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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kremens
The energy flow from a wildland fire is the most important measurable physical quantity. If we understand the time history of the energy flows, we can derive all other fire behavior and fire effects parameters. Dr. Bob Kremens will describe the difficulties in measuring the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Zelinka, Hasburgh, Bourne, Tucholski, Ouellette
Five full-scale fire experiments were conducted to observe the performance of a two-level apartment-style structure constructed of mass timber. Each level consisted of a one bedroom apartment, an L-shaped corridor, and a stairwell connecting the two levels. One of the primary…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Sokolik
We examine the 2002 Yakutsk wildfire event and simulate the impacts of smoke aerosols on local radiative energy budget, using the WRF-Chem-SMOKE model. When comparing satellite retrievals (the Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) dataset) with model simulations, we found that the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stuefer, Starkweather, Brubaker
These presentations highlight existing wildfire forecasting tools, especially resources that can be used by communities to aid in preparedness efforts. Speakers discuss existing tools and provide examples of their use in communities or their potential applications if not…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wehmas
The boreal forest is a carbon reservoir containing roughly 40% of the world's reactive soil carbon, which is mainly cycled by wildland fires. Climate warming in boreal Alaska has changed the wildfire regime such that an increase in broadleaf forest relative to conifer forest is…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This project provided an integrated assessment of the effects of fires under different future climate and population scenarios on fine particulate matter mass (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) at global scale, with a particular focus on the United States. We employed the global Community…
Year: 2018
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Singletary, Evans
This agreement is made and entered into by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Joint Fire Science Program (BLM), and the University of Nevada Reno for the purpose of Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Consortia.
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Furman, Linn
Current fire spread models are inadequate for predicting the complex infuences of atmosphere, forest structure, and self-generating fire processes on wildland fire behavior. FIRETEC is a physics-based, three-dimensional computer code developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Lee
A knowledge broker is an organization or individual that translates and disseminates esearch findings to working professionals (Konijnendijk 2004). Knowledge brokers participate in a variety of activities, including translating, spreading and commissioning research, and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alaska Fire & Fuels (akff.mesowest.org) is the Alaska interagency Fire Weather (FWI) and Fire Behavior (FBP) monitoring system. It provides public access to fire weather that is collected hourly, processes FWI codes and indices, and provides them in a range of tools and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bhatt
UAF professor Uma Bhatt reviews progress on the NOAA funded project to improve longer-term predictions of Alaska's fire season. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Moore
Chris Moore provides an overview of ways to understand the overall drivers of Alaska's fire seasons, with a focus on season-slowing and season-ending events. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This compendium is a freely available resource of every article related to fire ecology published in the Natural Areas Journal from 2010-2017.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
FireWorks provides students with interactive, hands-on materials to study wildland fire. It is highly interdisciplinary and students learn about properties of matter, chemical and physical processes, ecosystem fluctuations and cycles, habitat and survival, and human interactions…
Year: 2018
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Fawcett, Clontz
'Learn and Burn' workshops are an excellent way for private landowners and others to gain hands-on burning experience and knowledge from expert mentors. This webinar will provide some lessons learned from coordinating these events, and tips to putting one on in the future.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hawley, Loudermilk, Rowell, Pokswinski
Surface fuels are the critical link between structure and function in frequently burned pine ecosystems, which are found globally (Williamson and Black, 1981; Rebertus et al., 1989; Glitzenstein et al., 1995) [[1], [2], [3]]. We bring fuels to the forefront of fire ecology…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire management applications. BehavePlus is…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rossa, Fernandes
Currently, there is a dispute on whether live fuel moisture content (FMC) should be accounted for when predicting a real-world fire-spread rate (RoS). The laboratory and field data results are conflicting: laboratory trials show a significant effect of live FMC on RoS, which has…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGranahan, Wonkka
Wildland fire science literacy is the capacity for wildland fire professionals to understand and communicate three aspects of wildland fire: (1) the fundamentals of fuels and fire behavior, (2) the concept of fire as an ecological regime, and (3) multiple human dimensions of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Magness, Morton
Managers need information about the vulnerability of historical plant communities, and their potential future conditions, to respond appropriately to landscape change driven by global climate change. We model the climate envelopes of plant communities on the Kenai Peninsula in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wehmas
Thesis defense by Maija Wehmas, MS Candidate in UAF School of Natural Resources Management and Extension, advised by David Verbyla, Teresa Hollingsworth, and Daniel Mann.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
Rick Stratton explains the use of exceedance probability (EP) curves and how the information can inform decision makers regarding tradeoffs or potential impacts of fire to resources identified on the landscape.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Recent large fires and reburns in tundra north of the Brooks Range in Alaska have raised interest in the North Slope fire regime and induced some speculation that that it may be changing. The author analysed agency fire records, lightning detection data, and physiography for the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
The idea for a book series began in conversations with Lincoln Bramwell, chief historian for the Forest Service. We agreed that the standard history Fire in America needed updating.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quarles
Buildings ignite during wildfires when exposed to: 1. Burning embers (also called firebrands), 2. Radiant heat, and/or 3. Direct flame.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES