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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dodds, Rosales, Hailes, Sol, Coker, Quindry, Ruby
Wildland fire suppression presents a working environment that often exceeds an energy expenditure of 20 MJ/day, however maladaptive responses to adiposity and blood lipid profiles have been noted. We recruited wildland firefighters (WLFF), (n=100, 92 males, 8 females) from seven…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuligowski
As wildfires that threaten communities become more severe, there is an increasing need to understand human behavior in these situations, and evacuation decision-making and behavior in particular. A number of deaths have occurred in previous fires during the evacuation process.…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Burri, Emelko, Rhoades
What does current science and experience tell us about the near and long-term impacts of fire on water quality and how to recover?
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski, Lutes
In this short webinar, RMRS Research Physical Scientist Shawn Urbanski and Fire Ecologist Duncan Lutes will discuss the current state of the science on wildland fire smoke emissions, including pollutants present in smoke, methods for quantifying emission flux, existing datasets…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Navarro, Mutch
Wildland firefighters are exposed to health hazards including inhaling hazardous pollutants from the combustion of live and dead vegetation (smoke) and breathe soil dust, while working long shifts with no respiratory protection. This research brief summarizes a study analyzing…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin
It is crucial for wildland fire professionals today to be technically competent in their jobs. What is less obvious and less understood is the cognitive competency needed for our professional job performance. Join the IAWF for this event to better understand our own thoughts…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Titus
PTSD is quietly impacting wildland firefighters with its often devastating personal and professional repercussions. While no official numbers exist, suicide has become another statistic now necessary to track within the wildland community as anecdotal data show an alarming trend…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Balmes
[from the text] The danger of catastrophic wildfires is increasing around the globe, with large fires occurring in Australia, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Portugal, Russia, as well as in the United States over the past decade. A major driver globally is climate change, which is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stoof, Chalton, Withington, Belval, Foderi
Wildland Fire Management under COVID-19: Results of a Global Survey - Cathelijne Stoof, Assistant Professor, Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Coordinator Wageningen Fire Centre, Wageningen University, Netherlands"
This talk summarizes the results of a…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The 2019 McKinley Fire devastated a 10-mile stretch of homes along Alaska's Parks Highway. This video describes the fire and its aftermath through interviews with residents and fire professionals, and discusses ways to protect structures from wildfires.
Useful websites about…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Curcio, Mueller, Lahm, Fitch, Hyde
The Smoke and Roadway Safety Guide provides wildland fire personnel the tools and methods to effectively plan and forecast for roadway smoke impacts and to monitor, respond to, and mitigate smoke on roadways to reduce the risk to the public and fire personnel.
This publication:…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kelly, Fussell
Since air pollutants are difficult and expensive to control, a strong scientific underpinning to policies is needed to guide mitigation aimed at reducing the current burden on public health. Much of the evidence concerning hazard identification and risk quantification related to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weir, Bauman, Cram, Kreye, Baldwin, Fawcett, Treadwell, Scasta, Twidwell
Prescribed fire is a land management practice used in many parts of the U.S. The prevalence of burning varies widely across regions due to cultural, ecological, climatic and legal factors. A primary concern among private landowners is the liability associated with prescribed…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hauptman, Balmes, Miller
Studies evaluating the health impacts of climate change, predict that the frequency and intensity of wildfires will increase as climate change creates longer, warmer, and drier seasons. Although respiratory morbidity in the immediate aftermath of wildfires is well documented for…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Aydin, Selvi, Tao, Starek
This paper examines the potential use of fire extinguishing balls as part of a proposed system, where drone and remote-sensing technologies are utilized cooperatively as a supplement to traditional firefighting methods. The proposed system consists of (1) scouting unmanned…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tedim, Leone, McGee
Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: Root Causes and New Management Strategies highlights the urgent need for new methods to prepare and mitigate the effects of these events. Using a multidisciplinary, socio-ecological approach, the book discusses the roots of the problem,…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Saul
Isaac Saul of A Plus interviews Sara Brown, director of the USFS Fire Lab’s Fire, Fuels, and Smoke Sciences Program. Sara Brown explains how to stop wildfires from being major disaster events in the United States. The interview provides an overview about the fire situation in…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Campbell, Dennison, Brewer, Butler
Escape routes keep firefighters safe by providing efficient evacuation pathways from the fire line to safety zones. Effectively utilizing escape routes requires a precise understanding of how much time it will take firefighters to traverse them. To improve this understanding, we…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The COVID-19 Incident Risk Assessment Tool is intended to help fire managers assess COVID-19 risk in fire camp at the incident level. The tool is intended to promote situational awareness, identify mitigations within the scope of control, and help line officers, incident…
Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Woo, Liu, Yue, Mickley, Bell
Alaskan wildfires are becoming more frequent and severe, but very little is known regarding exposure to wildfire smoke, a risk factor for respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses. We estimated long-term, present-day and future exposure to wildfire-related fine particulate matter…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Penney, Habibi, Cattani
When attempting to suppress severe wildfire the possibility for firefighting crews to be overrun by wildfire, known as entrapment and burnover, remains a catastrophic and all too common occurrence. While improvements have been made to vehicle protection systems to increase the…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bailey, O'Brien
This webinar is part of NAFSE's Prescribed Fire Science Workshop Webinar Series and provides a broad overview of the process of writing a burn plan before implementing a prescribed fire (or prescribed burn; RxB). It was broadcast on August 13, 2020. This webinar was co-presented…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Bayham, Belval
The global COVID-19 pandemic will pose unique challenges to the management of wildland fire in 2020. Fire camps may provide an ideal setting for the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. However, intervention strategies can help minimize disease spread and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Navarro, Piacentino, Viktora, Coil
As COVID-19 cases and wildland fire activity increase across the country, wildland fire personnel are looking for ways to quickly identify cases and prevent the spread of the disease on the fireline. The Southwest Fire Consortium will be hosting a webinar sharing information…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
The Wildfire SAFE app incorporates real-time data from sources that include the U.S. National Fire Danger Rating System, U.S. Drought Monitor drought conditions, weather data, and vegetation conditions to provide targeted information on any wildfire in the continental United…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES