischke
Satellite remotely sensed data of fire disturbance offers important information; however, current methods to study fire severity may need modifications for boreal regions. We assessed the potential of the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) and other spectroscopic indices…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Murphy, Reynolds, Koltun
During the 2004 fire season ~6.6 million acres (~2.7 million ha) burned across Alaska. Nearly 2 million of these were on National Wildlife Refuge System lands inaccessible from the state's limited road system. Many fires burned through September, driven by unusually warm and dry…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Zimmerman, Akerelrea, O'Keefe
Natural resource managers use a variety of computer-mediated presentation methods to communicate management practices to the public. We explored the effects of using the Stand Visualization System to visualize and animate predictions from the Forest Vegetation Simulator-Fire and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Remenick
Fire regimes are needed for healthy forest ecosystems, but citizens who live parallel to public forests do not always understand or favour the mechanisms land managers use for fire prevention and preparation. One way that land managers and citizens may share concerns and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bilbao, Del Ser, Perfecto, Salcedo-Sanz, Portilla-Figueras
Nowadays there is a global concern with the growing frequency and magnitude of natural disasters, many of them associated with climate change at a global scale. When tackled during a stringent economic era, the allocation of resources to efficiently deal with such disaster…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Sorbel
Burn severity strongly influences post-fire vegetation succession, soil erosion, and wildlife populations in the fire-adapted boreal forest and tundra ecosystems of Alaska. Therefore, satellite-derived maps of burn severity in the remote Alaskan landscape are a useful tool in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Miller
This project delivers up-to-date, science-based information about species nominated by wildland managers for revision in or addition to the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS). FEIS now provides 1,081 literature reviews covering 1,139 taxa. This JFSP task has supported the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Hall, Murphy, Verbyla, Hoy, Allen
There has been considerable interest in the recent literature regarding the assessment of post-fire effects on forested areas within the North American boreal forest. Assessing the physical and ecological effects of fire in boreal forests has far-reaching implications for a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chuvieco, Giglio, Justice
There is interest in the global community on how fire regimes are changing as a function of changing demographics and climate. The ground-based data to monitor such trends in fire activity are inadequate at the global scale. Satellite observations provide a basis for such a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arroyo, Pascual, Manzanera
Understanding fire is essential to improving forest management strategies. More specifically, an accurate knowledge of the spatial distribution of fuels is critical when analyzing, modeling and predicting fire behavior. First, we review the main concepts and terminology…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS