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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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de Groot, Goldammer, Keenan, Brady, Lynham, Justice, Csiszar, O'Loughlin
Wildland fires burn several hundred million hectares of vegetation every year, and increased fire activity has been reported in many global regions. Many of these fires have had serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional economies, global climate change, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goulden, Winston, McMillan, Litvak, Read, Rocha, Elliot
We deployed a mesonet of year-round eddy covariance towers in boreal forest stands that last burned in ~1850, ~1930, 1964, 1981, 1989, 1998, and 2003 to understand how CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration change during secondary succession. We used MODIS imagery to establish that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ali, Taylor, Inubushi
CO2 efflux from tropical peat swamp substrates was measured under three different land uses (selectively logged forest, recently burned and cleared forest, and agriculture) in Jambi Province, eastern Sumatra over a six-month period that incorporated parts of both the major wet…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'After the enactment of the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement (FLAME) Act of 2009, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) directed the development of a national cohesive strategy to address the Nation's wildland fire management issues.…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
London
An essay appearing in On Collaboration, a collection edited by Marie Bak Mortensen and Judith Nesbitt. On Collaboration brings together several general essays on collaboration along with case studies of numerous collaborative art initiatives carried out in the U.K. under the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LeQuire
Since its inception, the JFSP has funded projects with a strong technology-transfer component. That original commitment to information exchange between scientists and practitioners received an even stronger boost in 2008, the 10th anniversary of the JFSP, which was marked by a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
So, why should a narrative be of interest to the fire community? Because it is story that gives cultural meaning to historical and accruing experiences. Firefighters don't recount their actions and memories as data sets; they tell stories. Journalists don't ask about facts and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Scott
Quantitative scales of fire magnitude and intensity are needed to assess and publicly communicate the unbiased potential of wildland fire to cause effects-harm, damage, and ecological change. Such scales already exist for earthquakes (Richter Scale and Mercalli Scale),…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Akerelrea, Smith, O'Keefe
Natural-resource managers have used a variety of computer-mediated presentation methods to communicate management practices to diverse publics. We explored the effects of visualizing and animating predictions from mathematical models in computerized presentations explaining…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bahn, Wright, MontBlanc, Thode
Fire and fuels management have become increasingly challenging in the last three decades due to climate change, invasive species, urbanization and development, increased land use, and the effects of these factors on fire size and frequency (Westerling et al. 2007; D'Antonio and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reid
What are FRAMES and the Southern Fire Portal? The Fire Research and Management Exchange System, or FRAMES (www.frames.gov), is a unique website aimed at information exchange and technology transfer among all wildland fire stakeholders and was developed by the University of Idaho…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reid
What does the Joint Fire Science Program offer online? The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) website (https://www.firescience.gov) provides a free-access wildland fire science information resource providing research summaries and project findings. The primary goal of the website…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy) is a collaborative effort to identify, define, and address wildland fire management problems and opportunities for successful wildland fire management in the three regions of the United States: the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In celebration of 20 years of International Journal of Wildland Fire, a complete index of authors has been compiled from 1991 to 2011.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mason, White, Morishima, Alvarado, Andrew, Clark, Durglo, Durglo, Eneas, Erickson, Friedlander, Hamel, Hardy, Harwood, Haven, Isaac, James, Kenning, Leighton, Pierre, Raish, Shaw, Smallsalmon, Stearns, Teasley, Weingart, Wilder
Native Americans relied on fire to maintain a cultural landscape that sustained their lifeways for thousands of years. Within the past 100 years, however, policies of fire exclusion have disrupted ecological processes, elevating risk of wildfire, insects, and disease, affecting…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Key
Ecological definition and detection of fire severity are influenced by factors of spatial resolution and timing. Resolution determines the aggregation of effects within a sampling unit or pixel (alpha variation), hence limiting the discernible ecological responses, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wiedinmyer, Quayle, Geron, Belote, McKenzie, Zhang, O'Neill, Wynne
Fires contribute substantial emissions of trace gases and particles to the atmosphere. These emissions can impact air quality and even climate. We have developed a modeling framework to estimate the emissions from fires in North and parts of Central America (10-71 degrees N and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jahn
This mixed methods dissertation examined the communicative construction of safety in wildland firefighting. I used a two-study mixed methods approach, examining the communicative accomplishment of safety from two perspectives: high reliability organizing (Weick, Sutcliffe,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Aman
Wildfire hazard is a growing problem in many areas of the United States, especially in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where homes and other structures border or intermingle with forests, shrubs and grasslands. Despite years of educational outreach by fire management…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jahn, Putnam, Black
This document is a summary of a mixed methods dissertation that examined the communicative construction of safety in wildland firefighting. For the dissertation, I used a two-study mixed methods approach, examining the communicative accomplishment of safety from two perspectives…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
The First Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, 'Fuels Management: How to Measure Success,' was held in Portland, Ore., March 27-30. The International Association of Wildland Fire initiated a conference on this timely topic primarily in response to the needs of the U.S. National…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturtevant, McCaffrey
Managers may often wonder why some people do not choose to adopt defensible space practices despite understanding the benefits of doing so. Research has sought to understand why a new practice or innovation is or is not adopted. This paper will briefly discuss factors found to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart, Radeloff, Hammer
This paper presents a map of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) in 2000 for the lower 48 States of the United States. The WUI was extensive, covering 9 percent of the land area in the lower 48 States and encompassing 38 percent of all homes. Major WUI areas are located along the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shiralipour, Monroe, Nelson, Payton
Several government agencies and other natural resource managers have instituted outreach programs to promote wildfire preparedness in wildland-urban interface (WUI) neighborhoods that complement community-wide efforts. To help these programs become more effective, research was…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Monroe, Pennisi, McCaffrey, Mileti
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on how managers can most effectively communicate with the public about fuels management efforts. It summarizes what is known about the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES