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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Smith
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Chen
As new information has recently accumulated, the purpose of this symposium is to bring researchers in this field together to discuss recent findings and their applications. Major topics include: 1) biomass burning emission characterization; 2) linking emissions to ambient…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rebain, Crookston, Dixon, Reinhardt
This project is designed to provide an improved version of the Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FFE-FVS), a program whose original development was largely financed by the JFSP. The program is widely used by JFSP member agencies and several JFSP-…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Schichtel
Air quality regulations have the goal of reducing haze in national parks and wilderness areas to natural conditions, and require that fine particulate matter (PM2.5) be reduced below a threshold that adversely impacts health. The federally funded and managed IMPROVE and STN…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse
This project will address the need for a collaborative architecture for scientific modeling that allows various scientific models to easily interact. By designing such a system to be modular as well, advantages derived from separating decision support user interfaces from…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Solomon, Strand
Fire and fuel managers often need to know how much fuel will be consumed by a fire, and how much smoke the fire will produce. A variety of fuel loading maps and fuel consumption models have been developed to produce these and other estimates. Many factors influence the end…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Malm, Hao
The occurrence of wildland fires results in substantial emissions of air pollutants. These emissions have resulted in increased conflicts with the need to attain air quality standards, especially for particulate matter (PM) and visibility, as mandated by the Clean Air Act. To…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Solomon, Strand
The BlueSky smoke modeling framework, developed with support from the National Fire Plan, provides real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fires, wildfires, and agricultural burns. The predictions are currently being used by air quality regulators…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Mann
Land managers face unique challenges in Alaska. Most of the boreal forest is currently managed as wilderness. Though largely free of direct human impacts, the boreal forest grows in a region that is now experiencing significant climate changes. In addition, the fire ecology of…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Chung, Jones, Spelter
The goal of this project is to provide a synthesis of information products available to federal land mangers to enhance their ability to understand and deal with the economic and financial aspects of woody biomass removal as a component of fire hazard reduction treatments. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES