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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Nowell, Steelman
A growing body of work has been focusing on how to govern and manage across jurisdictionally fragmented landscapes in an effort to promote more effective wildfire preparedness and response. We contribute to this worthy goal in the following five ways through the research…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bayham, Belval, Thompson
Motivation. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 just as the southwestern region begins to see increased fire activity. The project PIs had been collaborating on other wildfire projects but also had expertise in infectious disease…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, McDermott
As we learn to sustainably coexist with wildfire, there is an urgent need to improve our understanding of its multidimensional impacts on society. To this end, we undertake a nationwide study to estimate how megafires (wildfires > 100,000 acres in size) affect US labor market…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tedim, McCaffrey, Leone, Vazquez-Varela, Depietri, Buergelt, Lovreglio
Despite the increasing challenges wildfires are posing around the globe, and the flourishing production of high-quality wildfire scientific knowledge, the ability of fire science to impact knowledge on the ground, for people, society, economy, and the environment, in a way that…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Sweeney, Rodeffer
Presenters:
Bea Day – Incident Commander, USDA Forest Service
Sara Sweeney – Superintendent Mormon Lake Hotshots, USDA Forest Service
Stuart (Stu) Rodeffer – Logistics Section Chief Portland NIMO Team, USDA Forest Service
This event is part of the International Association of…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Flores, Haire
For over 100 years, the US Forest Service (USFS) has developed initiatives to improve safety outcomes. Herein we discuss the engineered solutions used from 1910 through 1994, when the agency relied on physical science to address the hazards of wildland fire suppression. We then…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz
This webinar is part of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 Webinar Series hosted by the Colorado State University, the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network and the Forest Stewards Guild.
For the final installment of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 webinar series we are joined by Courtney…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Butler, McCaffrey, Jones
Part of the Co-Management of Fire Risk Transmission (CoMFRT) webinar series
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keywood, Kanakidou, Stohl, Dentener, Grassi, Meyer, Torseth, Edwards, Thompson, Lohmann, Burrows
Fire has a role in ecosystem services; naturally produced wildfires are important for the sustainability of many terrestrial biomes and fire is one of nature's primary carbon-cycling mechanisms. Under a warming climate, it is likely that fire frequency and severity will increase…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moore, Butteri, Boespflug, Weddle, Cahur, Butteri, Ziel, St. Clair, Shook, Strader, Stevens
This Fire Danger Operating Plan (FDOP) guides the application of decision support tools (such as the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System) at the local level. This FDOP is supplemental to the Alaska Interagency Mobilization Guide, the Alaska Interagency Wildland Fire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These protocols were developed in order to have a statewide standard for requesting fire behavior analyses on wildland fires in Alaska and a process for prioritization of the requests as well as for ordering a fire behavior specialist to complete the analysis. It is not intended…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire management is dictated by community and political pressure-at least that's what conventional wisdom in the fire community tells us. However, few studies have investigated the validity of that axiom, and little is known about the relative influence of internal and external…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, McBride
In an effort to improve organizational outcomes, including safety, in wildland fire management, researchers and practitioners have turned to a domain of research on organizational performance known as High Reliability Organizing (HRO). The HRO paradigm emerged in the late 1980s…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mavsar, González-Cabán, Varela
Forest fires affect millions of people worldwide, and cause major ecosystem and economic impacts at different scales. The management policies implemented to minimize the negative impacts of forest fires require substantial investment of financial, human and organizational…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ott
The Forest Service expends nearly 50 percent of its budget on wildfire management activities and invested $29.5 million in 2005 in firefighter training and leadership development, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (USDA OIG) (2010). The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York
Presentation about the Alaska Fire Science Consortium from the 2013 AFSC Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McDaniel, MacDowell
This is the third presentation held on the third day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Brenna MacDowell and Josh McDaniel, both of the Lessons Learned Center, discuss the Lessons Learned Center. This webinar originally aired on March 28, 2013.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Whalen
This is the fifth presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Mike Whalen, BLM, discusses qualifications, successional planning, and the provisions that are being made to Incident Management Teams and what they will look like. This webinar…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Maricle, Zahn
This is the fourth presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Martin Maricle, Alaska Division of Forestry, will discuss the use of Alaska fresh food boxes on incidents in alaska due to the lack of National caterers. Sue Zahn, US Forest…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bidaburu
This is the second presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Aitor Bidaburu, National Fire Administration, presents recent decisions, ongoing, and longer term action items made by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. He closes with a…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Christensen, Stingley, Smith
This webinar introduces the 2013 National Logistics Webinar series. Agency updates are also discussed. Speakers include Martin Maricle, Alaska Div Forestry, NLW co-chair and moderator; Kim Christensen, US Forest Service; Susie Stingley, National Interagency Coordination Center;…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES